A trip to goat and Veg Farm

This is my first visit to the Hay Dairies goat farm.

Watching kids feeding kids. Not my kids... But less priviledge kids feeding kids.. 

Today, I learnt that goat meat is Chevon. Mutton is from sheep not goat... The price of mutton is about $40 per kilo. While price of Chevon is $120 per kilo and it tasted like wagu.

Some other facts that I learnt at the farm:

The milk of cow is acidic while the milk from goat is alkaline, which is the same as humans milk. 

Due to the acidity of cow milk, it causes diarrhea in some consumers. Bloated stomach because it takes longer (about 4 hours) to digest.

Cow milk is "cold milk" while goat milk is "warm milk" when taken by our body. In TCM term, it's better to keep the body warm. 

Due to the warm properties and alkaline of goat milk, it's good for consumer with skin problem, eczema, asthma...

They only sell the male kid when they are 9 months old to prayer services for slaughtering.

These are the sharing from the goat farm coordinator (or owner)... I haven't  verified them with further research.

Off we went to feed the kids...

Got some milk...

Next stop was Kinyan Agrotech Organic Farm where various mushrooms are grown here. We were welcomed by strong mint plantation and beautiful flowers.

Dragon is not one of them...

New facts learnt today:

Without proper knowledge in growing plants, the successful rate of growing peasprout is only 40%...

First the seeds need to be soaked... I wasn't paying attention. OK I missed a whole lot of good stuff...

Wheatgrass takes about 6-7 days to grow and become ready for harvesting.

Wheatgrass shot gives instant results to bring down high blood pressure. I took a shot. It was juiced from so so so much harvested wheatgrass just for a bit of juice.

The lunch was great... Freshly harvested mushrooms, peasprouts and tomato salad...

 Followed with dessert wheatgrass icecream!

 

We also went on a mushroom tour... checked out also vera... Tried the freshly plucked mulberry...

We had a very fun+filling day 😘🤗

Team Building Fun!

This was a very different team building for  our small team of 7 inclusive of my location manager... Yes I know, we are a small team.

In our past quarter team building, we mainly had lunches, followed by drinks and desserts...

Starting in 2015, we began to explore new team building options. We tried movie, we even went to game cafe to chillax...

Until today, we went to the escape room... This was superb! Absolutely fantastic, unlike the usual eat, chat and go... Hahhaa!!

On our way, we bumped into the marvel Heros... So we took sides and posed!

We bumped into Benny, the creator of 18Chef (where we had our lunch), who is also my colleague's friend. So we took a Wefie together!

After that, we marched to the Unravel to trap ourselves in the "escape" room. Well, I would say ours was more of a guided tour but it was fun enough. Kekeke!

The danger of working late

I finished this bar in no time...

Communications

Communications Is ALWAYS the KEY... but most of the time, it...
 

Sucks

Sucks

Sucks

Sucks

Sucks

瞎了!!

对着excel数十年。。。第一次觉得什么都看不到了。。。我需要弄一个大大的眼镜!!

New Directions...

4th weeks into 2014, my efforts to fulfill my new year resolution.... To live a healthy lifestyle is still ramp-ing up!

On the way to detox for good.... I had lemon juice water every morning for the past 2 weeks. Today, I started with the homemade Green Apple Enzyme in the morning... I felt drunk for the rest of the day...

New role in my job, still ramp-ing up!

I had the 4th meeting with the team on this jobrole, though I only attended 3 because I missed it... Still trying to figure out what it is responsible for, how the tasks are currently done, how the reports got rolled up to management for updates... Interesting to learn new things all the time... The first "challenge" I observed is that there'll be many more meetings to come and they will not be during AP hours... wuhOO~*

It's so true that life is unpredictable, the only constant is Change...

I will need to stay balance between Family, Health and Work...

Team lunch finally

Well, don't get me wrong... Each quarter, my colleague tried their best to plan for a get together... However, it usually fell on some day when I was on leave or simply unavailable...

So, instead of attending the team bonding 4 times a year.. I barely made it once or twice annually...

The first one held this year was smooth and steady... It's a small group of us with almost 90% attendance checked! A sumptuous meal at baliThai @NEX, followed by wonderful sharing from a guest from Vienna!

It's really great to catch up with the folks to find out what's up lately!

Cheerios ^,^

What time is the meeting?

"It's really late for Shirley... You know... China..."

-_-"

The Good, The Bad, The way I see Myself

"OMG..." Yes, this was what I heard in a meeting... It's going to be interesting... very interesting...  (-_-")

What does the statement above tell you about me? I have a positive attitude? I'm a sadist?... Well, sometimes, I feel that I'm the second last person to know what kind of a person I am... The last person will be, of course and hopefully, a total stranger...

Very often, we only see the "Good" side about ourselves, at least we thought its goodness! How often and how willing are we to realize our "Not so Good" side, not to mention about doing relfections, corrections and improving ourselves as a better person...

The Good

I believe I'm a rather detailed person, those kind who would feel miserable to be left hanging without detail of the whole picture... Ironically, I prefer to listen to highlevel information... leaving out the grandmother story of it... and know the big picture... Well, that doesn't mean that I will remain ignorant about it... So, in some ways, I'm still think that I'm a (lazy) detailed person!

I'm a control freak? Or some say "perfectionist"... or some other may refer it as "self-centred"? To clarify, I would prefer things to be done the way I wanted... well, who wouldn't, if given a choice to? Perhaps, slightly more than how others wish for it... At the minimum, I'll attempt to justify and influence. Nevertheless, if all means fail, I'll still be happy to go with what it right, rather than what I like... so, what does that say about me? I'm someone who take charge and make an effort for myself...  :)

The Bad

I'm not so easy-going... I'm not too sociable... I'm pretty skeptical.... I'm ocasionally inconfident in some ways... I'm quite dependent on my dependent... I'm sometimes too serious about life... I'm very naggy... and well, impaitient!... Okay, enough! That's a long list to deal with... one at a time... (see, impatient kicks in!)

The way I look at it... All these negative "attributes" are chained together... Why do I say that? If I'm not too serious about life, I'll probably be more easy-going. If I'm more confident in myself and less skeptical, I'll most likely be socialble, too... With these, I made friends but only kept a few... eventually, I become naggy... and by nature... impaitient... Haa!

It's dependent on my mood of the day and the "chemistry" with the strangers I met to determine if I'll look on the floor and stare blankly at nothing OR look into their eyes and strike a conversation... I would say, 90% of the time (before I had Renee), I'd behaved as the former, while now that I have Renee, it's 60% of the chance that I'll behave as the latter, specially with those who have kids in their arms... Hee! That doesn't mean that I'm becoming sociable, just that I'm become braver in meeting new people!

The way I See it


"TIME make a person who was meant to be..." - Simiwago 6/28 7:20pm (in between meetings)

Everyone has the capability to realize a mistake and reflect for self-improvement... It's the matter of TIME...
Things happened. Good or bad... People experienced and learnt from chain of incidents encountered in their life... That's how personality is moulded and shaped when every decision is made...

I'm still taking a walk down the path of my life... I'll pray for more good things to come and stay positive, at all times... If I ever forget how to stay positive... remind me, my friend... my family!

晴天霹雳

我开工了。。。大吉大利！

小睿早上还算是挺配合的。
今晚就得靠孩子她爸了！

上午，在小睿睡午觉前，让她初次接触了小书。。。一起翻阅12345。。。和一些基本的形状。不到2分钟，小睿便睡着了。。。像我像极了！

一心二用

Ever think that you'll attend 2 meetings at the same time? Remotely of course!

And the results? You will only be present at one of them at any one time... Just like attending a meeting physically...

Human is no robot, no way for multiple-threads, multiple-processing... Even if you succeed, you probably didn't register much of it to your memory...

Working from Home

WFH would not be the same again... Specially on a cool rainy day liked this one... Yawn! ^,^ love our nest!!!

1 miss and 1 miss miss

Looking at the clock, "there's still 20 mins" I convinced myself to take a morning shower before my checkpoint call with a US counterpart...

Besides bathing myself, I started to "bath" our pillow cases, as well...

Probably because of the flu pills, I was slow and still a bit drowsy... so I took much longer than I normally would... and by the time I came out from the washroom and stared at the clock blankly...

"oh shoot!" I was late by 10 mins for my call!

1 call missed... bad bad bad ;p

世界末日

有一天，我问老公：＂假如你知道今天是世界末日，你会选择怎么过这一天？＂

老公想都不想便回答道：＂我会回去上班！因为时间会过得特别慢！＂

现在是凌晨一点钟，老公还在与世界末日搏斗！

Same Same but Different

People submitted Marriage Certificate to receive one-time bonus of $200, while I got deduction on my payslip spend account for $18 per month (which is $216 year on year). Why Same Same but different??? (T_T)

1 + 1 = 0

不是所有的耕耘都一定会丰收。但如果没有一份耕耘；又哪来一份收获呢？加油！

I want to Try...

President Challenge is coming... I hope I can gather my colleagues to set up a stall together... Won't it be fun?

Mini-cookies...

Mini-bun (DIY)

Mua Chee?

Wii Rental? (The bowling alley)

DIY/ special card making?

So many things to do... more fun to do it with colleagues than alone...

Wago 青苹果醋！

在同事Serene的细心教导下。。。Wago做了第一瓶自酿水果醋！





只要星期一它还没有变黑。。。两个星期后就可饮用！期待中。。。

Preview of how it should look like in 11 days time...


Ho-Hoi-Sum-Wo~* \(^,^)/

Lanyard finally

Don't take it for granted that you will receive a company lanyard when you join a company... I waited 3 years for mine... and I am very excited about it. Cheers!

How to respond...?

办公室点滴。。。

Q: "Why are you here?"
A: "To work..."

Q: "What are you doing here?"
A: "Working..."

Q: "What brings you here?"
A: "The bus....?"

Q: "I haven't seen you for a long time..."
A: "Neither have I..."

Q: "Oh, I didn't know you are back to office..."
A: "I know..."

Q: "Hi girl, tell you what..."
A: "Hi Auntie, what..."

如果一切竟在不言中；那又何必挂齿。。。