Prelude to the departure of the temps
0 Comments Published by kang on Friday, June 30, 2006 at 11:30 AM.
Monday is my last day at work.
On one hand I'd be enjoying life again, waking up and sleeping at whatever time I want!
On the other hand, I would miss the people at work. Especially cutelicious Shervenne who never fails to amaze me with her repertoire of no-link and stunning nonsensical responses. And the super hua chi flower intoxicated Xun Ming who would probably die of boredom next week with lim peh and his heart's desire, the May Flower gone.
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Dropped Xun Ming via cab after OT on Friday to his "Minister's son" friend's place.
Damn stylo, frickin big, and there's a security post outside, just to guard the house. I wonder how it feels like to be a minister's son.
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Soccer mania with WST last night.
England was disappointing. But they were damn suei lah. Rooney was too hot-tempered. Portugal won with luck. Brazil under-performed. Zidane rules.
For the first time ever, I won money at mahjong with WST! My first "zi mo qing yi se!" If only I didn't stupidly give Ivan his winning tile and ended up paying for the whole table in that one game, I would have won alot more.
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Joined Shambaa for fright night rehearsal just now.
We're now known as Ferrets. So no-character. Scumbaa sounds better.
Must be the atmosphere. So not scary. I think our station is good though, if everyone manages to stop themselves from laughing. Pretty good ideas, eerie props. If the execution's good, all's good.
Tomorrow's the actual orientation! Prolly gonna join them after work.
But I heard this year's freshies very :(
On one hand I'd be enjoying life again, waking up and sleeping at whatever time I want!
On the other hand, I would miss the people at work. Especially cutelicious Shervenne who never fails to amaze me with her repertoire of no-link and stunning nonsensical responses. And the super hua chi flower intoxicated Xun Ming who would probably die of boredom next week with lim peh and his heart's desire, the May Flower gone.
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Dropped Xun Ming via cab after OT on Friday to his "Minister's son" friend's place.
Damn stylo, frickin big, and there's a security post outside, just to guard the house. I wonder how it feels like to be a minister's son.
===
Soccer mania with WST last night.
England was disappointing. But they were damn suei lah. Rooney was too hot-tempered. Portugal won with luck. Brazil under-performed. Zidane rules.
For the first time ever, I won money at mahjong with WST! My first "zi mo qing yi se!" If only I didn't stupidly give Ivan his winning tile and ended up paying for the whole table in that one game, I would have won alot more.
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Joined Shambaa for fright night rehearsal just now.
We're now known as Ferrets. So no-character. Scumbaa sounds better.
Must be the atmosphere. So not scary. I think our station is good though, if everyone manages to stop themselves from laughing. Pretty good ideas, eerie props. If the execution's good, all's good.
Tomorrow's the actual orientation! Prolly gonna join them after work.
But I heard this year's freshies very :(
Hello there.
I am Shervenne's dog.
Last time on OpenDiary, I remember I was pretty close to this OD clique and everyday, without fail, we would visit each other's diaries and leave them comments. If we don't have intelligent comments, we leave stupid ones. If we don't even have stupid ones, people like darkart would just leave a smile.
That was a very little-kid fragment of my life, but I still have really fond memories.
And it was a very common practice for a ODer to leave comments for every single mother father son he/she could think of whenever a special occasion comes up, and especially, when he/she has decided to "leave" OD.
This kind of posts would be followed by torrents of touching emails telling him/her why he/she should/shouldn't leave.
Well, them being such fond memories, I've decided to do it again today, though I'm now a true-blue old man liao!
Though this is of a very different nature from OD, where nobody knows nobody in real life, not initially anyway, and these people I'm gonna mention are probably really close to me in real life but probably won't read my blog.
In fact, I've only given my blog URL to a very small handful of people, and I really have no idea how others found my blog, except perhaps through links from those other blogs.
So I expect this to be a super long entry, and probably 90% of these people won't even read this. And please note that I'm not listing them in any particular order. It's all free-style.
So thanks.
To Xun Ming, for being a great person to work with, for making us laugh, for being ridiculous, dreamy, and introducing me to the world of elitism.
To Shervenne, for being so super duper cute, for glaring and pouting, for looking like 5 years my junior instead of 5 years my senior, my apologies for credit notes and invoices, and oh ya I still owe you three treats and you owe me one.
To Jolene, for hiring me, for giving me a great working experience, for being one of the, if not the, most capable female I've ever known, for being a great manager, for being giving me the chance to OT with Shervenne muahahah and of course, for granting us the PAY RISE of $10/hour.
To Jia Hui, for being a great lunching matey, for being naive and true, for sharing stories, for honest opinions, for being nice!
To WST, for showing me the path towards my eventual passion, basketball, for Saturday morning ball sessions, for fun, for promoting me from stranger to acquaintance, back to stranger and then to acquaintance again.
To ben, for being intelligent and brutally critical, to Alvin and Ivan the newest additions to the team, for reminding me that I'm really growing old fast and helping me make up my mind to go for IVP next year, to piggy for being helpful and for generous treats, to yun for being so blur, for lending me your bike, apologies for nearly buanging it.
To Gao Qing, Peijun and Xiao Fen, for having your brithdays today as well.
To Malcolm Gladwell, for writing Blink and The Tipping Point, books that have changed my entire outlook of life in general.
To Guang Hao, for being an exemplary superior and friend, one of the best officers I've seen, to madam, for being so motherly and taking care of us all during our NS stint.
To bud, for being a real help despite being a pain in the ass oftentimes, for your cigarettes, for doing ridiculous things at times, for showing me that there are people in this world I truly do not understand.
To Zheng Yi, for being remarkably different, for your cheese cake recipe, for being a kuai lan kia, and damn you for rubbing some of that onto me.
To Mrs Richards, for scaring the hell out of me when you said if don't read newspapers confirm fail GP, thus cultivating my habit of reading papers, to my last minute GP tutor, for also playing a huge role in achieving the grades I could only dream of. To Mdm Jancy, for bluffing me by saying I would confirm fail Physics and scaring me so much that I studied overshot and topped the class that semester in the end, for tirelessly teaching.
To the first ah beng in the world who tried to find trouble with me, for showing me how ah bengs disturb people. I hope you have grown up well and have not proceeded further down the path of destruction.
(Shit I'm getting sleepy....)
To father, for teaching me tons of stuff about money and life in general, for cultivating saving habits, for being uptight about everything though I'd rather you be more relaxed, for truly caring, though other people might think you're cold, for pulling me back when I was near the edge, for being the best dad I could wish for, actually.
To mother, for Tom Turtle, for never making us starve, for teaching us to be nice to people, for teaching me spelling until you nearly vomitted blood, for bringing me to the doctor, for endless nagging, for being there.
To sis for being a great sis, for being irritating at times, for taking care of me when I was a stupid goondoo who didn't dare to go to the toilets alone, for always making useless comments while I'm driving, for always buying supper home, for being such a little woman.
To brother, for being such a little boy though you're physically bigger than me, for good times, for trust in your big brother.
To Weisi's ex-, for wanting to beat me up, for confirming my hatred for useless ah bengs, for a funny experience.
To Lixian for giving me the entire set of Tian Long Ba Bu, for being a great comic buddy.
To Bill Gates for Microsoft.
To buang for being much more intelligent than I initially thought, for advice, for lame jokes, for deep insights.
To Dalgaard, Wilson, Chex, Paul, for being great business buddies/partners though things didn't work out in the end.
To the studious NUS gang, for teaching me school work and encouraging me to spend more time with studies though it didn't work hahaha. To Kenny for talking kok, for being smart, for being willing to share your knowledge. To Ming Yuan for introducing me to the Sage job, to you and your brother, for all your help academically.
To Shambaa, for a great orientation camp. To Joanne, for being so cute. To Alvin, for being nice, for being a fellow Pioneer. To Dominic, for being cheeky, Demure, for being a great "brother" for being so demure. To Ruo Xuan and Geri, for being funky, to Yiwei, for being super duper nice and obliging. To Zhong Yu, for being supportive and not giving up when others already have. To Gabriel, for liking cars, for liking Mazda6 when I did. (Jie Ying, you not yet, hahaha) To wonderful councillors like Chu Hui, Jia Li, Eugene, for making it all go so well.
(Shit, I'm really falling asleep)
To Xyz, for the gift, for being ah-mah-ish, for being a funky SP, for being cute, for company.
To Daphne, for teaching me to take things more easily, to take things as they come, that some things you don't have a choice, for teaching me that life is more than achievements, for changing me in a way no one and nothing could.
To Ting, for being hands-down the person with the greatest impact on me, for teaching me to take life more seriously, for teaching me kindness, patience and humility, making me less indecisive, for making me a better person, for good times, for everything you gave me, for everything you brought away with you but yet left behind, for being the "greatest gift from God", and of course, for being probably the only person on Earth to truly know me.
To Jie Ying, my best friend and biao mei, for being extraordinarily hao mai, for being the epitomy of tiki-ness, for insulting me till I feel like shit despite actually not treating me all that badly, for the PORNO dvd, for the rock, for everything you did for me today, for differing opinions, for being a wonderful companion DESPITE vastly differing opinions and paradigms, for being amazing.
Actually still got alot of people, but it's 2.25 a.m. now and I'm damn sleepy and I'm working tomorrow, so screw it.
That was a very little-kid fragment of my life, but I still have really fond memories.
And it was a very common practice for a ODer to leave comments for every single mother father son he/she could think of whenever a special occasion comes up, and especially, when he/she has decided to "leave" OD.
This kind of posts would be followed by torrents of touching emails telling him/her why he/she should/shouldn't leave.
Well, them being such fond memories, I've decided to do it again today, though I'm now a true-blue old man liao!
Though this is of a very different nature from OD, where nobody knows nobody in real life, not initially anyway, and these people I'm gonna mention are probably really close to me in real life but probably won't read my blog.
In fact, I've only given my blog URL to a very small handful of people, and I really have no idea how others found my blog, except perhaps through links from those other blogs.
So I expect this to be a super long entry, and probably 90% of these people won't even read this. And please note that I'm not listing them in any particular order. It's all free-style.
So thanks.
To Xun Ming, for being a great person to work with, for making us laugh, for being ridiculous, dreamy, and introducing me to the world of elitism.
To Shervenne, for being so super duper cute, for glaring and pouting, for looking like 5 years my junior instead of 5 years my senior, my apologies for credit notes and invoices, and oh ya I still owe you three treats and you owe me one.
To Jolene, for hiring me, for giving me a great working experience, for being one of the, if not the, most capable female I've ever known, for being a great manager, for being giving me the chance to OT with Shervenne muahahah and of course, for granting us the PAY RISE of $10/hour.
To Jia Hui, for being a great lunching matey, for being naive and true, for sharing stories, for honest opinions, for being nice!
To WST, for showing me the path towards my eventual passion, basketball, for Saturday morning ball sessions, for fun, for promoting me from stranger to acquaintance, back to stranger and then to acquaintance again.
To ben, for being intelligent and brutally critical, to Alvin and Ivan the newest additions to the team, for reminding me that I'm really growing old fast and helping me make up my mind to go for IVP next year, to piggy for being helpful and for generous treats, to yun for being so blur, for lending me your bike, apologies for nearly buanging it.
To Gao Qing, Peijun and Xiao Fen, for having your brithdays today as well.
To Malcolm Gladwell, for writing Blink and The Tipping Point, books that have changed my entire outlook of life in general.
To Guang Hao, for being an exemplary superior and friend, one of the best officers I've seen, to madam, for being so motherly and taking care of us all during our NS stint.
To bud, for being a real help despite being a pain in the ass oftentimes, for your cigarettes, for doing ridiculous things at times, for showing me that there are people in this world I truly do not understand.
To Zheng Yi, for being remarkably different, for your cheese cake recipe, for being a kuai lan kia, and damn you for rubbing some of that onto me.
To Mrs Richards, for scaring the hell out of me when you said if don't read newspapers confirm fail GP, thus cultivating my habit of reading papers, to my last minute GP tutor, for also playing a huge role in achieving the grades I could only dream of. To Mdm Jancy, for bluffing me by saying I would confirm fail Physics and scaring me so much that I studied overshot and topped the class that semester in the end, for tirelessly teaching.
To the first ah beng in the world who tried to find trouble with me, for showing me how ah bengs disturb people. I hope you have grown up well and have not proceeded further down the path of destruction.
(Shit I'm getting sleepy....)
To father, for teaching me tons of stuff about money and life in general, for cultivating saving habits, for being uptight about everything though I'd rather you be more relaxed, for truly caring, though other people might think you're cold, for pulling me back when I was near the edge, for being the best dad I could wish for, actually.
To mother, for Tom Turtle, for never making us starve, for teaching us to be nice to people, for teaching me spelling until you nearly vomitted blood, for bringing me to the doctor, for endless nagging, for being there.
To sis for being a great sis, for being irritating at times, for taking care of me when I was a stupid goondoo who didn't dare to go to the toilets alone, for always making useless comments while I'm driving, for always buying supper home, for being such a little woman.
To brother, for being such a little boy though you're physically bigger than me, for good times, for trust in your big brother.
To Weisi's ex-, for wanting to beat me up, for confirming my hatred for useless ah bengs, for a funny experience.
To Lixian for giving me the entire set of Tian Long Ba Bu, for being a great comic buddy.
To Bill Gates for Microsoft.
To buang for being much more intelligent than I initially thought, for advice, for lame jokes, for deep insights.
To Dalgaard, Wilson, Chex, Paul, for being great business buddies/partners though things didn't work out in the end.
To the studious NUS gang, for teaching me school work and encouraging me to spend more time with studies though it didn't work hahaha. To Kenny for talking kok, for being smart, for being willing to share your knowledge. To Ming Yuan for introducing me to the Sage job, to you and your brother, for all your help academically.
To Shambaa, for a great orientation camp. To Joanne, for being so cute. To Alvin, for being nice, for being a fellow Pioneer. To Dominic, for being cheeky, Demure, for being a great "brother" for being so demure. To Ruo Xuan and Geri, for being funky, to Yiwei, for being super duper nice and obliging. To Zhong Yu, for being supportive and not giving up when others already have. To Gabriel, for liking cars, for liking Mazda6 when I did. (Jie Ying, you not yet, hahaha) To wonderful councillors like Chu Hui, Jia Li, Eugene, for making it all go so well.
(Shit, I'm really falling asleep)
To Xyz, for the gift, for being ah-mah-ish, for being a funky SP, for being cute, for company.
To Daphne, for teaching me to take things more easily, to take things as they come, that some things you don't have a choice, for teaching me that life is more than achievements, for changing me in a way no one and nothing could.
To Ting, for being hands-down the person with the greatest impact on me, for teaching me to take life more seriously, for teaching me kindness, patience and humility, making me less indecisive, for making me a better person, for good times, for everything you gave me, for everything you brought away with you but yet left behind, for being the "greatest gift from God", and of course, for being probably the only person on Earth to truly know me.
To Jie Ying, my best friend and biao mei, for being extraordinarily hao mai, for being the epitomy of tiki-ness, for insulting me till I feel like shit despite actually not treating me all that badly, for the PORNO dvd, for the rock, for everything you did for me today, for differing opinions, for being a wonderful companion DESPITE vastly differing opinions and paradigms, for being amazing.
Actually still got alot of people, but it's 2.25 a.m. now and I'm damn sleepy and I'm working tomorrow, so screw it.
Being an office boy has really made me feel the aptness of the tagline "living for the weekends".
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It's 1.46 a.m. now and I'm waiting for Switz vs Korea to start at 3 a.m.
And I'm damn hungry.
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I saw a very cool ad in TODAY.
Trivia:
What happens when the referee shows a player the red card?
1) The player has to leave the field.
2) He has to play the rest of the game in his underwear.
3) The referee and the player get married and live happily ever after.
CP Shrimp Wonton noodles: Just add hot water.
No thinking required.
Available in the frozen food section of all major supermarkets and hypermarts.
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Had a treat from Rachel on Wednesday at Fish & Co.
Damn shiok.
I really prefer Fish & Co over Manhattan.
And I think it's hilarious the way she keeps talking bad about her lousy boyfriend.
And then bm called to say her car battery died in school.
Hahaha.
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Due to violent objections, I have removed her pic from the previous post.
Hahaha.
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It's 1.46 a.m. now and I'm waiting for Switz vs Korea to start at 3 a.m.
And I'm damn hungry.
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I saw a very cool ad in TODAY.
Trivia:
What happens when the referee shows a player the red card?
1) The player has to leave the field.
2) He has to play the rest of the game in his underwear.
3) The referee and the player get married and live happily ever after.
CP Shrimp Wonton noodles: Just add hot water.
No thinking required.
Available in the frozen food section of all major supermarkets and hypermarts.
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Had a treat from Rachel on Wednesday at Fish & Co.
Damn shiok.
I really prefer Fish & Co over Manhattan.
And I think it's hilarious the way she keeps talking bad about her lousy boyfriend.
And then bm called to say her car battery died in school.
Hahaha.
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Due to violent objections, I have removed her pic from the previous post.
Hahaha.
Haven't seen bm for so long. She's now a gim moh mei, cos she dyed her hair in Taiwan, and now she looks like ah lian!
K lah but she so nice, brought me goodies to devour. And she bought me a PINK shirt. I wonder if I'll ever wear it -_-;;
And whole day she's been insulting my fashion sense cos I've been refusing to wear bright colours and sticking to my black and white t-shirts and jeans.
I never knew I had so many weaknesses until she always say until her bg boring, unromantic, miserly, scrawny, ungentlemanly, has bad fashion sense, and to add salt to the wound, ugly!
Qi si wo le.
No wonder her friends also think she treats her poor bg very badly.
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We were browsing through the pics she took in Taiwan, at kopitiam, on her laptop.
I was happily clicking through all the pics when suddenly got one naked woman appeared on the screen scare me half to death and I quickly clicked to the next pic and scolded her.
It was a pic she took of those very erotic "bin1 lang2" boxes. And in this case it wasn't just erotic, it was pornographic.
I hope the old uncle behind me didn't see it, else he kena heart attack then I die.
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I really really spent alot of money today.
$137 - External hard disk
$28 - Hrd disk casing
$20 - DVDs
$110 - DVD burner
$20.30 - Office shirt
$15.90 - Slippers
$3 - Wheels Asia
For a total of a whooping $361.20. I must go find my mum to sponsor me for the computer stuff or at least force my brother to split the costs with me.
K lah but she so nice, brought me goodies to devour. And she bought me a PINK shirt. I wonder if I'll ever wear it -_-;;
And whole day she's been insulting my fashion sense cos I've been refusing to wear bright colours and sticking to my black and white t-shirts and jeans.
I never knew I had so many weaknesses until she always say until her bg boring, unromantic, miserly, scrawny, ungentlemanly, has bad fashion sense, and to add salt to the wound, ugly!
Qi si wo le.
No wonder her friends also think she treats her poor bg very badly.
===
We were browsing through the pics she took in Taiwan, at kopitiam, on her laptop.
I was happily clicking through all the pics when suddenly got one naked woman appeared on the screen scare me half to death and I quickly clicked to the next pic and scolded her.
It was a pic she took of those very erotic "bin1 lang2" boxes. And in this case it wasn't just erotic, it was pornographic.
I hope the old uncle behind me didn't see it, else he kena heart attack then I die.
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I really really spent alot of money today.
$137 - External hard disk
$28 - Hrd disk casing
$20 - DVDs
$110 - DVD burner
$20.30 - Office shirt
$15.90 - Slippers
$3 - Wheels Asia
For a total of a whooping $361.20. I must go find my mum to sponsor me for the computer stuff or at least force my brother to split the costs with me.
Went for this Guan1 Di4 Ye2's "birthday dinner" just now.
Actually quite boring ah, didn't know anyone, and papa was like busy entertaining other people, so me and Joe had to entertain ourselves, while watching weird towkays bid for weird stuff.
Let's not talk about those auspicious ornaments which were at least a few hundred bucks each.
Towards the end there were even wackier auctions.
Packets of rice that cost $250 starting bid each. Then 3 $50 notes went for like a few k.
Pa was only involved in one. This one.
Cannot see lah, but it's like, the most valuable item of the night, think is Guan Gong's altar or something. Pa and his towkay friends bidded for it and after many rounds of insane bidding, ended up getting it for like, $9888.
So each person paid like close to $2000 for it.
Wah kao I dun understand what they're thinking lah. Today I was still delirious over the fact that I would have earned at least $2000 from current job in total, and here pa is spending the same amount of money on something we're not even gonna bring home.
Last year they also bidded for something like that for 10k plus.
Then left it in the temple.
Oh well maybe it brought us luck ba.
Anywayz. It's weekend!
Woohoo!
Actually quite boring ah, didn't know anyone, and papa was like busy entertaining other people, so me and Joe had to entertain ourselves, while watching weird towkays bid for weird stuff.
Let's not talk about those auspicious ornaments which were at least a few hundred bucks each.
Towards the end there were even wackier auctions.
Packets of rice that cost $250 starting bid each. Then 3 $50 notes went for like a few k.
Pa was only involved in one. This one.
Cannot see lah, but it's like, the most valuable item of the night, think is Guan Gong's altar or something. Pa and his towkay friends bidded for it and after many rounds of insane bidding, ended up getting it for like, $9888.
So each person paid like close to $2000 for it.
Wah kao I dun understand what they're thinking lah. Today I was still delirious over the fact that I would have earned at least $2000 from current job in total, and here pa is spending the same amount of money on something we're not even gonna bring home.
Last year they also bidded for something like that for 10k plus.
Then left it in the temple.
Oh well maybe it brought us luck ba.
Anywayz. It's weekend!
Woohoo!
Wah lau huat ah I already say wad, you keep saying this kind of obscene things of course I have to delete your tags. My blog is clean!
I guess asking who you are is probably redundant cos you're probably too hum chee to say but do I actually know you?
Please stop saying obscene stuff lah okay insult me nevermind I will leave it there but don't talk dirty about other people leh lydat how you want me to keep haha.
And always must go and delete from the chatterbox site very ma fan one leh you think I like ah?
I guess asking who you are is probably redundant cos you're probably too hum chee to say but do I actually know you?
Please stop saying obscene stuff lah okay insult me nevermind I will leave it there but don't talk dirty about other people leh lydat how you want me to keep haha.
And always must go and delete from the chatterbox site very ma fan one leh you think I like ah?
I dunno why I post so much more these days when I've actually got so much less free time.
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Today we saw a Bentley!
Isn't it damn chio?
When Shervenne and Jia Hui first saw it they were like "Wah!! See!! Rolls Royce!!" and I was like -_-;;
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Today I helped Shervenne fix her admin cupboard muahahahaha I am Engineer Ang. She was like "wah ni3 hen 3 li4 hai4 leh" muahahaha cheap thrill boost my ego nia so now I owe her 2 treats and she owes me one.
She is really damn cute lah but no I'm not attracted to her in THAT way, and in any case, I cannot imagine myself with someone 5 years older than me, though she probably looks like she's 5 years younger than me.
Idiotic XunMing keeps asking me to go after her if I like her but I keep insisting I don't and he calls me WEAK dammit.
But she really really very cute omg.
Okay I should stop it.
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Today we saw a Bentley!
Isn't it damn chio?When Shervenne and Jia Hui first saw it they were like "Wah!! See!! Rolls Royce!!" and I was like -_-;;
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Today I helped Shervenne fix her admin cupboard muahahahaha I am Engineer Ang. She was like "wah ni3 hen 3 li4 hai4 leh" muahahaha cheap thrill boost my ego nia so now I owe her 2 treats and she owes me one.
She is really damn cute lah but no I'm not attracted to her in THAT way, and in any case, I cannot imagine myself with someone 5 years older than me, though she probably looks like she's 5 years younger than me.
Idiotic XunMing keeps asking me to go after her if I like her but I keep insisting I don't and he calls me WEAK dammit.
But she really really very cute omg.
Okay I should stop it.
Because...
1) I found my planner! It's been in my bag all along, I don't know WHY I didn't see it then. Must be the almighty above's way of reminding me to take care of my stuff while I still have them cos losing them sucks big time.
2) I got a new MP3 player! $92 only, but it's been very long since I bought something so high-ticket.
3) Last but not least, guess what, I had a pay rise!!
So cool, Jo didn't even take time to consider. Well she said she was planning to give us a "bonus" at the end of our term, but since we wanted pay rise she'd grant it to us.
So our pay is now $10 an hour! Equals $80 a day equals $1840 a month! Too bad I won't be working too long more. Else can really earn quite alot.
All those stupid OTs and hard work paid off.
We are so worthy!
1) I found my planner! It's been in my bag all along, I don't know WHY I didn't see it then. Must be the almighty above's way of reminding me to take care of my stuff while I still have them cos losing them sucks big time.
2) I got a new MP3 player! $92 only, but it's been very long since I bought something so high-ticket.
3) Last but not least, guess what, I had a pay rise!!
So cool, Jo didn't even take time to consider. Well she said she was planning to give us a "bonus" at the end of our term, but since we wanted pay rise she'd grant it to us.
So our pay is now $10 an hour! Equals $80 a day equals $1840 a month! Too bad I won't be working too long more. Else can really earn quite alot.
All those stupid OTs and hard work paid off.
We are so worthy!
Hello huat.
Eh if you're wondering who huat is, he's some person who just posted some very obscene stuff about shervenne on the tagboard. (By the way, you spelt her name wrongly. It's okay, her name's not very easy to spell.)
Hmm, if we know each other and you think it's funny, then hahaha, but please don't do it again.
I myself am kinda vulgar, but don't say such obscene shit!
Well but if you're a troublemaker, then welcome!
So exciting, first time got people come and wreck havoc at my blog.
Oh well but if you even know me remotely you would stop trying to diss me off ba, because, you would know that this kind of behaviour entertains me more than cause me distress.
Plus all I have to do is delete the tag :(
Eh if you're wondering who huat is, he's some person who just posted some very obscene stuff about shervenne on the tagboard. (By the way, you spelt her name wrongly. It's okay, her name's not very easy to spell.)
Hmm, if we know each other and you think it's funny, then hahaha, but please don't do it again.
I myself am kinda vulgar, but don't say such obscene shit!
Well but if you're a troublemaker, then welcome!
So exciting, first time got people come and wreck havoc at my blog.
Oh well but if you even know me remotely you would stop trying to diss me off ba, because, you would know that this kind of behaviour entertains me more than cause me distress.
Plus all I have to do is delete the tag :(
Me and my obssession with BOOKS.
0 Comments Published by kang on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 10:35 AM.
Don't even remember since when I started liking books so much.
I dream to be like those ang mohs you see in Starbucks and Coffeebean who like to buy a cuppa hot Cappucino or Mocha and sit inside and just reeeead.
Dammit, why am I so poor? A trip to Starbucks/Coffeebean would cost me more than half an hour of my pay.
I read somewhere that if you compare the cost of everything to the hourly rate you're being paid, you would spend alot less. I think that's really true. And my hourly rate isn't even really low for a temp job.
I mean, my pay as a car washer was like $4.50!
I digress.
Anyway, I had that so-near-yet-so-far sense of loss as I walked into Times bookshop again that day.
Why is it that some people just choose whatever books they want and drop it into their shopping cart and just buy them? While I could only walk around salivating and standing there, like the child looking at his favorite red sports shoes through the shopping window?
Added a book list to the side bar.
Aye, I have decided. When I become damn rich one day (I said when, not IF).
I shall have a study room with tons of books and I would shop at Amazon and drop stuff into my shopping cart at will and I shall read my books over a cuppa hot coffee every morning!
I dream to be like those ang mohs you see in Starbucks and Coffeebean who like to buy a cuppa hot Cappucino or Mocha and sit inside and just reeeead.
Dammit, why am I so poor? A trip to Starbucks/Coffeebean would cost me more than half an hour of my pay.
I read somewhere that if you compare the cost of everything to the hourly rate you're being paid, you would spend alot less. I think that's really true. And my hourly rate isn't even really low for a temp job.
I mean, my pay as a car washer was like $4.50!
I digress.
Anyway, I had that so-near-yet-so-far sense of loss as I walked into Times bookshop again that day.
Why is it that some people just choose whatever books they want and drop it into their shopping cart and just buy them? While I could only walk around salivating and standing there, like the child looking at his favorite red sports shoes through the shopping window?
Added a book list to the side bar.
Aye, I have decided. When I become damn rich one day (I said when, not IF).
I shall have a study room with tons of books and I would shop at Amazon and drop stuff into my shopping cart at will and I shall read my books over a cuppa hot coffee every morning!
Contract extended till 31st July.
"All I want to do is slack."
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Lost my planner!!
It's not so much the loss of it that's jialat, but the loss of everything I'vwritten inside. Don't even know where I lost it.
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I'm gonna be spending so much money.
Have made the painful decision to buy a new MP3 player and DVD burner and probably a portable hard disk.
Probably about $400 in total. About half a month's pay.
Aww damn since I'm gonna be working so long anyway might as well use the money to make myself happy bwahahah.
"All I want to do is slack."
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Lost my planner!!
It's not so much the loss of it that's jialat, but the loss of everything I'vwritten inside. Don't even know where I lost it.
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I'm gonna be spending so much money.
Have made the painful decision to buy a new MP3 player and DVD burner and probably a portable hard disk.
Probably about $400 in total. About half a month's pay.
Aww damn since I'm gonna be working so long anyway might as well use the money to make myself happy bwahahah.
The second book I finished over the weekend was actually by Donald Trump.
He made me regret not watching The Apprentice. I wonder if I can download the series online. Should be can right.
I think having muscle aches from IPPT was a blessing in disguise. The whole weekend I was snuggling in bed manifesting my true desire as a geeeeek.
Anyway, xunming hates Donald Trump as he thinks he's too xia lan, but I think a multi-billionaire with HIS achievements, which are many, and not even restricted to monetary ones, has every right to be xia lan.
In any case, since we are not multi-billionaires ourselves, we don't understand how they think, and we ourselves can't say we won't be xia lan if we ARE multi-bills, so we shouldn't comment in this aspect.
Anyway, I think he's kick-ass cool cos he leads a very well-rounded lifestyle, he plays golf, he contributes to charity organizations, he has friends, he does The Apprentice, and he's, well, xia lan.
Isn't that the reason why people like Jose Mourinho as well? Okay maybe not that many people like him, but oh well.
Plus sometimes he doesn't even TRY to be xia lan, but was only speaking the truth. Like when he gave advice on buying real estate.
"It might not matter to me, but for you, you might have to take into consideration the cost..." etc etc.
It's true wad.
Oh ya there's this piece of statistics about Bill Gates from some magazine that I thought was quite cool.
The amount of money a movie ticket costs, when taken in proportion to an averge joe's networth is let's say X%. If a movie ticket costs Bill Gates X% as well, that bloody ticket would be worth, erm, I forgot the exact amount, but I think it's in the range of tens of thousands.
He made me regret not watching The Apprentice. I wonder if I can download the series online. Should be can right.
I think having muscle aches from IPPT was a blessing in disguise. The whole weekend I was snuggling in bed manifesting my true desire as a geeeeek.
Anyway, xunming hates Donald Trump as he thinks he's too xia lan, but I think a multi-billionaire with HIS achievements, which are many, and not even restricted to monetary ones, has every right to be xia lan.
In any case, since we are not multi-billionaires ourselves, we don't understand how they think, and we ourselves can't say we won't be xia lan if we ARE multi-bills, so we shouldn't comment in this aspect.
Anyway, I think he's kick-ass cool cos he leads a very well-rounded lifestyle, he plays golf, he contributes to charity organizations, he has friends, he does The Apprentice, and he's, well, xia lan.
Isn't that the reason why people like Jose Mourinho as well? Okay maybe not that many people like him, but oh well.
Plus sometimes he doesn't even TRY to be xia lan, but was only speaking the truth. Like when he gave advice on buying real estate.
"It might not matter to me, but for you, you might have to take into consideration the cost..." etc etc.
It's true wad.
Oh ya there's this piece of statistics about Bill Gates from some magazine that I thought was quite cool.
The amount of money a movie ticket costs, when taken in proportion to an averge joe's networth is let's say X%. If a movie ticket costs Bill Gates X% as well, that bloody ticket would be worth, erm, I forgot the exact amount, but I think it's in the range of tens of thousands.
Found it very interesting and was a good read.
It's written by the ex senior editor at Amazon, James Marcus, and chronicles its rise and fall. Okay maybe "fall" is a wrong word to use, but compared to its hey-day, Amazon has really become much less a prevalent entity.
James joined the company when it was made up of only like, 5 people, and was actually interviewed by Jeff Bezos himself. Well that's kind of remarkable because Amazon eventually grew to a peak of having like 8000 employees so being interviewed by the big boss man himself must have been a pretty un-thinkable experience no?
James also described the experience of becoming a paper millionaire overnight (with Amazon stocks) to becoming an overnight average Joe (dot com bubble burst, to becoming a millionaire again (through massive acquisitions), and to becoming a not-so-affluent millionaire afterwards (eBay).
He talks of how they (editors) had to help out at the company warehouse during holidays and of course, how much they hated it. They were editors afterall.
Later on, as computers and more sophisticated technology became even more omnipotent, editors were growing to become more of a liability than an asset and thousands of eployees were given the pink slip due to downsizing.
All in all, his anecdotes and tongue-in-cheek jokes were indeed very entertaining and made for a very good read.
It's written by the ex senior editor at Amazon, James Marcus, and chronicles its rise and fall. Okay maybe "fall" is a wrong word to use, but compared to its hey-day, Amazon has really become much less a prevalent entity.
James joined the company when it was made up of only like, 5 people, and was actually interviewed by Jeff Bezos himself. Well that's kind of remarkable because Amazon eventually grew to a peak of having like 8000 employees so being interviewed by the big boss man himself must have been a pretty un-thinkable experience no?
James also described the experience of becoming a paper millionaire overnight (with Amazon stocks) to becoming an overnight average Joe (dot com bubble burst, to becoming a millionaire again (through massive acquisitions), and to becoming a not-so-affluent millionaire afterwards (eBay).
He talks of how they (editors) had to help out at the company warehouse during holidays and of course, how much they hated it. They were editors afterall.
Later on, as computers and more sophisticated technology became even more omnipotent, editors were growing to become more of a liability than an asset and thousands of eployees were given the pink slip due to downsizing.
All in all, his anecdotes and tongue-in-cheek jokes were indeed very entertaining and made for a very good read.
I was right!
But probably nothing much to boast about cos it was kind of a no-brainer yeah?
But probably nothing much to boast about cos it was kind of a no-brainer yeah?
I didn't know there were gonna be so many of them taking the test on the same day. About 80 people in all, I think. But I was one of the youngest there, the rest all like quite uncle.
So many of them drove there.
And one of them was wearing this bright orange Asics singlet and his OCS shorts. An officer, huh. Scared people dunno he officer meh? He looks pretty fit lah, budden what for wear until so flashy? Not like people really give a shit.
So yeah, I was actually quite surprised that the whole thing flowed through quite smoothly. Guess it's probably only during NS that it's compulsory to do everything as ineffectively as possible.
It felt kinda funny walking into an army camp again after so long. Smelt rifles, saw lok kok buildings, bunks, yellow boxes, training sheds and all. NS sucks, but it leaves you with fond memories.
So yeah, proceeded with all the static stations without much trouble, but the sit-up station was quite embrarrassing. 42 earned you 5 points, but I did 42 with 30 seconds remaining and I suddenly thought, "Eh, 42 or 52 ah?" Then frantically chionged for another 10 more, then realized that 42 was sufficient.
Wait people think I hao lian.
Most of the stations I just did barely sufficient to get silver nia. I was quite surprised I managed 8 chin ups and had strength to spare muahahaha but I jumped off anyway cos do so many also no use.
And it appeared that the OCS guy wasn't all that fit afterall, cos I think he did pretty average in most stations.
Then we went for 2.4, my most hated station, and 10 seconds after the run started I was already like "fuck fuck fuck" liao aye too long never run. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn tired lah, after the run, and old me is still like having muscle aches now ta ma de.
I think my timing was like 11.28, which is quite slow, but I still came in 5th, which goes to show how nua reservists are. I actually came in before the OCS guy lor, I wonder if he feels embarrassed.
See lah, so hao lian, now malu.
Maybe it's the officer pride thing. Something I can't really fathom. Yeah lah I guess it's really prestigious and I have cool friends who are from OCS but what's up with swords of HONOUR and commission balls and the rule that only officers can wear collared shirts while the rest of us lesser human beings are doomed eternally to wearing ugly round-necked t-shirts?
Not that I wanna wear collared shirts (round-neck is comfy enough thank you) but why make that distinction? And I think people who use their number one photos as MSN pics are.. erm.. weird.
Mindef has made OCS such a hyped-up thing don't you think.
I'm not scorning officers and sour-graping here but I really think those officers with their heads high in the air need to get their feet back on the ground. I've seen so many fucked-up officers and I really wonder how they got into OCS in the first place.
Aye I got distracted.
Well anyway I did manage to get my silver so that's $200 for a morning's "work" muaha thanks Mindef.
So many of them drove there.
And one of them was wearing this bright orange Asics singlet and his OCS shorts. An officer, huh. Scared people dunno he officer meh? He looks pretty fit lah, budden what for wear until so flashy? Not like people really give a shit.
So yeah, I was actually quite surprised that the whole thing flowed through quite smoothly. Guess it's probably only during NS that it's compulsory to do everything as ineffectively as possible.
It felt kinda funny walking into an army camp again after so long. Smelt rifles, saw lok kok buildings, bunks, yellow boxes, training sheds and all. NS sucks, but it leaves you with fond memories.
So yeah, proceeded with all the static stations without much trouble, but the sit-up station was quite embrarrassing. 42 earned you 5 points, but I did 42 with 30 seconds remaining and I suddenly thought, "Eh, 42 or 52 ah?" Then frantically chionged for another 10 more, then realized that 42 was sufficient.
Wait people think I hao lian.
Most of the stations I just did barely sufficient to get silver nia. I was quite surprised I managed 8 chin ups and had strength to spare muahahaha but I jumped off anyway cos do so many also no use.
And it appeared that the OCS guy wasn't all that fit afterall, cos I think he did pretty average in most stations.
Then we went for 2.4, my most hated station, and 10 seconds after the run started I was already like "fuck fuck fuck" liao aye too long never run. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn tired lah, after the run, and old me is still like having muscle aches now ta ma de.
I think my timing was like 11.28, which is quite slow, but I still came in 5th, which goes to show how nua reservists are. I actually came in before the OCS guy lor, I wonder if he feels embarrassed.
See lah, so hao lian, now malu.
Maybe it's the officer pride thing. Something I can't really fathom. Yeah lah I guess it's really prestigious and I have cool friends who are from OCS but what's up with swords of HONOUR and commission balls and the rule that only officers can wear collared shirts while the rest of us lesser human beings are doomed eternally to wearing ugly round-necked t-shirts?
Not that I wanna wear collared shirts (round-neck is comfy enough thank you) but why make that distinction? And I think people who use their number one photos as MSN pics are.. erm.. weird.
Mindef has made OCS such a hyped-up thing don't you think.
I'm not scorning officers and sour-graping here but I really think those officers with their heads high in the air need to get their feet back on the ground. I've seen so many fucked-up officers and I really wonder how they got into OCS in the first place.
Aye I got distracted.
Well anyway I did manage to get my silver so that's $200 for a morning's "work" muaha thanks Mindef.
Germany will win Costa Rica.
Over 2.5 goals.
Over 2.5 goals.
Wow I'm very flattered that buang actually read my FD post haha.
But hey, I'm not saying that the FD is a bad thing, I'm just saying it is something that has a very real potential of killing any relationship.
It's bound to occur, and yeah I agree with you whole-heartedly that it's when you have differences to talk about that allows the relationship to grow.
I guess my point is that two people could be so remarkably alike in so many aspects and get along so well, and yet have a very large FD in between them.
And that's pretty interesting, I think.
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Bm's in Taiwan now and I forgot the number to use to SMS her! Bm are u reading this? Send me your number again leh.
Okay maybe I should email you.
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Our contract with the company has been AUTO-RENEWED! I kinda feel like slacking at home leh, somemore I got so many books I want to read!
Contract's supposed to end on the 16th, and it's already the 9th today, but Jo's gonna start interviewing perms only next week. Damn, we feel so exploited.
Next week May's not gonna be around for the whole week muahahaha Xunming the hua chi boi is gonna be oh-so love-sick.
Today morning the office felt so dangerously of explosives. Jo was scolding Gen for being late by 5 minutes. Then me, who was late by 15 minutes, sat at my table in fear but lucky she didn't come and scold me haha.
I think she knows she can't offend me and XM now also, cos if we quit now, she really jia lat jia lat.
But I made up the 15 minutes back to her by OTing 45 minutes so it's a fair deal.
More than fair, actually.
Unfair, in fact.
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Even Shervenne lost temper today!
Damn funny. I mean, it's Shervenne!
She was on the phone with some bank person and was like,
"I'd call you when I recieve payment.
I'll call you.
I'LL CALL YOU."
Haha I think it was some irritating bugger.
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One advantage of liking cars is that at least you won't get too bored on bus rides to work.
You just keep looking at cars.
And their drivers.
Today I saw this hot hot chick driving an E-Class with his dad by the side. Hot and rich!
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Tomorrow I'm taking IPPT.
Ta ma de, damn sianz. Hope I get Silver.
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Today my nose bled.
Must be lack of sleep.
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Just as I was talking about not having bm's taiwan phone number, saw her on MSN.
Seems like she's having lots of fun, she better bring back her bg lots of presents.
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Going to sleep liao.
Argh stupid IPPT.
But hey, I'm not saying that the FD is a bad thing, I'm just saying it is something that has a very real potential of killing any relationship.
It's bound to occur, and yeah I agree with you whole-heartedly that it's when you have differences to talk about that allows the relationship to grow.
I guess my point is that two people could be so remarkably alike in so many aspects and get along so well, and yet have a very large FD in between them.
And that's pretty interesting, I think.
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Bm's in Taiwan now and I forgot the number to use to SMS her! Bm are u reading this? Send me your number again leh.
Okay maybe I should email you.
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Our contract with the company has been AUTO-RENEWED! I kinda feel like slacking at home leh, somemore I got so many books I want to read!
Contract's supposed to end on the 16th, and it's already the 9th today, but Jo's gonna start interviewing perms only next week. Damn, we feel so exploited.
Next week May's not gonna be around for the whole week muahahaha Xunming the hua chi boi is gonna be oh-so love-sick.
Today morning the office felt so dangerously of explosives. Jo was scolding Gen for being late by 5 minutes. Then me, who was late by 15 minutes, sat at my table in fear but lucky she didn't come and scold me haha.
I think she knows she can't offend me and XM now also, cos if we quit now, she really jia lat jia lat.
But I made up the 15 minutes back to her by OTing 45 minutes so it's a fair deal.
More than fair, actually.
Unfair, in fact.
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Even Shervenne lost temper today!
Damn funny. I mean, it's Shervenne!
She was on the phone with some bank person and was like,
"I'd call you when I recieve payment.
I'll call you.
I'LL CALL YOU."
Haha I think it was some irritating bugger.
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One advantage of liking cars is that at least you won't get too bored on bus rides to work.
You just keep looking at cars.
And their drivers.
Today I saw this hot hot chick driving an E-Class with his dad by the side. Hot and rich!
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Tomorrow I'm taking IPPT.
Ta ma de, damn sianz. Hope I get Silver.
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Today my nose bled.
Must be lack of sleep.
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Just as I was talking about not having bm's taiwan phone number, saw her on MSN.
Seems like she's having lots of fun, she better bring back her bg lots of presents.
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Going to sleep liao.
Argh stupid IPPT.
Heard of the case about Fandhi Ahmad being sued by two people?
My dad was just telling me, one of those guys suing him is ALBERT. He's some guy with quite alot of dealings with my dad and I see him quite alot.
I was like, wah, Albert do until so "jue2" ah.
Then my dad was like, "what jue2, this is the way things are wad, you've gotta take responsibility for your own actions, that's the way it is." And he always seems to feel that his kids are not business savvy enough to take over his business.
But in my opinion, before a person becomes a businessman, the common instinct would be to consider sparing whoever you're dealing with, and resorting to suing only during dire consequences, right?
I think he should be more worried if his son reacts by saying "yeah baby, sue him sue him, sue him till he needs to pawn his toothbrush to buy toilet paper for the family!"
Still, I really don't think you need to be unscrpulous to be a successful business person. Sure you need to know how to fend yourself against these types of people, but you don't need to join in their league.
But then again, maybe I'm still too tender to comment.
My dad was just telling me, one of those guys suing him is ALBERT. He's some guy with quite alot of dealings with my dad and I see him quite alot.
I was like, wah, Albert do until so "jue2" ah.
Then my dad was like, "what jue2, this is the way things are wad, you've gotta take responsibility for your own actions, that's the way it is." And he always seems to feel that his kids are not business savvy enough to take over his business.
But in my opinion, before a person becomes a businessman, the common instinct would be to consider sparing whoever you're dealing with, and resorting to suing only during dire consequences, right?
I think he should be more worried if his son reacts by saying "yeah baby, sue him sue him, sue him till he needs to pawn his toothbrush to buy toilet paper for the family!"
Still, I really don't think you need to be unscrpulous to be a successful business person. Sure you need to know how to fend yourself against these types of people, but you don't need to join in their league.
But then again, maybe I'm still too tender to comment.
Yes, again, a new skin.
Yes, again, an unfurnished new skin. I don't normally like having jobs undone and I know I have weird links at the top but aiyah I like this template so I think I's just leave this as it is and make changes some other day.
Yes, again, an unfurnished new skin. I don't normally like having jobs undone and I know I have weird links at the top but aiyah I like this template so I think I's just leave this as it is and make changes some other day.
Got my beautiful check of $704 today. Not bad for half a month's work, albeit the intensive workload, the barrage of stuff we had to learn, and of course, "the 3 a.m. OT".(I'd never forget that for the rest of my life.)
I think I sound like I dislike my job. I don't.
I've met really interesting people on this job.
Xunming my partner feels like a long-lost friend. He's one person who actually knows people like George Soros and Warren Buffet and Donald Trump and actually reads The Alchemy of Finance and The Intelligent Investor, we both like bubor char char, we enjoy the same perverse pleasure in making fun of people (especially people of the opposite gender) and he actually watches NBA!
I guess it doesn't really make a difference but I thought I'd just mention it. He's about my height too. (Oh yeah, we enjoy making fun of shorter beings too muahahah)
But he's from like, RJ the elite school and he's exposed to a vastly different culture from me and he's going to UK to study law, ya know, that high-flyer kind. He classifies girls into tier-1, tier-2 and "others" while girls to me are just, well, girls. I appreciate all of them muahahahah.
Shit I sound like a wolf.
Jolene my boss is the epitomy of the term "workaholic" and she got herself sick by over-working and wasn't in the office for this morning. I was thinking "wow that woman is finally taking a break" and then I see her back in the office in the afternoon aiyoyo.
I also mentioned that she is damn siao-on and enthusiastic but she's capable at the same time so I'm sure she'd go far.
If she wasn't so busy I'm sure she'd have tons of guys going after her as she's damn happening and nice and she's actually pretty good at bowling and real good at pool (for a girl anyway) as I witnessed last week. I have to actually be on-form to beat her. I just wish my pool skills (if you can even call them that) are not so damn erratic.
The occasional appearance of May is a real pleasure to the eye too. She's like the pillar of strength for Xunming, as "he's never seen anything like it" and she "can qie the tier-1s in RJ hands-down".
She is the perfect example of a lao chio, as she is damn damn chio now, but think she wasn't all that power when she was younger.
Too bad she's probably overseas now and Xunming is damn sad. I think he's gonna quit hahah.
Of course, we also have Shervenne!
Dammit I thought I've seen enough short girls in my life already but this one is like, about 1.5m! And she's so super duper cute I can't believe that she's older than me. Even more unbelievable is the fact that she's older than my SISTER!
She always makes me and Xunming laugh until our sides ache especially when she tries to act angry and then breaks out laughing and says "haha pian4 ni3 de lah"
Hers is what I call genuine cuteness, it's really not fake at all! (Fake cuteness is disgusting) The time when she used the pizza tripod support thing to cut the pizza was also damn funny. When Jo started asking "what you doing?!" and all of us started laughing, the death blow came. She started to explain with a straight face that she was trying to just "separate the pizza" and that really made me and Xunming laugh until we want to die.
You have to be there to see how funny it was.
Other people would probably think she's kind of slow but she's actually quite smart, just the type I like! (Wits beneath a harmless skin) Initially I thought she didn't study much cos she just came from KL 3 years ago but today I realized she has a degree and was actually in Austrailia for a year!
So I was damn sad when I found out she has a bf. (Xunming says it doesn't matter but he's a scum)
Idiotic Jo was going to pass us the check today and when she came to me and I reached out to get it from her she took it back and said "nevermind yours later I ask Shervenne give you" then everyone bursted into laughter and I was like "ni3 bu4 yao4 hai4 wo3!!!"
She walked to Xunming's table and wanted to pass him his but paused to ask him "you want me to get May to give you?"
Xunming: *Dreamily* I want....
Jo: Qu4 si3 lah! *Throws the check onto his face*
So when Shervenne very puzzledly came to pass me the check she was like "what were they all laughing at?" and I was like "nothing lah they're crazy" and I was going to get it liao when she pulled back again and with that perpetual kawaii look on her face she said "don't give you. Must qing2 wo3 chi1 fan4"
I really melted on my chair and wanted to say "wah lau eh, got check no check want me to treat you chi1 fan4 also no problem!!!"
I think I sound like I dislike my job. I don't.
I've met really interesting people on this job.
Xunming my partner feels like a long-lost friend. He's one person who actually knows people like George Soros and Warren Buffet and Donald Trump and actually reads The Alchemy of Finance and The Intelligent Investor, we both like bubor char char, we enjoy the same perverse pleasure in making fun of people (especially people of the opposite gender) and he actually watches NBA!
I guess it doesn't really make a difference but I thought I'd just mention it. He's about my height too. (Oh yeah, we enjoy making fun of shorter beings too muahahah)
But he's from like, RJ the elite school and he's exposed to a vastly different culture from me and he's going to UK to study law, ya know, that high-flyer kind. He classifies girls into tier-1, tier-2 and "others" while girls to me are just, well, girls. I appreciate all of them muahahahah.
Shit I sound like a wolf.
Jolene my boss is the epitomy of the term "workaholic" and she got herself sick by over-working and wasn't in the office for this morning. I was thinking "wow that woman is finally taking a break" and then I see her back in the office in the afternoon aiyoyo.
I also mentioned that she is damn siao-on and enthusiastic but she's capable at the same time so I'm sure she'd go far.
If she wasn't so busy I'm sure she'd have tons of guys going after her as she's damn happening and nice and she's actually pretty good at bowling and real good at pool (for a girl anyway) as I witnessed last week. I have to actually be on-form to beat her. I just wish my pool skills (if you can even call them that) are not so damn erratic.
The occasional appearance of May is a real pleasure to the eye too. She's like the pillar of strength for Xunming, as "he's never seen anything like it" and she "can qie the tier-1s in RJ hands-down".
She is the perfect example of a lao chio, as she is damn damn chio now, but think she wasn't all that power when she was younger.
Too bad she's probably overseas now and Xunming is damn sad. I think he's gonna quit hahah.
Of course, we also have Shervenne!
Dammit I thought I've seen enough short girls in my life already but this one is like, about 1.5m! And she's so super duper cute I can't believe that she's older than me. Even more unbelievable is the fact that she's older than my SISTER!
She always makes me and Xunming laugh until our sides ache especially when she tries to act angry and then breaks out laughing and says "haha pian4 ni3 de lah"
Hers is what I call genuine cuteness, it's really not fake at all! (Fake cuteness is disgusting) The time when she used the pizza tripod support thing to cut the pizza was also damn funny. When Jo started asking "what you doing?!" and all of us started laughing, the death blow came. She started to explain with a straight face that she was trying to just "separate the pizza" and that really made me and Xunming laugh until we want to die.
You have to be there to see how funny it was.
Other people would probably think she's kind of slow but she's actually quite smart, just the type I like! (Wits beneath a harmless skin) Initially I thought she didn't study much cos she just came from KL 3 years ago but today I realized she has a degree and was actually in Austrailia for a year!
So I was damn sad when I found out she has a bf. (Xunming says it doesn't matter but he's a scum)
Idiotic Jo was going to pass us the check today and when she came to me and I reached out to get it from her she took it back and said "nevermind yours later I ask Shervenne give you" then everyone bursted into laughter and I was like "ni3 bu4 yao4 hai4 wo3!!!"
She walked to Xunming's table and wanted to pass him his but paused to ask him "you want me to get May to give you?"
Xunming: *Dreamily* I want....
Jo: Qu4 si3 lah! *Throws the check onto his face*
So when Shervenne very puzzledly came to pass me the check she was like "what were they all laughing at?" and I was like "nothing lah they're crazy" and I was going to get it liao when she pulled back again and with that perpetual kawaii look on her face she said "don't give you. Must qing2 wo3 chi1 fan4"
I really melted on my chair and wanted to say "wah lau eh, got check no check want me to treat you chi1 fan4 also no problem!!!"
I would:
1) Buy a Vios.
2) Buy a new backpack.
3) Get new headphones.
4) Buy PSP.
5) Subscribe to Carma.
6) Furnish my cupboard with new clothes.
7) Buy alot of books.
8) Buy a new comfy stylo big-boss chair.
9) Buy a humongous LCD plasma screen TV.
10) Buy a gift for all my good friends and treat them eat big feast!
1) Buy a Vios.
2) Buy a new backpack.
3) Get new headphones.
4) Buy PSP.
5) Subscribe to Carma.
6) Furnish my cupboard with new clothes.
7) Buy alot of books.
8) Buy a new comfy stylo big-boss chair.
9) Buy a humongous LCD plasma screen TV.
10) Buy a gift for all my good friends and treat them eat big feast!
The carrot has finally fulfilled his promise and treated all of us to the much-anticipated feast at Yuki Yaki yesterday. He is now officially WST's club sponsor a.k.a Mr. Seventeen Hundred (his current income) or as previously mentioned, carrot (cai tau).
Anyway, there were pictures outside Yuki Yaki showing the yummy ice-cream that we could make.
Looks damn nice right.
But dunno why ours looked so spastic.
The Club Logo. The ice cream looks like mud though.
I put a waffle in the centre but Ivan says it looks damn ugly so we dissected it and sliced it off.
And it was such a feat that we managed to lift the whole bloody thing off the plate like that.
The towkay carrot foots the bill. A moment to remember.And just to side-track abit, the guy in the background is my BMT mate, who probably doesn't recognize me. (I recognize him purely because I used to dislike him hahahaha)
I can't bowl for nuts but because this is a company event and Jo has threatened to withhold our pay if we ps her, we HAD to go.
And that day, we saw the other face of Jo. She belongs to one category of mankind I can never hope to understand.
She is damn siao on! Super councillorish. And she's so much like fish! I think that kind of person exists in every era, in every place.
A typical scenario that is bound to occur during sports meets: The Jo-like character will be very enthuiastically trying to psycho her classmates to go and run but unfortunately, unless they are from track-and-field, people who are remotely good at sports are generally quite nua and don't give a shit about joining senseless competitions for the sake of "class spirit" and that would be people like me and Xunming and we would hide in the corner of the classroom hoping that the Jo-like character would forget about us but alas, that never happens and upon being rejected by us, she would be damn sad and might even cry and we would have no choice but to abide by her wishes as a woman's tears are one of the most lethal weapons in the world.
We were forced to think of our team names but those we came up with were too un-political and too nua-ish. I really like the one xunming thought up of.
We were grumbling about getting paid $8 an hour for data-entry, order processing, logistics/store-maintenance, for making pom poms and banners, and being forced to go bowling after office hours without OT pay. And we are only temps!
And yes you heard that right.
POM POMS.
The saddest pom pom in Singapore.
The saddest pom poms in the world. Yeah, newspapers.
The saddest "banner". I mean, "Funky and Outrageous"?!
The saddest trophy. Yeah we made it. Yeah it's black and white and printed out from a website with the office printer and yeah it's pasted over cardboard I found from the warehouse and yeah I know it's damn ugly.
The saddest scores. I was the one with 69. I SAID I can't bowl.
The forever enthusiastic Jo, busy running around taking pictures.
Here's a secret shot of the hottest person we've ever seen. It's kind of blur, but I'm sure you can tell. I dare not speak too much of her for fear that she might chance upon this some day.
And that day, we saw the other face of Jo. She belongs to one category of mankind I can never hope to understand.
She is damn siao on! Super councillorish. And she's so much like fish! I think that kind of person exists in every era, in every place.
A typical scenario that is bound to occur during sports meets: The Jo-like character will be very enthuiastically trying to psycho her classmates to go and run but unfortunately, unless they are from track-and-field, people who are remotely good at sports are generally quite nua and don't give a shit about joining senseless competitions for the sake of "class spirit" and that would be people like me and Xunming and we would hide in the corner of the classroom hoping that the Jo-like character would forget about us but alas, that never happens and upon being rejected by us, she would be damn sad and might even cry and we would have no choice but to abide by her wishes as a woman's tears are one of the most lethal weapons in the world.
We were forced to think of our team names but those we came up with were too un-political and too nua-ish. I really like the one xunming thought up of.
"THE TERRIFIC TEMPS"
Of course, it got rejected by Jo.
We were grumbling about getting paid $8 an hour for data-entry, order processing, logistics/store-maintenance, for making pom poms and banners, and being forced to go bowling after office hours without OT pay. And we are only temps!
And yes you heard that right.
POM POMS.
The saddest pom pom in Singapore.
The saddest pom poms in the world. Yeah, newspapers.
The saddest "banner". I mean, "Funky and Outrageous"?!
The saddest trophy. Yeah we made it. Yeah it's black and white and printed out from a website with the office printer and yeah it's pasted over cardboard I found from the warehouse and yeah I know it's damn ugly.
The saddest scores. I was the one with 69. I SAID I can't bowl.
The forever enthusiastic Jo, busy running around taking pictures.
Here's a secret shot of the hottest person we've ever seen. It's kind of blur, but I'm sure you can tell. I dare not speak too much of her for fear that she might chance upon this some day.But she is really damn hot and we've "never seen anything like it."
Cos NLB's doing the "double your reading" thing again so now you can borrow 8 books with one card!
I got 14 books at home right now muahahah.
But confirm no time to read :(
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Yesterday was the first time in my 2 weeks of work that I left the office on the dot, at 6 pm! A first.
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Tidied up the skin abit, hope it looks neater now. Aiyah, that day do halfway until really really bth so I just saved settings and went to sleep hur hur. Plus I've got weird taste perhaps.
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Going to work in about 10 minutes. Today's Friday woohoo!! But after work must attend this stupid company event, this bowling competition thing damn, I think I'll just nua around with Xm and drink beer.
Too bad Shervenne's not going, damn.
Jo said she's gonna create chances for Xm and "the object of his fantasy" today so I'm looking forward to watching him get destroyed muahahaha.
I got 14 books at home right now muahahah.
But confirm no time to read :(
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Yesterday was the first time in my 2 weeks of work that I left the office on the dot, at 6 pm! A first.
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Tidied up the skin abit, hope it looks neater now. Aiyah, that day do halfway until really really bth so I just saved settings and went to sleep hur hur. Plus I've got weird taste perhaps.
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Going to work in about 10 minutes. Today's Friday woohoo!! But after work must attend this stupid company event, this bowling competition thing damn, I think I'll just nua around with Xm and drink beer.
Too bad Shervenne's not going, damn.
Jo said she's gonna create chances for Xm and "the object of his fantasy" today so I'm looking forward to watching him get destroyed muahahaha.
