We had a departmental games event yesterday after work. Pitting the four teams together, we had to play games like Snakes & Ladders, Uno, Jenga, Carrom, Aeroplane Chess and Chinese Chess. My gf and I decided to play Uno and Jenga since we wanted to go home early and these games seemed to be the only ones that we can win/lose fast. I won my first Uno game fairly quickly and swapped places with her for Jenga.

This is my gf playing Jenga. Totally love the second pic man. :p

My turn at Jenga, expected a fast game but my opponents were strong.

Stolen from DSF:

Mary and her husband Jim had a dog, Lucky. Lucky was a real character. Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for a weekend visit they would warn their friends to not leave their luggage open because Lucky would help himself to whatever struck his fancy.Inevitably, someone would forget and something would come up missing. Mary or Jim would go to Lucky's toy box in the basement and there the treasure would be, amid all of Lucky's favorite toys. Lucky always stashed his finds in his toy box and he was very particular that his toys stay in the box.

It happened that Mary found out she had breast cancer. Something told her she was going to die of this disease, she was just sure it was fatal. She scheduled the double mastectomy, fear riding her shoulders.

The night before she was to go to the hospital she cuddled with Lucky. A thought struck her...what would happen to Lucky? Although the three-year-old dog liked Jim, he was Mary's dog through and through. If I die, Lucky will be abandoned, Mary thought. He won't understand that I didn't want to leave him. The thought made her sadder than thinking of her own death.

The double mastectomy was harder on Mary than her doctors had anticipated and Mary was hospitalized for over two weeks. Jim took Lucky for his evening walk faithfully, but the little dog just drooped, whining and miserable.

Finally the day came for Mary to leave the hospital. When she arrived home, Mary was so exhausted she couldn't even make it up the steps to her bedroom. Jim made his wife comfortable on the couch and left her to nap.

Lucky stood watching Mary but he didn't come to her when she called. It made Mary sad but sleep soon overcame her and she dozed. When Mary woke for a second she couldn't understand what was wrong. She couldn't move her head and her body felt heavy and hot. But panic soon gave way to laughter when Mary realized the problem. She was covered, literally blanketed, with every treasure Lucky owned!

While she had slept, the sorrowing dog had made trip after trip to the basement bringing his beloved mistress all his favorite things in life. He had covered her with his love.

Mary forgot about dying. Instead she and Lucky began living again, walking further and further together every night.

It's been 12 years now and Mary is still cancer-free.

Lucky? He still steals treasures and stashes them in his toy box but Mary remains his greatest treasure.

Live everyday to the fullest. Remember it is a blessing from God.

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards... They're the ones who care.

"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

I cried a little while reading it just now. Too touched. Lucky no one noticed me crying in office. :p

My dad always leaves a note regarding dinner, but today's note is so cute, I had to blog it.

I always avoid eating fish if I can, and only eat certain breeds of fish. So my dad explicitly left me a note today telling me eat the fish, and watch out for the bones. So cute man, he actually drew fish bones. Hahaha.

JJ is the most 乱花钱 friend I have. She made me buy matching handphone straps with her to show our 相亲相爱-ness. She even paid for the engraving on mine, which says ♥estrella♥ and hers says jj pwnz0rz, as per usual. LOL. The font kinda sucks. Too skinny. Then Jaye was complaining to Gavius why they didn't get a pair as well. LOL.

Spent Saturday at Sentosa cos I've been dying to see Sasha, Rinna's poodle, plus Qiurong said she missed me. But she didn't turn up cos she was running a fever. I think it's her sleeping habits that caused the fever.

Sasha and Rinna

I finally got to kayak (after sooooo long). It was quite kuku actually. I actually paid for an hour's slot, cos that's usually how long I kayak at East Coast. But then I realised that they have a boundary in the sea, and the area is really small. Half an hour was enough for me, and I was getting bored with the scenery. I went to the stall and asked if I could just pay for only half an hour's slot, but no go. Zzz. Went back to finish up the next half an hour. And this is me waving from the sea.



I also made another new friend, Jilian. She has beautiful hair.