My Valentine's Day

This is my second valentine's day after my marriage. Hmm...what did we do last Valentine's Day?? *scratch head*

Hubby came back with a bouquet of roses with a doggie attached to it. It was sweet of him to get me the flowers but I really have not much space for soft toys. It's the thought that counts, right?

We went for dinner at a thai restaurant and then we proceed to night safari. Let's see, the last time I went to night safari was more than 10 years ago.

There were a lot of tourists and school students at the night safari. We begin the night with a "creatures of the night" show at the amphitheatre. The show is pretty interesting although quite predictable. Next we took the tram and went round the whole park and there are instances where the animals were just roaming next to us. The tram ride was fun.

After the tram ride, we decided to walk around on our own to explore other parts of the park. Frankly, it was so dark that we couldn't really see many animals. We decided to call it a night and went for supper. I know...I'm supposed to be dieting. Sigh....I promise I will do it after CNY. Hahaha.

So we end up at Jalan Kayu for roti prata, mee goreng and milo dinosaur!!! Yum Yum.....

Super Baby BreakDancing

Baby Breakdancing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aus7I7MhaOM&eurl=

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

Friends from the start, when everything was new.

Friends through the hard part of growing-up we got through.

Friends through the middle parts: the good and the bad.

Friends through the happy times.

Friends through the sad.

So wherever you go: here, there or wherever...

know that you've got a place in my heart

Friends from the start: friends forever.

Happy Valentine's Day

To a great friend!

Disappointing turnout

The carnival was a huge disappointment. Was up early on Saturday and down at SMU around 8.30am to set up the stall. Our stall is located at a prime area but traffic for the whole day was pathetic.

So we started Sunday at 10am and still the traffic was quite bad. The worse thing is there are suddenly 2 stalls in front of me which practically blocked off my view and customer's view to my stalls. Bad planning of the people at SMU. I complained to the person in charge but no actions were taken to correct anything.

They promised me that my stall is the first and only stall there. I am very disappointed at the way they arrange the whole thing.

Parfait D'Amour in SMU-Carnival 10th Feb - 11th Feb

Hi Friends,

Join us for a fun and eventful 2 days from 10am - 7pm. We are located at Booth E105 - School of Economics and Social Sciences, diagonally across from Kopitiam.

Please help to spread the news around and see you there.

Thank you for the dinner and coffee...

Met up with my university friend yesterday for dinner at the Crystal Jade Golden Palace at Paragon. He is in town as his grandma just passed away.

It has been like 3 years since the last time we met and I still remember we had Japanese food at the Nadaman at Shangri-la Hotel and then we chatted till pretty late into the night.

He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and for as long as I can remember he has been there for ages. Was in Zurich 2 years back but missed the opportunity to meet him.

Talking about how we came to talk to each other is really funny. We had been in the same course for almost 3 years but the first time I spoke to him was during our graduation ball. And after that the mode of communication was always through emails and we actually met up in person only after he went to Switzerland to work and came back here for business trips.

Anyway, it was always interesting to reminisce about our school days. Catching up on how each other has been doing and the funny things that happened then. On the course mates that are based all over the world now, whether they are married, how many kids they have etc.

Time has really gone past so quickly. I still remember the days when all of us mugging for exams in tutorial rooms, going for dinner together and even supper. Those were really nice memories. Now everyone has gone into another stage of life.

Thank you for the wonderful dinner and coffee and of course your presence. Till we meet again. I wish you all the best.

Just another "thoughtful" day

Sometimes I wonder what I want in life. I would ask myself dozens of questions and never get any answered. Even if they are answered, I wonder if they are the right answers and then you start to think, what are the right answers?

Life is just so contradicting. People only cherished things or people when they are no longer around. And the irony is letting go is just so difficult for most people.

Have you ever felt loneliness even if you are surrounded by friends and family? I often do. Why do i have such a feeling? I don't know. Maybe this is just one of the questions that will never get answered.

The other strange thing I discovered about myself is I like to feel depressed. I just indulge myself in that kind of feeling. I have absolutely no idea why.

I don't understand why someone can just change their feelings and thoughts overnight? I don't understand why people are so afraid to go after what they really want? Is it because of family pressure? peer pressure? or just the thought of venturing into something unknown scares them? I am guilty of this as well. The society has molded me into such a person that I do not know what is what anymore.

When you are young, you are not scared of anything. You get up after falling down, you ventured into the unknown - crawling - walking - running. If taking risk is always hanging on your head, maybe we are all still crawling now. Why has this changed when we grow up? Is it because we have family? We have too much committments in our life?

Why do I have so many questions? I don't know. Frankly, I don't know anything. Just another "thoughtful" day.

A Fruitful and Tiring Week

Finally it's the end of a very very busy and tiring but fruitful week. I learnt so much about what the rest of the people have been doing and of course I shared what I have been doing as well. I'm like half way across the globe from these guys. Let me summarise what's been going on this past week.

On Monday morning,I was woken up by a call at 2.15am (which is around 9.15am singapore time) from a withheld number. The caller hung up when I picked it up. Tried to go back to sleep but finally woke up around 5am. Not a good day to start the day by.I went to take a shower and went down for breakfast at 7am. The next day, I got a call again and this time at 3.30am (10.30am singapore time) from the credit card company asking if I made a transaction with my card in Netherlands. My goodness, if they know I am in Netherlands, can't they wait till later to call me? Disrupt my sleep again.

Watched the news and saw that the temperature will be going down this week and can go down to -2 deg. That was indeed very bad as I think I was not well prepared for the cold weather and I had on 4 layers of clothes already.

So I asked the hotel to get me a cab to the office and that costs me 17euros for a 15 mins ride. Look at the snow covered tulip fields near my office.

Things start to kick in after lunch, we had meetings, presentations and workshops for the whole of the week. But not forgetting the fun we had as well.

We went to the SnowWorld for skiing or snowboarding (for some). It's like the snow city in Singapore, I guess although I have never been to the Snow City. My boss had so kindly brought all the ski pants,jackets,socks and gloves for me. Thank God I can fit into them else I think it's going to be very embarassing for me.

Skiing was no easy task, at least for me. First of all, I had problems wearing the ski boots and then I had problems fastening the boots onto the ski and after that I had problems trying to walk up the slope in the skis.

Then I tried to ski down the slope and ended up crashing into the trainer. I had to walk up the slope again and this time, I crashed into my other colleagues so I was practically crashing into everyone that is on my path. Finally when the ski lesson ended, I managed to ski a little without falling or crashing into anyone. You would never imagine that you can actually perspire under all the thick clothes you wore for skiing but yes, I was perspiring. It was tough but fun to experience it. Whether I will be back for more, well...that depends.

Next, we went for rock climbing. I always believed I lacked the wrist strength for rock climbing but surprisingly, it's pretty easy. I can go all the way to the top. Here's a picture of my team at the rock climbing place.

After all that exercise, we had a good dinner. Meat Fondue...never tried before but it was really interesting. I thought it would be somewhat similar to cheese fondue but I am wrong. There was oil in the fondue pot and then you had a plate of different meats - veal, beef, pork and chicken and you put them in the fondue and fried them.

The weather was getting colder and colder by the day with yesterday morning at -3 deg. My face and skin were so dry that I can feel them peeling off. The feeling was terrible. I was also almost down with a cold with me sneezing a few times a day and on some nights, my nose was blocked. I tried to pile on the moisturiser and hand lotion as often as I can.

We went to another city - Leiden for dinner one of the nights and we had indian food. Leiden is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in The Netherlands. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants. It is located on the Old Rhine, close to the cities of The Hague and Haarlem.It was a nice city and there is even a windmill museum there as well.

One thing I had an issue with was on the service by the restaurants. We had dinner in one of the japanese teppanyaki restaurant and the waitress just refused to serve us until there was another order from another table. It's really sickening. The whole dinner was finished only in about 2.5 hours.

Had quite a late evening on the last day of work. Was in the office till around 7pm. All other colleagues were coming in to say goodbyes to me and wishing me a safe trip home. Left the office around 7pm and went to Amsterdam for dinner. Guess where we had dinner? Hard Rock Cafe...hahahaha. It was cold and we didn't want to walk too far from where we parked the car. After dinner, we walked around the surroundings for a bit before returning to the Hotel. Say goodbyes to my boss and colleague as they were on an earlier than me the next day.

On Saturday, I checked out around 11am and met up with a friend living in The Hague. He picked me up and we drove to the airport to deposit my luggage at the storage room. Then we took the train from the airport to Amsterdam Centraal station. From there, we decided to just walk to the Van Gogh Museum. It was a nice walk as the sun is shining and there isn't much wind. I realised I know more about Amsterdam than my dutch friend. He said he seldom come to Amsterdam so he didn't know much about the place. In the end, I am the one who is bringing him around.

Walked past the sex museum and decided to pop in for a look. It costed 3euro for entry. Frankly, there's nothing much. Photographs of sexual acts, rapes, sadism etc. Some artifacts from the past and paintings, drawings etc.

Here are some pictures I took inside the museum.

Always remember to get your tickets for the Van Gogh Museum in advance else you have to join in the queue at the museum. Frankly, I am not a great fan of Van Gogh but I just need to visit the tourist attraction,right? Hahahaha. Bought some sourvenirs at the museum shop and then I went to the LV shop along the expensive shopping district of Amsterdam. Bought myself a wallet and a small sling bag. Bought some stuff from the HRC for my cousin, chocolates requested by my friend and colleagues and bought some cheese as well for myself. I also did some shopping at H&M and Zara. Most of the shops were on sale and some of the items in the shops were so cheap. Time went past so fast that soon it's 6pm and all the shops were closing.

So we walked back to the train station and caught the train back to the airport. I had a hard time trying to fit all the stuff into my luggage and had to hand carry another 2 bags and 2 paintings I bought from the Van Gogh Museum. After checking in, I said goodbye to my friend and I went to the lounge for some rest and drinks. The flight back was pretty ok, I fell asleep after watching a movie.

Finally back to Singapore after a long and tiring week. Couldn't get used to the heat and was perspiring in the airport. Sort of miss the cool weather there. Sleep in on Monday as I was feeling so tired.

It's raining snow!!!

Reached Amsterdam around 6am this morning and it was raining with strong wind. The plane can't connect to the gate due to the bad weather and we had to wait in the plane for a while. After landing, I stayed in the airport for my conference call at 7am and then leave for my hotel around 7.40am.

It costed me 63 euro to get to my hotel in noordwijk. The wind was so strong that the cab door seemed going to blow away. I was checked into the beach wing of the hotel and the room and toilet were so small and its a long walk to the main wing where breakfast was served.

Peek at the hotel room and view from the balcony of the hotel room.

I went to walk around the neighourhood and the wind was so strong, I was almost blown away several times and since the hotel is near the beach, sand keeps blowing into my eyes and on my face.

Decided to head back to the Hotel and get online. The internet access in the hotel was very expensive. 10 euro for an hour's of access.

Met up with my colleague for dinner in the evening and we went to Haarlem. Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, capital of North Holland province. The city is located by the river Spaarne, about 20 km west of Amsterdam and near the coastal dunes. It is the center of a flower-growing district and the export point for bulbs, especially tulips.

My colleague said when the tulips are in bloom, there will be buses of Japanese tourists along the roads taking pictures of the tulip fields.

It started to rain snow on our way to the dinner place. My first encounter with that kind of rain. Interesting and my hair was full of little bits of snow which melted soon after. We had tapas for dinner, my colleague ordered like around 8 different kinds and I thought that it's going to be too much but the portion was pretty small.

After dinner, we went for a drink at the opposite cafe but I ordered tea as it's cold. It was a nice evening although staying in the Hotel for 9 hours before my dinner appointment wasn't that fun.

Tomorrow will be the start of a busy week.

Stormy Weather in Netherlands

Take a look at this website. It tells of how strong the wind is in Netherlands. It's going to be a cold cold week ahead.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article388802.ece/Rijkswaterstaat_ga_bij_deze_storm_niet_de_weg_op

Finished packing and hopefully I didn't forget to bring anything important. My boss just informed me that I am scheduled for a presentation yesterday afternoon and I have to rush something out so that I have something to present.

We are going to have a team activity on one of the days for skiing or snow boarding followed by rock climbing and then dinner. Sounds interesting. It will be my first time at skiing and rock climbing.

Amsterdam...Here I Come...Again...

Just got my air ticket for my Amsterdam trip. Went to the internet and check on the status of the booking made.

Can't check in now but will do so before i fly and then i will choose the seats which i think are nicer. My seats are reserved on the upper deck of the plane.

Pray that the in-flight entertainment will be working this time round as it wasn't the last time i was on the plane and I wasn't prepared and stuck only with my puzzle book.

I can't really sleep on the plane so makes it even worse for the whole journey. The movies on this flight for this month going to Amsterdam are The Queen (yes, I'm going to watch this definitely), Step Up, Open Season, Fearless ( by Jet Li), The Black Dahlia, Beat the Drum and Miami Vice.

And the movies coming back to Singapore are The Guardian, Scoop, The Departed, Flyboys, Jackass Number 2, Stormbreaker and Nachtrit. Okay, have watched none but some of them I have never heard before.

A new diet

After a gruelling 2 weeks regime of dieting, I lost 4kg. Not a lot but considering the fact that I have been trying to lose weight for the past 2 years.

Actually, the diet works perfectly fine for me but after 2 weeks, I think it's time to take a break and since I am flying off to Amsterdam, no point continuing the diet now. I might probably revert back to the diet after I get back from Amsterdam.

I feel more alert and don't feel tired easily and I believe if I have exercise during the diet period, I might have lost even more weight.

Happy for now....hoping to lose more...must pray hard that I don't gain back all I have lost after my Amsterdam trip.

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday to Me!!!

Haven't been posting for quite some time. I was on leave beginning mid-Dec and it's my very first day at work in the office today although I am working throughout my holidays too.

And Yes, I am officially one year older. Everytime the year starts, I am older by a year. So sad.

No one really remembers my birthday except for a few people so I don't get presents most of my life.

My hubby will always try to get me a christmas present cum birthday present everytime. But I want 2 presents....boohoohoo

Christmas 2006

Decided to have a quiet christmas this year with my hubby, part of the reason is that his parents are volunteering at the Christmas Festival in Orchard, his niece and nephew were down with chickenpox so we didn't have any celebration together this year.

As we were only back on 20th night, we had to catch up on our christmas shopping so we decided to just go out in a day and grabbed everything. Think this year we spent quite a sum on christmas presents, we bought a DVD recorder for his parents, adidas watches for niece and nephew, guess kids clothes for niece and nephew, disney bags and stuff for niece, sticker maker for another niece, a white gold pendant and mango blouse for sis-in-law and a pierre cardin key pouch for his brother.

On christmas eve, we decided to cook ourselves a christmas dinner. So we bought beef, assorted vegetables, canned soup and mashed potato.

We marinated the 1kg beef overnight and it took us about 36mins to roast the beef and it looks and tastes good. We roast the vegetables consisting of yellow and green peppers, carrots, asparagus, mushrooms and tomatoes. Heat up the soup and made the mashed potato. Results are not bad at all. We even had a 1/2 kg log cake and it tasted good. I ordered from my sister's colleague. Must tell her that it's good.

Cameron Highlands and KL

Hubby and I decided to take a road trip up to Cameron Highlands and KL for our 2006 year end holiday.

We started the day early around 5.40am as it takes 8 hours to go up to Cameron Highlands and that is if you drive non-stop.

The immigration was smooth and soon we were on the north-south highway towards Cameron Highlands. The journey was tiring and I fell asleep like 2 - 3 times along the way. I was responsible for keeping my hubby awake actually..hahaha.

We took the new route via Simpang Pulai to Cameron instead of the old route via Tapah. The roads were narrow and a lot of bends so you need to drive slower on these roads. We made it to the hotel at cameron around 3pm as we stopped a few times for toilet break and just to take some rest and we encountered a slight jam on the way up to our hotel.

The air was wonderful, fresh and clean although its drizzling everyday. Temperature never goes beyond 20deg celsius everyday. We checked into our hotel - Strawberry Park Resort. The room is big, with a common room, a kitchen, a bedroom and a big bathroom but its just not to my liking. I like places which are clean and although its pretty clean, it looked run down and old.

After checking in, we made our way to a town called Tanah Rata for lunch. It was a really small town with a few restaurants. We ate at this Mayflower Chinese restaurant and it was pretty cheap for a soup, veg, beef, fried rice and chinese tea. All these costs us RM30.

Dinner was just marrybrown chicken as we tabao back...had a late lunch so decided to keep the food till later.

We started the next morning with breakfast in the hotel and they served really really lousy breakfast. After that we ventured down to Brinchang area (the opposite side of Tanah Rata) and stopped by several strawberry farms, cactus farms and flower farms. We bought some cactus and several pots of plants.

We also stopped by a reputable tea plantation called Cameron Valley Tea Plantations and bought some packets of tea which costs us about RM70. We went back to the town of Tanah Rata and had some indian food for lunch. We had banana leaf rice and it costs us RM7 per pax. In the evening, we went to another chinese restaurant - Hong Kong Chinese restaurant for steamboat. The steamboat costs us RM17 per pax and it came with fixed items. Good weather to have steamboat.

The next morning, we visited the famous BOH tea plantation and hubby met one of his colleagues there as well. In the BOH tea plantation, we learnt about how tea are made through a factory visit and again we ended up buying more tea and that set us back by about RM120. The BOH tea plantation has a huge land mass and has a cafe that looks over the plantation at the top of the mountain.

After the visit, we checked out of our hotel and drove towards KL. We decided to take the old route (via Tapah) as we were told there are some waterfalls along the way. The old route is definitely more dangerous than the new route as it's really very narrow and more winding than the new route. But we did hit upon a waterfall, not a majestic one but not bad.

We hit the jam at KL about 3.30pm and eventually only reached our Hotel - Novotel Hydro Majestic KL around 5pm. The hotel is really new and although the room is small, everything is just to my liking. I forgot to take pictures of the room. Our hotel room has a view of the Petronas Twin Tower (just one tower though)

After checking in, we went out shopping, as its around dinner time, we went to a chinese restaurant inside sungei wang called esquire kitchen. Been to this chain of restaurant a couple of times, food is not bad.

After that, we went walking around for a bit more before heading back to the hotel. Started the next day late...woke up around 10am and finally dragged our feet to checking out around 11.30am. After checking out, we drove to KLCC and walked around and had lunch at Genki Sushi.

Wanted to buy christmas presents but nothing seem nice and even with Malaysia's year end sale, the prices were not attractive. Eventually left the place around 2.30pm and began our journey back to Singapore. Along the way, we saw some villages got caught in the flood and some children swimming in the flooded water as well. Just like what I always saw from the TV news.

Certain parts of the roads were blocked and were closed due to the flood so instead of a 4 lane road, it became one lane and caused a slight jam. We saw a rainbow on the way back to Singapore too. Finally reached Singapore around 7.30pm after making stops along the way for food and toilet breaks.

Now I am going to plan my next road trip..heehee

BEWARE of the MRT Molester/Flasher

Last weekend my sister and her friend were on a crowded train from orchard to plaza singapura around 6plus in the evening.

There is this guy who came in at the somerset station and was pressing himself against my sister's friend. My sister's friend thinking it was because the train was crowded so didn't really bother with it. As the train approached the station, she turned around and saw the guy with his hand in his pants. Shocked...she flung open his shirt and found him zipping up his pants.

So she started screaming at him but no one came to help stop the guy or whatever and when the train door opened, the guy ran out.
My sister then went to the control station to seek help but was slapped with a "bo-chup" station manager who says he don't know anything and just sat there without doing anything. My sister's friend went after the guy but couldn't find him anywhere.

This is when the gross part came in....my sister's friend found some sticky liquid at the back of her shirt. OMG.

That night, she lodged a report to her police station.

SO LADIES BEWARE!!!! Take notice of the person behind you in the train.

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My Cute Nephew

Have not seen my little nephew for some time and last sunday my sister-in-law brought him to my in-laws place when we were there.

He used to be very red when he was borned so now it has subsided and looks cuter. That's him with his sister in the pic on the right.

Busy Weekend

Hubby was away for a holiday with his parents and I had the whole weekend to myself.

My weekend started on Friday night where I met up with some of my JC classmates for dinner. It's been a while since we last met and now one of them is pregnant with the second baby.

On saturday morning, I woke up around 10am, I think. I am going for some aerobic classes in town and hoping to beat the ERP at 12pm, i decided to go out earlier but guess what? I made the wrong exit and was stuck in a jam and was hit with the ERP...sianz

I went for my first belly dancing class today, it was quite fun but being the inflexible me, I am still having problem trying to handle the moves.

As I didn't park in the building where the classes are held, I was stuck when it rained after my classes end. Heavy downpour. I was like standing there for a while before deciding to make a dash across the traffic lights to the other building. It was still early for my manicure and pedicure appointment, I decided to walk around and did some shopping. And in the end, I spent another $120 on clothes...heehee

I bought a chicken burger for lunch and thought of eating it in the car before going for my next appointment. But too bad, someone was waiting for my carpark lot so I had to pass on that thought and drove away. As I was driving and eating (I eat only when the lights turn red in case you are wondering if I am doing it dangerously), I missed my exit again. And I was caught in the jam again. It took me a whole 50 mins to reach my destination which could be accomplish in 20 mins.

My manicurist told me he has moved and as I was so used to going to his previous shop, I just walked there and when I am almost there, I realised I was going the wrong direction. That was so funny. The new place has a new name and a new decor theme and new staff.

As the place is sharing the space with a hair salon and me needing a haircut badly, decided to ask if I can have a haircut after my mani and pedi. And the owner says they are closing. They didn't want to do my business???? The moment I was there, the owner was sleeping all the while and she don't want to do my business? Then a caucasian mum brought 2 kids and wanted a haircut for the boy and owner obliged!!!! That's racism, so angry.

Never mind, I went to another hair salon a few shops down the street and had my hair cut. After the haircut, it was already around 8.30pm. I bought dinner and headed back home.

After dinner, I did some ironing, watched some TV programmes and went back to bed.

Hubby coming back on sunday night so i spent the whole sunday relaxing and doing nothing...: )

Jakarta, Indonesia

My first visit to my Indonesia office. I keep hearing people say not safe in Jakarta, kidnapping etc, wonder how true that is.

Took a garuda flight as it's the company policy to take a cheaper flight. And it's only a S$12 difference between Garuda and SQ. I even offered to pay the difference but was not allowed to do that.

Luckily it's only a 1.5 hours flight. Reached the airport around 4pm and was picked up by the hotel's transport. Reached the hotel about 5pm, thank god no jam as jakarta is well-known for bad traffic.

Stayed at the Mandarin Oriental hotel and it's diagonally across the Grand Hyatt hotel. The security at the hotel is very tight, when you reached the entrance, there is another check just like the airport kind where you need to put your luggage and bags on a belt for scanning.

Then it started to rain and I could see the traffic starting to form from my room. Eventually, I went out at about 9pm to the opposite Plaza Indonesia (next to Grand Hyatt) for dinner. The hotels are located in a huge roundabout and I literally had to run across to the opposite side to get to Plaza Indonesia. Later when I am back, I was told that was a very dangerous act to do.

Plaza Indonesia is pretty much like our Paragon where big names such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo etc were there. Wanted to get some shot glasses from HRC for my sister so I walked and asked around where the place is.

Finally found it. The shot glasses are so expensive. About S$20 each!!!! After that I proceed to this place called Sari Ratu for dinner as recommend by a friend (Arifin: if you are reading this, the food is not nice). The moment I sat down, they started to bring out about 8 kinds of dishes such as rendang, ikan asem pedas, sayur nangka, gulai otak, ayam gulai, telor and some others which I didnt eat so I guessed not charged (i copy these from the receipts..hahaha), when I asked is this a set, the waitress don't seem to understand so I just say never mind and proceed to order some steamed rice to go with all the dishes. In the end, the whole meal costs about 75,000RP.

The next morning, I started the journey to the industrial area of Jakarta about 8.10am. Reached there about 8.50am, not bad, not much jam too. The meeting was good but we went past the time and by the time everything ends, its about 3pm and my flight is 4.30pm. I was so anxious as there was a huge jam, I kept telling the tax driver to hurry as my plane is flying off. Eventually reached the airport about 4.10pm, I ran like mad to the check in counter and was told that the flight is delayed to 5pm. Thank God...

I was like breaking into cold sweats throughout the whole taxi journey and I could feel myself hyperventilating and I almost vomitted. By the time I reached singapore, its almost 8pm, what a long flight....2 hours and I still have a concall at 11pm the same night.