30 December 2009
28 November 2009
23 November 2009
stop.park.reflect
10 November 2009
15 October 2009
Mt Gambier 2009 - Road Trip!
25 September 2009
30 August 2009
Melbourne 2009!
Had a great time. Was there for the weekend with my colleagues (Alison and Vanessa) and Vanessa's husband. Apart from the whole Tiger Airways trauma/saga (flight cancellation, stranded in Melbourne for 24 hours, forking out extra money etc), the trip was great. Some of the highlights were: going to the theatre (Shakespeare's Pericles) which was surprisingly delightful, visiting Salvador Dali's exhibition (nice but weird. plain weird.) and SUSHI HUNTING! Took some pictures with my new camera, so enjoy!
03 July 2009
everything in between
28 May 2009
live today like there's no tomorrow
There's really many equivalent lines that say the same. Sieze the day. Carpe diem. Don't worry. Be happy. But my personal mantra is: Life is short because we might die tomorrow. So live.
You may laugh but it's true. Ever since experiencing death in my family, I came to realize that every day is precious. Have you got a passion? DO IT! LIVE IT! Don't wait till you are free, or till you retire. Because before you know it, you're dead. And I mean it in the nicest possible sense.
Bought a new dress? WEAR IT the next day! Why wait till there's a special occassion?
Been given new cutlery and chinaware for housewarming? USE IT for tonight's dinner. Don't keep it on display!
Been dreaming of making that pilgrimage to your favourite sporting club? START SAVING and go ASAP!
Thinking of taking up French lessons? Tap dance classes? Want to know how to make wax candles? ENROL yourself right now!
Dare yourself to do crazy things. Live life to the fullest. Because we might be dead tomorrow. Sounds morbid I know.
And most importantly, honour God in all you do :-)
Matthew 6:34 -Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
22 May 2009
the engineer goes to a dentistry scientific meeting!
Okay, you know how lazy a blogger I have been lately. But what happened today was just too funny! Here goes:
Basically, I had a training session for work at the Hilton today. Right across my training room was a huge dental expo thing going on. Apparently, upon googling them up, I realised it was the "14th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Periodontists Scientific Meeting". Like I know what it means! Let's just call it 'Dentist Expo' for now.
I had a bit of time in between training, so I thought, 'Why not hop on in to see if I can get some freebies?' (as you do, at all expos!). Being the polite gate-crasher I am, I asked the lady at the entrance if I could enter, since I wasn't a participant. She said 'Sure!'. Or at least that's what I thought she said, because the things that ensued later on sort of indicated that maybe I had mistaken her.
So there I was, the engineer amongst all these snotty-primly-dressed dentists (if you're reading this and you're a dentist: I'm only kidding). I tried hard to lift my head up high as a mechanical engineer. We're not that bad ok?
People were loitering around with their wine glasses, chatting, laughing and eating their tiny little fancy finger-foods. I was navigating my way through, ignoring all the non-relevant stalls (selling dentists' instruments) and headed straight for the Listerine booth.
The lady tending the Listerine booth started talking to me. The conversation went something like this:
Listerine Lady (LL): Hi, would you like to try our new floss?
Janice (JK): Erm, sure. (feeling a little apprehensive, knowing that she might have mistaken me for a dentist)
LL: Here, have a feel. (hands me the floss and encourages me to have a pull. She continues to talk about the fibre...or something....or it being the improved floss...or was it a super floss? Didn't matter, all I wanted was her to give me free floss)
JK: Hmm, yes it's pretty strong (pretending to pull the floss in all directions, as if to test the structural integrity of that floss, as all engineers do!)
LL: Would you like to try some floss?
JK: Sure! That would be great. (takes the big pack of super-all-new-and-improved floss)
LL: Would you like to try the new Listerine as well? (points to the purple bottle of Listerine)
JK: Oh yes! I've seen this in the market (trying to sound like a dentist but secretly remembering thinking this purple Listerine looked gross the first time she saw it on tv)
LL goes on to explain how this purple Listerine was also an all-new-and-improved mouth wash. The crux of it was I managed to walk away from the Listerine stall with an all-new-and-improved bottle of Listerine and some packet of super-floss. She later gave me a CD and book on oral hygiene (which mind you, was apparently very good. Oh bless her soul).
After bidding goodbye with my new-found Listerine-lady-friend, I trotted off to the Oral-B booth. Straight away, the OB lady asked me if I had seen 'this' magazine before (pointing to a colourful book in her hands). I said I hadn't, and she went on to explain how great this magazine was. Here's the conversation:
Oral-B Lady (OBL): This book is pretty good, you can use it to explain to patients what they have, instead of over-simplifying the matter. (she flips the book back and forth)
JK: Hmm yes, looks like a very good book (pretends to flip the book back and forth. I then flipped to the front cover to find out it was a Scientific American special dentist edition, and thought 'sure! I don't mind one!')
OB-L: You should keep one at your practice. It's really good. Here, have some floss and tooth brush as well!
At this stage, JK freaks out at the mention of her imaginary 'dental practice'. But silently nods and keeps her calm. She took the free floss and brush of course! In fact she's been meaning to buy a new tooth brush! What better timing? The worst came when OB-L's colleague, Oral-B Lady Two (O-BL2) comes to me.
O-BL2: And where do you practice?
JK now wishes for the fancy Hilton carpet to swallow her up. PRONTO.
JK: Erm......(long deliberate pause)....erm.......actually, I'm an engineer. Not a dentist.
You could literally see O-BL's face drop and O-BL2 looked like she was ready to pounce on me the lowly, dentist-imposter engineer.
O-BL: I'm afraid I will have to get the book back. We want to give it to dentists (promptly takes the book from my hands and places it back on its shelf).
O-BL2 to O-BL: Yea, you should be careful because some of these people who dont' have tags didn't pay to come in.
Now, JK quickly says thank you and quickly walks away with her new Oral-B floss and toothbrush, Listerine mouth wash, Johnson & Johnson super duper floss, and some lecture CD on oral hygiene.
Who's laughing now, Oral-B Ladies? Take that!
Disclaimer: Although yours-truly admits this was a truly cheapskate thing to do, it was quite fun! And I never once claimed I was a dentist! They just assumed I was!















