Friday, October 27, 2006

how to make the cab drive drive faster

Last night, I took a cab home from suntec. It was past mid night and the fare was only $10.50. Previous nights when I took cab home from Suntec, also past midnight, the fare is always around $13. So why was yesterday’s cab fare specially low?? Because the driver was driving unusually fast. And why was that so?? Because I was practising my translation. :)


Once I settled in the cab, I took out my player and began to listen to my tapes to practise my translation. I tried practising as soft as I could but I guess the taxi uncle’s ears were too sharp. I saw that he kept glancing behind, at my direction occasionally. And the more he glanced, the more he stepped on his accelerator. Kekeke.


I remembered something similar happened the last time when I was practising my SCS dance in the cab. Haha.


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Was looking at my calendar and for the month of oct, there is this quote by Alexender Dumas: all human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.


Well I think if everybody just wait and hope, they can wait and hope till the end of the world, till the cows come home and nothing will happen.


Clatzz’s quote: all human wisdom is summed up in two words – dream and action. I think my quote makes more sense. Right??


Waiting for this weeked... its going to be a dynamic, a touching a most BIANG one... and then i'll be waiting eagerly for October to be over... :)

Friday, October 20, 2006

its the little things

Knocked off late (again) last night and so was feeling tired, coupled with a headache. On the way back, I called one lady who got Fibre Plus from me on my previous road shows. She was very cute.


I asked her if she tried the Fibre Plus and she said yes. So I asked her how she find? Did she shit (pardon the crudeness) more often and she gushed:

Yes, yes!! Now I go toilet to shit about 2 – 3 times a day!! Very smooth!! I felt my tummy become flatter le!! But I haven weigh. Im going to weigh myself this weekend. Thanks thanks!!


She was sooo happy that her tummy got flatter and happiness and excitement immediately affected me. I immediately felt charged up after the call. It feels good to know that I have helped one more person. :)


Sometimes, its these little things like these that warms my heart and makes my day. :)

happy birthday to daddy!!

Its daddy’s birthday today!! Although he will never read this, I still wanna declare:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DADDY!!
I LOVE YOU

Thanks for taking the effort to wake me up, prepare fruit juice for me, cut fruits for my breakfast, filling up my bottle every morning.
Thanks for whipping up all the sumptious and delicious meals for us, especially on weekends, cause that’s usually the only time I dine at home.
Thanks for helping me run errands like depositing my cheque, posting letters and bringing my suit to the laundry without complains.
Thanks for cooking or buying whatever I say I feel like eating. When I lamented I feel like eating mangoes, dad will go buy mango for me for the following day’s breakfast.
Thanks for cooking noodles for me when im hungry.

Thanks daddy, you are the BEST daddy in the world. You spoil and pamper me silly.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

jobs alert

I am on the lookout for jobs. My resume is updated and ready. But there is only one problem... I cant get my cover letter right. I’ve been doing my cover letter for hours le but nothing I write sounds right. urrgghhh!!


Anyway, I'll have to wait till jan next year before I can quit my job else I wont be getting my bonus. Our HR has already given us the letter informing us of our bonus for this year but we will only be getting half of it in Jan and the other half in July. Damn KNN right? why do we have to wait for a good 7 mths to get our bonus for 06??


So if I wanna get the full amount of bonus, I have to LUN till july next year which is like another 9 months to go. I cannot imagine having to stay here for another 9 months. So most probably, I’ll go when I get my first half of the bonus. Unless... Im given a 20% increment...


So I can buy a bit of time but I think must start searching now because im also very particular about the jobs I will apply. I can afford to be choosy now. Hiaks ;)


location: must be centralise (town/CBD/Suntec)
designation: senior executive
working hrs: must be 5 days work week or better still, OTOT, flexible timing


Im also thinking of whether to go back to purchasing (which is my 老本行) or to do commission based sales, where the sky is the limit because I am 销售大师 master of persuasion :D!! Hmmmm...

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

beef burger without beef pleeese

Was on the train this morning and was staring at the BK ads on the train.


The ad was something like, at BK, you can have it your way.
You can ask for more tomatoes, no pickles, more mayo... Something like customizing your burger.


And it strikes me... What if I walked in to BK and ordered:

Give me a whopper, no patty, more lettuce, more tomatoes, more ketchup, more mayo and more more more cheese pleeeeaseeeeee.


Actually I done it before lor... But not at BK. I ordered cheese burger without patty at mac. Sis told me she ordered mushroom swiss without patty. The other day I was at mac dee’s drive thru with my fren. I was very hungry so I told fren to order a cheese burger without cheese for me.

me: order a cheese burger without cheese for me
fren: u sure?? Sure can order lidat??
me: can la... I ordered before... Don’t worry
fren: sure or not?? What if the cashier tot I was fooling around and slapped me.. How??
me: wont la. U better order my burger for me else I will slap you cos im super HUNGRY!!!

After we got our orders,
fren: they never charge lesser ah. Very expensive leh for just 2 buns and a slice of cheese
me: next time ask them to pack the patty separately lah. Then u can eat the patty


Anyway...

I got cravings for BK now... Think I shall go BK and order whooper without patty. ;)

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End note: going swimming later.

dont play play

Knocked off a tad later last night. Took the lift down and on one of the floors, it opened and a guy staggered in. then he took a step closer to me and asked me what’s my name. I can smell beer reeking from him so I took a step back. Then he asked me if he can have my number. I told him no, and thank god (for him) that the lift reached the ground floor at that time and I hurriedly went out of the lift. If not, I would have given him my round horse kick in my 3 inches killer heels and make him 永远站不起来. KNN. Don’t think I pettit and sweet looking equals 好欺负. I am body combat trained okie. Don’t play play.

Monday, October 16, 2006

the BDS weekend @ MOS

Weekends used to be my rest days. But lately, my weekends filled with activities and appointments to the brim. But I rather it this way!! Motions create emotiions!!


Anwayz...


Attended Seng’s and Yilin’s ROM on sat morning. These 2 love birds have gone through a long way to be together and im so happy for them. Weddings or ROMs always bring a sweet tinge to my heart. Especially the part where the couple is to face each other, hold each other’s hands and declare that they want to take the other party as their lawful husband/wife, will love them unconditionally and faithfully throughout sickness or old age (something like that la..). For a moment, it even made me envisioned how my own ROM will be. Me in a pretty dress/gown, my “husband” (a blurred figure that looks like keanu reeves) in a dashing suit, exchanging our vows, and the solemniser saying: I announce you man and wife, you may now kiss your wife and ending with a congratulations, MR & MRS XXX, surrounded by our family and friends, and with a string quartet playing in the background. Awwwww. What a perfect scene. Attending too much weddings/ROMs can get you a little mindfucked sometimes.


After the vows, we adjourned to China town for lunch and during lunch. Lunch was good. There were lots of suannning and jokes going around. It has been such a long time since we had such gathering. the guys began to discussed about the programm for the night. They are planning to go MOS and aim is to get Seng drunk. I am actually not very onz about the idea cause I need to be at Chong Pang at 6.45am on Sunday and I also don’t club except when there are special occasions. Well but Seng n Yilin’s ROM celebration is a special occasion and the guys are all going so I agreed to go as well.


After lunch, rushed to Suntec to meet Kelly. She did a detox and lost 3KGs in 2 weeks!! She complains that now her pants are getting a little too loose. Haha. I told her to LUN!! When she achieve her ideal weight, then we go for a shopping spree!!! :)


From suntec, I headed down to the simei for dinner. Dinner was at sakae sushi. I finally tried their vegetarian menu!! Niceeeee!! But I felt that the variety was too little. Would be great if they have more vegetarian dishes.. But S is a small eater. Everytime I dined with him, I feel like a monster for eating more than him. :s


After dinner, rushed home, bathed, changed, dolled up. Good thing WX offered to come pick me up cause he has to work and will b going down late too. When I finally got ready, it was like 11.30? And we reached MOS near 12. Heh.. We had 2 tables in the Pure Room, loads of drinks. The seats were so comfy. We started to drink, talk cock and played games. That was the first time I went clubbing and never dance at all cos we spend our time playing lame games like 5 – 10, 007, 7-up, sisccors paper stone. At one point of time we even made the losers stand up and sing the BDS school song before they can down their drinks!! Super funny!! the most memorable game is still the 一只青蛙跳下水. I luffed so hard I cant even sit straight.


And my head got hit by a flying bowl (the bowl they used to put the nuts) and now I got a bua lo ku on my left forehead. :( what happened was this... I was happily gossiping with my power sis when I saw a chao ah lian walking past our seats... From the corner of my eyes, I saw her DIAO me and power. So I stood up, pulled her long dry bleached hair and ask: LI KUA SiMI?? She started whimpering and took the bowl on the table and whacked it to my forehead and I grabbed the chivas bottle on our table and smashed it into her head. She is in ICU now and her head required 20 stitches. Hurhurhur...


The above is definitely fictional. Not true lah (the fighting part). But I really have a bua lo ku on my forehead. Okie, what really happened was I was sitting on the chair happily gossiping with my power sister. There was a pillar with a step (sort of) behind us and there was a bowl on the step. So some KNNBCCB guy from the next table, either got freaking drunk or freaking high or freaking excited from drugs that he wove his arms so frantically that he knocked over the bowl. And the nxt thing I know is I see a bowl flying towards me and hitting my head. :(


Freaking pain lor. Wah lau eh. I really wanted to use the bottle to smash that f*cker’s head le but he kept apologizing. So being the generous and forgiving gal that I am, I decided to accept his apology and let the matter rest. But my frens were so sweet also la. The moment the “accident” happened, they all rushed to me, keep rubbing my head, asking me if im fine or not.


We finally staggered out of the club at around 4+. All of us except Seng were pretty intoxicated but not drunk. So actually we did not get to accomplish the mission that we set up to do. And that is because ah seng went MIA for a very long time (bey steady!!)!! Nobody knows where he was but we were sure he couldn’t have gone home cause Yilin’s bag was still with us.


I went home with terz, LJ n net. Net sent us back. Im surprised he is still able to drive. Haha. Finally reached home at 5am. Once home, I immediately cleaned my face, grab a handful of VP, swallowed it, on my kiko bed pad to lvl 3, sms my sis that im home safe and plonked down on my bed. Catching whatever sleep I can.


At 6am, WX’s morning call came. He just got home and I have to prepare for a new day, for the roadshow. We are doing road show at chong pang market!! An alien and foreign place to me. With only 30 mins of sleep, I surprise myself that I can still be full of energy during the road show!! Must be the indinine and another 20 VP I took while on the way to chong pang.


And I only had time to take a nap at 5+ in the evening. But only for like 30 mins and mum came into the room asking me to wake up n have my dinner first. :s


I guess this pretty much sums up my weekends. WX was sms-ing me and he exclaimed: wow!! U army trained?? U only slept 30 mins ystd. U are my idol!! And to that I reply: ok, I shall give u my signature the next time we meet.


But of course without Indinine, VP Kiko, Bed pad I don’t think I can even make it to the road show. Haha. Not to mentioned I also downed I big litre of kinertec water and bathed with Vitali-T showerhead before I left home. The shower really perked me up.

Friday, October 13, 2006

swinging bachalorette

On wed night, QQ smsed me asking me if I wanna go dinner and then chill out cause she has been very stressed at work lately and she wanna find someone to bitch to. Yesterday, we confirmed our programs for tonight. We will be going gym for combat class later!! So much so for chilling out. Hahaha. We're 2 healthy pple!!

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Am thinking of switching this blog over to wordpress. In wordpress, I can password protect my posts (but im sure there will be overly kaypo people trying to hack the passwords lah :p) and there are prettier templates to choose from in wordpress.


Shall I or shall I not??

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Took a bus ride home with sis last night and while on the bus, we discussed about my views on marriage. I told sis that very likely I wont be getting married in this lifetime.


Have I ever thought of getting married??

Yes. But that like every girl’s dream. Isn't it? Since we were young, we always dreamed that we will get married to a prince charming and live happily ever after. And I love weddings. I love to see myself in a pretty gown.


But that’s just about it...


Do I want to get married??

Urmmm... I don’t think so...


Sis says that I have probably not met the right person yet. I told her no. I cant see myself having to live with the same person, share a bed with the same person for the next 40 – 50 yrs of my life. I’d probably grow tired of the person after 10 yrs. Haha. Sis says I have commitment phobia. I value my freedom too much. Oh well, im a true blue saggi after all... :p


Anyway, I’ve already made up my good mind... By 28 (in 2 yrs time), if im not married, I shall move out of mum’s place and go rent a place and stay on my own. Time to be independent. By 30 (in 4 yrs time), im not married, I will give up on marriage completely.


Judging from way things are progressing now, I think that its highly likely I’ll remain a swinging bachalorette all my life. Till now nobody has been able to match or even come near to the top 3 criteria that I set. I also don’t set high hopes le... Hur hur.


Anyway, as long as I have my family, my sisters, ace, some popcorns, money its enough le... :)


Sis says: Ace and Allegra (my up n coming niece) very fortunate to have a rich and single ah yee, can buy lots of stuffs for them in future.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

thurs rants

My office was doing some renovation works yesterday so this morning when I went to work, my desk and keyboard was pretty much covered with dust. And its disgusting to have to use a dusty keyboard because this means your fingers will be covered with dust as well.


Anywayz... So the first thing I did this morning when I came to work is to clean my keyboard and my desk. And I began to studiously clean all the dirt trapped in between those buttons when a delivery man walked in. though im not the admin nor the receipt, delivery/courier guys always like to come to my table because my table is nearest to the entrance. So I motioned for him to go to the admin, where they will acknowledge the receipt of whatever he was delivering.


And that bloody uncle exclaimed loudly: wahhhh... You so FREE ah, can clean your computer in office. Wah leeewwww, stupid uncle. Is it any of your freaking business whether I am cleaning my keyboard or plucking my nose hair in office?? Damn bloody irritating uncle.

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Had a quiet night yesterday. Reached home rather early (as compared to my norm) and spend the night reading in my room and settling some bills. Feels good to be able to spend some quite time of my own. Sometimes I think my life is just too hectic that when I get quiet moments on my own, they seem like gold and I actually enjoyed them. I think maybe I really need to take a break. Go to some resort or island for a few days on my armed with some good books, off my phone and just enjoy the peace and do absolutely nothing but eat, sleep, read and enjoy the fresh air... :)

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The renovations are still going on in my office and they are doing some paint works. The smell is giving me headache and making me sick. :(

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

let the pics do the talking

pictures of me with curls...


when my perm was the prettiest cause i just left the salon... ;p



me at starlight cinema (see past post for details)


me & sis at starlight cinema... do we look alike now that we both have permed hair??



at LM's wedding... the vegetarian food they serve is lagi BEST!!


at Avril's wedding... Jian Yong was the only one from BDS there... he actually dun recognise me (good means that i have grown prettier... keke) and i was late so he was all alone before i arrived... poor thing... haha... :p


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yap yap, i attended 2 weddings in the past weekend. love is in the air!!

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a friend, or rather aquaintance whom i have not been in contact with send me a smile on friendster. and i am a little shocked...

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

4D special

Went to the cheers below my office to buy 4D just now and the Q is freaking long!! When I passed by the cheers store when I went for lunch, the Q was long. I thought it was due to the lunch hour and the crowd should be gone after lunch hours. But I was so WRONG!! I queued for a good 15 mins before I got place my bets. Anyway, since I queued so long le, I thought I might as well buy some numbers for myself (I was actually helping a friend to buy lor) toto for this Friday as well.


Well this is the first time I actually queued a good 15 mins to buy 4D. Usually I cant be bothered to queue and I will just forget about placing my bet. So I hope I do have some beginners luck tonight. And on Friday as well.


But I think Singaporeans are really obssessed with toto and 4Ds. When I left the shop, the Q is still as long. horrible. these people dun need to work. they skive during office hrs to go buy 4D (im exception ok :p ... usually i will never do this).


Anyway there is this saying...

In Europe, the people will have a quick lunch, then get back to their work.
In China, the people will have a quick lunch, then go take a nap.
In Singapore, the people will have a quick lunch, then Q up to buy 4D/toto


haha. Quite true, ya??

Monday, October 02, 2006

hosting stint

Today’s Monday, the beginning of a new week.


Feeling tired. Felt I have been working through the weekend. Correction: I HAVE been working through the weekends. Its hectic, but im not complaining. ;)


Hmmmm, my hosting stint on both days went well. Overall the organizers are satisfied with my performance. Hosting is not difficult at all but it is a lot of preparation and it really tests you on your AQ (adversity Quetion). But thankfully yours truly is well trained in AQ as an AC. :)


Imagine you are on stage, and the next performer has not arrived and you have to be on stage to stall time for 15 mins or due to some delay of some events, you are supposed to play games for a good 40mins or when you are about to start your game and you realised that the props for the games are not prepared. There is a a lot of 随机应变 and playing by ear to be done. The rule of the game is that there must never be a moment of The events person said that I got the potential and with grooming and practise, I can be as big as eileen wee. And I was like: who is eileen wee?? Hurhur. Anyway they say that they have captured me in recording but I probably need to be at the studio one of these days to complete my portfolio.


I definitely am considering being a free lance host. Anyway I should be doing another hosting for a bigger event in November. This time the allowance should be more. There should be more assignments coming. I know I did a good job. :)