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 It’s thurs already… was jus telling Sharon san that I chat with her on ICQ everyday (yess…its very outdated..my office only allows ICQ2GO…but better than nothing..heh..bo hee hei ma ho) and everytime I say I’m going for my jap lessons means Wednesday is here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