Piglets out!

It's been more than 20 days that I last blogged... Things have changed for the better lately. My mood gets better and my workload has become more managable. Lately been busy with gatherings and buying gifts for colleagues and friend, attending farewell lunch, and birthday celebrations... Though my pocket got a big hole, I'm happy to be able to meet up with people whom I've not met for some time. Met up my primary school friends, colleagues from other the other dept and my ASHL gals plus Ivan.
Had a game of paintball at SDC wif my colleagues last Saturday. It wasn't as exciting as the one we had in Yishun though and weather was wet too. We had to end the game half-way but we were allowed to continue the next half some other day.
In the evening, I had dinner with my ASHL gals and Ivan. We had dinner at Werner's Oven. It's a German restaurant and the prices are reasonable. We had a cuppa at the Cheesecake Cafe and my goodness...the cheesecakes were fantastic! The boss was very organised despite the huge crowds. I'm going back there again!
This morning, I received an sms from my colleague telling me that our sow has given birth! She was supposed to due last Wednesday but we waited and waited, and there's no signs of piglets. My colleague and I resorted to talking to her, persuading her to push her littles out. Of course it did not work. We were told that if she keeps her foetuses for more than 2 days, she'll be in danger. Our vet administered a few doses of hormones to induce her labour and still doesn't work. But today, she gave birth to 5 cuties! I rushed back to work just to catch a glimpse of them and took some really cute pics. 2 were black and the rest were pinkish beige. So exciting...the rest of the sows will be giving birth 1 after the other in consecutive weeks and we are gonna have many litters of noisy piglets!

Loads of work and play

It has been a 7-day work week for me plus 1 overtime...Been coming back to check mice on both days over the weekends. Intend to claim one off day within this week.
Caught a Chinese movie which I thought wasn't worth $9.50 but since HQ wanna watch, so just went ahead wif YS and her. Met up Martin who invited us for a drink at Long Bar in Raffles hotel. The interesting thing about this bar is that you can have a free flow of peanuts and you can leave the shells freely all over the floor.
So this was the only time when we could grab a peanut and throw the shells over our heads without being fined. But being an anti-litter bug, I tried to be nice by placing all the shells into the ashtray...
To my surprise, the waitress came over an emptied the ashtray onto the floor!!!My goodness....all that for my thoughtfulness. Needless to say, I began dumping the shells onto the floor and throwing at my friends.

On Sunday, met YS and HQ again for ice-skating after work...This was my 2nd time. My whole body was aching throughout till now due to the falls. But i had a good time then.

Was feeling so lethargic on Monday yet have to stay back to wait for mice shipment. With the company of 2 other colleagues from the other dept who were also staying late , I dined at NYDC at Holland V. It was a hearty meal and we had back to work. The mice din arrive till 10-ish and we left at 11pm.

Only able to rest longer this morning with the half-day off.