Familiar Feelings

The familiar feeling of being poor.... Just did my maths for expenses... Looks gross lor... The New year Top Resolution: Save Save Save $$$! Did a basic in-out flow, it's time to follow!

Chant: No splurge no splurge no splurge No splurge no splurge no splurge No splurge no splurge no splurge

A mixed feeling of both excited and nervous, with all the butterflies knocking the walls of my stomach. It's not a nice feeling, yet I was happy when this kicked in: Mr Hobbes lah, who else. He msned me like after almost a decade, and I was caught off guarded, coz didn't expect him to msn me mah. I feel like ridiculously back to primary and secondary school again with all these infatuations. Ha!

Whatever, I'm meeting him to collect my notes (and I hope it will just me and him alone ^_____^), although I tot I remember telling him eons ago that he could throw. Since he brought the subject up again of whether to throw or not, the sly fox in me took this opportunity to meet him, on the pretext of getting back my notes.

Ho, I feel so shameless and buay hiao byte. And secretly, I tot he was using this as pretext too, possible? Me very the Bu Yao Lian hor.

Me shame shame! HA~~~

Old New Actor

A group of teenage girls were discussing Little Nonya, on my way back to Yishun. Very interesting, reminds me the silly things I said when I was 16.

Girl A: You know, that Chen Xi hor... Blah Blah Blah
Girl B: And then hor, Yueniang didn't marry Liu Yi Dao and Blah Blah Blah
Girl C: Poor Yuzhu, kenna rape leh... Blah Blah
Other Girls: Yah lor, Poor thing..

They moved on to Star Awards....
Girl A: Ou Xuan sure wins one... Blah~
Girl B: I think hor, Liu Yi Dao will win Best Support Actor
Girl C: No lah, I think is that Charlie Zhang, his name is Shen1 Jin1 Xin1 (Me was arm chioing, the way she said his name is very hilarious...)
Girl D: He's a new actor right?
Girl A: Yah, but a very old new actor...

Tsk Tsk Tsk, Got Eyes No See Tarzan Oh-Yee-Oh... Uncle Shen was very handsome and popular 20 years ago you know!

I must say, this Charlie Zhang really gives me the creep, the scene where he looked at Juxiang lecherously while eating the kuei kuei, was classic!

Merry X'mas!

May all of you have a wonderful X'mas and splendid year ahead!

Happy New Year!

Paiseh!

I was so overjoyed to go back to Hall 9 that I tripped and almost crashed the carom table after giving a hug to my friends!

Wah liew, as if my already elephantiasis body is not clumsy enough!

From high to low

I always had communication problems with my dad, coz he's really fluent in Hokkien while I would probably flunk my one if there's ever an oral test. In any case, I would always get Mum to do the translation, coz I really cannot understand his Hokkienfied Chinese. His wrong use of vocabulary and grammer is his unique style, and obviously, always turn on our laughing spots.

While I was eating my dinner in the living room when he walked by, pointed at a scrap of food on the floor and told me, "那个菜跌倒嘹。"

Both Mum and I guffawed for 10 seconds, then Mum corrected him, "是掉， 不是跌倒！"

Buay Tahan.

Anyway, my life seems pretty dull every since I started work, hardly any anecdotes for me to share on blog, less the fact that I am not very happy at work. Even the recent company dinner did not help to bond with my team mates, coz we were seated separately. In a way, I think is good for me coz, I don't have to sit with my boss. I now keep my mouth shut when with my boss, wasn't the talkative me when I first came to work. Now that he had given me The Talk twice in 4 months and kept having to clean the shit for me, I really feel like I don't have the face to look at him without feeling guilty.

Either the fengshui there doesn't suit me or subconsciously I hate my job. No matter how careful I try to be, I always screwed Big Bosses's Blackberry, forgot to backup Lotus Notes file, corrupted the Winzip files, forgot about the Outlook PST files. And it is always the BIG BOSSES, which included Directors, Regional Managers and VPs.

The best thing is the more I want to make things right, it would go wrong. So I really remain passive unless instructions is given. The best bet to my current situation.

Like a hokkien saying, "Kiang tio ho, mai gei kiang".

Reigning at MJ table once again!

Need I say more? Oh, yes, I won $10.20! Lunch allowance!!!

JB Pilgrimage

It seems almost like yesterday when the four of us had fun in JB, shopping non-stop and ate a lot.

My favorite pic which I was wolfing down mouthfuls of soup, satay and sambal stingray.

The Fantastic Four Meet Again!

Sufeng ScissorHand and Thousand Hands Sage (you should see the amount of bags she carried at the end of the day, LOL)

The Kan Cheong Spider Woman

The Hijacker

Small V and Big V... V for Vendetta

We eat, shop, eat, shop, eat, shop, and almost eat the shops. With the Malaysia Annual Sale, it's hard not to buy anything! But luckily for me, because of my huge size, there's nothing much left for me to buy. Just grab a pair of shoes, and bought a top from Padini just because I MUST GET SOMETHING!

Shuhui was damn happy, big bag small bag food bag, you name it she had it.

We settled our dinner at the Huan Xi Di, a bit disappointed, coz standard dropped. Still... with the price divided by 2, we didn't hiam much.

Must go again lah!

Somehow or rather...

I think Jamie is quite superb... She can change her blog skinz, update video and now she asked for a cbox. I only knew how to change web template when I was 16!

Her standard is on par with Jia leh! Change skin, select option, click OK.

Little Nonya

Did you watch the Little Nonya last night?

Jeanette bared her back and almost got raped!

You know what that means?

She's gonna win the Best Actress award, coz reveal sexy back + physical insult = Star Award is the winning formula.

Unhappiness

I am really unhappy at work... Cried at work in the last 2 days, must be the hormones at work as usual, albeit a bit late though.

I don't know if it was due to the work nature... picking up phones all day long, but phones are common items, can't be avoided.

I don't know if it was due to the people... unreasonable demands and unrealistic requests, but it's everywhere right?

I don't know if it was due to myself... making too many mistakes, and teammates having to cover up for me, and Boss giving me the "talk" every now and then. What he said can be summarized in one sentence, "Not performing to expectations". This is darn demoralizing.

Boss commented I still lack confidence when talking to customers on phone, personally I thought I improved.

The situation is made worse when someone non-tech performing better trying to comfort you saying that WE are non-tech, when I knew I am supposedly to be tech-savvy, coz Boss commented this one too.

I am really trying hard to fit in, but with all the stupid thoughts such as co-workers hate me, customers dislike me, boss ultra fed up with me, I just want to run away everyday! Is really like being married into a wrong family, when we have no communication at all!

The more I want to prove myself, the more mistakes I made.

Help.

Doom Day

I'm so gonna die at work tomorrow.

Earlier in the evening, I had forgot to backup a director's personal folder in his email, and one of these emails could worth millions of dollars!

As much as I want to leave the company, but not in this way of getting fired!

Shit!

Astro Outing

It was rather disappointing. The people whom I have not met for a long time all decided not to come due to personal reason.

And hence, I was left alone with a computer geek and a 宅男 who explicitly self-proclaimed. The 宅男, as usual, talked about himself, about what he had been doing, how he would be single for the rest of his life coz he work in army, and how he is not earning enough, and what would it be life if he had gone to university. Conclusion: Bored.

After the lunch, we went to catch the movie: Quarantine

This is one sick show, because of its documentary way of filming, the scenes were often fidgeting. Is like having seasickness, nauseous and dizzy. It did not help when the show is all about gruesome. But I was too sick to be taken aback at those sudden "suppose to catch you off guard" scenes. I was feeling really sick after the show, and all the 宅男 could say was, "I feel sick too." -_-|||

An average show, although the lead female's acting was superb. It looks like she was really scared.

After the movie, I decided go for some shopping and the 宅男 decided to tag along, not my idea of shopping. He would be waiting outside the shop while I was scrutinizing the price tags of the items. I kept hinting him whether he wanna go back first coz it's gonna take some time since I was shopping. My third attempt finally got him off my tail. Hee hee. That's when I decided to my hair a change.

Oh yah, Miss Diyumi, he asked about you leh!

Feeling sexy again!

I finally got myself a decent hairstylist once again! Another impromptu visit to the saloon, Reds at Plaza Singapura.

A revisits to my old posts, I realized I would always walk into a saloon spontaneously, on a really bad hair day. And yesterday, my hair had gone so bad that I was wearing hairband to keep my grizzly hair tidy. So Reds were having promotion, and I walked by their saloon 3 times before I headed in for their cut & colour promotion.

I was being served with Sprite, a packet of biscuits and a hand towel. I only managed to finish my Sprite coz 90% of the time I was sleeping.

My hairstylist was Luis Wee, and usually I'm not too comfortable chatting much. Anyway, I told him this: "Hey, I came in without any hairstyle in mind, so you can be creative, but please keep my hair length." This sentence usually ended up with good results. The last time I said this I got this really nice haircut which I liked.

I was first treated to a light hair wash, because he said a too thorough wash would cause sting later during colouring on the scalp, so I supposed he wanted to keep the natural oil. The light hair wash took about 10mins. After blow-drying my hair, he set to part my hairs with clips, and commenting how my hair was very flat, and whether did I perm my hair or colour my hair before. The last time I coloured my hair by a professional was 3 years ago, and a DIY last year on 31 December. Anyway, he told he would give me a double layers, so that I have more volume on the top of my head. I think he took about 45 mins cuttng my hair, coz He was really careful with the parting and keep combing until he was satisfied. Surprisingly, my hair didn't come out with each combing, which usually did when I comb myself.

After the cut, I was pretty satisfied, but somehow I felt it didn't really end there, so I asked him, "Are you done with the cut?" I probably sounded very exasperated, so he used a comforting tine and replied, "I trim again after the colouring, not quite yet finish". During the colour choosing, I wanted something natural, coz I had my black hair for a few years, I'm afraid I would grow to dislike the colour after 3 days, choosing something dark and natural, has a more sense of comfort, as the colour doesn't contrast too much with my skin colour. The package included highlight, so Luis recommended the two tones for me. As assistant came over and started to part my hair with clips again, she was asking Luis how many parts to divide, and how to part the hair also, something technical to them. As they colour my hair and wrap with the foil, I recalled my last highlight attempt was done with a shower cap with holes and the end result was very chao ah lian (rough and unbalance division), plus the fact the colour was very chao ah lian also. But I was 21 years of age, so can tahan the chao ah lian colour.

After the foil wrap, they started spreading the base colour on the rest of my mane. After which they placed this machine above me, which it has a huge ring hovering above me and dissipates heat on my head. After about 2omins, I was ready to go and wash my hair again. While they were blow drying my hair, they were doing closing and were in quite a rush, so I was being asked to make payment, write the membership form and choose my door gift. Too lazy to pick my specs, I just squint my eyes and I wrote the form and sign the check. LOL.

I must say, I was very satisfied when I put on my specs and see how nice I looked, after almost a year of horrible hair.

End results:

The highlights

Nice? =D

Now I just have to moisturize my hair till it is sleek and glossy!

Einstein's Riddle

A friend sent me this link: http://www.manbottle.com/trivia/einstein_s_riddle. A logical riddle.

I solved it in 20 minutes using grids, which I was appalled at my own accurate answers and speed, considering that Einsteine said 98% of the world can't solve it. I swear I didn't see the answer altho I must admit some luck was involved. Check out the answer, it showed Einstein solving the question with equations! Yeah, he probably took 20 minutes also, like me.

I am so amazed by myself, coz I can be so smart and so goodu at the same time, which makes me: Amazing.

I don't if I am logically inclined or I am behavioral disabled. I made my boss vomit blood all day long by my stupidity at work.

I'm too logical for my own good. Bleahz!

Let me know if you solve it too, at least I know I ain't the only weird kid in the blog. =) EEE student should have no problem lah hor.

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No big sizes though, =(

It's a small world after all, part 2

My current colleague was my colleague 4 years ago, when we were both TAs in NCS. But neither of us remember each other.

Sibeh Sianz...

My Jap class is postponed to December.

The more sianz thing was, I thought I had backup my Dad's photo in my Samsung phone to the Sony Ericsson, but I didn't! Shit... It was a batch of interesting photos!

I was having dinner at the coffeeshop with Mum & Dad on Monday, which we later went to Sheng Siong for grocery shopping. So Dad was carrying the sackof rice on his shoulders, back like his heydays when he was young, strong and handsome lah! So I took a series of his backshots... Coz somehow it reminded me of 朱自清的《背影》.

Now I lost my own version.... Argh!!!

Update: This is 5 minutes later after the above. I found the photos. -_-|||

9 months later...

Miss Gwee and Miss Ng still cannot forget my birthday blunder ultra hilarious reaction! We actually still laughed to tears when we were talking about it! Bleahz... Die... That unglam scene of mine is so stuck with them forever.

Caught the Ave Q with the 2 of them, and only when with them, I actually forgo my weekly mahjong! Well, on top of of that, Marina Square was having quite a bit of sale.

Saw this pair of red shoes which was so apt to wear for CNY from Club Marc... $20 leh... Tempted to buy but the heels looked so weak that I think it will fall apart within the hour I wear...

My birthday is on Chu Si next year... I can come up with a theme party... celebrating 4th year anniversary of being 21 year old.

Snoop from Miss Gwee's vocab, a "ching-chong" theme partee!!!

Ave Q is fabulous! Laugh until I cry!

Today is a busy Sunday for me... My fingers didn't had a good rest from punching those ATM devices, and the computer keyboard. $xxx fly away today... $ for Jamie's tuition class & course materials, $ for my own Jap class which starts next week same time with Jamie's tuition, $ for the Bird Park Tickets (I got free tix for PA membership signup, so bought the other 2 at 30% off) and $ for next week's lunch. Bleahz....

Quite excited to pick up my Jap again... and be a student again. =)

Dreams Come True

I wanted and new and affordable camera; I got it.

I wanted compensation for the awful taxi ride; I did.

I wanted my stupid shoes to fall apart, it happened!

Now where's the job I wanted?

Once again, I totally throw my boss off his guard, and showed my best side: Ultra Blur & Blindy Eyes

He was looking for this laptop, I told I only remember it was placed under the table, and hence I looked under the table and said, "Nope, not there."

My boss saw the laptop 5 minutes later, under the same table, just beside me.

All I could uttered was, "Sorry, too blind". You all should have see my boss' face, and he was totally speechless. And me, was burning red with embarrassment.

I wish I was really Doraemon and then I could hide into my pockets!

Police Car

I wasn't jaywalking, but I was crossing without the green man on, when a police car was turning right into when I was. I thought it was funny that the car paused to let me pass. And I actually stunned for a second, thinking, "Shit! Police Car!"

Compliant, Complaint

I lodged a complaint against a taxi-driver on the day I bought my camera. Had wanted to take MRT that day, but by the time I walked to the station, my feet were lamed from the high heels shoes, and seeing the crowd on the track, I made my mind to take taxi. And to take the taxi, I had to lame all the way to Jurong Entertainment Centre. -_-|||

And so, the moment I boarded the taxi, I played with my new toy. After 10 minutes, or so, then I realised I was at Alexandra Road.

Hello, I didn't tell you which road to take, so you take long route is it?

I was burning mad with desire to told him off, but thinking since I did not tell him which road, fine, CTE CTE lor. But the idea of letting him diminished when he ask me where is Ave 2 (I stayed at Ave 4), and couldn't make a left turn appropriately.

I had encountered taxi-drivers who took CTE, but that was way before I knew KJE-Mandai was nearer, and I gave him the green light to take CTE. I also had drivers taking KJE and cut woodlands, also bloody expensive, but yet again, I was the goodu who believed Mandai was congested. But this time, this driver was quiet all the way until he was unsure where is Ave 2. A bit too much in my opinion. Chao geng also cannot geng until like that.

I lodged my improper English complaint on Wed, and today, the customer feedback replied me. Out of their goodwill, I got $10 worth complimentary taxi vouchers.

In my opinion, not so bad.

Here's what I wrote:

I an utterly disgusted at this driver. He had took a long route without my knowing, neither inform nor ask my preference of the route I would like take to take. I usually take taxi back from Jurong IBP, and I do not need to tell the driver "go by KJE then Mandai Road", for this route is shorter than going by CTE. Most drivers had the initiative to tell me the route he/she will be taking, but not driver of 1363K. He covered a total of 33.8km, taking 37 mins using CTE road, where I usually covered 24.8km and using only 26mins using the KJE in another taxi, in a non-congestion road. I shall not even go through how he misheard Ave 4 as Ave 2, hence unable to make a right turn after the Lentor ave near Yishun Ave 1. Fine, I gave him the signal to go straight all the way before making a right turn at Yishun Ring Road. His muddleness not only cost me extra $15, but also additional precious 10 minutes, excluding the walking time I need to make for stopping my trip outside Blk 666 instead of my own block. I hope to see some compensation being made and also, demerits from the driver. Even if he is not a seasoned drive, he should have the decency to tell me the route he was going to use.

A very passionate complaint, right? Was mad leh! $35, can buy 3 pairs of shoes you know!

Conclusion: Don't mess with an ex-EEE student, we are damn hardcore standard-compliance, faithful follow procedures and nutty over precision!

Nong Nong Time...

Hardly update nowadays, life is super boring...

At least once a week there's a MJ to look forward too
At least once a month, I hang out with friends...
At least once a year, I had my happy birthday to look forward to.

Still, nothing is comparable to today's outing with Uni fren, coz Mr. Hobbes is in too! The last time I saw him was like 3 months ago! Thank goodness I neither drool nor reddens when I looked at him. HA~~~ HA~~~ HA~~~ Wah lau, I am super hua chi.

Super TX teased me as usual, rolled my eyes at him gazillion times until my eyes ache.
Say I very hungry lah, coz I ran to the toilet twice.
Say I lousy organizer lah, coz until now none of the trips I wanted to go was planned.
Say I very rich lah, just because I used i-banking... Wat the ...

Heng ah, get to suan him back... Wah ha ha... Damn humourous!

饭来张口， 钱来伸手

I read the chinese version article on Wu Qing Kang's 2359, about this girl who carry a LV bag to school and wear Shisedo makeup only. I was trying to find the link, and it so happen that my fren had posted up the article on her blog, link here.

Apparently, the girl in topic was misquote, see her blog here

Well, some facts were twisted to show the whole Singapore, "Wah biang, this girl like that also can ah! Win liao lor, she buay paiseh meh?" when she probably had just a really generous parents in the first place. I had a fren whose parents were indeed like that. She was carrying chanel, prada at age 14!

What we see is very surface, coz the reporter just skimmed whatever essence he/she could and made it into a tasty headline which capture everyone's tongue and wagging. At first glance, we will be thinking, wah, she so good life! Wah, she dunno how to think for her parents meh?

We aren't her and not in her life, so we cannot judge her. Of course, carry an LV bag and wear Shisedo makeup indeed sounds extravagant for a 20 year old. Actually, girls like are all over, just whether who makes the money to buy those objects.

I also want a branded bag if I can afford.

饭来张口， 钱来伸手, who don't want a life like that?

Long weekend... Long Tuesday

The highlight of my 3 days rest was actually winning $8.50 in Mahjong (excluding losing 60cents on Sat though) and coaching Min Min for her Chinese exam. Seriously, Min Min made a perfect Ang Moh Kia, her Chinese 是不标准到很像外国人讲华语咯！

Bought myself a new tech toy today, Casio Ex-S10, wanted to buy ink cartridges then leave IMM, but was lured to Challenger with their email promo, so I went to take a look, and ended up buying another promo item which was $100 more than the email promo I saw, but with better specs. Suay suay, I got a defective one, not very obvious, but very buay kam wan, coz I did my post-purchase research and realise this casio camera is not as good as it's other counterparts, and I loogee a lot in terms of freebies compared to bargaincity.com.sg, so I gonna go request a one-for-one exchange tmr, and if cannot, I gonna make noise to CASE and Casio. I just make noise to Comfort taxi feedback coz one driver make a big round to reach my house. 33.8km vs 24.8km leh! Extra $15 you know!

Tried the camera just now, not bad, somehow I wish I was more careful when testing. One idotic point about this camera purchase was I have been researching on Olympus, checking out the price, read reviews, and I ended buying Casio.

Still, I love the Casio, it's sleek, slim and steady!

Wireless!

After a few hundred donkey years, I'm finally on Wireless! Shiok, no more adsl dial-up! And the speed is now miraculously 10mbps!

Happy Birthday Mum!

Finally, I'm the one who bought you the birthday cake. Ho Ho Ho.

My blog's biggest fan!

So far, I had not formally introduce Jamie's blog, JauntyJamie

She had shamelessly proudly copied some phrases from my blog to hers, including titles... She's definitely one of my biggest blog fan...

But her style is more towards dark humor, which I quote: "my sis was a nice person, let me choose the thickness of the hanger HAIz…-_-||”

Apparently, either I am at her standard or she is at my standard. So, Jamie, we look forward to your upgrading to Jia's level.

Can't believe I shed tears at work today... all because of a bitch who rant and made some remarks which I find it an insult, partly due to some hormonal imbalance currently, my tap just turned on and flow for an hour. Tried to stop, but it got worse when my very nice colleagues comfort me about what a bitch she was.

BITCH!!!

Ominous Feeling...

It's been a week since I got the happy news, and I'm still awaiting The Call. It is a trend to keep people in suspense?

My fren asked me to tender only when I get The Call, just in case. Does that mean I might not get the job after all?

Been feeling restless at work, coz I was anticipating so much for The Call, that every time my phone vibrates in my pants my mood climax, thinking this should be it. Ended up was the round 2 interview from last week, picked my watch and wrong phone call.

Haiz... Big project coming in, uber sianz...

Reigning MJ

After a short hiatus from the weekly mahjong scene, I once again win $9.20 at the table! Mu ha ha ha... all thanks to Jia's suay mouth... :P

We got more than what we want

We were helping Jamie to search for this parent's letter workshop thingy and we found more than expected: Jamie's Darkest Secrets

• 听写 60/100
• Tests paper which all got less than half the passing marks

All stashed under the table!!!

I am a liberal person, hence I gave her the choice to choose the thickness of the clothes hanger and the number of strokes she want. I even offer here tips of choosing of a lesser torture hanger leh!

That ought to instill some fear in her about lying to us, and oh yah, bought 2 more assessment books for her to do.

Of nuns and Pizza Hut

Whenever Mum goes on a road trip, our dinner almost ended up in Pizza Hut every time, be it eat-in or takeaway. So that was where we had our dinner yesterday evening.

Mum always exclaimed, "Today sure no luck!" whenever she sess a nun, be it botak one, white robe one or orange one. Apparently, she had successfully implanted this idea on Jamie, who also said the same thing when we were at Junction 8 last night. I didn't see the nun, but I knew one was around when she said that. How good our family education is! We are good at "好的不学， 学坏的！"

BTW, anyone of you have have lobang for SE W950i? I looking for this phone leh... Dun mind 2nd hand, but if it comes in newbox even better. =)

Happy Happy Happy!

Had a superb day yesterday because of a superb news! La La La!

Great!

I finally removed that irritating wisdom tooth after 3 pathetic years, and did dental cleaning after 7 long years!

I had gum infection on the back, because the lower jaw is in a particularly awkward position where many rubbish got trapped there, got a hole in the gum you see, plus that full grown wisdom tooth keep poking into the lower gum, so got all these shitty problems.

The scary part about removing wisdom tooth, is not the plier but the needle. To numb that small area, the dentist used 2 cartridges of anaestatic, and mind you, it look like my metal mechanical pencil x 100 times the size. The only pain I felt was when the dentist pressing on to my mouth, I felt as if she was trying to tear open my lips instead!

是痛的lor!

I finally can chew my food properly liao, the past few days were like gulping food down in their original form.

Apparently, not only is my lips tiny, the size I opened my mouth is also small, coz the doctor asked if that was the largest I could manage. Heh... If she had shown me some cakes, I might open even bigger. Despite my humongous size, or maybe due to my overload fat, the lower wisdom tooth had no place to grow and will need to have a surgery to extract it out, and need to take x-ray and stuffs, which means more money.

Shall think about this when the next infection occurs. :P

Damn...

Now my tooth aches...

On MC

I'm on 2 days MC, so I don't have to apply leave for tomorrow le, which is a good thing. The bad thing is I will look like hamster for the interview tomorrow.

I woke up with a swollen face this morning, horrified to the max. I looked as if I stuffed a da bao inside my left cheek. By noon time, it had reduced to the size of char siew bao. It was the size of ang ku kueh just now, hopefully tomorrow it will diminish to size of chupa chups.

The gum felt rather painful, I woke up at 4am to put some ice to ease the pain so that I could continue sleeping, not to mention the 4 panadols I popped before that. I never take Panadols if I could and last night it was really a last resort, coz it was so painful that I couldn't speak.

It was diagnosed as gum infection, as I'm having my wisdom tooth growing yet I had to choose that area to hit with my toothbrush, hence the area ballooned. I was advised by the doctor to go to a dental surgeon, which was a horrifying idea coz the word surgeon reminds me a man with white mask and hold scalpels! Then the doctor said, he meant dentist, which put a less scary picture in my mind.

So, 一不做二不休，I fixed an appointment on Wednesday evening for dental checkup, after 7 long years. Heh. Iwonder if the doctor will be so spontaneous to extract my tooth on the spot.

Toothache? Gumache? Mouthache?

I accidentally hit the back of my mouth yesterday morning, and by now, it had developed into unbelievable pain on my gum. My left side is as swollen as possible, but it was denied of its appearance because of my already very look-alike swollen face.

HOW TO WORK TOMORROW? It's freaking painful and I don't feel like talking!

Hope the pain subside by tomorrow, coz I have an interview on Tuesday lah!

Most prob taking leave on Tuesday again, for interview and for dental. =(

I'm so gonna be kept busy at night...

With a whole new entertainment... might be quite tiring... but who cares!

Supernatural, Desperate Housewives, Ghost Whisperer and Pushing Daisies all join in the fun!

Yesterday and today were one of those few rare days which my work were made pleasant enough, got a super cute eye candy popping in my office. Not to mention that his sleek and neat skills, I mean the way he organize files and mails in his old laptop, made my work doubly easy! I presume he's ABC coz he has US accent... Super cute leh!

Must go stalk his cubicle already...

Fat Finger Sydrome's 5 minutes Shame

I was msning with Mr. Hobbes, one of those rare rare days you know, coz he's hardly online. My Fat Finger Syndrome's acted up and clearly gave him an amusing 5 minutes. We were asking how was each other day and my reply was "I went bugis with my sex fren, walk walk shop shop lor..", only to clear my reputation 10 seconds later, "I mean my secondary school fren..."

All of people... Argh!!!

Went jalan jalan with PZ today, never did I think that PZ likes shopping so much as well, hee... Both of our eyes went blink blink when we see the word, "sale". =) And I did burn quite a hole in my pocket, but happy!

Horror!

I think... no, I am getting signs that I'm hitting up on the pounds again.

• Wore off 2 pairs of flats in 5 weeks, broke the left heel, finish off one pair of heels and not to mention the dying heel legs on each pair of shoes with heels
• 2 to 3 underwear torn by the side, which implies muffins overload!
• Previously large size shirts hardly made me comfortable anymore, especially the arm area
• The last straw was tearing a big hole in the underarm of my stretchable knitted crop jacket! Stretchable leh, and torn by me! I could fit my whole fist through!
  

Die lah...

Happy Days!

Today is ultra happy day! On my way back from lunch, I met my poly pt lecturer, heisome de Benny, then on my way back from my informal interview, I met Gina! So lucky to have bumped into these people, so today must have been my lucky day!

One thing that I still can't get out of my mind was, why in the world did I shake Gina's hand for? Machiam business meetin... Goodu me lah! Ha ha...

Sick and tired...

New Job Hunt

Been hunting for a new job since 2 weeks ago... Thanks to a fren, I was recommended into a defence agency, The interview went well, now all I need is more luck tomorrow when I meet the Project Manager.

Unbelievably, the dubious coy which I applied before called me just now, I guessed they must be pretty desperate for people... Dubious as they may be, they actually have huge clients. Was set to go an interview next week... If I get the defence one, I might just skip the new interview.

Luck luck luck!

Yeah, Dean is back!

"Supernatural" is back for 4th season! No more boring weekends!

Jensen Ackles makes me drool... *wipe saliva

Wa ha ha

Once again, I reigned on the mahjong table, winning $14.20! I is lucky, so nothing should go wrong on Monday!

Fat Finger Syndrome

Miss Ng hardly sees me online nowadays and was WOOHOO to see me, but less than 5 sentences exchange, she was logging off to go to sleep. So I wanna give her "Sweet dreams" when I decided to be a little cheekier, to become "Sweet dreams of me!"

My Fat Finger Syndrome cause me this really errotic typo error, "Wet dreams of me!" which made Miss Ng damn paiseh lah.

HA HA HA.

What is Fat Finger Syndrome?

It is the failure of physical response of fingers to type correctly due to extraordinary thick appendage found on the hands of humans and primates. The symptons usually includes the hitting of 2 more keys due to wide area of fingers, or lack of words due to inflexibility.

I was also suffering from Mr. Hobbes Syndrome for I was msning to him a few minutes earlier. Effects of this syndrome includes sudden increase of heartbeats, unexplained happiness and cheeks burning redness (when object of attraction is around, online offline doesn't matter).

After my boss's comments about having many pair of shoes, I realise I also have many clothes. 多鞋，多衣，也多话， 只有钱不多。
I convert my cash to shoes and clothes, but too bad I cannot convert my words into cash, else I'll be filthy rich already!

RealPlayer + FLV Codec

Orh... It takes 2 to work...

Hee Hee Hee

Secretly blogging in office now... I am bored to slumber already... 1 more hour before I head home....

Damn paiseh today... My boss asked me a very personal question which made me very very paiseh lah...

We were walking to the Chevrons for lunch when my Boss pop the question, "Janette ah, can I ask you something very personal?"

I tot he wanted to ask me if I got boyfriend and was mentally preparing my answer already....

"You have a lot of shoes is it? I noticed you wear different shoes everyday!"

I was *_*! and -_- lah and my response was to deny!

"No lah, less than 10 pairs! Not many mah. Santi also wear different shoes everyday. My shoes not many compared to other girls, less than 10 only..."

...

"Excluding slippers lor..."

Busy Busy Busy

Actually wasn't that busy also, still trying to get used to working, although I'm getting bored of it already.

Oh yah, have yet to show you my "boyfriends" at Zion, wanna post their photos long ago but I think I was busy going for interviews.
This is Jeremy, my favorite boy who's a Korean. He had trouble pronouncing my name and always ended up calling me "Teacher Herr Kee". He's very independent but then, always got this blur look on him.


This is Justin, a very insecure boy. He can talk talk talk, but when it comes to writing, he flopped! He was crying and begging us not to give him writing assignments until I coaxed him with photo taking, and he became alright! And then he started pestering me whether his "R" is nice or not.


This is Benjamin, the youngest in the class. He has these chubby cheeks which you don't feel like pinching, but feel like eating it coz it's looks like fresh peach.


Ha ha, one of the few girls which I like. This is Merley, a girl with very interesting name and personality. She was very shy when she's with her dad (her dad is very good looking, probably had some Eurasian blood), who fetch her to school, but once her dad left, she becomes a girl with a lot of confidence who has no trouble repeating, "Teacher, I don't know how..."


This is Brandon, the favorite guy in the class. Everyone wants to be his best friend, coz he's cheeky and smart. He's very original too, as in when it comes to disturbing the class, he could always come up with something new and creative. He may be naughty, but he's not annoying, unlike his supposedly good friend who was very very very annoying. I punished both of them and only this chap listen, the other one still think he's right.


These 2 boys do not belong to my class, but the shorter one is very handsome lor! Both of them are brothers. The younger one (also shorter) is Edison, forgot the brother's name already. Edison very on lor, when I said I want to take photos, he gave me this pose, and then I got the brother to join too. As you can see, the elder brother is very shy.


My favourite kid and the annoying kid at "work". The girl behind is Joyce, she is also a Korean. She is always smiling one, and has a different head band everyday. She loves to show me she finished drinking the water in her bottle.

Kinda miss the kids... but I scared of the parents.

Real Work ain't Fun

Today I finally started taking calls from the J&J staffs, and oh my, it was very embarrassing! My previous help desk job required more of person-to-person troubleshooting, but this time round I had to visualize the problem in my head while listening to them and answer their query at the same time. I am no multitask doer, hence, when my mouth moves, my fingers forgot to move and when my hand moves, my eyes forgot to move. Couldn't coordinate properly even when transferring a simple call to my male colleague, so many buttons to press!

Both my female colleague and I were very paiseh, coz today we made a lot of blunders and we were also very self-concious. But me being me, made a joke out of myself lah. So far, the male colleagues, only the guy beside me is damn cock lah, the other 2 only talk cock within the guys', then we girls just laugh secretly. Haiz...

The more I wanted to impress my manager, the more mistakes I made. Today he even caught me sleeping while he was going through some procedures with us! Wah lau, damn paiseh lah! I was trying to write the notes down so that I won't fall asleep, but then this method doesn't really work on me so it became like I was encrypting my notes: handwriting was illegibly and my manager was looking at what I wrote!

The more sickening thing was the leasing of the laptops coz I had to flip files after files everyday just to check for the inventory. Bleahz!

50 more weeks to go...

Lousy Hair, Lousy Stylist

Sibeh sianz... Another worst haircut of my life... After I styled, looks much better, but I still hate my fringe... coz the stylist had refused to cut my fringe commenting that it did not suit me and that my dead parting doesn't allow fringe hairstyle. What the bullshit he talking? In the end, he cut and it was not straight and too blunt...

Neh Neh de... Where has all the good stylists gone to?

Happy Happy Birthday! Jamie

Please please please finish the "present" I gave u since Monday, else you will get an even louder present from me. Of course, I will not forget my promise!

From your very fierce Da Jie
With lots & lots & lots of love and assessments in mind

P/S: Did you really wait in the toilet for me so that I can say "Happy Birthday" to you? You took an unusually long to brush your teeth today.

First day at work

Oh my my my... First day of work is usually dreadful and boring, and I made a perfect way to start my job.

As you all know, it was raining heavily yesterday, hence, road was pretty wet. Anyway, because I was pretty early, so I decided to walk to my company instead of taking the shuttle bus. Bad move, the shortcut was grass patch all the way, hence, I splashed mud all over my black shoes, and some on my pants. Best... I had to take 10 mins to wipe the mud, and another 10 mins to cool down coz beads of sweats fell down like yesterday rain. Thank goodness I put on minimal makeup which could be done without too.

Anyway, first day, nothing much to do, the proudest thing I did was that I only dozed off in the last 2 hours, and not in the morning. The server room is just right behind our room which has no windows either, so it was bloody cold, gotta bring the hardcore windbreaker tmr liao.

A new revelation of being "short-sighted"! One of my colleague is so tall that when I walked past him, I was thinking what was that and not who was that! My height was around at his torso level, or was I peering further down which lead me to think I am at his torso? Anyway, short (in height) sighted lah! He didn't look that tall when I was shaking his hands during the brief introduction!

And my body gave me a welcome party by having period on the bloody first day of work, stomach was in woe!!! No wonder been having a pauchy stomach these few days.

I have yet to upload tat tyco freak's beautiful mahjong seqence!

Wah Lau!

I lost MJ to Jamie, not only she got beginner's luck, she also got tyco luck! She won a total of $16++ from me, Jia and Mum. Unbelievable.

More details asap after my beauty sleep.

20082008

Auspicious day? Well, I hope it is coz I just signed my offer letter today. I must say the company is not too bad, coz they actually gave us $500 per year for our wellness, so now I can sign up for kickboxing, go for dental, dye my hair and all will be paid for. =)

P/S: I am uber swakoo, having worked in company with lousy benefits and extorting staff well-being, the wellness benefit seems like chicken feet to many Big Coy.

Best Picture of 2008

Miss Ng, I must applaud for your extraordinary photography skills. You caught me unguarded and hence, showcase the best of me, which I must definitely share with everyone.



In this pic, I have:

• Big round eyes
• A nose bridge
• Nearly perfect hair
• Big bust and cleavage
• No fat belly
  
• Toned arms and
  
• Beautiful nails

Except the double chins, which has nothing to do with your skills, coz they have nowhere to hide in any case. I think I look nice when I am not looking at the camera!

Announcement

I am starting my full-time job next week as service desk in a pharmaceutical company!

After going for the $2.7k job interview today, conducted by a handsome interviewer some more (which I totally regret not putting a skirt and some makeup), I think I prefer the $2.3k interview conducted last week by an ah-beng. And right after the interview, I called the $2.3k agent that I took the offer.

$2.7 got too much development work and I was given a tour of the team. When I saw the other colleagues, they were facing black screens with white letters!!! Wah lau, even when I use command prompt, I can still see icons lor! So to say, higher pay jobs come with higher responsibility. Furthermore, he asked if I took any business modules, which I had none, so to say, I think my chance of getting in is as much as getting a boyfriend.

Anyway... Is a one year contract... which will pass very soon and see how it goes bah... I had never had any luck with high paying job.

Why???

I am feeling a bit wee disgruntled and disoriented!

Firstly, on a happier note, I have got like 2 interviews tomorrow back to back and 3 pending job replies. Although I am not a Christian, but somehow I think working in a christian kindergarten actually had the Lord help me in this rather troubled situation: i.e me worried being jobless.

Out of the 10+ resumes I sent, 3 replied and another 2 who had saw my resume deposited at their company website. So this week, I am busy busy busy answering phone calls and replying emails. And it made me wonder, am I over busy with all these job offers? Hence, the disorientation, coz I dunno what to do except to attend the job interviews and pre-screening. Oh yah, my fren had also jioed me to cover up her job, the one who managed the NATAS MC promotion. Job luck??? Tough luck...

Disgruntled because most companies quoted my expected salary is a bit wee high, and my threshold was like $500 below a degree grad expected pay leh... not that I deserve that high pay lah, but was what they said affect me. Well, I do understand that those jobs min. requirement was diploma, hence, the low cut-off... and which in turn lead me to thinking, WHY THE HELL I CAN' T A PROPER DEGREE HOLDER JOB?

Baa... I should be contented, the pay is almost twice more than my first pay and with 2 mths bonuses compared to the lousy shit previously.

I am weird, I was desperate for a job, and now with so many offers, I kinda want to give up 1 or 2 of them. Trying for the interviews are tiring!!!

Slap my big bad mouth

Sometimes, concern becomes ugly when it is not being sent through the right channel. Was reading cousin's blog and there was a statement requesting not to spread what she wrote on her blog. Then it leaded me into thinking what I had told her Mum what I had read from her blog.

I seriously think it was me and I do blame my big fat mouth! Sorry! There won't be a next time!

Working in a kindergarten makes me kiddish and talkative. But then, it won't be for long, coz I decided to leave by this Friday and work on another temp job. As much as I will miss the kids there and my favorite Korean boy, :(

I just sent almost 10 resumes in the afternoon! Gosh! I prayed hard, really hard, that I will hit jackpot in one of them!

Whoot!

I got my new phone! Trial for 3 months! Superb!

Free Phone! Free Movies! On Mobile!!!

Yeah! Yeah ! Yeah! I've been selected to use a trial service for a certain mobile company! Which means I get to use new phone!!!

Can't wait to get my hand on the phone!

Yeah right, more drama like that PLEASE...

I was feeling pretty turn-off on my first day of work because one of the teachers commented I looked very out-of-uni age, sibeh sibeh sianz, coz for a moment I tot she wanted to say I looked less than 20! =(

The unfortunate event caused me to be even more paranoid about my haggard looks lor!

Probably for the first time in my life, I was being tackled by a guy! A very supposed flattering action, but the person made it very unfortunate for me. While girls my age were being asked for telephone numbers by hunks, I was given his telephone number by a pot-bellied man whose old enough to be my father!

Uber sianz lor...

Hence, the death of my shopping mood. Which in a way was a good thing, coz it prevented me from further expenditure...

Haiz... Why do I always encounter weird things!

He passed me the number on a piece of tear-off flyer, see pic:
Ironically, the back says:
Brrr... BTW, feel free to contact that guy if you are interested in him! =)

Gwee and Ng had a good laugh over it when I showed them the paper, they guffawed even more loudly when I nonchalantly threw the paper away after they had seen! Ha... The outing today was fantabulous! We shall have more, okie!!!

NATAS 2008

Phew, was so busy at the NATAS fair, so crazy lor, so many people and becoz MC was the main sponsor, there was $1 rebate for adminssion, and because they were automatic enrolled for the Oversea Reward, so we MC promotors had to ask the customers 1 by 1 for their phone numbers and write it on a card size paper, so that they could pass it to the cashiers, very very stupid and waste of paper lah! shld just give them a form to write when they purchased the tix mah! Many people tot they must have the paper to get $1 off tix admission, coz ont the paper was printed "$1 admission ticket", very misleading lor. The paper was meant for the cashiers and they surely knew what the number on the was meant for, don't get it why they bother to waste ink and print that line.

I was responsible for this redemption card thingy, and because the flyer printed first 600 (to redeem the card) would receive the a goodie bag, but it was not stated properly that only certain bank customers (4 banks partcipated) would be entitled to it, hence, the query of the day was, "How to get this goodie bag har?"

And to redeem this card was such a lengthy process, and 2 of these banks did not publicize at all lor, so the other question of the day "How to redeem this card har?" then I need to spend 10 mins explaining the process. 钱难赚叻！

Luckily, I had 2 chio bus to work with me and so many queries were directed to them coz I am such a plain Jane that it's no wonder many don't see me... Poor thing la they, coz I am suppose to be the customer enquiry, but as we all know, Singaporeans don't read signboards one lah!

Was fun to work at the NATAS coz firstly the chio bus were fun to be, secondly, we had fun time jokeing about customers who tried to tackle them, thirdly, we had friendly neighbours (the 2 bank booths whose customers knew about the redemption thing). The only guy among our redemption booths tried to tackle one of my partner chio bu, and his colleagues and us had fun poking fun at him! Wah ha ha ha. This chio bu very hot in demand lor, one travel agency promotor also had looked at her the whole day, and then got the chance to talk to her (tackle her) when she was on her way to toilet. BUt she taichi away by asking if he wanted to work part time (he did some self intro and we got to know he was doin g temp and waiting to go uni) and he played along, funny leh!

But very shagged lah, slept less than 5 hrs per day. And when I tot I could sleep more on Monday, I was woken by a phone call at 8.30am! To go to work somemore! No interview, no pre-screening! It was a temp job at a kindergarden, and before I could get to know and make friends with the teachers, I was making friends with Mr. Dettol, coz I was washing the toys, due to HFMD. Damn scary lor, 4 cases in one day leh! We all busy cleaning... People whom I have told about my day at work all joked that the job suit me well, since I like cleaning so much.

Anyway, I ended at about 4.30pm where I went to AMKhub to go shop shop, I was in a very good mood until something really unfortunate happened to me and I lost the mood to shop.

It's really very sianz lor... Blog it next time! Late already.

How true...

bUSEE bUSEE

I was quite overwhelmed last week, but thinking back, it did not seem so leh....

Mon: Slack （Did I really slack?）
Tues: Submit report, get convo tix and the cert etc, whole day gone
Wed: CONVOCATION! Waiting for all the pretty pics!
Thurs: Interview at STK, half the day gone
Fri: At Godma's house for work, then went to make myself pretty (my nails actually) for the D&D. Damn the tix number 0044 who won the Casio Exilim Camera. Hmpf! 我要那个相机啦！我会永远记得你！讨厌啦！

But then, 那晚俺倒是几爽几shiok一下, 原因来自。。。请看以下照片吧!

My HRM Team... One guy not here. Neh mind, Mr. Hobbes was. :P

Eh... 不要讲得太白， 心知肚明旧就好，ok?

Still waiting for more pics from Wed and Fri that night: Miss Ng, Miss Gwee, got it? Heh!

Terrible interview...Terrible week...

I went to an interview this morning to realize I'm not going to the one I want! From a normal Engineer, suddenly become System Safety Engineer... and from the job scope the SE told me, one little mistake and it could be hazardous! Like vehicle blown up and kill people! Wah lau....

My convocation... Very happening, but I think my parents left a bit too early, only took one photo shoot. I wanted to bring them to try the food, but ended up like they didn't do anything and then they left. Mum's shoes broke on the way, Dad was in the toilet when I was on stage, food sucks, camera spoilt. Everything so wrong!

Jamie also broke her front tooth after being knocked down by her clumsy friend. A big chip somemore! Her teeth wasn't very strong in the first place already.... Haiz...

More job hunt!

Mahjong Madness

Wah ha ha ha! I won a total of $24++ on Saturday night! Damn shiok! It was such an adrenalin rush game that I jumped in joy when I won a game with "花上" coz the tile was the last already! Heng to the max lor! Jia gave me a cold by reminding me not to break the floor.

Sunday we played mahjong again, although I didn't win, it was a small lost, $2.40, about 10% of my winnings. Ha.... Sub Sub Suey lah! :P

Went to buy 汤圆 from the neighbourhood mart on Thursday, and the fridge was horribly smelly! I told the auntie about it and Mum seemed to be amused that I told the auntie about her smelly fridge. What's wrong? Smelly mah, should tell so that she could rectify the problem right? I was pretty worried that 汤圆 would be smelly too.

It's convocation this week, and I am still jobless. Haiz...

P/S: Kenny Sia Blog Plug linked to this A-List Anonymous Celebrity. After I read, she revelaled about partying her birthday until 5am this morning, and from what I analysed from her blog, she seemed to be a party siao girl. So I had a rough idea of who she is and checked on IMDB on this really young superstar's birthday and I got it right! Pretty much obvious who she is actually. Check here

Clean clean clean

Every Wednesday, I will bring Jamie to school and then I return to my bed once I returned. Depends on the situation, sometimes I will use the computer for an hour or two before I go back to my dreamland.

Not this morning. For the n+1 time, I was cleaning my room again. You may wonder, or screaming inside yourself, "Your room is so bloody clean already, still clean?" Bo pian... My dressing table was infested with ants because of an unseen dead insect which was beyond recognition. So I clean lor... and while I clean, I decide to do some packing also and that leaded me to entering numerous times in Jia's room to get some stuffs which she complained to me I was very disruptive to her sleep.

After a nap + lunch break, I went to clean the art section (a small area which we dedicated to art & craft stuffs like drawing paper, construction paper, paintbrushes tc) because I was looking for something. Then after being a temp handyman fixing the skin of the study table (table old liao, waspeeling), I wiped the surface on the way.

Jia was very very very disturbed by my obsessive cleaning the whole day, even though it took me out of my couch potato state (with pc). Well, when the mood starts, is hard to stop for me. She was most annoyed when I was doing worksheet filing for Jamie (yes, I'm becoming a slave to her liao), not because Jamie didn't do it herself, but because I was not helping Jia with any of her things. :P

Yes, look a little bias but then... she hasn't had much stuffs to clear anyway.

I am really obsessed with cleaning, after watching TV shows, I would start to vacuum at 9pm and it took me 45 minutes. Then I would mop the floor for 15 minutes and then watched the 10pm show and then try to mop the floor at every commercial interval. Usually I mop the kitchen last when the shows end. It would be 11.30pm before I bath. Despite doing all these at such late timings, I rather enjoyed the clean clean house after my hard work. I think, somehow, this is a subconcious effort to compensate my presence at home.

Make myself useful mah!

Wa Kaoz

Jamie developed sexy raspy voice after a greedy attempt of hot fudge sundae + sweets, words out from her mouth were hardly audible.

As usual, her maths was not up to my standard and I was telling her to draw the graph higher to achieve the desired 26-bouquets marking on the graph, coz it was not tall enough. She gave me a "Wa Kao".

"How dare you Wa Kao at me?"

Clearing her throat, she croaked, "Not Wa Kao, is hen gao! （很高）"

Oh, sorry, my mistake. She was trying to tell me the graph was very "tall".

Jiat Lat, my life revolve around only Jamie.

The League of Extraordinary Spectacle Girls

As much as we nagged nagged nagged about do not read in dim light, do not sit near the TV, do not lie down and read books, Jamie finally joined us in this league with a degree power of 1.75 each.

都跟你讲不要读 harry potter 了！

I realized I commanded much authority over her, one word from me and she will go scrambling to do whatever I told her to. Despite so much nagging and scoldings, she still has full of love for me instead of hate, ha ha.

I think we 3 sisters shared a miraculous relationship. Jia pissed me, I pissed Jamie, Jamie pissed Jia, but on second thought, Jamie and I pretty much hold hands together and pissed Jia most of the time. Nevertheless, we three are bonded, in any kind way.

Jamie is very blur, more blur than me. Her subtraction problem ended as addition, so I was telling her that logically, no subtraction problem will have an answer bigger than the number given in the problem.

“那里有东西越减号码越大的？” I said.

Jia quipped in， “你咯！”

Win liao lor... I know my diet attempts just pack in the pounds instead of taking away.

Auntie Magnet

I think my face attract aunties, cute, lovable and harmless. But they shunned away the moment I talk. Ha ha...

One auntie requested my help to buy 4D today, nothing weird happened, and I won $5 in the scratch card. I had bought the card so that I would have change to return the auntie, unexpectally bring me a tiny windfall!

Hopefully luck keeps on rolling!

Sianz sianz sianz

Another week gone again... Now I'm having a very entertaining time doing housework, and I packed my room (again!) for the nth time since May... A lot compared to previously twice a year cleaning.

Seriously, I don't think I'll get a call from the manager. Instead of a impressive interview, I gave him a memorable one, a "Thank you you" followed by a muffled "Thansss for your time.too" at the end of the interview. And when I asked what was my chance of getting hired, he turned a big round telling me he still had to compare with other candidates, and told me usually resume would be kept a year before they throw. I took it as a hint lor.

Haiz...

Why? Why? Why?

Why I so stupid???

There were so many things I could do to impress the interviewer but I didn't!

I wanted to email the admin secretary for the name of the interviwer, I did not.

I wanted to say hi and shake his hand but I did not.

I wanted to research on their products but I did not.

I couldn't even say a thank you properly!

I couldn't answer properly to his questions but I bombarded him with a lot of questions. More like I interview him lor... I was very intrigued by the job scope and I truly wanted this job, now I screwed it up badly. Don't think I'll get pass to the 2nd round of interview. Damn...

Project payment kenna delay... eat grass liao lor

贤妻良母

Freak! I had this really weird dream about getting a real lousy job and saw Mr. Hobbes getting hitched! Nightmarish!

I met a hostel friend last Friday and hence, we went for an impromptu chat-n-drink session at Mos Burger. The topics ranged from job hunt to life recently. Since I am unemployed, my only entertainment was to follow my mum on her job. So, this lead to how neat and tidy I always kept my hostel room that many friends feared my visit to their rooms, coz they scared I "not used" and had to sweep before my grand entrance, ha ha. (Side track, I just cleared Jamie's study table today coz the mess was beyond description and I could not tolerate it!) The friend exclaimed, "哇！你可以做贤妻良母了！"

This is the nth such compliment I heard with regards to my exceptional cleaning habit. To top it off, I had training in caring for baby too 9 years ago. So it does makes me a perfect housewife, yah? But then, being a wife now doesn't have to clean like a pro, coz there's always the house maid to save the day what. So I think, I make the perfect maid! Anybody wish to request my service?

Just like things we buy, some people go for look, some people go for the functions, and we usually don't have the best of both worlds. So I'm pretty much like the machine with very good functions but with terrible design, so the buyer really has to know me inside out to get the best out of me, and I pretty much expected nothing more than a dust cover (keep on the shelf too long).

Mama Delfino (Mike's mother in Desperate Housewives) said: A woman should be a chef in the kitchen, a maid in the living room and a whore in the bedroom. We women are really being exploited physically, mentally and emotionally leh! The roles we have to fufill... how come guys just need to be the man in the house and need not do anything?

Almost won $500

Last week, on the day of the spit incident, I was to buy 4D numbers for my mum. Since kenna "head prize", I thought more or less some luck is following me. And miraculously, the number 2708 became 2702 on the chit, wah, I thought maybe this is the magic number leh! But alas, it wasn't!

Today 2702 was on the starter prize, -_-||| Should have bought continuously! Especially so after meeting the crackpot!

Had another of those "I am freaking fat" day. But the medicine for my ear infection made me so drowsy, plus I did not drink my coffee today. Hence, I slept almost half the day away, aeroplane Belle's invite for a jog.

Cannot! Cannot! Must start some routine somehow...

Just when I thought nothing weirder could happen to me after the spit...

I met an old crackpot!

I went to Watson's after a doctor's visit, and was on my way home when a lady, dunno whether she was middle-age or near 70s coz the makeup on her face looked like she had used flour instead of normal foundation, approached me to help her carry some stuffs. She said she had really important documents and cannot "拿上拿下". She was carrying 3 bags, a small tote, a medium fluffy dog-design handbag, and a large light blue but very dirty bottom shoulder bag on her left arm, a letter in her hand, and pieces of $50 notes and bankbook in her right hand. Oh, I haven't mentioned her hairstyle, she had bangs, those flat and thick kind which cover her brows, long hair crimped on the back with a clip but wasn't any tidier.

Anyway, I thought it was to carry stuffs to her car, coz she came out from the carpark, so I obliged. She called NTUC as Government Minimart （政府合作社）and we were there, I realised I was to do her shopping! Never mind... Since I had gave her my words, I thought I just quickly settled it and go. I asked her why not put her money and letter into her bag, she said, "Oh, they are very important, I cannot put them inside!" What the....

As the minute passed, I got more uncomfortable. I myself had a big Watson bag with my stuffs, and I had to helped her with her things somemore. She didn't have an agenda, very spontaneously listed out her items, as below:

• Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder Twin packs (Large)
• Load washing powder medium
  
• Toilet paper
• Facial Cotton
• Magnolia Milk Twin Pack

She was asking me to get some oranges, but the basket was very heavy (I didn't expect so many things so I didn't use a trolley), so I left them at a corner. She got very hysterical, and asked me to carry them with me! So I told her, almost screaming "No one will take it coz they have not been paid!" but she refused. So I went to get the oranges without her. When I returned with "the blue logo and very large oranges" she requested, she said I took the wrong one, should be the light blue logo, and by now, many people were looking at us coz she spoke very loud, so am I.

So I told her I would go and change the oranges, and when I saw that she wasn't looking, I made my escape!

It was very embarrassing when I was with her, she kept talking to everybody how nice I was, yet she was very demanding! When I left the basket behind, she actually asked me to push the basket with my foot! Why not she push with her foot and grab the items with her elbows! For a while I felt bad, but then thinking of the attention we were getting in NTUC, I think I should not have agreed to help her in the first place!

Wah biang!

It took me 15 years to know the correct way of washing my ears. Just rub with a wet cloth will do. I disliked the oiliness and had always used soap and water to shower. Dang! My right ear has infection and I had always thought it was a huge pimple in my ear! Now I really afraid that I will go deaf, which is a high possibility coz I huh a lot of times nowadays, and people had to repeat to me 5 times before I get their words. Terrible!!!

Not as bad as Jamie's, I asked her to help me blow (吹) away the dirt in my infected ear, she gave me a light hit(捶) on my ear! Not surprise if I really become deaf!

I finally got a job reply!!! Mum as usual, said "Go and try lah!" A weird answer to someone who is desperately wanting to go interviews!

水瓶座终极完美分析

I think this person really did a thorough research, and a witty one too. Here.

几乎每个水瓶座的心底都有着一段刻骨铭心人间记忆，一个永远无法忘记的背影。

那也许只是极其短暂的两情相悦，只是一种单恋，或只是一种只存在于虚幻空间。

一切看起来是那么平静，那么和谐。

没有惊天动地，没有海誓山盟，没有花前月下，没有浪漫，没有誓言，没有温度。水瓶座的理智和冷漠，注定了任何感情永无燃点。

水瓶座不容易喜欢上一个人。有人说水瓶座对伴侣的要求太高，其实并非这样，水瓶座注重的是感觉。只是那么轻描淡写的一眼，那个人已经吸引了水瓶的所有注意力，从此目光便无法转移。

用一秒钟爱上一个人，然后再付出一生去忘记，水瓶座就是这样的试验品。

但几乎所有的水瓶都会否认在自己的身上发生一见钟情，因为一向自视清高，承认爱上一个人这钟事似乎是在侮辱自己的智商。

更多的时候是因为，连自己都没发现已经爱上。水瓶座很多时候对于感情反应非常迟钝，迟钝到每次都是最后的知情者。有时容易出现弄不清自己的感觉，不清楚自己想做什么，觉得迷惘。

在对方没有非常明确地表示感情时会退怯，觉得爱情是两厢情愿，不想勉强对方。

显得很被动，忽冷忽热，犹豫不决，极其矛盾。在没有完全确定前，决不轻易付出感情，因为怕失去。也许是缺乏安全感，也许是对自己的保护，也可以算作是一种自私。

一般水瓶座的好朋友都是经过很长世间的考察的，不仅仅是几年，而是十几年。一旦被水瓶座当作好朋友的，会赴汤蹈火掏心掏肺。

在公车上，街边，商场，水瓶老是认错人。在茫茫人海中，始终在寻找一个熟悉的身影，直到产生幻觉。

这一刻，水瓶座突然很想痛哭流涕，因为突然发现自己几近疯狂的爱上一个人，失去了理智，失去了自我。这种突如其来的感觉，很恐惧，很无助。

水瓶座不喜欢这种感觉，因为不知该如何面对。要让水瓶座主动去追逐，是件异常困难的事，在水瓶座的世界里无法承受拒绝，就是这么脆弱，无论表面上看来是多么的坚强。

水瓶座在人前总是一幅无忧无虑没心没肝的样子，不想别人看见自己的悲伤，那样会有不安全的感觉，总是在无人的地方暗自落泪。

算了，还是放在心里吧。既不用尴尬的表白然后遭到拒绝，又不会相爱容易相处难的惨烈分手。这样很好，没人看出来，不至于太没面子。可以继续貌似潇洒。

但是，不同了。尽管水瓶座装着多么不在乎，看都不看一眼。可是对方说的每句话都从耳朵进去，没见出来。对方提的任何过分的要求，水瓶座统统照单全收精心尽力，

决对不会有半个不字。完全成为一个爱情的奴隶，脸上还装酷无表情，整个死要面子活受罪。
这种情况下，如果对方使点阴谋诡计，刻意疏远避而不见或是视而不见，电话不接或是哼哈敷衍等等，水瓶会给整疯了，开始会想是什么自己地方做错了，说错话 了，然后拉下面子主动讨好试探。不用多，碰壁两次，水瓶座就会有自知之明了，不会再去想是为什么会这样，也不想知道了。心里会想，原来是对方讨厌自己，不 想见到自己。明白之后，就是绝对的安静了。

这还没完，过了一段日子。对方如果突然又改变态度，水瓶座竟然能既往不咎问也不问，殷勤依旧，完全没有尊严可谈。只要能和对方开心的在一起，过去不重要，未来也不重要，面子不重要，金钱不重要，时间不重要，自己也不重要。

天平失衡，感情重重的压在心底，自己却飘在了半空。太在乎对方，迷失了自我，幸福也变得虚无。

自己都不爱，谁还会珍惜。

水瓶座一旦付出，便是彻底，不可收回。

感情投入的越多越是伤的重。

最擅长的是难为自己。不想对方难过，只好让自己难过。总是认为自己有超乎寻常的承受力，把自己想得太坚强，而把别人想得太脆弱。不知道，受伤的其实是自己，只是不知道如何表现出来。

爱，这个字对水瓶座来说，太沉重珍贵了，无法用语言诠释。一旦说出口，犹如远古的文物，被发掘出土暴露于空气中，变得面目全非，失去本来的价值。

所以，不轻易说。

只需一次，水瓶座便把一生的精力耗尽，只因执著，便落得伤痕累累。那段感情如强酸腐蚀着那颗麻木的心，穿了一个洞，再也无法弥补。时间是世界上最有力的矬子，把空洞的毛边渐渐抚平，不再搁人。每当寒风吹过，犹闻隐约凄凉的萧萧声，似挽歌。

只需一次，水瓶座便不再幻想，于是狠狠将自己摔碎，拒绝熔化拼凑。因为怕熔了记忆，怕熔了那个远远的背影，怕熔了自己千年的期盼。

之后，水瓶座依然谈笑风生，依然开朗豁达，继续着一段接一段的新感情，重复着一切，因为无法承受寂寞。

人们都说水瓶花心，见一个爱一个，水瓶座会哈哈一笑，说“哪有？冤啊！”。其实心里在滴着血，脸上却得笑的灿烂，安慰自己“我是谁啊！哪会那么弱呢！”

有人说水瓶座太冷酷太自私，自以为了不起。可是谁又了解，水瓶座的心，容量很小，只能有一个，且不具修改性。除了那个人，其他所有自动归为一种程序。

因为无法虚伪，所以甜言蜜语都吝啬给予。因为天真，所以至死之前仍在等待。因为没有勇气，所以眼睁睁放手真爱无能为力。

当看到一个瓶子在疯狂地快乐或悲伤时，请千万不要被迷惑，水瓶总是不由自主地交错操纵着快乐与悲伤。其实并不像看到的那么快乐，同样的，也不像看到的那么悲伤。只是悲伤时，喜欢带上快乐的面具，而当水瓶快乐时，悲伤又不肯轻易放过。

只有真正懂得水瓶座的人，才能看见眼底那一缕似有似无的哀伤，才能明白是什么让水瓶如此的义无反顾，是什么让水瓶变得如此忽冷忽热捉摸不定，才能体会水瓶的坚强只是竭力掩饰的脆弱。

星相上说，水瓶座往往不被所爱的人珍惜。我想，是为什么呢？也许答案就在心中，只是水瓶座的本性不愿承认而已。

水瓶座除了需要一个深爱自己包容一切的人以外，还需要一个心理医生。

Feeling Awful

I felt really awful yesterday, not about my interview, which I think I didn't make it lah, but about my appearance. I didn't have time to put on decent makeup to cover my tiredness, puffy eys and dull complexion before the interview, but that's not the problem. I couldn't pinpoint which area I felt really awful, but I just tot I looked really really really ugly, like a troll. Big, heavy and grunt when I talked.

After a whole day of scrutinizing, I thought shaping my eyebrow might do me some good, and unwilling to get cheated again, I DIY.

The result was surprisingly neat, and the brows are almost on equal heights this time! My previous virgin attempt on shaping my eyebrows ended looking like I was giving the one brow raise look 24/7.

Now I just need a new haircut to make myself feel sexy.

Still Jobless

Aiyoyo... Seems like many of my friends had found a job... and I'm still hanging around like a teenage kid.

When I told my mum I am going for interview, she would say, "Aiyah, just go and try lah!" in a tone so irritating. I don't know how to put it, but she seemed to have this hardcoded idea that I am choosy about my first job. I was just telling her that this Wednesday I'm going for a session, and the moment I mentioned it was a recruit agency, she start rattling off, "Just go and try, don't try how you know you don't like the job" blah blah blah the tone she used when I do something wrong.

Oh yeah, I won't forget how she snide at my poly first job, "你那个那里算， 只是你玩玩而已。" Yah right, I slogged like a cow for an ITE pay, really play play for fun only. I didn't even say a word that shows my discontentment about a that interview!!! It's not my fault if 8 of out 10 companies doesn't want me and which made me a slacking parasite.

Bleahz.... How? So difficutlt to squeeze into IT with half IT degree and a useless CCNA.

Lucky!

Other than the spitting drama, I still feel that my life is very lucky!

I am a big and fat procrastinator, I always pushed my things to do at the very last minute, thinking that it will spur me more to complete more things. Of course, the time is just enough to achieve average results, and I would wished for one more day to give the stuff a boost!

For example, the current project I am doing now for my ex IA coy, it had been 2 months already, by right it should be long completed, but by left, I dragged,my boss also dragged, hence, I am still 10% away from finishing line.

Today was supposed to complete everything, but it was nowhere near the finished product, so I thought I just went away and submit, and made adjustments spontaneously. Who knows, I was supposed to reach at 1pm, but I left house at 12.45pm, hence, when my boss called and informed me that he wouldn't be free to go through the project with me, deep down I was happy, coz I got another day to finish! Probably the spit did me some good here?

Even though there were many times I told myself, finish earlier, more time for adjustments, still I always dragged till 2 days before then I do my stuffs. Tsk tsk tsk... Just like a habit, it takes time to mold this habit out... which I am still molding. I truly look upon people who finish their stuffs, no bring over. I truly should set a good example to Jamie, then she won't be always using my slang: "Later then I do lah!"

Drama Ma Ma

My recent life is so peaceful that I hope for some drama to happen, like: falling in love? Ha ha... Indeed, a drama did happen, but not the one I wished for. Someone spitted onto my head while I was on the up-riding escalator in Northpoint!!! TA MA DE... It was so so so traumatizing leh! Imagine you saw something whitish fell down, and it thudded on your head. Your reflex reaction was to touch that thing and it was slimy. And when you saw what was on your fingers to be saliva with bubbles somemore, could you not freak out?

I rushed to the toilet immediately to wash my hair man, damn gross!

I could not pinpoint who was that disgusting fella, but still, my mind automatically thought of some of the unwelcome people which our govt love to employ. Seriously, S'pore uncles, like my dad may spit, but they spit by the roadside or drain. This fella seriously have no sense of hygiene lor! Wah lau, spit in a shopping centre!

Jia was telling me how murky the public swimming pool was in Yishun, and it even tasted salty (coz she accidentally swallowed a few mouthfuls)! I don't recall the water was salty back when I was in primary school. This is very horrifying, that our gracious society is being polluted by people whose own country who doesn't educate its people manners!

I have smell body odor so bad that it was as if they were walking rubbish collection center, albeit unwillingly though. I have seen enough of them in my hostel who don't bath, but merely wiped themselves with a tub of water only.

Seriously, we should really enforce rules to those people who wished to come to our country. Like in Holland, foreigners who wanted to stay in the country, be in long term or short term, they were required to do a compulsory questionnaire to show how much they understand Holland's living lifestyle and culture. We ought to do the same too! Like, where do you spit if you can't find a toilet? Which side should you stick to in a walkway? How should one behave in a crowded place?

I have noticed how rude people were to me in the service area and mostly were people who are not local. No, I don't mean Malaysians, they are similar to us and in fact, their service were more sincere!

Oh man, a spit of saliva trigger so much... I also very suay lah! When I was in secondary school, I kenna someone' vomit too (I think the person was so sick and nauseous that he/she just vomited over the wall in the third floor), but luckily it fell onto my bag. Anyway, saliva on my head felt worse than vomit on my bag!

NABEH!!!! Hmpf!

I must be mad!

I actually submitted an application for XX's Search for BFF. Too full nothing to do... I watched her vid after I submitted which she listed out her criteria... which I don't make it in many areas... like cannot be preachy, not vain, must be bummer (???) etc...

Hah.. better concentrate on my job search!

Fatal Attraction

Min recently adopted a new nasty habit: waking me up by ranting non-stop for 2 to 3 hours, which could start as early as 8am!

Gosh, bless my snores!

And recently, her habit took an unorthodox way of waking me, that was depriving me of all slumber necessities such as switching off the fan in my humid room; taking away my pillows and bolster until none left.

Yesterday was the ultimate: instead of clutching all the huggies with her less than a metre hands, she joined me in the bed, with me as HER bed! Bleahz...

Just another week to endure before she goes back to school!

Change

Changed my flooble chatbox to cbox's one coz flooble was blocked by my CA's Parental Control. The ironic part about this CA was it was supposed to control Jamie's games, but it didn't seem to have any effect on it leh! She still could play most of her games but most of my blog feeds were blocked. So unfair.

We actually had lobsters for supper, which we thought they were crayfishes. A simple fix would do, boil them, scrap the meat out, mix with mayo and black pepper: Nice. =)

I had so many dumplings for breakfast that I'm sore at the thought of eating it again, but nonetheless, I was seduced to finish the remaining ghee dumplings just now. Burp!

My life is so sedentary siah... I'm storing all the fats already... and not many of the useless things passed out leh... wah... even my blog is like getting boring.

Mahjong Luck Running Out... Meow...

Went for a game of mahjong today, no luck + no skill = lose money. I played with Belle and her uni frens, who were all highly skilled, bleahz... Kinda lost my concentration coz my energy was sapped up after trying to counter-guard them, and ended up trying to win fast to minimize loss. But they are very nice chaps, coz 2 of them were tag-team, so while one is playing, the other one will guide us on our playings, =).
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While I was out shopping with Kim yesterday, we came across a rather fat orange tabby cat, sitting solemnly against the pillar.

Kim: Is that cat pregnant?
Me: I don't know, ask it?
Kim: Ha ha ha, how to ask?
Me: Meow1! Meow2! Meow1?
Kim: No, you should sound sad mah coz...
Me: (without letting Kim finished her sentence) Like this?
Me and Kim: Meow~~~~~ (low pitch)

We two are so crappy, ha ha. It was always fulfilling (as in my self discovery) to go out with her, coz she was able to give me insights that I do not see, and she won't put me down in an ugly way, but rather, knock me out of my nonsensical rubbish by telling me methodically which makes perfect sense. She was always right, like when I am far too nice to a certain person who did not deserve it at all, letting myself being squeezed unconditionally. We talked about so much things, which made her appalled at my way of thoughts, and hence made me ashamed of my own childish thinkings. Must change must change...

True friends give real judgment of you, whether you like to hear or not. However, I don't know if I passed as a true friend coz I am so afraid to annoy people, yet I do annoy people unknowingly, this is so perplex! Perhaps, being truthful and being annoying is a thin line between to tread on...

So... A better me, a better world???
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Jia was telling me how young the directors are nowadays, hence they must be very competent, to be director of certain division etc. However, I told her somehow "directors" are overrated nowadays, anyone can be a director, like the hair director neighborhood hair saloon who charge us $5 (in the past) for a haircut. Anyway, I bought the Saturday's The ST to look for jobs, and while flipping through the thick "Recruit" section, I saw a casket company looking for:

Funeral Director: must possess a class 3 driving license. I assume this "Director"drives the van.

and at the same column, Funeral advisors: must be physically fit.

Interesting how a job title could beautify a job, hor?

Bak Zhang Pte Unlimited

Today Mum, Ah Yi and I wrapped another few kgs of dumplings, oh gosh, there goes my weight-loss!

I am improving! My dumplings' shapes are getting better now. =)

Hooray! No more NTU!!!

I passed! I PASSED ALL! YEAH!!!

With a significant chiam tou somemore!!! Another A- bagged, for my design module! =) I was so exhilarated to see the A- that I jumped for joy, literally! Floor almost cracked under my gradually increasing and already very heavy weight. Coz tat A- was the least to expect, when 50% was project based and we channeled 90% of our energy in recreating from samples. =P I was so afraid that marker will see through the plan... phew... I'm definitely not proud of this but under that circumstance, it's bo pian...

Engineers and society was also least expected, a B, I did crap my paper through, leaving shitty remarks on the history of Singapore and industrialization etc. Probably this proved something, crapping does come in handy sometime.

FYP needless to say... 400 lines of codes only, what to expect except a B. I brought it upon myself one lor... Serves me right...

Computer Security was a B-, hmm... can't remember the questions, but then it was the last paper and I have ample time to study... and then I think I spent 3 days... so ok, B- is good enough.

Web Services I got a B+, wah ha ha, another grade which I don't know how it came about. I was only confident about the first question on history of internet, which I wrote non-stop for 20 minutes. The last 2 questions was really anyhow whacked, coz it was on XML which I have to write codes and I didn't memorize all, only remembering selectively some parts... I think the lecturer gave me sympathy marks for wasting ink on top of those correct codes, which somehow tabulated to a B+ which he probably didn't understand why too. He might have counted again and again until he was reluctant to give me the grade. =D

Database was the one I feared most, I only had 1 day to study and there was a lot of materials which I miraculously failed to see. Prior before the start of exams, I also scrapped some tutorials only and I had thought I wouldn't have make it through. Still I got a C+, can't complain.

Together with my previous Cs and Ds in the first 3 semesters and a lot of Bs in the last semester, I got a 3rd class, still, mai hiam ka zui, I had passed!

It is not the best when people looked at it (the grades and class), but it's the best at how I looked at it, so I am happy.

Less expectations bring more happiness.
Less desires lead to self-satisfaction.