Consolidation of what happened in the last 18 days..

My last post was on 12th Dec.2005….I feel so ashamed of myself lor.. hahaha.. shucks..getting lazy..or rather busy. Wow..lots to update.. dunno where to start also..

Okie.went on a short trip to KL with Sharon san n zhe san and sherri san. Was so looking forward to mega kaimonoshimasu.. but the stuff there really not nice this time round.not much sales also… so the other only thing I can gush about is the….food. hah.. it was kinda de javu coz we went back to the same roadside stalls and ordered exactly the same dishes as the last time I went with zhe to KL in aug. but it was still oishii…so who cares.heh..

Once we reached KL, we headed straight to Coca to eat the steamboat buffet! Yummy.. Singapore’s Coca no buffet liao so thought we shall eat our fill there.. we paid like $22 for really lots of food..both cooked and uncooked food. If I were to go back KL again, it will be for coca.

Basically, I only remember the food in KL. Hahah.. my biggest shopping expenditure was on my brother’s and naz’s T shirts and 3 boxes of tau sar biah. Haha.. still managed to change ringgit back to sing$ lo…not bad.

When I was back from the trip, it was endless amount of systems training after work till 9pm..company catered dinner for everyone and got quite sick of the catered chap chai rice style of food…quite oily though they make sure they change the caterer everytime if there was any feedback about the food..well, at least that saved me dinner $$ for a number of days la. Tiring. So everyday I just come home and feel like nua-ing, stoning or just do stuff that doesn’t require much brain power. Ganbatte ne. next wed will be the last training session!! Yipppeeee.

Oh..had suki sushi with zhe,Sharon n naz on Christmas! Oishii.. oh my god..half my blog is about food!

Anyways, a quick fast forward to what happened today. We had a mini seminar today (yes…after work…again..everything is after work..no OT!!) with one of my colleague who was outstationed in China presenting the work progress there and a travelogue about places she visited during her stay. Ok..not particularly exciting but good to know kinda info. And the most exciting has to be how the session ended. We sang Auld Lang Syne to welcome the new year.. we held hands and made a huge distorted oval shaped circle and walked to our left while we sang the song.. and we sang it twice. It was really funny and I couldn’t stop laughing….just like everyone else.. haha.. but it seemed like people did enjoy it quite abit. Guess it must be the common exhilarating anticipation to welcome the new year.. in a bizarre way.

Resolutions for 2006? Hmm..
Top of the list would be to do more exercise..been slacking too much and eating too much chocs..
2nd would be to do constant self studying for my nihongo… which seemed highly unattainable but I shall try.
And 3rdly, to be able to find joy and satisfaction in whatever I do whether at work or at play.. abit vague..but well, that’s how I feel.haha

And a hope for the year? A very beauty pageant answer : World Peace. vv

what day was sat?? Sat was Mayday!~

Went to work early today hoping to clear some stuff remaining on Friday…colleague was on leave and got extra stuff to do. 8 hours simply isn’t enough. And I don’t mean it in a fun and I’m enjoying myself kinda way. Took the train and I intentionally chose a cabin with the most “hei1 she4 hui4” so that at 2 stations down they would all get off and hopefully I would be able to get a seat…and I did! Heh. ..was totally brain dead when I reached home.

Oh ya… I’m suppose to talk about the most happening concert of the year right… wu yue tian concert! Yeah… the concert started late and guess what time it ended. Almost midnight!! I was kinda disappointed coz there’re so many songs which I hope they would sing but they didn’t. like all the hokkien ones…ho umm ho, sim tiong bo but lang, I love u bo bang….. and they didn’t sing all those….sad x100. I thought the shi guang ji album was not very nice and they sang quite a number of songs from there.. deh. So that was a con of the concert. Me n ayu got a good seat I thought…quite centralized. And our view became even better after the 2 aunties in front of us left halfway though the concert. Hahhaha.. think they were deafened by all the screaming. Shin is as shuai4 as ever…and guai shou so cool…. Heh.. oh..there was this angmoh standing infront of us who was bobbing to the songs thru out!! See see… it’s difficult not to be attracted by mayday…heh.

I told naz I’ll finish like at 11pm..and I came out at 11.45pm..and the concert hasn’t really ended when I left! Mayday was singing their last song jue jiang…which I don’t really super dupa like…would have stayed if he sang I love u bo bang. Abit paiseh to make naz wait la…travel all the way from the west to the east then wait for like 1hour at the ulu dark carpark at expo. Haha..he complained that he nearly dieded from breathing in the monoxide from the aircon…. But the main point is he didn’t..so that’s good. Heh.

Oh my god….sharon san is back in singapore liao….. I miss u Sharon san! Let’s suki together! Before that, we must eat n shop in KL first!! Yeah!

9th Dec 05-GE Xmas gala @Legends

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bluewindsc/album?.dir=/1593

It turned out way more fun than I expected.. which is good! Heh.. yeah..i gotta dress up as Gaston, beauty’s admirer and suitor at GE’s xmas dinner fashion parade. Was complaining like crazy b4 that but I take it all back now…hehe… it was a lot of fun. A lot of laughter as well.

Yvonne auntie was acting as Beauty’s father Maurice, and oh my god.. don’t you think she look so cute! Look at her I want to laugh already.hahah… not to forget very onz, Beauty, auntie judy. I’ve never seen a more spontaneous auntie than her. Though we chose her to be beauty so that our show would be funny and that might just win us the top prize, she was so sporting and was so onz about choosing the nicest, most shiny and most beaded dress for herself. She even went to set-to her hair before the show,went facial and all. Kaoz. Hahaha.. can’t believe she’s so onz!! Ha.. Issac acted as the Beast and till now he’s still wondering whether it’s huo4 or fu2. hahha..coz he gotta fake-kiss Beauty on stage…not real kiss la..we even taught him how to use camera trick, to jie4 wei4..so that it looks real…hahah

Anyway, the organizers did put in a lot of effort into this event. The door gift was nice and each person has a polariod picture ticket which entitled them to 1 polariod pic with their fave Disney character. Heheh..cool huh. So we were like stars for the night.

Many people want to take pic with me lor coz they say I really look like gaston. Yeah..maybe I got an angular face and sharp nose, high cheekbones la.. quite androgynous lor like what my colleague said… anyways, the super La Bi Xiao Xing eyebrows is Yvonne draw for me one… so that I look more like a guy.

Lots of photo taking and hustle and bustle… prizes won ..but not by me.sighz. no luck. Was an eventful and enjoyable evening. Got to know the fun side of my colleagues too..coz usually they are staring at their comps keying in data, doing continuous processing work. ..just like moi. I can stare at the comp with heaps of paper infront of me, hours ticked away, without me realizing, it’s knock off time.

Do not be jealous but tomorrow will be even a more fun night… coz I’ll be with ashin………. Ok, naz, let me be crazy over mayday just tmw night…it’ll be over soon..trust me..heh.

Sunday 4th Dec-Potter saved my day~

.. my Sunday didn’t go too well. In fact, I felt the intense urge to blog about it so that I can “reminiscence” as I read back my blog 10 years later. People tend to remember unhappy things more and longer I feel. How true is that..errrr. okie..back to the topic.ahem.

Firstly, I got the exam timing mixed up. Supposed to be from 9.30am-12.45pm…but I thought it was from 9.45am to 12.30pm..best. if I remember the starting time earlier not so bad, at least I’ll be early for the exam. But I remembered the wrong n later timing.duhz. supposed to meet weilin at kembangan station at 8.30am so set alarm at 7am.. and of all things, my clock spoilt and time was stuck at 6.50am. so the next time I checked, it was already 7.40am..decided to sleep abit more and take cab to the place. Just as I dilly dally to get ready, I decided to check my exam voucher for the timing again just in case. And it was then I realized the test was suppose to start at 9.30..not 9.45. it was 9am and I was still at home. Super rushed like mad and can’t even take the breakfast I made.

When I was about to reach the school, there was a massive jam all the way.Apparently, the whole world took cabs to the school as it’s all the way at ulu pandan-upper change rd north. As if it wasn’t bad enough, the classroom chairs and tables macham for little kids, so bloody low and uncomfortable. As if it still wasn’t bad enough, the exam was super muzukashii!!! Ayu, confirm gotta take with you next year.haiz.

When the exam ended, a scene resembling somewhat like a stampede came into place. Hordes of students shuffled out to the pathetic bus stop to wait for 1 pathetic low frequency single deck bus-2 to go tanah merah station, which is supposedly the “nearest” mrt but it’s still like a good 20 min ride. The sun wasn’t too forgiving either. Couldn’t squeeze onto the 1st bus that came and stood there waiting in the scorching sun for the next.

The 2nd bus came but….it was FULL.some spoil market people walked up to the previous bus stop to take the bus lor. Dam. And when we decided to follow suit and walk to the earlier stop, the whole world also started to walk back up.urgh. hot hot.hot.

After what seemed like a 3km walkathon, we still didn’t see the bus stop. So we headed to another bus stop we saw not far away, and by the time we walked there, realized it was the wrong bus stop. Felt rich and we decided to hail a cab. And the cabs were all busy, hired or already occupied. Got money also don’t allow us to spend.haiz. So we end up walking further and finally got to the stop we wanted and squeezed packed ourselves up the bus. Great.! The air con’s spoilt.

Had booked Harry Potter at 2.35pm at PS..supposed to meet naz at 1.30…and at 1.30 I was still on the bus. Luckily, managed to reach PS at 2.10pm and rushed to breadtalk to buy bread so that we can eat in the theatre. Was so so hungry coz I haven’t eaten anything for the whole day.

Bought the popcorn combo set and at the entrance, the stupid guy stopped us from bringing the breadtalk in. shucks. Should have kept in my bag. Forgot. He asked us to leave the bread outside. So sorry but I wasn’t in a very good mood already and he did this at the wrong time. So I argued with him that I bought the popcorn from GV. He said ya, but I can’t eat the bread. I told him I’m going to eat it coz I’m very very hungry and I AM GOING TO EAT IT and I walked away. Naz agreed to leave it at the counter and asked me to pass him my bag. So he pretended to go to the counter and hid the bread in my bag before coming in. kaozzzzz… meaningless.

My god! Woke up on the wrong side of the bed lor. On a positive note, at least Harry Potter wasn’t too bad la.. though I always thought part1 was the best. Had dinner at KFC and proceeded to catch the a concert at The Esplanade. Was a wind instrument concert orchestra called “xxx goes pop”… I dunno how to spell.. gomen.heh. It was ok lor coz I’m not a big fan of instrumental type of concerts.. more of singing and mayday type where I can scream, wave lightsticks and sing along…which should be quite obvious if you know me.keke. But some of the pieces were very long and really made me sleepy e.g. Miss Saigon. It sounded like it could last forever.

Did Today Exist??!

Today jus flew by. Had no time to think. No time to sms. No time to take off my jacket. No time to drink water. No time to even think of what I’m gonna eat for lunch or dinner. Abbas..saad!!! how can u take leave today! make me gotta cover ur dial a loans…. And Mondays are the busiest. 8.30am-9am I was shaking legs and I thought the sun is bright, flowers are blooming and the birds are singing. At 9.01am, I clicked on my email and 10 new dial requests popped up! Not to forget turnaround time is half an hour.. uncles and aunties, loan interests very high leh. Please think twice before taking loans k.

And just as I was about to take a break in mid noon when it’s free-er, upstairs sent  a messenger to bring down a whole stack of papers to process. Ahhhhh. SIAN. That kept me busy till 6pm…and I’m supposed to knock off at 5.30pm today. I don’t care but I just pray I can go home on time everyday. A simple tiny little Christmas wish. Never seen myself so hardworking before, trying to finish my work asap.

ANYWAYs, grabbed myself some yakun bread and tehC for lunch and everyone thought I was on a diet. Come on pple, did you see the sinful slab of butter in one tiny slice of bread? And the amount of milk they use in tehC? Haha. Really think yakun drugged the bread or the tea, always got craving for it…or rather for the butter…hahah..i think the butter they use taste really good.

Well, at 6pm got some funny xmas Disney fashion show meeting and doshite why I’m there? Coz I’m supposed to dress up as Gaston (however you spell it) in Beauty and the Beast. Newbies always kena saboed. I paid $30 to enjoy the Xmas dinner not to go there wear some Victorian costume and wave some sword lor.

Guess I gotta say adieus to my dinner after I saw the performers itinerary for that day. Adieus. Sayonara. Zai Jian. Zhoi Kin, Goodbye….Selamat Tinggal (**courtesy of Jastina Putri, as requested, she wants her whole name to be typed out here)

Hope tomorrow will be a better day…for you and for me! It’s the little things, that we share, the love and joy that’s in the air….children everywhere…and all my favourite things….over the years…I’ve grown accustomed to your face (or race…hmm)……

grocery shopaholic telling a story about padlocks

OmG! It’s thurs already… was jus telling Sharon san that I chat with her on ICQ everyday (yess…its very outdated..my office only allows ICQ2GO…but better than nothing..heh..bo hee hei ma ho) and everytime I say I’m going for my jap lessons means Wednesday is here again…so scarily fast.

Watched a few movies recently.Think it’s the period with many “ok watchable” movies now…and hence, higher possibility of watching a lousy show. Sky High was lousy…eeeks. Emily Rose was okie..but not fantastic. Zathura was a surprised booking coz naz made the booking without telling me.(*eyes roll*)..and it happened to be one of the few I actually enjoyed..heh.. the little boy was so kawaii. Yeah.end of my movie review.

JLPT3 exam is finally coming.. next Sunday…… shit x100.

Oh ya..yesterday finally made use of the corporate gym before my class. Was a bit mountain tortoise  coz it was my first time using California. Well, went in and exchanged my staff pass for a gym pass. I wanted to put my bag in the locker but the locker had no lock. Then I realised some of the lockers had those golden made-in-china padlock. So I went to the reception to ask. The gal told me I gotta bring my own padlocks as they don’t give out locker keys. So I told her I don’t have a lock…any alternative? She said ..ya. buy one. and they sell it. How much? $5!! Kaoz…
Do I have a choice? No.

Complained to naz about it and he asked me what brand was the padlock. Huh? Got brand one meh? Okie..found out it’s Tri-Circle brand..then he said this is a not bad brand and could even name me a few other funny brands. Errrr… oh no, he actually does part time research for padlocks... he said in army, he and his bunk mates will really yan2 jiu1 about the quality of padlocks. Some brands are lousier than others coz their lockers get broken into. haha…thought it’s quite funny. The things army guys do. Guess they have nothing much to do la. Heh

Hectic week but I have an intense urge to shop and spend $. Shitx100. in my shopping moodz now..and that’s not exactly good. Can you imagine. I spent like $30 jus shopping in NTUC..bought like 2 huge packs of cereals coz they were on sale, 2 jack-n-jill chips coz they were on sale, 2 cans of Heinz soup coz got free pack of sphagetti, and 1 pack of Betty Crockers’ cookie mix coz they were like 2 bucks of normal price.

12th Nov-selamat hari raya

gotta apologise coz this blog is almost a week late..hahahah.. haiz..too busy with work, hanging out with my significant other, facing my stack of jap homework and seeing kitahara san, catching my drama serials and many other miscellaneous stuff....

ANYWAYS, met putri that day to go alf's house for hari raya visiting..and met alot of other OC frens at the station also! cool. will be one big gathering! food was good...and the satay chicken i was looking forward to was there too! :P yummy... taste the same as what i had last year! cool. ate so much.... or rather thought i could eat so much.. even had to donate an oishii hard boiled sambal egg to seng hweeee and an oishii chicken drumstick to seong sam...haiz.heh.

left to meet naz in town. he needed to buy a gift for his little nephew's 1 year old birthday..so we shopped around and ended up buying this cute baby guess shirt..hahah..super kawaii..but cost $55!! baby clothes ARE ex.okie la..coz branded ma. after that, we went to watch Sky High... and it's like shit. already told naz his taste in movies cannot make it...but he still doesn't get it and say he's giving those leng3 men2 movies a chance... what d...

TODAY: they had a mini hello kitty, my melody, little twin stars..etc etc etc etc...bazaar at my department, selling small little stuff....fake ones la..but cheap lor if u're not a die-hard, only-go-for-genuine fan.. and the whole office macham no need to work.. like pasar malam...i saw a guy who also bought like 10 hello kitty towels...and a little twin stars umbrella... haha.. give him benefit of doubt..couldn't be for himself. I'm not really a fan but bought a twin stars mousepad for fun la..brought it home and realised my optical mouse works better without mousepad. what d.....

well..tomorrow will be a slack day..got orientation at a hotel....for the whole day! woohooooo.
no need to drown in those loan and surrenders....for .....1 day. better than nothing. heh

then...it'll be weekend again! cool.


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When you say nothing at all~

It’s a brand new weekend. I know it’s going to be a short 2 days but I’m still going to try to savor it as much as I can. Erm..though I just woke up at like 11.30am and half the day is gone already.. heh. Sleep is important.

Attended Wendy’s wedding last night. The theme song for the wedding was “when you say nothing at all” by ronan keating.. haha..all weddings have to have a nice, soothing, love ballad. It was a wedding dinner but it was a relatively simple and quiet affair. The comperes didn’t say much and allowed us to enjoy our meal. The highlight was Wendy’s speech. At the part when she thanked her parents for helping her plan this wedding, she broke down. And i could feel tears in my eyes too.. so gan dong. Yeah..it seemed pretty normal coz people who is going to embark on the next phase of marriage life would always have mixed emotions.. but still, it’s touching lor. Food was ok and the best part was we didn’t have to lift a finger to take the food. The waiter separates everything nicely on another table and serve it in front of us.

This is not the 1st wedding I attended though. The 1st one I was excited and alls.. hah..now not so liao. Look forward to them as a kind of gathering with people I haven’t met up with.

Going alf’s place for hari raya visit later…yeah. Update in my nx blog!

Oh ya…recently my comp got infected by spyware virus..i don’t even know what the hell is that just that my kawaii chicken little wallpaper was gone and in place was a black box with light blue desktop background. The black box says: warning! Your computer has been infected with spyware..blah….in huge letters. Kowaii ne. and windows keep prompting me every 30secs that my computer has been infected with spyware and ask me to clean it up. Luckily naz managed to find this website which taught me how to clean up the comp. thought it’s quite useful and I think Sharon san also says she got this black box thingy for a few weeks…so it could be quite common. Heh..here’s the site!

http://www.techsupportforum.com/computer/topic/73618-1.html

numa numa yei~

Haha.. chk out this futoru guy singing numa yei…!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/numa.php

2 days MC..genuine case this time k.

Into my 2nd day and final day of MC..so sad. Feeling better and all. Thought my thermometer was spoilt when I took my temperature yesterday 38.9 deg and at the doc, it was 39.3 deg. Sad coz I gotta go back to work tomorrow.

Still feel abit groggy from all the medication… feel pukish when I tink of eating them. Eeeks. But fever’s gone.. yokatta ne.

Made use of these 2 days to catch up on my jap homework… my sensei actually called out my name and asked me to do my homework. Kaoz..paiseh.haha.

Nothing much to talk about here since these 2 days were jus mainly recuperating and sleeping time…

Oh yes.. my drama serial is ending soon…so sad.

complaints...

I shouldn’t be blogging bad about people behind their backs but I really gotta write something about it this time.

Woke up today and found that my fever had worsened. I felt cold, body aching, flu, sore throat and all…just felt like s.h.i.t. took my temperature and it was 38.9 deg and I thought the thermometer was spoilt. Coz I felt terrible but not that bad la. 38.9 quite kua zhang lor. Decided that I really can’t go to work today and gotta inform my sup since I’ll be in charge of dial from 8.30-9am…whether she can get a replacement for me. I know the notice was pretty last minute but hey, last night after I took medication, I thought I would feel well enough to go work today.. late notice was unintentional.

Well, I messaged my sup,adrena, but no reply.so I called her instead..after 3 calls, she finally picked up. Told her I can’t go work today coz I got fever. She asked, “why ah? Why you got fever ah?” oh my god. It’s retarded. So I just gave some excuse that my family members are sick so might have gotten the infection from them. *eyes roll* then she asked me to call another girl, kit. And say she’ll sms me her number. So I called kit and kit asked me to call angela, another lady, for her to come earlier to replace me. ???!!!! why can’t she do the calling??? I told her in the face that angela wouldn’t listen to me coz I’m not her boss…and who am I to request her to come earlier leh? Then kit murmured to herself, “why adrena cannot call angela herself ah?” ask me? How I know.. you guys like to push responsibility lor… I dunno, here I am sick and so interested in resolving who to cover me issue, and I really dunno what you all are interested in.

Really hate the work environment here..sup writes cheesy “motivational and insulting” emails to me. Wonder whether isit her English bad that she can’t express herself correctly or she meant for it to sound insulting. Everyone are just concerned about doing their share of work and cannot be bothered whether you die anot. So much for efforts of  the big boss who is so into customer service and teamwork, always motivating us, little does he know that he hasn’t achieved much despite his effort. What the department puts on at rewards and recognition night is just a façade I think, not a true portrayal of what the department is like.

i might be wrong in my view since I haven’t started work long. but just 2 weeks and I’m able to write so strongly about the culture of the workplace, there has to be some element of truth somewhere la.

Shit..i’m getting more sick now blogging about this.. and I’m serious. Feel like puking lor.

Time for some rest.

Night Safari "adventure"

Managed to get 2 free admission tics from shan for the night safari yesterday. So supposed to meet up with naz at amk to take the bus to our destination. Hah..we were looking for a dinner place when I spotted my fave fried fish beehoon stall at one of the coffeeshops! Original stall was from Maxwell market…so this must be a franchise or something.I tell you, the soup is fantastic…tho not very healthy coz it’s all milk..but who cares. It’s simply sedap. So we had that for dinner..yum. think I’ll go amk more often now.heh

I had always thought that night safari would be like quite ulu and quiet and nobody will be there. But apparently no lor. It was so crowded wit tourists and the whole place was bustling with activities. We had to bring the admission letter to the ticketing place to exchange for tics.

Before we did that, naz pointed out the toilet and asked me if I wanted to use it. I was holding a bottle of water and the admission letter which was folded up into a square. So…….. I passed the water and letter to him coz he say he dun want to go toilet. When I came out, there was some fire spitting performance going on so we just hung out there awhile to watch. After that, we went to the ticketing reception and I put my hand out asking naz for the letter. He looked at me puzzled and said, “the letter not with you meh?” I was like “no!” he doesn’t have a bag with him and he was only carrying the water. He searched his pockets but nothing. He said he thought he passed the letter back to me when I came out of the toilet. No.. I don’t recall at all. I searched my bag but …arimasen ne. shit, I was thinking.. Came all the way here in the middle of night and if we can’t go in! Poor shan gotta write a report if the letter is really lost somewhere.

Naz said he might have thrown it into the dustbin. Kaoz. We went to the suspected bin and pathetically used our hp light to look through the rubbish. After looking through 2 bins, naz added without any help at all that he remembered the gesture of himself flicking the letter into the bin. AHHHHHH! He’s mad. He said he couldn’t have been so blur as to throw the letter away. Ok..we shall see. We tried to re-trace our steps and I suggested going to the place where we saw the performance coz he might have dropped it there. As we approached the spot where we stood previously, we saw a folded piece of paper lying on the ground with a couple of footprints on it. We picked it up as if we had found the winning TOTO ticket and opened it… …naz just narrowly escaped endless nagging from me. We found it!!! Naz scolded a few vulgarities while I let out a shriek and quickly pulled him to the ticketing counter in case he “flicked it into the dustbin” again.

This incident reminded me of becca and me in JC ..when she passed me her vitamin pills in a plastic bag and asked me to hold onto it while she go and buy ice-cream. And I thought it was rubbish and I threw it into the bin. Hahah. She got a shock when I didn’t have the pills but we found it la without much effort.

That was to me the highlight of the trip.
But of coz I have to describe a bit of the safari trip itself…haha.. we started off with the tram ride which we could see shit coz it was so dark. The animals are quite far away and the lights are dimmed so that our presence would be oblivious to the animals. We alighted the tram and took the foot trails to further explore. Most of the animals either were not there or backside facing us. Either that or they’re too dark to be seen properly and we go wondering, etto..is that the cat or is it a log?

The clearest view we got was of the fruit bats. They were so close to us and I thought they looked interesting. They’re larger than what I expected and their wings are huge. Interesting but I was quite scared of them.

Another one we saw were the flying squirrels…yes..they really fly from tree to tree coz we saw them flying…quite kawaii la coz they really look like normal cartoon squirrels eating nuts except they could fly a distance of max covering 5 football fields. Wooah.

Some others we saw were the bush babies which looked like those forest animals dancing in Madagascar.. ha.quite cute.

Ended off the trip with a photo taking session with 3 animals. Since it was so dark in the safari and we were not allowed to use flash photography, we didn’t take any pics at all. We paid like $5 per person and took pics with a tiger-lookalike cat, python and owl.. will upload the pics when I get them!

It was 11pm at the end of the whole thingy.. took a cab ride to the nearest station before we took public transport home.

Conclusion: Unless it’s free, don’t think I’ll pay to go night safari. It’s $25 per admission with train ride. And another package is $30 which includes zoo and night safari. That’s more worth it I guess.

Nothing to selamat about

As you all probably know, I just started on my new job and I really got lots to complain. Haiz. Oh..wait. should I complain openly here…. Seen reports that the employee or teacher sacked due to them complaining about their employer or school in their blogs…hahah.. ok la.. jus briefly k.

Maybe I’ve nua abit too much in all my previous jobs or I’ve not done much admin stuff before..or rather that much admin stuff b4. so now trying to get adjusted to it…processing requests and stuff.. sighz. Training was slipshod and I haven’t even gone for proper products training yet and they’re expecting me understand everything about the products. Well, I dun care…when I don’t know anything I’ll jus ask ignorantly. When they explain stuff to me, they go like
“ya.check that screen lor..that one.Qxxx” .
.i’ll ask “ ermm..wat’s Qxxx?” ..
“to process the xxxx first before u can do xxxx”
“process wat first? Then do what?”

all the xxx are foreign words to me..never heard it in my whole life. Think they should instill a proper training system to train newbies. sucks when I let them check and countersign my work and it got thrown back at me coz there was still a mistake and they approved it.

Well, the work culture there is weird… something which I really need to “keep my mind open” (that’s what I’m always reminded about at work..tssk.) about. It’s only been about 2 weeks but already got never ending pile of papers on my desk already. Looks like I gotta adjust myself to the alien concept of “OT”.

Selamat Hari Raya everyone!! Enjoy the PH. This week is gonna be a fast week…hang on…..

Waiting to get my employee pass to access the California gym… but looking at my colleagues (figure +character+work nature), I see no kakis at all. Even when I asked my sup about the gym facilities, she told me frankly the people here don’t like to go gym one. And I already see why.

Sunday and watashi no koibito no tanjobi

Ran a number of errands today.

Morning: woke up to find my eyes itchy and abit painful. Dam. Suddenly the thought of going blind scared the hell out of me and my mum accompanied me to the eye specialist near my place. The doc did a couple of eye tests and said there were some particle..xxx…dunno whats the medical term for that.. on my cornea…could be due to long period of wearing contact lens..ya..i’ve been wearing them since secondary school lor.. that’s like more more than 10 years ago..!..so back to the topic, yes..so this results in eyes getting irritation and dry easily and tearing. So he asked me not to wear lens for 1 month and I’ve gotta go back to see him next week. Not that I dun want to cure my eyes…but.. today’s consultation and medication cost me $84!! Shingaporu doru…!!! Real poor already… next week gotta go..wonder how much I’ll bust… gotta check out if I can claim from my company…hopefully can man!

Afternoon: went to my optician to change my lenses coz I think the new brand she gave me doesn’t really fit me and that’s why the eye thingy came back again.. well, changing to daily disposables or bi-weekly ones is going to be super ex..  she gave me a pair of trial lens for me to try first. If I find it ok, then she’ll change it for me..tink she saw how I was deliberating about the price of the lenses..decided to offer good customer service… offer alternatives!! Ii ne. instead, decided to invest in a pair of light weight specs..which cost me $230 shingaporu doru!!!! Oh my god. I dun dare to see my card bill next month. Meantime, I shall jus close my eyes and hope November doesn’t come so soon… abit difficult coz tomorrow is 31st Oct already…. ( sidetrack: and it’s naz’s tanjobi tomorrow!!)

Noon: Came home after sending mum for a mahjong session… okie..pls pardon me.. I feel very lor soh today..so pardon my long essay writing about my oh so happening life. Okie..then came home and took a nap. Did some ironing after that and went for my jog in the evening. Now, ima doing my Japanese homework…and it’s so tough and seems like never ending to me… jus taking a break now to blog.

Well, baby’s bday celebration was good..in my opinion..hahaha. treated him to soup restaurant..the ginger chicken is so tasty.. and I baked him a heart-shaped brownie! Managed to get some candles and we had dabao dinner at the roof garden at suntec.. and had a mini bday brownie cutting ceremony there..amused ourselves once again by taking some pics. Thought it was quite rrrromantic.. but in Singapore’s atsui tenki, what seemed romantic always turns out otherwise. Naz was perspiring and after awhile, we gotta get out of the place into the airconed mall… aiyo.so sao xinggggg.

Well…think I gotta get back to my studies….Monday blues again tomorrow! Oh my god…can’t believe another weekend has jus flown by..

my 1st day of work 24/10/05

Started 1st day of work ytd..after so many experiences at meeting those corporate people at interviews etc and prev work experiences, I thought I wasn’t as scared as before to start my 1st day. As I was nearing my workplace, felt butterflies in my stomach.chocho ga aru..

My 1st welcome gift was amusing. As the lift door opened at the 13th floor, I stepped out and saw a sign “ XX welcomes Shirley Chew” (name of company has been blocked out for privacy reasons). … hahahah.. I kept smiling to myself when I saw it and luckily as I was telling Sharon san, lucky.. no one except for myself knows my name. yokatta ne.
So funny…

Then, was brought to meet HR of my department and she took a digi pic of moi and said she needed it to post an email to the whole department to introduce me. I was given an exercise book to do a short write up of myself..like hobbies etc. at 5.30pm.. my colleague turned to me and asked if I really watch a lot of HK dramas.. I was like “yesss! I like…” and continued to tell her which shows I’m catching now. Then I realised how she knew.. she said “there..the email about you” for the 1st time I saw my pic posted in the email like 4 R size lor… and the HR gal rewrote my personal bio in a more “interesting” manner… I wrote “ currently learning Japanese so will welcome anyone to practice with me!” ..she rewrote as “ and the jap bug bit her too! She’s currently learning Japanese!” …omigod..so paiseh. And that’s so not the way I put it. At the cubicle next to me, I heard some of the other team colleagues discussing about it…going …” hahaha..the jap bug BIT her..! she is currently learning JAPANESE! Hahahhaha..so funny” ..to attain the effect, you must say those words in caps in high pitch. … pretend I never hear. Sighz.

Anyway, these made the day more interesting. I was told that I shouldn’t be wearing open-toed “slippers” ( they were sandals ok…. Got heels lor)… and maybe I should dress up more formally for a start. Great. My sup asked me to buy covered shoes if I dun have.and today, I still wore the slippers..coz I was too lazy and didn’t bother to buy. In order not to let her have a heart attack tomorrow, I finally bought a pair of shoes during lunch. And am wearing it tomorrow… life is so sad..dum dum the plans that we had. I hate covered shoes.

Today was more of reading up of materials and product knowledge…dry but I guess necessary…looking forward to tomorrow… ganbatte natsuri san..!

my day on 17/10/05 Getsu Yobi

Watched “Million Dollar Baby” on dvd yesterday… slow moving and pretty draggy..2 hours plus show. Gotta credit it for the gross bloody scenes though.. the cuts on the boxers’ eye looks so dam real and rawfully disgusting. Especially the part when Hilary Swank broke her nose during the fight, she begged her trainer to snap her nose back into place and try to stop the bleeding so that she could carry on with the match. Her trainer got hold of her nose, twisted it (ouchx100) and shoved 2 sticks of cotton wool deep into her nostrils to stop the bleeding. God. So er3. Sounds like super unprofessional medical treatment right.. but apparently, I think this is the norm of how they treat boxers’ injuries during the 1 min short break in between the fight.

It got even more depressing after hilary broke her spinal cord during one of the fights..how depressing it was, you can try to catch it la. If not sharon san always say I spoil it by telling you all so much details and ending of the movie. Personally, I don’t really like the movie except that I could cringe at the gruesome parts of the movie.. not at all inspirational. still prefer comedies lor.

Going on to something more light hearted, I just signed my letter of appointment today! yippee.. gotta go for some medical check up first. Guess gotta go during my lunch time. Yeah…can buy subway to eat again to save time.. I’m sick of yakun already..my latest craze is SubWay sandwiches! Hehe.. gimme 5 zhe! Okie.. this craze came like 1 year later than yours.. but it’s an expensive craze though…like spend $5 on a sandwich alone for lunch..so most of the time I’ll choose the ham sub which is $3.90..cheapest.


Just recovered from sucky sore throat and cough..and now here comes irritating flu blug. Doctor thought I got bird flu lor..but lucky no fever so it’s not… anyways, bottomline is I got my desired amount of sleep during these 2 days man while resting at home....slept about 11 hrs each day…already missing it now.

Monday today…been busy taking calls for interested applicants for my current job.. it’s a rule that recruitment ads cannot imply sex, age or racial discrimination.. so we can’t put words like “females only” , “ 40 years and below” or “Chinese only”. Instead, can subtly write “females preferred”or “female working environment”, “energetic, motivated individuals” or “ability to speak Mandarin and English”… .. amazing how subtly it can be put across…hehe

Ocean Ou De Yang..urmm.cartoon better

his voice and face totally don't match lor! he looks like 康康!人不可冒相，海水不可斗量。。。

Sawadeeeeka....Bangkok trip ~9/10/05 - 11/10/05

My 2nd trip to Bangkok..since. hmm…year 2000 with sharon san and zhe san.that was like 5 years ago lor..! so scary how time flies. Okie..chotto matte..this is not supposed to be a nostalgic blog…heh.

9th Oct 05
Well, 1st day was a Sunday and we went chatuchak.. missed it the other time I went so this time confirm must go lo. Nearest station was Mo Chit station which is at the end of the train line. The local guide told us not to take taxis or tuk tuks..coz sure jammed. Surprisingly, the train was very very packed. Hmm..i remember 5 years ago, when I took the train then, the train was super dupa empty.. we were like the only passengers most of the time. Anyway, Chatuchak was crowded and hot.heat.hot.squeezy.sticky.cramp.heat.hot. They do have nice stalls there but only if you can tahan the heat and can totally ignore strangers breathing onto your hair while browsing. Those leather sandals from leather ark are sold at 199 baht at Chatuchak…that’s like about S$8..yasui ne. but quality I dunno la..it’s cheap lor..bought 2 pairs of that. Chatuchak was like a maze..think you’ll have to walk many many rounds before you can cover every tiny lane and section of the market.

At night, we roamed to siam centre which was a more high end shopping place where we ate at this place called Viet Cuisine. Think we were too hungry or something, when the food came, we realized we actually ordered too much food. The whole table was full but we did finish the food in the end. Hah. Tom yam soup was good.. ya..what is tom yam soup doing in a Viet Restaurant.?! Guess it’s localized already.

10th Oct 05
2nd day was the optional half day city tour which we signed up for. Went to see some temples and took the river boat ride to see the “floating market”. After the ride, the guide said we were going to some gem factory. Huh..then the “floating market” wouldn’t fit into our schedule, I asked her. Kaoz..the 2 pathetic boats floating on the river just now was the floating market.. She said that now Thailand is more advanced and people don’t frequent the floating markets anymore so it had since died down. The 1-2 boats were there just to yi si yi si show tourists. Wahha. Okaay. Nothing to write about the gem factory coz got no money to buy anything from there.

The later part of the day was all shopping at MBK. And oh ya, went for a pedicure session at this newly opened salon..called Hanako. it was lousy. 300 baht and no nail art and they never even complete the pedicure with a protective varnish. Painting skills no good also. Think baboosingh more professional lor! Haha. Never mind. Went MBK and saw maincure at 150 baht with nail art…those they handpaint the designs themselves one….urgh.haha.

Night time was Oil Massage time…at a massage place right next to our hotel. The parlour is called “Miss Puke” …. Spent a bit of time arguing whether its pronounced as Miss PUKE (as in literally vomit that “puke”) or Miss Pu-K.. in Jap pronouciation... in the end, we just called it Miss Puke..vomit “puke”… hahah.. I abit ulu la..1st time try massage and didn’t know have to be totally naked coz it was a full body massage. So quite paiseh coz like kena molested by the masseuse. Worse, we couldn’t communicate coz her English not very good and my thai is..err. stops at sawaDka, kapunka. Got a shock when she took off the towel and started massaging my bust.errr.RA. cut. Then she asked me if I wanted a “towel”. I was like “ oh..no need, I got towel.” Showing her the towel I am holding. She asked 2 more times again and I replied her the same thing, thinking why she kept asking the same question. Trying very hard, she held up her hand like holding a hose and sprayed it over her head making the “sshh..sshhh” sound, and said “ you want to towel?” shower la!! Faintz.

11th Oct 05
Last day in Bangkok….! Think it’s just nice la..if we stayed any longer, would have been quite boredified. As I was telling sharon san, I wasn’t in a hyper shopping mood. So wasn’t particularly excited. Or maybe after my china trip, I’m more impressed with countries with beautiful scenery.
Ate at Hard Rock Café for lunch..oh my god..the mudpie was like $8 sing dollars only… think in Singapore was like more than $15? That’s was naz said..wouldn’t argue with him since he’s a dessert lover. Heh. It was good…yummy..

Slacked around at the hotel lobby for 1 hour or so before we set off to the airport. Novotel Hotel was at so called Bangkok orchard road. So most of the streets are 1 way and super jammed. After 20min of drive, we peered out of the windows to check where we were..and we were only directly behind our hotel lor!

Yup.reached Singapore only at about 11.30pm…tired and when I thought of work the next day, can imagine how reluctant I was. Tried to psycho myself that I don’t feel very well..sore throat coming….mc coming..

What I bought (shun bian calculate my spending as well):

• 1 pair of flip flops – 60 baht


• 2 pairs of sandals – 380 baht


• 2 bags from MBK – 398 baht


• 1 bag from chatuchak - 450 baht


• 2 tops from siam square – 398 baht


• Lingerie from Truimph – 3400 baht!!! (busted all my $$ here.)


• 1 cape cardigan - 490 baht


• 2 nail art stickers - 98 baht


• Lousy pedicure – 300 baht


• Tshirt for bro – 230 baht


• 2 belts – 480 baht


• food – 400 baht


• Oil massage – 500 baht

Total: 7584 baht = about $316 sing…. this is the result of my controlled spending liao..i try not to buy implusively and buy only stuff I will use..and not buy coz it’s cheap..unlike my 1st Bangkok trip. 199 baht…everything at 199 baht…and I couldn’t stand the temptation and bought like a lot of white elephants, some till now I haven’t used it at all…. Or maybe now I start to earn my own $ liao..so will tend to spend my okane more wisely… simtia.haha…

Just a sidetrack to what I observed in Thailand. While I was browsing some stalls selling souvenir T shirts, I heard the store keeper speaking in fluent jap to the jap tourists and greeting them domo arigato, konnichiwa profusely. If they browse and in the end never buy, they will tell the tourists “daijobu daijobu” meaning..it’s all right..it’s ok. When I went over to this particular stall indicating interest in buying the T shirts, the shopkeeper’s attention was glued on the Japs and we were like transparent to them. Even after they had sayonara the Japs, they just stood there looking around, not bothering to serve us. Till I asked, how much is the T shirt, only then he looked in our direction and started attending to us. Doshite doshite. .if they were part of the customer service survey now often done in Singapore, and we were mystery shoppers, they would have failed lor.confirm.

My interview & Good old St nicks.

St Nicks School Song!

钟声悠扬絃歌讽诵
圣铎化雨泽被春风
发扬华夏优良传统
提倡女教美德坤成
发扬, 发扬华夏优良传统
提倡女教美德坤成

徳纯义坚校训是宗
学贯中西文化交融
尼各拉光芒万丈
吾国文化绵延无穷
尼各拉, 圣尼各拉光芒万丈
吾国文化绵延无穷

Before I blog about my Bangkok trip, want to share some thoughts on an interview I went for yesterday.

Firstly, it was the final interview with the boss and I was told there’s a high chance I could make it through..woohoo.. I loitered outside the department coz the gal whom I was supposed to meet up with couldn’t be reached at her extension. Said hi to the mailroom people and they were probably wondering why I’m loitering around again (it happened during the 1st round of interview as well). Tried to see if I could seek help from those people who were coming out of the lift. A guy walked past and later walked back to me and asked if I was here for interview. Cool..help at last!And I got a shock coz that guy brought me into his office and yes, he’s the boss whom I was supposed to meet. During the interview, he asked a lot of personal questions like how many people were in my family and what they do etc.. and whether Bangkok was fun. Then he started asking about my ECAs in school and which schools I was from. When I said I was from St Nicholas, he stopped for a while and said, oh, Mrs Hwang, you know Mrs Hwang? Were you from her batch?… of coz! who would forget xiao4 zhang3 (we used to call Mrs Hwang “principle” in mandarin)… I really love xiao zhang! Then he said, “oh..yeah..good ole Mrs Hwang”. Suddenly, memories of st nicks days all came back to me.. spent my best schooling days in st nicks..! even he knows Mrs Hwang..heh..cool cool.

Well, the bottomline is, I got the job..as a customer service associate. Yay..But this is more backend processing and more involvement in projects…best part. I can be selected to go call centre to take calls for 1 hour during the call centre officers’ lunchtime to cover them and I’ll get extra income for that. $8/hr…hah..interesting.. I hope I get selected..can earn more money.!! Colleagues seem nice and all during my short tour of the office yesterday.. hope they really are la…counting down..1 more week to go. Woohoooooo.

You're da bomb

Flipped through straits times today and on the front page was 3 pictures of severed heads of the suspects of the suicide bombing in bali. Disgusting. Sometimes wonder what is happening to the world. These people are really too free I think, to be able to spend so much effort and time planning a bomb attack and check out how to attach the bomb to their torsos so that only their bodies get bombed apart, with limbs and head intact.

Reported 22 people killed in this blast and not 26 as reported previously. Coz figures might be wrong due to double counting of the body parts….kaoz. eeks.

Think they can no longer claim they’re doing these in the name of religion. It has become an abnormal and sadistic hobby and obsession, seeing fellow human beings killed, deriving a kind of gratification and achievement from it. I’m not a fervent follower of any religion but I don’t think any religion would support or encourage such sick behavior.

And.me here..fighting for more time and energy to catch my drama serials. Went out yesterday for dinner and by the time I reached home, use the net and settled down, it was around 11 plus already. Couldn’t stay up for the serial at 1.20am..so recorded it and forced myself to wake up at 6.30am to watch it. Not shiok to watch the next episode and then backdate to watch the previous.
Haiz.. was too sleepy to appreciate the cuteness of my Ling Feng.
*Btw Sam, Ling Feng is the one acting in a channel 8 7pm drama serial now…main actor…quite tanned one.hehz.

heard an interesting fact on the radio. Eating 3 fisherman’s friend sweets is sufficient to cause you to exceed the legally allowed alcohol content in your body when being spot checked for drunk driving. It sounds quite unbelievable to me lor. I take these sweets quite often leh…

shucks..there’re a few things I need to do but haven’t been doing enough recently:

Ichi ban- Gym! Jog! Feel very lazy when I work normal 9-5 to do any exercise.. shift hours are more conducive for exercising, for me la. Did jog with naz a few days ago though but for the next few days, my days are already packed with meeting jas, maria and nihongo no kurasu. And my upcoming Bangkok trip! Yipppppeeeee! Not forgetting I gotta take no pay leave…..poor and sianz.

Ni ban- Sleep! ..think I need to sleep more. To prevent tired eyes then I won’t have infection so easily..
Nowadays I’ve been sleeping about 7 hours per day. 3 more hours is good. I’ve tried it out liao..if I sleep 10 hours, I feel very super energized and awake..

San ban- Pack my room! Messy desu ne. .sojisa nakereba naru. My otosan is complaining everyday already.

Yon ban- Sort the data in my comp! Start up is taihen osoi by the day..think I downloaded too much gomi already.

time to dial 68737373..request to speak to manager

The cable guy din turn up.

…..

The Cable Guy vs. The TV Guy vs. Otosan

T.G.I.F.! I love Friday! Party people.~.it’s Friday night ~....fryday…~ this song is from boyband 911… but not sure where they disappeared to already..hehz.. no mood to work today.

The cable guy is finally coming over to check out the problem with the cable tv box. The remote doesn’t seem to work properly ever since we changed our old tv to a plasma. Called starhub many times previously and they gave me useless advice like changing my remote batteries. Duh.wouldn’t I have already done that?? That’s the 1st thing people would DIY when the remote can’t work. And I have 3 officers telling me to change the remote batteries each time I called. I changed the remote also but still doesn’t work. But when I use the remote 5cm away from the box, I could change the channel. So they asked me to check with the guy who sold me the tv saying that my cable signal is working fine. So I checked with the tv guy.

The tv guy said since we’re able to watch the channels, should be cable tv’s prob. Called back cable and they said it’s not them either.

Then I presume it has gotta be my dad’s fault then. Who ask him go n buy the tv leh?

Requested for a technician to come down and they informed me if it’s not their fault, then they’ll charge me $35. I said ok, even if it happens it’s not cable’s fault, but if your technician can solve the problem for me, I’ll dun mind paying also. Coz I’m quite sure it’s just a simple issue of interference thingy or wiring could be incompatible with the new tv. But the officer couldn’t gimme an answer and referred me ……… once again…..to the tv guy.madness!

Thought I’ll just make a last call to them and hopefully I’ll get to speak to a technician who knows more.. and I was lucky. Maybe this guy took pity on me and saw how many calls I’ve made to them already and auto offered free of charge home service to take a look at my box. Cool! Watching tv without a remote is so agonizing.

***above is what I blogged in the day before the appointment was supposed to take place **

As I continue my blog, it’s 10.43pm.. no cable guy in sight todate. Called my fave hotline and another officer told me the previous officer David had fixed my appointment yesterday instead of today. What the ***. I remembered clearly when I spoke to david ytd noon, I checked if he could send his guy down yesterday night He said NO.. appointments were full for the day. So he said I’ll fix for you on Friday evening. Kaoz!!! He’s crazy. Really.

Keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow’s so called appointment. This terebi thingy is getting too frustrating for words.

Lin Feng and Mayday.

Was just thinking I’ll be taking JLPT 3 end of this year ne. Judging my my pathetic state of Japanese standard, think I’ve just wasted my money registering for the exam…haha. My listening so bloody poor..think the nihon jin really speak too fast already. And recently I’ve learnt a new way of using the word “okimasu” ..it means “wake up” , “in the store” or used as an adjective to modify a verb or noun…what the heck.. I still remember I asked my Beginner 1 sensei about the word “kami”. It means paper or hair. So being ignorant, I asked so when the person say kami o kirimasu, it means cut hair or cut paper? How we know. .. he said, “ you have to guess ne” … (-_-ll).  In my heart , I was like “oh..wakarimasen ne.” But of course I nodded my head in approval. What he meant was that if the person obviously had a haircut and pointed to his hair, then you shouldn’t ask him if he had just cut paper.

Yeah..! just bought Mayday tickets!! 10th Dec is THE day…can’t wait. And the concert is going to be held at Singapore Expo. Abit sian coz 3 years ago I still remember how we end up sitting on the floor during the concert. Baka. Buddy Ng! Let’s practise synchronized waving of lightsticks! Ahahha.. kidding. Must slowly build up the mood for the concert…….

My current fave TVB actor is Lin Feng! Been chasing “The Twin Brothers” like mad with my mum and my brother..Every Sunday is bonding day for us where we will wake up super early and 9am and watch 5 hours straight.hah..quite fun. Lin Feng looks so good coz he’s so tanned now. The last time I watched him was in “The Last Breakthrough” as a doctor Chai Pak Hang..He looked fairer in that show…not so hansamu.

Decided to get the bi-weekly disposables contacts..urgh. $266 for 1 years’ supply. It’s not ex actually but to fork out so much $$ at one shot..do feel the pinch lor.. The price to pay for vainity.

Red Eyed Seoul

Can’t believe how gluttony a Tuesday I’ve spent.

Took MC today coz my of an eye infection…again. Somehow..once I’ve gotten an infection once, reoccurance becomes more frequent. Urgh. I suspect it’s my contact lens..
When I woke up this morning, my eyes were so tired and sticky that I thought I was going blind. Quickly went see doc and she just gave me the usual eyedrops…

Well, itchy still now. Specs for me at least for the next 2 weeks. Hate wearing specs. Wished I had the money to buy daily disposables. Best! Really a luxury indulgence man if I really do get it, looking at how often I wear contact lenses

Enuff about my Red Eye. Yeah… now the gluttony part. Met naz for dinner at seoul garden…. Yes..seoul garden. A place which I always swear never ever to step in again everytime I finish my meal there. Feel so bloody full after eating there….always. Yet, I still time and again go there to eat. Doshite.

Actually didn’t eat much today.. tried to do some fried Maggie noodles with beancurd, sze chuan veggie and egg on the hotplate and it did turn out quite oishii! At least the fussiest person I was with at that time said it was okie..so I should quickly take it as a compliment liao.heh

Seoul had a couple of cooked food like sushi, lamb chop, fish fillet, spring rolls which were not bad also. And when we left, we walked passed the fruits and ice kachang part….shucks. we forgot to eat that.!! Naz heard me exclaiming and said we still can go back and sit down and eat somemore.. funny. Haha. But we were really too full to stomach that already.see already also not much appetite.

Not bad.. such a sugoi appetite despite my bloodshot eyes…..

lazy but fulfilling weekend

Spent a lazy Sunday today at home..actually bothered to wake up at 9am just to catch 5 continuous screening of the HK period drama starring Lin Feng.. heh…really think he’s very hansamu…9am to 1pm…woah..though the show was really engaging but couldn’t help feeling drowsy due to the super hot weather. Went out for lunch at Pow Sing Chicken Restaurant at Serangoon Gardens.. yummy.. natsuri’s recommendation! The chicken is so sedap. And the fried tofu is the best.

Then psychoed my brother to drive me to buy bubble tea on our way back…it was like 1plus already and the pearls were not ready! Sianz..what is bubble tea without pearls??! So didn’t buy in the end. So sad.was really craving for it.

Went home and amused myself with some karaoke..sang till thought I sounded I got sore throat. packed my room abit and watched guess guess guess..after which I had a piggy nap for 2 hours till dinnertime… shiok lo.. Sleep is really important and that’s why I can stay up to type this bloggy blog. Spent some more quality time with my parents at dinner and mega shopped at………..NTUC. haha..really enjoy grocery shopping man… always saw in movies where the angmohs go shopping at those mega marts with a huge trolley, dumping almost everything on the shelves into the trolley.! Macham like they’re all free… I love to stock up my fridge..haha..yeah..carry one dreaming..wait till I get richer first or find a golden tortoise.heh

Just an update on my Saturday. Met up with zhe san for suki sushi at the Hougang Plaza Branch… amazingly they had everything which the town outlet has.. Thought since it’s less crowded therefore the selection would be limited as well.but ..no lor. Food was good as usual..and less crowded than orchard.. good good. Then shopped in mall for a while before proceeding to my ah mah’s house to bond with her a bit.haha..yeah.haven visited her in awhile.

Zhe san bought 7 boxes of Apollo Wafer Biscuits for her students. And that only caters to half of her students. She told me it is supposed to be for childrens’ day gifts. And she’s looking out for mega tins of chupa chupps to give the other half of the students. Think teachers really spend a lot of time and effort bribing their students..haiz..but if it’s effective in taming them so that you need not scream your lungs out or suffer from periodic headaches, the money is well-spent.

The story of my idol manager + miscellaneous stuff

Was my idol manager last day at OC yesterday... happened to know coz I called buddy tan’s ext to disturb her and heard her crying.. for a moment I thought she was too touch-ed when she heard my voice. Haiz..it’s not lor! Haha.. she told me it was zul’s last day! Deng deng deng deng!!
Supposed to meet maria and ahmad for dinner but it was still too early..and plus I called buddy ng and she handed the phone to my idol. Managed to hear his voice and talk to him…and suddenly I for a chong1 dong4 to see him! hahahah.. no la..abit kua1 zhang1…but decided to drop by since I got abit of time. Met wendy on my way there n congratulated her!! Wedding bells is ringing…falalalala..lalalala.

Zul wasn’t at his desk..so I just PR around..heh..it’s good to see familiar faces except everyone is scattered around the floor..no longer cards in one cluster..banking in another cluster..so abit difficult to PR..

Decided to leave a love note at zul’s desk coz he’s still MIA…and while I was writing, he suddenly appeared behind me calling my name in a zul-lified way..he gave me a distant distant, don’t want to eat my tofu kind of hug (not don’t want but think also not interested..keke).. all the best zul!! Buddy tan and buddy ng, you all must zhen4 zuo4 without zul’s presence ..!! ganbatte!

Spotted my weijian in this week’s I-weekly..he’s botak now! Ah-bing-ge. Didn’t know he look so weird without his hair..

Saw pizza hut came up with 2 new flavors of pizza!..black pepper supreme and BBQ chicken.. hopefully can try it! Yummy…and I got some BK coupons also..can use! Got new burgers also..but I seldom think of eating BK.. I think Carl’s junior is nicer though! The burger is more juicy..demo takai ne..more ex..one burger alone cost $5!!

went for a jog just now... ! i always get a sense of achievement when I can finish my usual route..i think shoud be around 4-5km.. Though I'm already so tired when i reach the last stretch of my run, I always manage to complete it. Really man..jogging can really train one's perseverence. You feel good that you have the determination to complete the run and your fitness level is still the same. haha...kaoz..can't believe I sound so motivational.

To love or not to love~~

Had an sms marathon with "my chosen one" ..at the end of the whole thing, we concluded on a few hard cold facts with regards to love and relationship.

1) The person you ultimately accept and be with may not be the one who treats you the best, but the one whom you love. ..well, love is irrational and a lot depends on chemistry.

2) The person you chose to be with could have done little to make you his..no tough courtship process or a lot of sacrifices…and poof, you’re together….hmm.. love is blind.

3) The other suitor who had done so much for you.. worse of all, the stuff he did are stuff which you are dam sure your partner might not do for you in the near future (cannot think too far ahead)

3) You are very very touched by what your dejected suitor had done but somehow you look up, look down, left and right… the chemistry and frequency is nowhere to be found…so sad huh.

4) You click with your partner at a different level which you totally are appreciative for but somehow wished he had some of the attributes of your dejected suitor… you just wished he would do for you… (hmm..but the probability of this mindset occurring is higher when there is the presence of the dejected suitor..Comparison can then take place)

5) The question of whether love can be slowly nurtured remains a mystery as more often then not, we choose love by our intuition or feelings rather than taking the risky route of trying to nurture love… (what if after 2 years you find that it can’t be worked out..then jialatz..waste your time and youth.. On the other hand, if you choose your partner by how you feel towards him, even if it doesn't turn out well, can count as...bu zai hu tian chang di jiu, zhi zai hu ceng jing yong you....)

....lots more to go if I were to continue typing... guess life is always unfair. No point spending time gruelling over why life is so unfair and you're the victim and so on.... the time could be better made use of. yeah..easy to say hor ..haha..

What matters most is you're HAPPY.... I.N.G!~

Cinderella - the not so fairy tale version

Feel slightly more awake today at work today..hah..wearing my new heels today..! yesterday chop chop went to buy work shoes coz all my shoes really bite my feet like crazy.. this is what I call "royal feet"… maybe I must wear real expensive n branded shoes..normal charles n keith is too cheapo for my feet liao..keke.. okay. Not making much sense here.

Anyway, as I was saying, I bought 2 pairs from charles n keith.. one of which is exactly the same as my old pair which is the only pair of CK (my colleagues use this short form..kaoz..at first thought they so rich, buy shoes from calvin klein. Wahaha) which is so so so comfortable..never did it once kill my feet! Amazing.. so bought another pair in white this time.

The other one is black…2 basic colors should b enuff. Realized from my 20 years of experience, I don’t have the luck to enjoy having many many pairs of shoes in different designs and colors to match my wardrobe…coz super hard to find a comfy pair of shoes. .abit late to realize huh. Think I’ll just stick to the basics… You should see how many plasters are stuck on my feet now…pathetic leh. When I wear a nice pair of shoes, people will probably notice my plasters more.
Then bought another pair from vincci..a casual pair of flats..and I really regret manz…coz I think it’s going to cut my feet as well… they actually stick a piece of sticker on the shoes that says,

"non-leather sole"
"non-leather sides"
"non-leather base"
"non-leather strap"
… Trying to imply for me to get a pack of plasters handy…..so ka.

Supposed to go gyming with my bro yesterday and last minute he sms me say his friend not going, so he’s not going also. Wanted to say .oh…then your friend not going you can’t go with me la??! ..then decided I felt to lazy to argue with him…so left it as that. Instead, I went jogging around my estate..It’s been a long time since I jogged!.. or rather since I did any form of exercise.. okay.. not sure if walking around the zoo, around my workplace during lunch or shopping in orchard can be considered as proper exercise..heh..think can leh..hey…actually shopping is really a good form of exercise…imagine walking down from far east plaza to plaza sing and shopping at the same time…

Oh yah was trying to withdraw some $$ from OCxx ATM yesterday but decided to check my account balance first. So I chose "other services"..and to my surprise, they immediately asked me to key in the amount I want. The screen was definitely wrong from my experience. So I cancelled the transaction and pressed "other cash amounts" instead. The screen just hung and I pressed the screen a few times…and to my horror this time, they said transaction processing and they’re dispensing the cash and asked me to chotto matte. I haven’t even keyed in any amount………urgh.………….so I waited.
And they dispensed $1000 out instead of the $400 I wanted! God… all in $50 dollar notes and great, my account got like $2 balance.. no cash deposit machine to put back the $$ also…SIAN. I want to complain! Maybe ayu or sam can help me??! Hahah..

hana no shashin!

zoo-ey adventure

got free admission to the zoo...thanks to shan gal.! hehe...yup..met naz at woodlands to take a bus there... while waiting for me, naz bought a bag of peanuts..planning to feed the animals there...ssshh.not supposed to lor..if the animals died of sore throat or overdose of salt we know who's the culprit...but nuts are supposed to be natural and a source of food for many animals...or as what naz claimed.. i really dunno coz i don't watch animal planet as faithfully as he does.

was raining actually but great that the rain knew exactly when to stop.heh.. at the entrance was a ben and jerry's booth and that was what probably motivated naz to finish the whole zoo exploration with much enthusiasum...

the last time i went there was with sharon san n zhe san on zhe san's 21st bday! hahah...that was like 3-4 years ago..oops.age revealed..hahah... think they revamped the entrance of the zoo to make it nicer... and it really did look much better..didn't remember they had ben and jerry's there before leh...or we weren't too interested in it when we went.

saw many animals.. (duh) ..haha...but was most amazed by the humongous fish (cant remember the name at all....apairamas..or smthg like dat....).... it was huge.. carnivorous and dangerous..but too bad..by the time we reached there, we had missed the feeding time.

my fave were the MeerKats! as u can see from the pic above...they look like chipmunks and looked really really cute when standing upright..haha..2 in a row somemore..love them... really hope to keep them as pets man... but dunno where to buy from. naz said they're illegal if we were to buy them...yup..think before i can get to meaningful time with the meerkats., i'll be in jail liao. then i'll say Hello to shan.

there was this section of the tour called the tropical Garden... really liked it coz i took alot of wallpaper-like pics of flowers and plants... think i must have been a botanist in my previous life... !! haiz..really can't figure how to put more pics into this post...tink i
ll post it separately..

yup...of coz the trip ended with 3 scoops of sinful ben n jerrys..haha but naz finished most of it so it's okie.heh...

Jane's wedding!

contrary to my previous blog... the mood for this blog should be lighter..hehe

yeah.. attended Jane's church wedding today..my sec school classmate... yes.. married.the 2nd wedding i've attended so far.!..last one was kei who got married last year.. really happy for both of them coz they've found their life partner..yay.

saw jane walking down the aisle in the church and background played the song by Guy Sebastian "Angels brought me here"... so touching... she was smiling from one ear to the other and when we told her she looked so xing fu..she said she was smiling so happily coz she's so glad her wedding was finally over...hahaha.. so funny..preparations was hectic and she mentioned she had been sick through out the preparations.

then as she walked nearer to the groom.. the music volume was softened and was replaced by the piano instead... the groom started to sing the remaining parts of the song...to jane... wooohooo.... my goosebumps popped up straight away.....so swwwweeeet and nice... haha... wanted to cry when they read out the vows to each other... the for better or for worse kinda sentences... yup..

reception was good...surprisingly. coz most of us thought church wedding receptions are quite pathetic coz it's normally held in the middle of the day so only cater like finger food and high tea kinda food... but the spread was a normal lunch kinda dishes..so it's really not bad.haha..not that i'm there specially to eat la.

yeah.. all the best in your new phase of life jane gal!!

This is Life

Friendster just underwent an overhaul for its interface and now we could upload up to 25 pics to our profile..cool.. Came across this new alert feature which informs us of who had uploaded new photos.. saw one of my friend had loaded new pics so just surfed in to take a look.. all the pics were the same till I scrolled to the last pic. It was a solo pic, not of himself, but his good friend. Caption said " a friend who will always be in my heart".. a chill went down my spine as I read it a few times over. Sent him a message to reconfirm what I guessed.. and yes, his friend just passed away on Tuesday.

His friend collapsed while playing street soccer in camp. Nobody knows why coz he had always been really fit and healthy and he’s only 23 years old. Recently there had been a surge in such accidents of young people who died while exercising…scary.. I dunno Perry personally and knew him through my ex and his friends. Never kept in contact and my only last impression of him was at a chalet, of him strumming the guitar and singing along.

Couldn’t get to sleep as I suddenly began to reflect on people whom I’ve taken for granted and the cliché it may sound, learn to cherish the people around you when they’re still around. Don’t wait till you’ve lost them.

To live everyday as if it is your last… a newfound meaning to that phrase, for me.

The Killer Maid

After much discussion, me and my colleagues concluded that the 29 year old maid murdered the 26 year old maid out of jealousy. As reported, both maids got a common Singaporean Indian guy friend who is wery wery hendersum. We suspect that both maids are actually lesbians. Then the younger one fell in love with the guy and the old maid hated her for having a change of heart and resorted to silencing her….so that she can be hers forever.

Ok…question is why the older maid (sumimasen ne.. their names are too long..can’t remember) had to be so cruel to chop the young maid into so many pieces and dispose her body at different places.. one of which is the dustbin at orchard mrt just beside the grassland where maids gather to picnic on Sundays. Doshite.. I think this is to symbolize perhaps the place where they 1st met..at that grassland. And MacRitchie could be the place where they had their lovers augument over that indiano man..that’s why her torso was abandoned there. To mark the beginning and the end of the relationship.

And the question of how come she has so much strength to be able to chop her tomodachi up.. she could have trained up her muscles when doing all the chores and when chopping meat when doing cooking....so not very surprising.. Or the more typical answer, she has an accomplice..and that has to be the the indiano.

Whatever it is, I think it’s quite scary to have a maid.. my colleague’s maid had confessed to her that she’s a lesbian and had a galfren (the "guy" in the r/s). And there was this period of time when her maid cried every night and when probed, she finally confessed her galfren decided to leave for Canada to develop her career and wanted to break up with her. So my colleague spent lots of time in the next few weeks counselling her.

Feel like eating yakun now…perpetually feel like eating kaya n butter toast nowadays with tehC..the butter tastes exceptionally good…..slurpz.

catching up on lost sleep

hey!! ohisashiburidesu ne! miraculously........ think my bro did something to my comp jus now....suddenly can work again! yokatta ne! well, as u can see...my last post stopped as on tue and it was a tragic post on the tragic sharon attack..

ok..let's make this post a more cheerful one..!

Last weekend was pretty hectic coz i took up this temp at NATAS ....haha..a 3 day stint..weekend burnt...pay not so good but for the extra cash and coz i pretty enjoy doing events... seemed like I was back to customer service all over again...appeasing angry card members and "assuring" them that the gifts are fully redeemed for the day and we're not hiding any gifts in our booths. not forgetting to periodically point my finger to the terms and conditions. (-_-ll)

stood a total of 10hrs... whole day and talking..talking...talking...explaining... for 3 consecutive days.. quite funny. the 1st day everyone working looked pretty and cool. on the 2nd day, everyone wore specs to work..haha. coz we worked from 9am to 11pm........hardworking arent we.

anyways, concluded that singaporeans are indeed quite rich looking at the amount they're charging at NATAS....i want a holiday too!!! naz intro me a few new zealand packages but i'm only interested to see the place where they filmed LOTR...woohoooo.....kirei !!! but they're pretty ex leh.... can someone gimme 4 lucky numbers?? onegaishimasu.....

really felt like shit when i gotta work today....literally dragged myself to work... and the train was so packed that i could smell the body odour of this uncle..eeeeeeks. that really kept me awake for the whole ride though.

okie..think i really gotta sleep now...taihen nemui. can't imagine my next off is on sat!!! ..urgh.
hava good week ahead mina san!

poor sharon san..~

Woke up this morning to find that I have 3 smses waiting in my mobile.. they were from Sharon san describing how suay she was. She got beaten up (more pro word: assaulted) by a group of 8 gals.. before you start wondering how it could be possible, it happened in Australia.
Kowaii ne! suffered a few punches on her face and I hope she hasn’t become the female version of Owen Wilson..hoh drama rite.. she said she made a police report and they took down her statement..and the bitchy twins were with her too.. they got beaten up too. Really can’t imagine the scene of them beating her up though…like so so muri ne. meaning impossible. .. quite comical also..haha. okie..shouldn’t gloat.
Am just thinking if I got assaulted, would I retaliate or just cover my face and hope that they’ll stop soon….or run away..?? but if run away, they’ll give chase and looking at Sharon san’s state of physical fitness, think they’ll catch up with her very easily and not only she’ll end up out of breath, she might suffer more punches to punish her for attempting to escape..DEH! idea out. Next please.
Suffering in silence is good, provided that those people aren’t out to kill you….
Retaliation is only feasible if you think you can outfight them. And when you’re winning, take care not to trip over any boxes or steps. Coz once you fall down, that’s it.
**Hope you’re fine Sharon san… hope you aren’t too traumatized and please update me on your ordeal…arigato.
Anyway, my hp was out of batt for the whole day....AGAIN. They should really consider improving on the lifespan of the batt.. it’s pathetic for the number of functions it has.
Watched Matilda Tao’s talkshow yesterday and that Hou Pei Cen (jay chou’s gf) was also on the show.. wonder why she was there. Super extra coz she’s lousy compared to tao zi… just kept smiling so sweetly at the camera and whenever they make fun of she and jay, she’ll just smile and cover her mouth shyly. Eeeks. The questions she asked MayDay were so boring and she sounded like she was doing a channel news asia interview, applies to all artistes she had interviewed before. Well, I suggest she goes back to reading Taiwan news. And apparently, jay chou is attracted to her..sighz. doshite.!!.. nan de. Hence the phrase-Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Wait…I’m supposed to talk about MayDay…but somehow, many of the jokes were on Hou and Jay..she wasn’t the guest-star lo! Sian. Tao Zi and Mayday were great together and yan ming is so funny…hmm..shucks.. I think Guai Shou is getting more and more hansamu…haha..his hair style makes him look quite good.heh. shi tou’s hair cmi. I never really liked ma sha..but he was funny yesterday…
Yup yup, good show…better savour my mayday all I can now coz their new album just released so lots of concerts and coverage on them……………..yummy..

。。。就讓你自由。。。

這是我的溫柔。。。。。。。。。。五月天

Stay the same~

heard this song over the radio today...haha..was really crazy over it during a certain period during my JC days... thought the lyrics are quite cool! but now i think it sounds abit cheesy..hehe..but still a good song!


Artist: Joey Mcintyre Lyrics
Song: Stay The Same
Chorus
Don't you ever wish you were someone else,
You were meant to be the way you are exactly.
Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are.
When you learn to love yourself, you¹re better off by far.
And I hope you always stay the same,
cuz there¹s nothin' 'bout you I would change.

Verse
I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be
If you could realize, all the dreams you have inside.
Don't be afraid if you've got something to say,
Just open up your heart and let it show you the way.
Chorus
Bridge
Believe in yourself.
Reach down inside.
The love you find will set you free.

Believe in yourself, you will come alive.
Have faith in what you do.
You'll make it through.

doshite

not sure whether I didn't sleep enuff or i wore my contacts for too long....my eyes really dying from faitgue... no matter how much i sleep, i still feel very very lethargic...

anyways, went to billy's again..this time we ordered the sweet and tangy buffalo wings..okie..i think it tasted better than the orginal we ate.... and made use of the $10 voucher...yeah..we ate cheese fries (super oishii..), a pink colored drink and the wings... after which we proceeded to play abit of arcade. haha..reminds me there was this little boy. naz wanted to play this ninja game but there were no stools at that machine. so naz went to drag a chair and i went to get a chair also..when we went there, there was a little boy standing there and pretending he's playing the game but he didn't insert any token. i put my chair beside him and said "excuse me...err.." then he turned and looked at me and took the chair and sat on it and continued his "gaming". naz even tried tapping him asking, "harlo..are you playing this game?" but he just totally bo hiew us.. okie lor. i declare that we got bullied (1st time in our lives) in the arcade by a 6-8 years old little boy on 3/9/05.

today is a rainy sunday. had many errands done in the morning. went to my jap school to hand in my JLPT 3 application form and i abruptly barged into the room to look for my sensei thinking there's no class...but there was.. then got stuck in the carpark coz 2 identically alike mini lorries collided and the drivers didn't have the decency to move their vehicles aside before confronting each other, blocking the exit. i don't really like to use the horn when driving unless absolutely neccessary coz i think it's really noise pollution, but this time, i had to honk 3 times...gently, before they started to realise that there were like 10 cars behind them.

bought toiletries and da bao some dishes back to go with lunch...and realised that my dad had switched to sports channel and i was supposed to be taping my fave drama serial! every sunday there's a marathon from 9am to 1pm..5 episodes at one shot. had to go out so i recorded it..and told my mum not to change the channel and she forgot to help me monitor! urgghh... and that episode happened to be the most crucial to tell me what's happening in the rest of the episodes..sian. yup..and i began doing all sorts of household chores for the rest of the day after completing my jap homework.. such a fruitful day! heh..

feel like i can sleep any moment but cannot la.. will get insomnia later on. better keep myself occupied now....

copy and paste a boring day at work

Watched the much talked about movie "The Maid" that day.. wasn’t that fantastic coz the scary scenes kept coming out consecutively, resulting in surprise level 0. guess the punch of the movie would be the story behind the family which the maid worked for.. ohh.there was this scene which showed the maid was climbing into bed after bathing and washing her hair.. maybe it was the angle or the way the scene was taken, the maid’s hair looked super dupa straight, smooth and shiny black,bouncy and healthy. It really looks like the advertisements for Pantene…!!
Ok..enuff about the hair.. watched another movie called " Red Eye" yesterday..starring Rachel McAdams.. storyline was good and lots of psychologically intensed- exchanges between the killer and Rachel, and all these happened onboard a plane flight..would recommend all to watch it.! Better than the maid.

Typing this on MS word in office..would be posted in my blog if successful..hoping I can save it on a diskette and bring home to copy n paste into my blog. But hor. I’ve got a feeling that blogspot don’t allow copy and pasting. Shucks. Lol. But nevermind, to while away time, I’ll still continue to pretend I’m blogging.

Planning to shop abit during my lunch today and just buy bread back for lunch…my cake history! I love the bread there and I haven’t patronized them in a long while. Walking to my workplace from the train station is real good exercise, by the time I reach office, would be perspiring and tired… thinking of checking out the private buses that would stop by the bus stop at my place,and goes direct to my workplace…the more auntiefied way of traveling to work..hah..were my colleagues who gave me the idea. She said the trip is fast and cost only $1.10 max..but they say I should just dong1 $1..usually they wouldn’t mind or know. Sounds good! I’m going to try to catch the bus tomorrow, see how long it takes to reach my workplace, or if it goes to my workplace at all.

It’s 10.40am now…office is cold as usual. Lucky I’ve got the ripcurl jacket I bought from Sydney which keeps warm better than any of the huge big jackets I bought from Singapore..though it looks quite thin but the material is meant for winter wear I guess.
Yawningz and I feel I could sleep anywhere and anytime. Had been staying up to catch repeats for the HK serial starring ouyang zheng hua…11.40pm to 12.30am..ZZzzZz. didn’t used to like him but after watching a few of his serials, think he’s really a good actor and that explains his popularity. Particularly like him when he manages to portray a kind and thoughtful and righteous character,but when it comes to relationships, he is supposed to be shy and do interesting and silly stuff for the girlfriend (who are usually gorgeous actresses like Ada Choi or Guo Xian4 Ni2)… well, effort also goes to the scriptwriters and directors. Somehow, HK scriptwriters have the knack of creating great and unique characters for their stories, not forgetting the importance of good and interesting dialogues. As compared to local dramas, the vocab and lines they use are usually hoh hoh limited. The dialogues between a daughter-in-law and a mother-in-law who are often at loggerheads, is so typical. Spiteful conversations and content is so predictable. tsumaranai ne!

Haiz..back from toilet break. Think I’m really falling asleep soon. Wish I could play my mayday disc now to wake me up…when sep ends…lol..ahh..what am I talking about. Oh, did I mention that the aunties in my office sometimes call each other and chat through the phone, when they don’t want me to hear what they’re talking about. The things they do!haha.. hope they aren’t talking bad about me.

p/s: yess! i managed to copy n paste! (^_^)v

a day of a pamphlet-giver (is there a professional term for this??)

hahz..dunno anyone of you walked past somerset mrt today anot.. well, would have caught me giving out some perfume promo pamphlet from 1-4pm.. it was super hot and it didn't take long before i found out a more inovative use of the pamplet- to fan myself... naz joined in the fanning also..haha. well, was a lobang by naz's friend to earn help give out these leaflets just for today, pay was peanuts but more like was for the fun of it.for me la. really jogged my memory of schooling days when i used to temp all sorts of funny jobs.. anything from giving out brochures, assistants for events, boring data entry, kena conned into a scam of selling christmas cards on the streets (lasted for all of 2 hrs when i made a great plan to escape..with sharon san..she was a victim too.hahaha) ..and to promoting health food in watsons...how exciting..! lol. was fun then..thinking back.

.well, was great fun observing how people dress and behave and all the funny and omoshiroii ways they accept or reject our pamplets. naz was giving out the pamplets on the side where people are coming up the escalators to go town, while i was on the side where people are going down to take the train. i gave out mine faster than his though he started like 15 min earlier than me (i was late).... my guess is that people will take the brochures to kill boredom while on their way home...but more likely is that naz'z face not so friendly or approachable... we even spotted a few who ran away (as in really running..like 2.4kim run kind) when he tried to give out the brochures to them. ok la..maybe they were really in a huge huge rush...not nice to push the blame all to his face..keke.

hmm.so the stint ended at 4pm and phew..finally can go shopping! ordered a pair of shoes coz they don't have my size.. heh. yeah...new shoes to wear! naz really couldn't shop much coz "his legs were tired" ..how can it be when he can jog 4-5km and go gym so often.. his reason was that running is less tiring than shopping. ??!!!?

ok. think most of the gals would find it difficult to agree to this.

ashita hataraku again......how i wish weekend can go on forever....ok..childish thought. wake uP natsuri san.!

recently.... i'm deprived of the net

in case you might be wondering if i had been too busy to blog in the past 1 week or so.. no. work wasn't busy at all.. i had to find work to do..like packing my table, cleaning the computer monitor and the table..doing what the cleaner would normally do.. quite sian actually. or play solitaire... urgh. i actually prefer to be busy so that time passes faster. well, esther told me outright that meantime nothing much..but once she loads the accounting program into my comp, then i'll have lots of data entry and tallying of figures to do..oh shucks..i remember the data entry i did last time..at the end of the day, i was groggy and totally brain dead..but time really flew by and i was so tempted to do OT to finish up..but no la..it's ok.. i'm not so hardworking.haha

finally met naz after a week! ..was busy w gatherings and stuff and our schedules totally clashed.... says alot about our planning skills.. keke. anyways, we met up to arrange photos..yeah..about 100 pics lo...and then just cooked maggie mee to eat. . .and we as usual had lots to argue about the "u shld eat vege, it's good for you" issue.good attempt to eat some w soya sauce..(weird)... but need to ganbatte lo.

went jogging after that..haven't been exercising coz feel lazy recently. now i see the aunties in my company..they're so onz about losing weight and maintaining weight! 3 years ago..they were quite plump..now they're super thin lo..one of them only weighs 47kg..thats lighter than watashi! as they said, they want to look young and well maintained tho they have reached the auntie age...heh. think it's not easy to be so positive about upkeeping their image..most would have given up and just resigned to being fat and auntie-like... so i really admire their perseverence!

yup.gonna post less often coz my net connection is so cannot make it. always disconnected and my frens keep asking me why i keep signing in and out of msn...don't ask me why... me really don't want it to happen and i really zenzen wakaru... and plus office doesn't allow me to surf the net....hence, refer to the title.

sidenote: yeah! mayday album is out! buddy ng! i love lian ai-ING...so cute...the way ashin sang..heh... even naz has admitted that their songs are not too bad after my indoctrination...yeah! potential mayday convert!

please keep the toilet clean

.. noticed a sign pasted behind my office toilet cubicle door which i found very weirdly worded and quite funny... actually typed it in my mobile while i was baking cake...check it out:

~ when you are not around, the cubicles and toilet seats are dry and smiling happily.
~when you are back they are sobbing with tears (meaning the cubicles and toilet seats are wet and stink with your urine)
~ DO YOUR PART
~clean up before you leave.
~ALTERNATIVE, pls call the cleaner to help you clean up your mess: Tel: 9xxxxxxx

those words in brackets are originally in that poster, not i added in myself one ok..wahhaha
maybe i should try calling the number and see if the cleaner responds.

from my prediction, the cleaner auntie has gotten her primary 2 son to write this poster. what you think?

atarashi tokoro..shigoto...hito...hi..

first day of work @ my old temp company.. familiar faces and till the boss asked me in strong jap accented english, when was the last time he saw me...it was actually 2002! god...3 years already. cliche but really..how time flies! settled down and everything seemed to fall into place easily. i have to emphasize that i took only 1 call today!!! hah. yeah...my job isn't taking calls anyways, but still feel so high when i think of that. heh. less stress and less desk bounded by that headset. can take my own sweet time to go toilet and make tea. good. but environment is a little too quiet with less people around..though my 2 hip auntie colleagues can really talk but frequency not there...they're funny though. I prefer to listen to them talk..can be pretty interesting when they speak in teochew about their family politics and about their children. had been talking too much for the past 1 year, i actually enjoy listening now.

well, just some thoughts for the day. my dad was the happiest to see me home for dinner at 7pm..nagging about this is how a proper job should be. like can come home on time for dinner and can have a leisurely chat at the same time..