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Irwan's farewell

2009-06-18T23:49:00.000-07:00

Irwan, my lunch buddy, is leaving the company to set up his own business. Coincidentally, I am trying to start my own business in http://www.educationfound.com However, unlike him, I am running my business part- time and working full time until the business is stable. ;)

Below are some photos from his farewell lunch.

Esther Farewell 2

2009-03-03T03:04:00.002-08:00

Esther's farewell

2009-03-03T03:04:00.001-08:00

Esther, a colleague of mine, is going back to Taiwan. Below are the pics from farewell lunch.

a winner of E-Genting Competition

2009-02-16T19:03:00.001-08:00

Just when when I forgot about the eGenting programming competition I participated in 2008, I was surprised when I received a phone call in Feb 2009 telling me I am one of the winners of the programming competition. The above is a photo of my cert at the prize giving ceremony. The full gallery is at

http://egpc.genting.com.sg/2008/gallery03.htm

There was another photo of me competing with the some of brightest mind in Singapore

Yenny's Wedding 2

2009-02-09T02:07:00.000-08:00

Yenny's Wedding

2009-02-09T02:06:00.000-08:00

CNY Lo Hei 2

2009-02-03T03:39:00.000-08:00

Anticipating the food.

Deep fried fish, tofu with egg, gralic prawns, sweet and sour pork, hainese chicken, vegetables - what more you want?

Venus showing off her big slice of fish.

For more pics, see http://picasaweb.google.com/EugeneLim11/CNYLoHei?authkey=zAkjvlVFeoY#

CNY Lo Hei

2009-02-03T03:38:00.000-08:00

Me chatting to my colleague Joanne Yau

Ouyoung so happy to be photographed, Siew Khim and Priscilla enjoying the reservation

Pris, Carmel and Karen with chop stakes for Lo Hei.

Yu Sheng Lo Hei !

Chirstmas gift exchange part2

2009-01-21T19:21:00.000-08:00

Venus happy with her cushion.

Karen got a pink piggy. :P

Joanne got a winnie the pooh cup.

Venus likes my dog gift - too bad it is mine! Wahh hahaha.

Christmas Gift Exchange

2009-01-21T19:19:00.000-08:00

These pics of the christmas gift exchange are from Christine. Thanks for posting this.

my mouth watering at the steak...

Carmel so happy with her food.

All of us at the table

Esther happy with the cup she got.

Joanne Wedding photos

2009-01-18T22:14:00.000-08:00

Below are the photos from her wedding from the photographer. Only irwan and I turned up. :(

U21global meeting

2009-01-18T22:09:00.000-08:00

Here are some pics from U21global informal tea party

I am the guy in the center, :)

yenny's Wedding :)

2009-01-04T20:18:00.000-08:00

Yenny recently got married. Below are some pics from her wedding

The Staff and Ex-staff of Raffles (I am the photographer so I am not there).

Yenny looking so happy.

Exchange of ring.

RECC staff

IAO and friends

The groom stealing a kiss.

Praying that the cake is bigger... :P

Christmas Gift Exchange

2009-01-04T20:16:00.000-08:00

I organized a christmas gift exchange party where all party members have to bring a gift for exchange, and that during lunch, each person have to draw a dip (piece of paper with the name of the person whose gift you will pick up from). Some of the gifts were very nice.

People with their presents :)

RDI Graduation Showcase.

2008-12-12T02:15:00.000-08:00

RDI Showcase is on 10 Dec 2008. Below are some pics of the event.

Finance Department

RDI staff. Zin, Tiffany and dunno who the pretty girl is. Can't recall her name.

The Lecturers :)

HR Department and me.

Joanne Yau Wedding

2008-12-12T02:13:00.000-08:00

Joanne Got her wedding bells ringing on Dec 2008

The pretty happy bride. Hey is she really Joanne?

Exchange rings and saying I do :)

The proud father seeing off his daughter.

Linda and I

2008-11-06T19:22:00.001-08:00

Linda, my pal from US studying in Berekely for her Juris Doctorate degree recently tagged me in face book and send the following pics to me.

Me and Linda after baking cookies and strawberry cakes

Linda comparing me to an ape.

Lunch in a group

2008-10-23T01:22:00.000-07:00

Today I got a huge group of lunch buddies joining me for lunch (lucky me)! Below are some pics taken during lunch

Siew Khim

Yenny (just back from Indonesia)

Venus and Ouyoung

Christine, Esther and Tiffany

Everyone. Carmel, Christine, Esther, Tiffany, Siew Khim, Priscilla, Joanne, Venus, Ouyoung. Ouyoung super lucky guy to be surrounded by gals. :)

Wing Dai's birthday

2008-10-13T23:57:00.000-07:00

It is my colleague's Wing Dai birthday, and we celebrated at Fish and Co after work. Below are some pics of the event. The food is ok, but I like the cake better. ;) Happy birthday Wing!

Wing Dai (birthday girl) with cake.

Venus, Wing Dai, and Leon.

Venus, Wing Dai and I.

Huihui Wedding on 28 Sep 08

2008-10-01T19:06:00.000-07:00

My old school mate, Huihui got her wedding bells ringing on 28 Sep 2008 at M Hotel Singapore. I know her since she was 14 from secondary school. This means we know each other for close to 18 years. Below are some photos of her glamerous wedding.

Me and Huihui.

Saying "I do"!

Kissing in fornt of wedding cake

Popping the champage.

Roberto Farewell

2008-08-31T20:38:00.001-07:00

Roberto, the super lucky guy, got a job offering in US, and will be leaving the organization. We threw a short farewell for him, and below are the pics of us having dinner in a Japanese restuarant. (Note: My meowy loves japanese food, and I should bring her here to try).

Us with finished food... :)

Note my bulging tummy as I ate sushi, rosti, tempura etc. :P

Hema and Joanne posing for a pic.

Irwan's baby girl

2008-08-31T20:35:00.001-07:00

Irwan celebrate his daughter first month by throwing an awsome party with great food. The star of the party is of course, his cute baby, whom I could not help ogling at. Did you know that if she cries and you gentle "sayang sayang" her and stroke her head, she will be quiet and nice? Baby grows quickly. In one month she put on 1 kg, accordingly to Irwan's mother.

Irwan's pretty wife and lovely baby daughter.

Fendi and Randy. Makan Makan. The food is yummy, with cerel prawns, curry chicken, noodles, sweet and sour fishes etc.

A few of our colleagues, Henny, Roberto, etc. was there. I did not stay long as

Video of feeding baby

Raymond and Celeste Birthday.

2008-08-12T01:12:00.000-07:00

Today is Raymond's and Celeste's birthday. Our IT department celebrated it by chipping in to purchase a coffee cake for him. for Celeste, I purchase a box of coffee chocolates instead and shared the cost with Joanne. At around 3.30pm we surprised him with the cake.

Coffee cake. Yummy.

Celeste and Raymond. Both born on 12 Aug. :)

The jolly IT department

this short video was accidentally shot by Faisal. It is hilarious.

Siew Khim's Birthday

2008-08-04T23:14:00.002-07:00

It is Siew Khim's birthday today, and we decided to celebrate it in Swenden's as there is a free ice-cream during your birthday. Below are some pictures taken during the celebration.

Free ice-cream

Yummy pasta.

Delicious Roast Chicken

Vivien's baby boy

2008-07-11T00:07:00.000-07:00

One of my colleagues, Vivien, from HR Department celebrates the birth of her baby - by giving everyone some chocolates. :) I love chocolates ...

My desk at work. I love the pics and posters

Baby born chocolates.

The chocolates from Vivien. Looks so good that you don't wanna eat them!

Elysa Birthday

2008-06-25T01:33:00.001-07:00

Today is my colleague, Elysa's Birthday. Thought I will buy a cake and give her a small surprise, and help myself to the yummy cake later. :) Below are some pictures of the event.

Dunno why, but I love celebrating birthdays, and is good in organizing events in my company - be they birthday surprise, going out for farewell lunch/dinner, best wish in your new career parties etc. I guess if I am not in the IT line, I will be the events management line, cheerfully overseeing everything in event management.

As an ex-colleague once remarked - "Hey Eugene, somehow things in this company does not seems the same without your chirpy 'Good morning' and 'parties' in the office. Life gets kind of boring here without you. ".

Before I keep blogging about myself, let's not forget the birthday gal.- Happy birthday, Elysa, and wish you many happy returns of the day!

Infinity at Riz Carlton Hotel

2008-06-20T20:27:00.000-07:00

Raffles Design Institute hosts it graduating student showcase at Riz Carlton Hotel on 20 Jun 2008. Below are some photos of the events.

Raffles Design Institute Staff.

IT Department Guys

IAO. (Andrew, Manny, Irwan)

Yummy Food

More pictures can be found here.

Hui hui's Birthday :)

2008-06-20T20:03:00.000-07:00

Well, every year, I usually call my childhood friend, Huihui, out near her birthday and this year is no exception. We had a great dinner at Ang Mo Kio Hub, New York, New York (note: must bring my pretty wife Sasa to try the food there next time), and while going a short walk after dinner, we chanced across a photo sticker machine. Below are some shots from the photo sticker machine.

RECC Dinner and Dance

2008-06-17T18:51:00.000-07:00

Raffles College hosted a Dinner and Dance event at Gotham Penthouse in Clark Quay on 17 June 2008 for the graduating students. As I have worked with them before for a web marketing project, I managed to get an invitation to this awesome event. Below are some photos from the Event.

The organizers did a wonderful job, and the event is well organized, with plenty of fun and games. Oh, did I forget to mention the excellent food?

More photos are available at At my photo album

Yenny's Bon Voyage

2008-06-13T01:16:00.000-07:00

Yenny, a colleague of mine, will be posted to Indonesia for4.5 months with effect from tomorrow. Being the fun-loving guy I am, I organized a short 'bon voyage' lunch (well, Yenny hates the word 'farewell').

From Left to Right : Hema, Yenny, Venus

Yenny posting for a pic

Left: Hema, Yenny, Venus, samuel,
Right: Me, Ouyang, Roberto.

Left: samuel, Roberto, Ouyang, Me, Donald.
Right: Irwan, Venus, Yenny, Hema, Andrew

Left, Andrew: Hema, Yenny, Venus, Irwan.
Right, Donald, Me, Ouyang, Roberto, Samuel.

Well, we are gonna miss you, Yenny! All the best for your trip to Indonesia. With the resignation of Randy and Fendi, and the posting of Yenny to Indonesia, now no more lunch buddies beside Ouyang. :( Feel like crying already.

French Waterworks @ Boat Quay

2008-06-05T18:54:00.001-07:00

from Left to right: Hema, Melissa, Fendi, Roberto, Wing, Micheal and Leon

On 23rd May, after work, I decided to go to the Singapore Arts Festival to watch the waterworks at Boat Quay. I tried pinging all my usual pals, and finally succeeded in asking my pal, Hema, to join us. I don't seem to have any luck in asking others, despite asking lots of people.

To my pleasant surprise, at about 6pm, when we were leaving, Hema managed to pull in several others to join us. We decided to go by bus since it is faster and only a few bus stop away from our office. When we reached there, we were put off by the tons of hawkers trying to tout and bring us into their restaurants with insanely expensive prices. Thankfully there is a McDonald nearby. To our dismay, the queue there is super long...

We immediately switched to plan B and go to Hungry Jack (or Burger King) across the road instead. The pics above were taken while we were having dinner there.

While the show was ok - (it did not help that there was an insane crowd there and the only thing most of us can see is some one else's head), the fireworks is truely spectacular! To our surprise, we found a few other colleagues there, including Ellen, and Yenny.

After the show ended, we decided to go for drinks at the pubs nearby. Cassandra, another colleague, joined us for drinks. We first visited a pub named ICE FACTORY. It is freezing in there, but the atmosphere there is pretty cool, with nice music and a comfortable air-con.

But unfortunately, the rest of them does not quite agreed with me and decided to find another watering hole. The second pub I went to have mixed drinks, to which everyone except me likes. For me, I think I stick to beer - it is lots safer. The nuts there is pretty cool, and they have free prawn crackers as well.

Leon then see Wing home, while the rest of us hop into Cassandra's bf car for a free lift home. Thanks Cassandra - owe you one.

Micheal's and Fendi's Farewell

2008-06-05T18:53:00.001-07:00

Our Colleagues come out in full force to greet Fendi and Micheal Farewell

From the Raffles School of Psychology and Raffles School of Infocomm

Staff from other departments including me

Farewell lunch for Micheal

Some of the yummy food and drinks

On 30th of May, I bid farewell to two of my colleagues, Micheal and Fendi. They were leaving the company. As part of their farewell, we got cards signed by all their friends to wish them well in their future endevours. That being said, we headed off for a yummy lunch before bidding Micheal "see you again"

In the late afternoon, we got another card for Fendi and some gifts. Did I mentioned that this is also Andrew's Birthday celebration?

Randy's Sudden Resignation

2008-06-05T00:48:00.000-07:00

Back row: Soon Kok and Randy. Front Row: Shu Ching, Lixin, Ouyang and me.

Back Row: Randy and Faisal. Middle Row: Soon Kok and Ouyang. Front Row: Shu Ching, Lixin and Me.

In the middle of May, I got a big shock, when Randy, my colleague who I have been working with for all programming issues, suddenly resigned without any warning whatever, and declared it is his last day of work. Shocked as we are, the jolly IT department quickly take the chance to throw him a farewell photo taking session to remember us by.

Jialei's End of Internship

2008-06-05T00:46:00.001-07:00

from left: Ouyang, Shu Ching, Me, Randy, Lixin, Soon Kok, Jialei, Faisal

End of April is Jailei's last day as an intern, and he will be seeking out his fortune in the exciting world of IT. We wish him all the best in his future endevours.

Wayne's Farewell

2008-06-05T00:44:00.001-07:00

from left to right- Me, Jialei, Ouyang, Lixin, Randy, Wayne, Shu Ching

Our IT department bid farewell to Wayne in Mar 2008 and wish him all the best in his future endevours.