Went to Kent Ridge Park for run. Aunty and Rani each gave me $5 for the OPC coupon. Haha. I'm so cheapo. End up doing static exercises as it's going to rain. It started to rain heavily after we left Kent Ridge. Heng Ah,

Went to Veona's school for the meet the parents session. Thought it's a face to face session with her form teacher but it was actually a mass orgre session in the MPH. What a waste of time. Brief us about the school vision and the composite of the different exam papers Ha. We sneaked out after 15 mins.

Our life is really unpredictable. A person might be healthy and kicking this moment but dead the next. This lady just passed away just like that. From her blog below, she's still hopping that she could be successful in life and earn more money to have a better quality life. In the end, she just passed away so suddenly.

Hope the owner of this blog will not mind that I post his blog.

From her guy fred's blog:

Whole day did no studying even though my last paper in on Thursday but it's a small matter. I'm quite sure I'll still pass. But this isn't about me...it's still about May whom I call MJ meaning May Jie.

After interview at Cityneon and after tuition, we went to Singapore Casket and I stayed till it closed at midnight. Her cause of death was mainly due to overwork. Doctor said that she sat down for too long a time and a blood clot formed at her legs. When she tried to stand up, the blood actually shot to her heart, causing her to collapse. Her Mom called the ambulance immediately but even on the way there, she was informed that MJ's condition was critical, asking her to be prepared. That was when she called Pamela (MJ's best friend since don't know when), then Pamela called me to inform me and her Mom called me just a minute after that. After that, all was written in the past blog which I decide to skip here. According to her Mom, she was working non-stop for the past 8 hours with the lap top on her lap, replying emails and work related stuff, so this proves what the doctors had examined as well.

This photo which I put here was her most favorite photo of us taken together. Guess it was due to her super red hair that time that she liked it so much. Should be taken around 2years ago. How time flies...So many things are going through my head now I don't even know what I should write...Hardly do I have such a feeling and it feels just like when I was at her wake, standing by her coffin, talking randomly about everything. Hope she understands what I was talking about. We bought her all time favorite drink -- strawberry milk for her. She loves it so much that she actually has a poem for it.

Guess I'm too messed up to blog properly but now I've got to find all the photos of her and we hope to do something for her tomorrow at her wake. Hopefully a slide show or something like that. And I'm sure she'll approve of what I'm going to do now. Here's the link to her latest blog http://pinkmayflower.multiply.com/journal/item/140 because she wants to remind everyone and to pass to as many people as possible to remind them of the importance of health. Those who want to read it I'm sure she meant it for everyone since it's accessible for all. Please take good care and not work out your health just for money.

MJ... we all miss you...
Prev: In Loving Memory of a great friend -- May Leong

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from her own blog:

Worked Up, Stressed Up, Crashed Down Apr 21, '07 10:08 AM
for everyone
I never know my limits til now... Getting a job was never ever easy and having something good sure have a sacrifice for something else. Coming a long line of different jobs and doing different things have got me realise just 1 thing - I could never stay too long in a job now. The longest would be in LTA for 7.5 yrs, that was my 1st job as a clerical officer. After that, it was all sorts of different jobs in different industry facing all sorts of difficulties. I came to HP started as an Admin Executive in Sep last year & changing to a Partner Support Manager in Mar just this year.

Just after getting this recent position, I was thrilled to finally have the chance to "fly high" in a Fortune 500 MNC. It's ok for me to wake at 3.30am to start work @ 4.30am everyday in the morning. But never did I realise what kind of stuff were coming towards me... What I face everyday as a partner support manager is having more than 100 emails per day (I'm not joking, they're no good ones), partners from New Zealand practically "screaming" to be served first, getting their orders delivered ASAP, wanting everything, complaining of everything. Month end was the most "exciting" part, you get to go on concalls almost everyday, prepare backlog reports for each concall session which consists of 500 over orders remaining undelivered, investigating item by item. That's just the qty. What abt the amount in $$? Millions of NZ dollars involved. I've got 6 large partners and these are what I have to handle. Besides, I've got to work at home during non-working hours including weekends, just doing my best to clear my work. Did I mention my team is really short-handed? Only 3 of us managers handling the whole of NZ. All for the sake of a salary just enough to keep myself alive for a month. I'm not earning like the other managers are cos I'm only a contract staff.

Taking over the duties of a colleague who just left on Thu made me realise that she was indeed a supergirl. The amount of workload she handled was a complete hell. I cannot imagine how she could handle all these for 1 year. She was so bloody happy to be able to quit this job. All her stress has been relieved & put on me. Well, great huh! My colleagues including me, dislike my boss. By the way, he just gave me more work to do, on top of other things! I don't know how to voice out to him that I'm so stressed up right now.

I've got myself sick these few days. Had diarrhea last Thu, hurt my knee and was limping badly since last Sunday, had breathlessness since Wed & fainted after work on that day at my office lift lobby, knocked my head against the wall when I fainted, collapsed again last night at home. Now my chest feels really tight & breathing is really tough. Getting up & walk, I just feel like I'm carrying a heavy baggage of few hundred kilos & I'll start to feel really weak & dizzy. Doc just said I'm really stressed out. sigh..... what should I do? Quit? or continue this ultra-super stressful job? I've got a contract of 6 mths to fulfill... 3 months to commit. If I quit now, I've got to pay back 1 mth's salary. Not worth it. If i quit after May, it won't be so bad. But I don't know if my health can tolerate til then. My mom's really worried & I can't do much to get less worried. Cos my focus was to earn lots of $. I really thought I was able to do everything, that I can be supergirl as well, but my health is worsening at a fast rate. Vitamin M(oney) isn't gonna cure my health. Just yesterday, I received an email from my job agency saying that a contract staff who's working in HP as well, passed away from heart attack, leaving his wife & kids... deja vu? coincidental? a warning sign? I dunno. I don't wanna end up dead for the sake of dough. The moral of the story is don't ever fall in love with your company or your job.