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Good Bye

2006-06-16T09:46:00.000+08:00

Dear Friends,

In case you were wondering why i haven been blogging for so long, I've decided to put this blog to slp. Thanks for reading my entries, Thanks for sharing my joys, sorrows, grumbles etc. Well, at least for now, Good Bye "cheesy-smilez" =)

Huggies,
Jia Ni =)

2006-03-20T22:50:00.000+08:00

It's been a mth since last updated.
Not mainly i was lazy to update, but cos of i'm seldom online using my hse's com.
and usually if i am online, i ended up having short chats wif my frds and checking my personal mails.

So many things has happened, and i duno how or wad to blog abt.
I've been feeling so lethargic, confused, worried, irritated (by somethings), pressurised (by someone). Also, i had fun at times too.. aiya, all in all, mixed feelings!

25 Feb 2006 (Sat) marked the last day of my semester-long internship. *phew*
finally my long countdown (for end if ITP) was over. Time flies really, esp when you look back.

I decided to accept his offer to continue in Vietlink, but only temporary, till 29th April. My decision to continue working there, is NOT because i enjoy the working environment n treatment v much (and the pay is damn yucky de little), but bcos i'm rather used to my job scope as a tour personnel (+ other duties), and contacting with my tour clients or serving normal walk-in customers is really a pleasure. Some of my clients returned and complimented on the tour itinerary and how they really enjoyed it etc, and some even recommended frds to come.. these are very welcoming and encouraging to me, and i really enjoyed serving them.

Leaving or staying in a company can be a hard decision.

During my internship, i was counting down to 25 Feb, everyday was kinda a torture to me, esp the starting cos i was really unsure of how and what to do, and thus always kena scolding cos of that. the big CNY tours projects and planning, and scoldings / nagging i get when i made any mistakes (even the slightest one like typo errors). the phobia i'd developped every morning when i stepped into the office, really stressing. At the end of the day, i'd tell myself "ok, 1 day has past. great!"

This attitude has changed, as i thot.. i'm working for my clients and passengers, not for him. he wanna nag or scold, let him be.. as long as i know i'm not in the wrong and wad i did is satisfying to my clients, he can say all he wan, i dun care.

I've learnt quite a lot during my intership. my Vietnam attractions and esp hotels knowledge has improved a lot, from 0% to 80%. Frankly, i'm more familiar wif vietnam hotels than singapore's. (=X)

Anyway, hope my decision to stop working from 30 Apr is a right choice. and i hope i wun 'she bu de' to leave Vietlink.

Oh yeah, Vietnamese students are v nice ppl, in general. Serving them is really a pleasure :)

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I went to an Agent FAM Trip to A.Farmosa Resort in Malaysia for 3 days.. was back in SG ytd.

It was fun really! 3days 2nights is a perfect tour package to recommend. we went to Animal World Safari where we get close contacts wif animals. Water World where we had telematch games (fun!!) and the Carnival (really an eye-opener and interesting). we took pics wif the cowboys :)

the service is excellent! esp wif friendly and helpful staff everywhere :)

but the food (esp drinks) is erm.. not up to singaporean's standard really.
We had lots of complaints on the food =X

all in all, everyting was fun except for the site inspection on the last day.. cos i was already very worn out, and travelling from 1 place to another in the 520-hecture resort is tiring *yawn*

I'd recommend my pax / frds to go for a short getaway.

** i still hope i have a chance to go vietnam, esp the central part of vietnam! i wish i can meet the vietnam staff whom i've been contacting all along. yes, i WISH only.. **

meanwhile, i'm going off. will blog again soon.

gd nitez :)

2006-02-21T14:51:00.000+08:00

Things are not gng the way i wish / hope / pray.
whhhhhhyyyyyyyyy ?!?!?!

sigh..

anyway,...
There's no sch today. and no work. *shhh*
Thus, a holiday for us.
I hope he wun find out.

I've just recovered from my fever, flu, cough, and maybe headache.
it took me 1 week plus to recover.

porridge or guo tiao tang everyday. sian.
but no choice, thats all i could eat.
my wisdom tooth is too painful for me to chew anyway.
It's one of the causes for my stubborn headache which doesnt seem to go away.
i dun see any link though, but thats wad my doctor said.
If i dun get well within a mth, i've to go for a dental surgery to remove it.
and i've heard abt its consequences.
aww. i dun wan !
May i get well soon..

and, to my grandpa who's in hosp...
May he get well soon too.
I wish, and i Pray.

2006-02-17T22:37:00.000+08:00

UCCD and BPT papers are finally over for me.

As known, they were difficult, more difficult than the actual ones. thats why tchr advised me to take the actual one instead of the re-paper. but i was really very sick leh. if not because of my headache, i would have taken the Tues papers. haizz.

I felt so weird doing the BPT paper in front of Mrs Sarah Lim, while she was marking the BPT actual papers which my classmates sat for on Tues.

UCCD was better, cos there were 5 to 6 of us. phew. I thot i would be doing alone in front of Ms Wenda Leong (as told earlier on). scare the hell outta me.

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Oh yeah, i heard that the current yr 2 Tourism students' lifes are so much better.
Their attachment will still be the same as us, 1 whole sem. BUT the thing is...
(during their attachment):
1) They do not have to return to sch every Tuesday to study
2) They do not have any modules' projects to work on
3) They do not have tests / exams to sit for
4) They do not have to do FYP !!!

in another words, their 1 semestral attachment will juz be attachment alone. nthg more. so gd arh.. why these do not apply to us? haiz.. poor us and our seniors, have to cope with attachment workload from bosses, FYP, modules' projects, tutorials and lectures once a week, presentations, tests etc simultaneously. Also, meeting diff grp members to discuss diff projs were challenging.

This has been a tiring semestral for all of us.
But i'm glad that we all managed to overcome all these, and they're over!

*CHEERS*

budden! not fair leh, our juniors are so fortunate. humph !!!

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I;ve been on MC for this whole week, except Wed (halfday) and Today (halfday). haha.

Seen 2 diff docs, with a lot of meds. and 2 MCs.

Wed i went to work with a headache(cos no more MC already). it was unbearably cold, and my head was throbbing pian that i cldnt stand it. Thus, i requested for early leave, to go to sch to settle my leave application and to go home. my leave was approved. on the way home from sch (in the train), i was feeling nauseous and giddy. i called home to see if my mum was at home. but no. i called my aunt. both my aunts were totally shocked when i told her i was v giddy. she asked me to alight immediately and take cab to her shop @ amk, den she accompany me to c doc. when i reached the clinic nxt to her shop, i was the last patient. It was 4.35pm and the clinic closes at 4.30pm. haha. This doc is gd (but more med!). so there i got another MC.

My expenses this mth is v high. esp my medical expenses... so $$$$$.

i'm so much poorer now. *aww*

2006-02-13T20:51:00.000+08:00

It's been quite some time since i last updated. cos i hadnt been online for a long time. This CNY wasnt that great, not as gd as previous years..

To start off my CNY Day 1, my family &I visited my Grandpa @ TTSH in the morning, before meeting my other maternal relatives at Couz Mei Fang's hse to bai nian. So nice to be able to catch up with my cousins :) Couz Nolan is still as cute and hyperactive! eeeew! night time was meant for FYP, all the way till 2+am.

Continued FYP the nxt day morning (CNY Day 2). almost whole day doing it (away once a while). my paternal relatives came to my hse. night time was spent on FYP appendices till 2+am too.

CNY Day 3 => steamboat @ wen's hse. but b4 that xiusi, addy and I went to szhi's hse to do jigsaw. did until we fall sleep comfortably =P

Half Day at work on CNY Day 4. great! FYP was finally submitted. but boss wasnt happy wif our FYP. he commented and criticised a lot. haiz. wadeva lah. backache that day i duno why, but luckily it was half day, and boss treated us chicken rice :)

Back to full-day work on CNY Day 5. After work, went for dinner wif zhu. was supposed to watch 'In Her Shoes' but it had ended. sigh. so we spent the time forgone at KFC. we played games there. hehz.

CNY Day 6. It was the FIRST time since the start of my attachment, that we left earlier than the actual time. we left at 5.28pm. 2 mins earlier. haha. usually we leave later, depending on the work. it was really a slack day. yeah. night time went for dinner and watched the chingay rehearsal with zhu n kim. was kinda bored, and wif my backache again, haiz..

Sat, a half day wk, and it was CNY Day 7. After work, i went to KM's hse. they were all playing cards. it was really 'da kai yan jie'. haha. while km & gang were playing cards, szhi, addy & I were playing UNO & reversi. it was funn :) After that, went to meet mum to see a chi physician for my backache. ahh, doc said cos i seriously lack of slp, tt caused my muscles to be tensed up, and so on. ok.

Went to Chun Dao He Pan with Szhi on CNY Day 8. it was fun too, except that finding a place to sit was hard. we ta bao a lot of food, in the end... hmm.. hahaha =X watched fireworks at the merlion park. wonderful!! :)

CNY Day 9 was work as usual. nthg much.

CNY Day 10 was sch day. handed in out BPT Report. yay. our projs are all completed and handed up. cheers!

a normal day at work on CNY Day 11. except tt i had a slight headache.

CNY Day 12, i find myself a bit abnormal. i drank a lot more water than before. and i felt the temperature was super cold, that both my hands were numb. i kept gng to the washroom to 'defreeze' my hand. at night, an ulcer developped. oh no.

i woke up wif a headache on CNY Day 13. I had a feeling that i was going to get sick. and yes, i was sick that night, with fever and cough. it was really Friday the '13th' (according to CNY Day 13).

CNY Day 14, i was sick. sore throat, no voice. but i still dragged myself to work, cos my pax would be coming, and i needa prepare the necessary docs. aft work was supposed to meet zhu, as she had sthg to gimme. and aft den meet mum to c doc.. BUT.. i thot i could leave at 130pm, after i finished preparing my client's hotel voucher & invoice. I clicked 'print'. i sat in front of the super small lousy and noisy printer, waiting for it to be printed out. however, it wasnt my doc. it was my lady boss's sales report. ahh, she printed halfway. i waited and waited. total 5 pages ok, before mine were printed out. imagine that printer is super slow. in the end, i left at 2pm. *GRRR* by the time i reached yishun, i was super tired. no energy le. thus, went home and slept till 7.

Last day of CNY (Day 15), was terrible sick. went to c doc. my fever was as high as 38.5, even the doc was shaking his head. took quite a lot of med. for cough, sorethroat, fever, voicelessness, antibiotics. i din wan the headache med, cos it was another type of panadol. slept the whole day, and night.

TODAY (13 Feb). went to sch in the afternoon wif szhi. pei her to the exam office for her resuls slip. and she pei me to look for ms lim, and later to SB to look for andrew gray. I asked abt the retest schedule thingy. and it clashes with my BPT re test. both on Fri 10am. alamak. after discussing wif wenda leong, andrew gray advised me to discuss wif sarah lim regarding my BPT. it's either i take BPT den followed by UCCD or vice versa. andrew gray was hinting me to take the test tmr, not the fri's one. *sigh* i emailed her since she;s not in her room. she replied and called me. said i;d take BPT retest at 830am, and immediately followed by UCCD at 10am (@ wenda's room in front of her)! oh ya, she reminded me to apply for LOA b4 i can sit for the test. damn. how am i gonna appply when i wun b gng back to sch till fri?!?!

anyway, went to NUH for my cardiac appt. Xinhui was there to return her uniform, so she pei me thru my appt. :) my cardiac doc is really v nice! he changed a lot thou.. looks younger than last yr. haha.

Alright, this is a v long entry. well, i needa slp now, my med are taking effect le.

gd nitez..

All the best to my frds who're sitting for uccd n bpt pps tmr :)

and Happy Valentine's Day :)

2006-01-29T01:30:00.000+08:00

It's CNY 2006!

HAPPY DOGGIE YEAR TO EVERYONE!

My grandpa juz got admitted to hosp again.
We are all not sure where to go later.
To hosp bai nian? or cousin's hse w/o my grandpa?
haiz..

I couldnt slp now!
Wanted to do my FYP,
but I've got no mood to do now!

wad a CNY!!!

anyway, CNY EVE was great. i left work at 1pm exactly, no OT today.
Walked arnd Chinatown area, and i bot some marshmallows.
Went to meet szhi at Bugis after that.
For our last min CNY shopping.

I finally bot my CNY stuff.
We bot a mickey mouse shirt each =))
Szhi bot white and i bot purple, so as to match my purple skirt.

i remembered last last yr, my colour theme was green.
last yr was pink.
this year shld be purple! haha.

but i dun think i'll be wearing that purple tank top tmr.
I'll just wear the plain white tank top wif that plain pleated purple skirt.

2006-01-28T00:41:00.000+08:00

Conrad called again to inform us of FYP dateline n collection. haizz.

Actually i planned to compile today, but not possible. still undone!

tmr also cant compile for sure.

sigh, my CNY is gonna be eaten up by this proj man.

What a new year holiday!

i really needa buy my CNY stuff tmr, wif szhi!

cousin JiaYing and family will be coming to bai nian tmr. cos, as usual, they'l be away to M'sia on CNY Day 1. i muz be back by evening time.

and do my 'spring cleaning' for my room at nite.

and do 4 new itineraries + layout (for FYP's recommendation part) at late night

and sleep by 2am, the latest.

gd nite for now..

oops, it's alr 1am, so gd morning~

and

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!!!!

2006-01-26T09:19:00.000+08:00

making up an excuse needs so much efforts and consideration, and Q&A sessions!

ytd my plan was to leave early cos of school event (compulsory for all yr 3s, but those attachment students are excused)

I was planning of how and what to tell boss.. szhi, addy and meihua told me not to worry so much, juz say 'i gotta attend an event at sch tmr" can le.
but i thot, wad if boss asks in details? cos i'm not sure exactly wad event or thingy it is...

after much consideration, i called, but one moment number bz, one moment no one answered. sigh.

ytd morning when i reached office, i told sabrina that i might have to leave early for sch event at arnd 3pm. she told me to talk to boss myself.

when boss came, i told him the same thing "boss, later i might hv to leave early for a sch event at 3pm"

boss: what event?

me: it's like a graduation thing, compulsory for all yr 3s (thats wad chun hui told me)

boss: why so now den tell me?

me: cos i juz knew it ytd evening.

boss: ur lecturer arh, so last min de. den wad if those attachment ppl like u? all last min request for leave?

me: i think so.

boss: but ur lecturer din inform me to let u off, how can i let u off like tt? u better call ur lecturer and check with him.

sabrina: aiya, graduation talk only right? nothing one lah, dun have to go de.

*stated calling conrad, hoping tt he'd help me*
*no one answered*
*called other tourism lecturers like CYY, SCW and Andrew Gray*
juz so coincidental, all din ans call!
szhi said maybe they were having rehersals. *SIGH*

i called conrad abt 5 times since morning till 1.40pm!

boss: so how? wad ur lecturer said?

me: he din answer.

sabrina: den gd lor, if ur tchr ask why u absent, u said he din inform u lor.

*argh*

No choice lo, no evidence = no talk.
CYY called back arnd 2+, boss was sitting opp me, i cant "casual talk" wif CYY. saddded.

haiz.. why is it so tough?!?!

sigh, if only he can be like my frds' boss, juz a call to inform, tt's all.

In the end, i left at 630 instead of my plan (230) :(

2006-01-22T10:30:00.000+08:00

AT LEAST 8000 words for our Final Year Project..

where can we pop out so many words?

8000 words are like 40 over pages leh.

haiz..

and we needa bind it in a hard cover book, with golden wordings.

so ma fan !

CNY is nearing. in fact next week!

i haven bot my CNY stuff, not even 1 thingy.

oh no. where got time man.

and i haven started my spring cleaning (my room)

ahhh...

I am hoping tt boss will say "CNY eve off"..

sigh in my dreams i think.

but there might be possibilities, cos only half day mah, might as well dun come rite.

haha.

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Yay, after next wed, i'll be kinda free for the time being :)

Tues got 2 presentations ! -sweat-

Monday during work, gotta prepare hotel vouchers and make the necessary confirmation for my tour clients. and worst of all, gotta type in chinese (to 'cc' a copy to our chinese-vietnam staff) sigh. i hate typing in chi lah, one simple typo error only, my ears wun have peace!

Wednesday during work, my tour clients will be coming to meet me in person, and to collect the necessary stuff. (hope the come earlier, so that i'll be free earlier) haha. yay, den after that, CAN REST LE.

only 2 tour client's quotation, which is not v rush. at least i can concentrate on my proj till CNY (hope tt's no last min tour deals).

GREAT :)

2006-01-20T22:57:00.000+08:00

Yay! I had a filling dinner wif szhi n addy at chinatown's food street juz now.
As usual, we ordered 'combo' meal. i was v full, thus din eat that much. maybe cos of my very late lunch. szhi also cldnt finish the food. haiz wasted lah, nxt time we shldnt order so much.. haha.

Oh, a biggg THANK YOU to Addy for helping me to translate an impt letter into chinese version. my translator. hahaha.
Thanks ah, juz now wanted to treat him satay rice, but he din wan =PpPp

hahaha.

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CTC's agent is planning a FAM trip for travel agents to Si Chuan province in China. It is a "8 Days FairyLand JiuZhaiGou tour".

I might be going.. on 24th Feb.

my attachment ends on 25th (YES! i earned 2 days =X)

the price is relatively cheap.. cos its agent fare.

It's abt $674 per person, inclusive of all taxes (taxes are subjected to change)

For 8 days leh! heez.

It'd be better if company can subsidise hor.. FAM trip leh!

If only...

sigh, but we gotta pay the full agent fare ah..

I wanna go Taiwan!
to eat the "tie dan" (metal egg?,
to shop at Shih Lin Ye Shi and that Asia's tallest 101 bldg,
to explore the nature's beauty of Taroko Gorge, Wu Lai waterfall, sun moon lake etc
to visit the YiLan Shangri-La farm.

ahh.. so much to see and eat, and the ppl speaks chinese n hokkien, so wun have communication prob. can travel free and easy!

i wannnnnnnna go! but Taiwan is not cheap.

It costs abt $600 for 4 days tour (wif 1 day free & easy), by budget airline somemore. ahh, still ex rite!

rmb tt time my TTP proj on planning a trip to Taiwan. it costs abt $1564 for 7 days (all inclusive)..

hmmm... wait till i save enuf 1st! hehz.

-That's All-
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For THAT DAY,
Thanks for making an effort to act blur, or rather act smart.

but u're not always lucky to escape, leaving me with lectures after lectures.

this time, count urself UNLUCKY!

I was very busy in the morning, all the way until mid-afternoon. everyone knew it. i din even have time to entertain other things, including calls. I only concentrated on doing some impt docs which i was told to finish it asap.

but how come my name appeared in the system, showing tt i did some bookings (in the late morning)?

Isn't it strange?

and indeed, sthg went wrong for this particular booking.

so how?

my fault? cos "I" was the one who handled it?

nah, u're wrong.

i almost got a lecture, bcos of tt.

Having thought that no matter how or wad i explain, they wun believe me. so i juz gave a short and simple answer "i din do anything since this morning, except for rushing this doc"

this left them dumbfounded, with puzzled looks.
and they decided to dismiss this thingy.

(how unfair right?)

but nvm, at least they kinda believed me.

And another incident which i wun mention.
But one thing i can tell u is...

"u DESERVE IT!"

but dun worry, i wun have negatives thots or comments on u.
I'm very "Gong Si Fen Ming" one.
It's not really ur fault, it's THEIR perception.

What to do?

NOTHING i can do abt it.
It only brings harm to their health if they nag too much =P

So why should i bother?

HAHAHA =P

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2006-01-14T21:58:00.000+08:00

oh, i forgot tmr is 15th! got the NTU adm talk.
sigh, gonna change my tuition schedule again.

ytd n today were really not my day.
totally B.A.D!

sigh, i'd cancelled 3 CNY tours. now left with one, which i THINK i'm gonna cancel.
it's such a pain to cancel k, esp the 9 days tour already has 3 confirmed pax. but cos the china operator said there muz be a minimum of 4 pax, and i had to confirm with the hotels yesterday due to dateline. i'd no choice, but to cancel. had to refund pax's deposit to them. :(

now left with only the 5 days southern vietnam tour.
argh. talk abt that i'm really mad!
the vietnam operator couldnt get the hotel i proposed in Dalat. juz one night only, also dun have! all accommodations in Dalat not available.
only a 2* hotel called mimosa is available.
2-star?!?! so lousy!
sian 1/2

Made a long-distance call to our vietnam staff at vietnam.
asked him to help me check all hotels in Dalat again.
not even waiting list?!
thats so bad!
cos the dateline for Windsor Plaza Hotel confirmation is TODAY, i'd ask him to help me negotiate wif the hotel, to extend the dateline till monday 5pm VN time (6pm SG time). he has yet to get back to me. sigh.

i quickly re-plan a new itinerary, by changing the Dalat to Phan Thiet resort.
but wth, my operator told me 5-star and 4-star hotels are not available!
and they'll help me try 3-star.
argh.

anyway, this southern vietnam CNY tour's chances are low. if we only have 4 pax now, we cant accept too. if so, we'll be making a loss. cos the cost price for 4 pax is a lot lower than our selling price! sigh.
CMI lah.

not easy to apologise to pax and explain why we had to cancel the tour.
we cant tell them abt our cost price and stuff like tt.
hopefully they are understanding pax.

sigh, i'd spent so much time n effort into this whole CNY project and advertising!
and now, i had to cancel.
so sad! really sad!
all my hardwork and effort hv gone down the drain ='(

all bcos of these stupid bird flu thingy, and our 1 fixed dep date.
so, are all these my fault?!
u think i wanna end it like this?!

sigh.

i rather work on my tour clients and those FIT, than those GIT.
GIT are such headaches~

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anyway, on the bright note, one of my tour clients (she's a Singapore Tourism board Licensed tour guide) accepted my proposal (the 5th draft).

I'd faced tough discussion with this client, as she showed that other agents can provide similar tour at a lower cost.
But for this, we can be assured of our guide service, and the choice of hotels we carefully chose for them. Moreover, she only has 2 pax (her husband and herself), so our tour guide and driver will only provide service to both of them with private transportation, thus better rapport and communication between the guide and them.
The tour i planned for her is a heritage and cultural tour, as per pax's request (thou it sounds boring to me.. heritage! omg *yawnzzz*)

and now, she'd agreed to close the deal with me, and even recommended her 2 british friends to join them too.
i'm glad.

thats the difference between dealing with some Chinese singaporeans and Eurasians / caucasians.

what they want is QUALITY SERVICE. not like those typical chi singaporeans (esp the aunties), all they ask for is DISCOUNT DISCOUNT and DISCOUNT!

haha.

*dread for monday to come*

2006-01-12T22:21:00.000+08:00

Movie juz now was so great!
Family Stone. nice movie~
so great that we have almost the whole theatre to ourselves (only 5 ppl including us).
so great that we had chance to sit on the comfy sofa area
so great that we were enjoying our KFC dinner on the table while watching
so great that the movie tix is only $8 (thou 50 cents more expensive than others)

haha. sounds v shiok rite?
where to find such cinema?! haha!
this cinema shall be our target for our nxt movie.
heh hehz

all in all, the movie was juz SO GREAT lah. haha! =P

Alright, time is running out, i plan to slp at or before 2am today.
i better get going now.
Byeeeez!

2006-01-11T22:20:00.000+08:00

A terribly busy day!

Early in the morning when i opened my mailbox (the usual 1st thing i do), i was greeted with shocking mails from my vietnam and china tour operators. double shock!

Firstly, the vietnam operator told me tt for my 5 Days Ho Chi Minh & Dalat Tour, there's 1 night stay at Dalat city. and all hotels in Dalat city are not available during tt period. wth! i already have 7 pax now for this tour, and now that hotel is not available?! wad rubbish?!?!?! sigh. pls pls pls help me find any alternative hotels or accommodation! i cant change my itinerary now, 3 pax have already paid and agreed to the tour's T&C!

Secondly, the china operator sent me 4 urgent mails ytd and required me to reply urgently! ytd was a public holiday, so i only saw it this morning. she needs me to confirm the hotel rooms, cos the dateline is TODAY! and pay 50% deposit wif the hotel. sigh.. i duno wad to reply lah. now i only got 3 confirmed pax for this 9 Days Sino-Vietnamese Border highlights (vietnam + china tour) i need a minimum of 4 pax for this tour. initially i book 5 twin rooms and 5 double rooms. but cos dateline is TODAY, i needa re-confirm the rooms wif the hotel!!! how many shld i book?! if i book more, den wad if it turns out to be only that 3 pax gng? den we hv to bare the cancellation charges for those extra unoccupied rooms. on the other hand, if i book exactly for 4 pax, den wad if, from next week onwards, there're ppl interested in this tour?
anyway, i'd replied her by telling her my situation, duno if it's too late to cancel some room nw. sigh.

really hope i'd receive GOOD news from them tmr!
i'm v worried now!
hope i dun receive any shocking news tmr.

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i duno wad to say for this..
arent my passengers ur passengers too?
anyway, it's not a matter of urs or mine.
they are OUR passengers, rite?
thou i was the one who helped to book some, but u are in charge of it, as in follow up.
why is there a need for a clear segregation?
i really dun understand.

but anyway, like tt also good lah.
Now, whichever call i answered, i booked them personally, even thou i might be rushing my tour client's tours n those CNY tours at that particular moment.
This is to avoid any malignment. HA. HA. HA.

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Next, i wanna complain abt my yahoo EMAIL.
i realised 2 of my mails are missing, where i DIN delete them !
as in, morning i saw the mail, i din do anything to it, evening when i wanna open tt mail, it was gone! i checked my deleted items, it wasnt there.
strange.
shld i suspect hackers?
but why would the hacker be so bo liao to juz delete 2 of my mails?
1 of the mails tweety's pictures forwarded to me by my frd.
and another 1 is an office document which i sent from my office mail.

or maybe my email is lagging?
cos sometimes it took minuted to upload a page, download a document and esp attaching a small file!
argh!

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Despite telling my mum tt my grad is soon after my attachment, she still doesnt believe it. she said my cousin Cai Feng (who grad last yr from SP optometry) also needa go back to sch to study n exams b4 grad.. den another example is her frd's daughter, duno from which science course in SP, same yr as me.
haiz.. different course of cos different schedule lah. but she juz doesnt believe. -.-'

den she complained tt only once a week lesson so few, learn nthg, den so many holidays.
pls lor.. e-learning week, term break, public holidays = no sch wad!
haiz.. go n ask the sch la, complain to me also no use wad. i explained to her that's why we have e-learning assignments, projects, and the new chapters we learnt in sch every week, we applied it in our project which we do for the rest of the days.

bleah!

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I wan my attachment to end soon. really soon! but that will mean v soon, it'll gonna be the last day being a student in SP.
contradicting.
sigh! time really flies!

I wish i could continue to study after i grad from SP. but my concerns are firstly, the financial status and my mum's disapproval.

she said unless i work 1st, den earn enuf $ myself to study.
if not, dun think abt it.

sadddded. :(

cos she's gonna retire soon, and she wun be able to provide me with financial support for my education.

sigh shall c how lah.

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anyway, my schedules for this wk is as follow:

Thursday
1) work as usual
2) meet zhu for dinner + movie at CWP :)
3) 10pm onwards to latest 2am (UCCD / BPT proj editing)

Friday
1) work as usual
2) night time at home is reserved for doing my attachment project only! i needa rush

Saturday
1) work half day till 1.30 or so
2) final yr project discussion till abt 4+ or 5pm
3) do UCCD proj handbook wif szhi
4) go louis's hse at kovan for video shot for our uccd presentation
(gonna be interesting! hehz)

Sunday
1) tuition at amk
2) continue with my final year project
4) go aunt's hse if possible :)
5) touch-up on any projs OR continue wif FYP

i hope i can more or less clear most parts of my projects, cos next week is gonna be a tough one at work, esp for monday n wednesday.

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NOW...

with a combination of worry (abt those CNY tours), fear (of wad 'lectures' will i get tmr or thereafter), confusion (upon grad), stress (from all those projs esp my attachment project + workplace stress), my mood is equivalent to the weather NOW!

and on top of tt my eyes are getting watery staring at this screen now, i better get going soon.

12am sharp now.

Good Morning!

Have a nice day :)

2006-01-07T23:33:00.000+08:00

What a cold and rainy day!

In the morning, when i opened the office door, i was already shivering.

Later on, i was really freezing. everyday's like that, so cold.

But today's especially cold. cant stand it thou i wore jacket as usual.

my back was aching so badly.
my hands were numb, and i was clenching my fists.
my heart was beating fast and i was breathing hard.

Thus, these increased my toilet trips => to 'defreeze' my hands from the hand dryer.

haiz. rmb my doc told me not to stay in an air-con room for more than 5 hrs.
How Can That Be?!?!
sian 1/2.

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sigh, anyway, i was so sleepy today. ytd, cos of doing proj, i slept at 2.45am and woke up at 7.05am. i forced and dragged myself to wake outta my comfy bed, so reluctantly. how i wish today's sunday. no work.

after work, stayed for our TM project till abt 4pm. took some pics of our office layout (for our proj use).

I went to buy the egg tarts (the v nice egg tarts in chinatown), but it was raining, and i had to cross a street. so i decided to forget it and head back to MRT station. budden i thot since i going to visit my grandpa in ttsh, so and nan de the egg tart stall is opened, i U-turned back to the stall. was drenched.

i Q-up for abt 20 mins, cos i told the aunty i wan the freshly 'baked' ones. she said have to wait, so ok lor, i waited. again, i had to cross that street to get back to station. i was once again drenched. i kept sneezing on train. the person sitting beside me was like very bu an. wahahahaha. dun worry lah, i'm not infected wif SARS k!

not long before i reached grandpa's ward, grandma and 4th uncle came. it was dinner's time. grandpa was eating. aft dinner, i gave him the egg tarts, he insisted that i eat, and said he's full. grandma said nxt time come, dun buy anything, cos he only ate a little. i told grandma these tarts v nice de, put there tmr grandpa can eat for breakfast at least nicer than hospital food ma. but he said dun need, v full already, nice de, i bring home eat, or give mummy eat... haiz..

i "talked" to grandpa for a while (thru pen and paper), den left to yishun to meet meihua, kang ming, and the other 2 guys, at around 8pm. had dinner at KFC.

home sweet home.

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tmr morning actually was planned for badminton or sthg with meihua, szhi, xiusi, kangming and duno still got who else.. but cant book the sports hall. some CCs got functions on, so cancelled.

At the last min, arnd 10pm, KM said his frd is able to book 2 courts le, but both me and xiusi cant le. cos i changed back my tuition to sunday. so gonna be postponed..

so long din exercise le. it's really time to do so :P

2005-12-31T22:32:00.000+08:00

i love this week a lot!

Had a long X'mas holiday, and i'll be having another long New Year holiday tmr.
That's so shiok! YAY!!! =D

on Thursday, i met 3 of my sec sch frds (Samuel, Siok Chew and Rena) and Jie Hui. Rena was met intentionally, to exchange our belated xmas pressies.
so coincidental ah. what a waste we din have much time to catch up with one another.
3 of them said i changed a little, which is sthg negative! argh!!

It was after my work, i walked to chinatown station to take the train home. I saw Jiehui at the station ctrl waiting for her frd.

JH: wah! ur hair so long liao arh?

me: long meh? u how long nvr see me le?

JH: hmm ya lor, indeed very long le. no wonder see u like a bit fat liao.

me: GRRrr!

JH: haha see lah.. eat more chocs lah..

me: ya, thks to u lor, always supply me wif chocs on my bday, and as souvenirs from ur overseas holidays.

JH: ok lor, nxt time i buy u fake chocs, can only see but cannot eat. hahaha

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Den, at Bishan Station, Samuel stepped into the train, same cabin as me. i din notice him cos i was staring into space, until i saw a hand flickering in front of me.

S: eh Hello!

Me: ehhhhh.. hi!

S: why, cant recognise me already arh?

Me: no lah, i din notice ma. u still look exactly like in sec sch, who wun recognise u?! haha

S: ya lor, u also mah, din change at all. except that u look more older now.

Me: of cos lah, last time sec 2 only 14 yrs old, now 19 liao mah. u also wad.

S: ya, but u look much older and qiao cui as compared to sec sch times.

Me: life's different now la. haha.

sigh! life's of cos so different now as compared to sec sch times.
Well, we chatted abt SP life (btw, he's in Chemical Eng'g, 'A's student wor), sec sch lifes and teachers, some of our sec 2 classmates'...
and soon, it was time for me to alight at Yishun. :(

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Met Rena at Yishun station to give her her xmas pres, and received mine and zhu's one frm her. We chatted for a while when suddenly i felt a hard tap on my shoulder, i turned arnd, it was Siok Chew! before i bid farewell to Rena, i told her "next time our sistas gathering muz come ah, we'll book u!" and she agreed!!! hmm, u cant take back ur words ah, rena! haha.

hmm, i got a scare when i saw Siok Chew. her mascara was too thick lah, made her eyes looks so.... haha. those who know her will know. haha.

Me: wah, scary leh u, ur eyes look v fierce.

SC: fierce meh *opened her eyes wider*

Me: eeks. fierce ah-chew! u still look the same. eyes so black. hair so long. skin so fair. yet so skinny and tall. haha. hair so long for wad, v scary leh. go and cut la.

SC: same den gd mah. u changed liao leh.

Me: huh? changed as in wad?

SC: u look more fat liao.

Me: huh?! haha. cos u quite some time din c me le mah

SC: really really. u fat liao, esp ur face. got more 'rou' and looks rounder le.

Me: nvm, fat den chubby and cute mah~

SC: -.-' *faint*

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haiz! how come so many ppl said i fat liao? by right, it shld be the other way round wad. haha. cos now during attachment, i only had breakfast, lunch and dinner, and maybe supper at home. nthg more. However, during normal days, i'll tend to munch on snacks and chocs.

hmm.. though i dun deny that i have reduced the consumption of chocs. sigh. this was one of my aim for the yr 2005! in fact, i ate more chocs this yr as compared to last yr!!

nvm, make it my 2006 aim then.. hahaha. =P

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As for today.. hmm kinda slack. nthg much during work.
1 of my tour pax. damn IDIOTIC!!! ytd i was on the phone wif her at around 2.30pm and i'd informed her to come and make payment either ytd before 5.30pm or today before 1pm. she said she'd come today (Sat) before 1pm, and would pay by cheque.

So i sent confirmation to my Vietnam tour operators for booking of hotel rooms and so on. Pax said she only want the hotel rooms with daily breakfast and APT-HTL-APT transfers. she has her OWN flight tix.

When i wanted to issue the hotel voucher, i realised that Flight details is a compulsory segment which muz be entered into the system. so i called her, at arnd 3pm, to ask her for her flight details. no one answered. (i only have her office no.) i called several times later on but still no ans. so i left a voice mail, asking her to call me urgently regarding her hotel cfmation.

On the other hand, my tour operator informed me tt he had booked the hotel rooms accordingly to my request, if i want to cancel, i'd have to do so by today 11am (vietnam time) which is 12pm SG time. if not, the hotel will charge me cancellation fee.

i was v anxious and continued to call her but to no avail!
I sent an email to tour operator and asked him if he could help me to hold this booking till 1pm vietnam time. (they end work at 11am VN time, but they stayed on till 1pm just because of my booking!!!)
He agreed and said he'll help me hold until 1pm, if i want to cancel, pls call (the chief of tt co. tel no) urgently. if not, hotel will charge me on 03 Jan.
still, i cant contact my pax. i've no choice, but to wait till 1.01pm SG time, den i called her and left voicemail to her informing her that i had to cancel her booking!

So damn irresponsible pax. dun even bother to call to inform us that they cant make it today or wad. just no news from them suddenly. ARGH. i hope she wun come to my office to complain abt the cancellation on tues, if not i wun have peace in sch.

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Alright, aft we (me and WL) came back frm our lunch, we chatted wif boss regarding the business in Vietlink. learnt some lessons from boss, and he was saying he'd welcome us back to work as perm staff after our attachment.

errrmmm... okaaaay... =X

den stayed on to discuss abt our final yr project. we had to re-start our proj frm the scratch. only 3 weeks left!!! *sigh*

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Met zhu aft that, actually planned to have dinner at Newton circus.

Cos we started the year (01 Jan 2005) with Lunch at Newton circus, we wanted to end our yr with dinner at Newton circus too.

but to our dismay, it was closed for renovation or sthg i duno. so we went to Fish & Co. at novena instead. the food wasnt that nice today. esp the dessert. duno wads tt. damn yucky!

OHH! we saw our sec sch relief teacher, Mr Bryan Phua! wad a coincidence. he was having his dinner with his frds at Fish & Co too.

When we were standing outside Fish and Co, deciding whether to enter anot, someone waved in front of us. it was him! we were kinda surprised. haha.
Learnt that he's now an English and Maths tchr in YCK sec sch. *wow*

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okay, i shall end my last entry for the yr here.
Tmr will be the start of a new year. new beginning!

My 1st visit of the year 2006 will be the Changi International Airport!

Yippie!! my another fav hangout! =D

2005-12-27T21:26:00.000+08:00

Just a short entry before i go to bed.

Ytd was wonderful!
Great day it was.

Went for a Boat ride along Singapore River wif zhu. It was totally cool! we took a lot of pics wif nice sceneries!
watched 'Perhaps Love' aft that. it was a nice and touching movie.
Hmm more like a musical than a movie.

Great Xmas holidays!

Sigh, my long weekend's gonna past in a few hrs time.
Gonna return to office tmr.
big big sigh.

nevertheless, i'd enjoyed my Xmas break! :)

2005-12-23T23:51:00.000+08:00

zhu n I planned to watch 'perhaps love' at Cine at 7.30pm. but tix were sold out at 6.50pm. haiz.

so we went to have a feast a various places.
1st at Shih Lin.
we had Crispy chicken, tempura, egg crepe and green tea.

Next, at Rocky Master.
we had a cup of chocobits! my fav!! :)

After that, went for a walk at taka. damn crowded.
the crowd really turned us off. haiz.

Then, at Mac Donald, to have hot fudge sundae, and ice water.

ok, really full! haha. great feast to replace our movie!

Seriously, the xmas atmosphere isnt there. esp at orchard road.
the decorations are more or less the same every year, nthg special.
haizz. boring man. suntec is better at least.

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Tmr gonna be full of activities.

After work, stay back for project discussion. den meet szhi to take back my bag (to lend fengyi nxt week). den go straight to expo to meet mengching for the xmas carnival or sthg like tt. starts at 4.30pm. but i'm gonna be late for sure.

i estimated that i end work at 1.45pm. lunch till 2.15pm. den project till hmm.. earliest say 3.45pm. reached Dhoby Ghaut to meet szhi at 4pm, den left DG at 4.30pm. so finally, my estimated arrival time at EXPO is 5 to 5.15pm.

haiz. so rush!

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Looking forward to Monday's programme! :) :) :)

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I'm supposed to do my BPT e-learning assignment now, but i'm damn tired lah, decided to pia tmr night (think i'll be even more tired tmr nite.. but no choice, let me rest tonight, its been days since i go to bed before 1am and my mum has been nagging and nagging non-stop. argh.)

2005-12-22T23:10:00.000+08:00

Busy morning
Not-so-busy Afternoon
Slack late afternoon.

started the day wif confirming tour & flight from pax, den confirmation of tour wif our vietnam operators.
Finally everything's confirmed.
A closed deal!
(ytd i was darn bz wif this grp of pax's tour, kept changing and changing!)

Early afternoon, did hotel vouchers, invoice and exchange order (the latter 2 done by sabrina)and den faxed over to Tour Operator in Vietnam, Passenger and Vietnam Airlines respectively.

Lunch.

After lunch, replied emails enquiries and sent a new tour itinerary for quotation.

After that, was supposed to call a pax who signed up for CNY tour to inform them on their VISA and deposit payment thingy, but the contact person din ans my call 3 times! forget it, tmr den call.

Thus, the from 4pm onwards, we were quite free. just ocassional phone calls. nthg else. kinda not used to it. had chit chat session wif sab and wl. sab filled us wif her interesting childhood stories. haha.

how i hope we can have some time for chit-chat session everyday.
(provided boss not in of course)

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As expected, boss called from Vietnam. ytd and today. -.-'! bleah.

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I am supposed to be at my distant cousin's wedding dinner now. but sigh, so many things not completed. sigh.

Actually, i planned to buy 5 xmas pressies for some people after work. but i FORGOT to bring my keys!

I have to reach home before my parents go for the wedd dinner.

5 xmas pressies. i'm gonna be broke soon :(
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and now i'm stucked wif these e-learning assignments posted on blackboard. ARGH!!

juz completed the 2 quizes for UCCD.

anyhow do de.

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now still have BPT assignment.
this one cannot anyhow do.

have to do research and write up a 2-page summary on Integrated Resorts, the favourable and unfavourable impacts on local tourism industry and economy in singapore.

i'm so tired now, shall pia tmr night.

hmmm...

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2005-12-20T23:27:00.000+08:00

Waking up is such a chore!

Actually i planned to wake up at 8am today to do my e-learning assignments, when my alarm rang at 8am, i turned it off and continued to slp. since nan de today no work, no sch, i can take this opportunity to slp longer. in the end, i reluctantly woke up at 11am =P

Tuition time was 1pm, bt my tutee wanted to change to 2pm. zzz. so late! in the end, i still reached at 1.45pm. After tuition at 3.30pm, i went to meet meihua n xiusi.
We took some pics when szhi came. After which, we met Huiwen, Weixin and Rebecca for dinner. Meihua went off early as she has to meet her frds for movie. Regina din join us cos she just came back from Japan and is tired. so only the 6 of us. We had Chocolate fondae at Chocz, at Esplanade. a cool place wif heavenly chocolate! Yummy!
Thanks Huiwen!
Had 2 satays each aft our choco dinner.

Received my xmas pressies,
AnnaSui pink eyeshadow from Huiwen
& Choco candy from Rebecca.
Thank you! :)

It's nice to catch up wif one another on our life during that 2 hrs.
Our next gathering will be on 31 Jan, the 3rd day of the Chinese New Year.
we're gonna have a steamboat dinner over at huiwen's hse. Gonna be a big gathering i supposed.
Cant wait to taste the salad which huiwen's mum made. It's really nice! :)

Happy moments always past so fast. How i hope tmr's another day off from work! yeah, how i hope.

Hope tmr i dun have to bring any work home, so that i can do my e-learning assignment.

Tmr will be a better day.

2005-12-19T22:18:00.000+08:00

Let me have this space to ysk n scream my head off.
U can ignore this entry. nthg interesting, nthg new,
just full of my unhappiness!

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sigh. how long more can i withstand this?

How do u feel like being sabo-ed / maligned?

When sthg went wrong, u asked "who's the one who blah blah blah"
She said "no, not me"
I cldnt answer, cos i was engaged on line.
den u said "tsk. not u den must be Jia Ni le"
*followed by complaints between them*
After i put down the phone, i was greeted with "u hor... next time DUN... ..."
i din have a chance to speak cos i was engaged on another line le.

HUH?!?!?! wad rubbish is this?!
i swear i din ok!
why is this so? not her den muz be me?
i know there's only the 2 of us.
but wad makes u think tt she's telling the truth?
i'm not doubting her or wad.
i just find it unfair to me.
i din even have a chance to speak, cos i was all the while on the line.

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Just bcos few weeks ago on a particular day, i forgot to fax sthg on time, den frm tt day onwards, u ask her to be in charge of it instead of me.

Do u know how afraid i was tt day? u exaggerated it so much so that i thot i was gonna be in real deep trouble. i was so panic that i kept calling the embassy, bt no one answered. i put other things aside and concentrated on dailing and dailing, hoping that someone will ans. i know its v stupid of me to do tt, but i was really v panic ok. finally, i got a hp no of the embassy staff. i called and spoke to him abt the situation. he kept saying "yes.. yes..yes" nthg else but only 'yes'.
i duno whether he understood anot, i paused to rephrase it in an even more simplier eng and slower. and he said "yes" even when i paused. i was kinda impatient and asked him if he has anyone arnd him who speaks english. he passed the phone to another guy. i repeated again. that guy said no problem at all, juz faxed over as usual, as long as i have the date stated there.

wth. it was only a small matter can! grr.

but think on the bright side: i have 1 less thing to do.

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everyday, almost every moment, i'll be glued onto my seat, with eyes staring at the com, exercising my fingers, massaging the keyboard.

it might seem that i'm very free. cos all the while only typing away and answering some calls.
but do they know wad i'm doing? customers calling and rushing me "hey, my wadeva done already?" "hey, how come i din receive the fax, u're supposed to fax to me today right?"

on the other hand, boss: "jiani ah, are u done with the quotations?"
1) i was supposed to do a checklist for him for his vietnam trip to discuss things with our tour operators

2) i was also supposed to compile all CNY tours sent by 3 tour operators (converting USD to SGD and wif airfare added in) accordingly into table format for ez comparison.

3) moreover, i was supposed to re-design newspaper advertisement

because of the change in flight schedules, i have to replan the 7 Days CNY tour, and as usual, sent for quotation and so on.

ALL by today!

in between, have to ans calls. some call to make flight or tour enquiries , some wanna make reservation (argh, eat up my time!), thus delaying the process of doing my to-do-list.

thus, i might seem free, cos my customers are all 'invisible'.
we communicate thru emails, phone, fax, until when everything is confirmed den they'll come.

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Boss gonna be away to Vietnam from tmr till sat. i'll be fully independent on all tours thingy, including HIS customers, on genting trip (argh!)

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Hope everything goes well during this period (esp his genting group of custs).
Hope nothing goes wrong with my quotations and checklist. cos he'll be discussing wif our operators based on the thingy i prepared. if not, he said, he'll call me frm vietnam.

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oh yes, tmr. i shall act accordingly as per normal sch day. but the thing is, i'm afraid he might call conrad and find out, den gd luck to myself.

May lady luck be wif me tmr! :)

2005-12-18T22:36:00.000+08:00

wad a happening week..

13 Dec (Tues)
Handed in UCCD Project 1. yes! 1 down.
Received my 2nd xmas pressie from Wei Xin. a pink shirt she brot in Thailand, when she went to tour lead a group. the size is just right. haha. Thank you, wei xin!
After sch went to Yaki ( a buffet place, did i get the name correct?) at Marina Square with Feng Yi, Pei Yi and Xin Hui. it was Xin Hui's bday. so that buffet dinner was a celebration for her. the food is nice, better than seoul garden! :)
After dinner, we went for a walk in the shopping mall, and out to the millenia walk there until 10+.
Reached home at 11+, bathed and did my work thingy till 2am.. and sleep!

15 Dec (Thurs)

Watched Chicken Little wif Xiusi and Kang Ming.
They waited for me at PS, den walked to Cine together. ahh. i shld have stopped at Somerset in the 1st place.
Actually aft my work, i called Kang Ming. he asked me if i wanna meet at Dhoby Ghaut or Cine (i heard as City, so i thot City Hall). by the way, my surrounding was v noisy! yup, so of cos i chose Dhoby Ghaut, cos if city hall, i need to change a train.
so, the moment i reached, they (Kang Ming, Szhi and Addy) said 'ok lets walk over to Cine' cos they intend to watch movie at Cine. i was like 'huh?! i shld have stopped at Somerset!' haiz. nvm, KM got motive de. and i agreed too. wahahahaha.
Supposedly to watch Chicken Little wif Mei Hua, but since she ended work so late (cos she had meeting earlier on), she cldnt reach on time for the movie. Szhi and Addy watched before le, so they join us for dinner only. hmm..
Ckn Little was kinda lame man. the starting half part was funny, but when the alien came out, it wasnt lame. well, thats wad i think lah.

16 Dec (Fri)

Instead of reaching office at 9am, i was at Vietnam Airlines office at the Heeren. i reached on the dot, when Lynn just opened the door a min ago. haha. i was the 1st 'customer' of the day! hehz! i went there on behalf of boss to pass cheque, exchange order and to collect tickets. The Vietnam Airlines office is v elegant! ambience is nice and cool too. But why is THAT office so messy and old. haha.

17 Dec (Sat)

Half day at work.
Lunch.
Came back to office to discuss project wif WL.
Decided to re-start cos of some doubts.
...
Nevertheless, our new idea sounds more interesting.
:)

18 Dec (Sun)

Farm Excursion with my paternal family!

We met at 9+ in the morning. Cousin QQ's bf drove a minivan to pick all of us up.
off we went to the 'Hay Dairies Goat Farm'.
Reached at abt 10+, the workers were squeezing the Goat's milk using some electical thingy.
Interesting!
The dorm was quite smelly thou.
oh, the baby goats were so cute!!
Managed to take some pics of them :)

Mum brot some goat's milk for us. the taste was funny to me, i'm not used to it. eeks. but to most them, its tasty. hahaha.

Next on our journey was the hmm.. i forgot the name. a veggies and plants farm.
the landscape was spectacular! so greenish. v breath-taking. my 2nd aunt even said 'doesnt look like we're in Singapore now' haha. so true.

After that, lunch time. lunch at Yew Tee's Limbang market place.

Den, went to Bollywood, also veggies farm. not so nice.

aft our farm visiting, we went to IMM for shopping. tiring!

and den dinner at Yishun chongpang.

Home sweet Home.

Thanks to cousin QQ's bf, the driver of the day. haha.

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tmr's monday again. so fast!
nvm, i look forward to next monday, cos PH! wahaha. :D

2005-12-11T11:08:00.000+08:00

08 Dec (Thursday)

Met up wif Ah-Pei (peiyi) aft work, it's been a long time since i last saw her. haha. Met her up for some mission. we had a tough time deciding on which one to get. Walked around B1 for several times, passing by the same shops again n again. haha. and finally, we settled on sthg cute! Hope the receiver will like it.

I'm supposed to plan an upcoming bday dinner sometime next week, but i cant find a suitable day and time where the 4 of us are able to make it leh, except Sat? but it'll be kinda late.

09 Dec (Friday)

Met up wif my dear pig aft work. We had a great time and fun over dinner, our 'Shih Lin Feast' as well as after dinner. haha. Its been quite some time since i had a good laugh. Our outings are always filled wif laughters laughers and more laughters. Right, piggy? hahah! At least it took my mind off my work thingy.

*ahh, cres muz be cursing us if he knew tt we were enjoying our time, instead of XXXXX* but that's wad we planned to do, isnt it? wahahahaha!*

10 Dec (Saturday)

Luckily it was only HALF DAY at work. phew.

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I've completed almost half of my attachment. great. which means that, i still have half more to go. After attachment, i've got A LOT to feedback to Mr Conrad. Thou last week, he asked me about my opinion on boss (and he said tt it was boss who asked him to ask me)
?!?!?!?!?!
haha. Conrad wasnt supposed to tell me that ah. but since he told me so, den too bad lah. i gave him vague reply like "okaaaaay lor". I know conrad is a very straightforward person. If i were to state my real opinions and incidents, I'm afraid boss will present me with 'D' or 'F'' grade at the end of my attachment. i dunno n i'll never know.

These 2 weeks were much of tears, anger and phobia. i had a sudden urge to call LO one of the days last week. but i know its better not to. I hope next week and follwing weeks will be better.

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Dun get me wrong, it's not tt i dun like to work there. Actually, i kinda enjoy my job scope. as in, wad i'm doing now. like planning of itineraries, customising each in the interests of different clients, explaining to them the routing and why i plan tt way. (ONLY THAT)

However, i dun like my work environment, the very 'kan jiong' atmosphere, and their lack of patience, hurting comments etc. Since they are all bld-related, so i guess it's in their genes. cant blame.

Sometimes when i'm not sure of sthg which custs ask, i'd tell them "franking speaking, i'm not v sure. i'll check it out and get back to u soon" i dun find anything wrong here. but in his point of view, this is sthg negative.

I learnt not to be too honest wif custs on some things. I guess i cant comply to that, cos i'll be at a loss of what to say when custs probe further. Thats why i always kena lectured. sigh, isnt that FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION?! maybe i can feedback to conrad ah, since he's a tousim law lecturer. hahaha!

hmm, i dun understand why its sthg not right to tell custs that i'm an intern.

NVM. i'm only an intern. it's not as if i'm gonna work there long-term. Phew.

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YAY, xmas is coming soon. in 3 weeks time. hehz. I've got a lovely necklace wif star pendant frm my pig. So early ah. hmm, i cant wait for xmas to come. Movie and boat ride wif my 3 sistas, yay it's gonna be fun! :) 3 more weeks. heez!

and the following monday will be a PH. great great great! Tuesday is my sch's 1 week break (i think so?). haha!

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I'm supposed to be giving tuition now, but my tutee last min msged me and said wanna postpone the time to 2pm. argh.
Luckily, i was only outside my hse, abt to lock the door. So last minute de leh!

Later aft my tuition, i'm gonna pia my UCCD individual proj. *yawnzzz*

2005-12-05T23:11:00.000+08:00

Hypocrite.

Really detest these kinda ppl. so fake!!

why does this kinda ppl exist?!

I guess I have one Hypocrite pal, "H".

in front of higher authorities and some others, treat you so well, so polite, so patient, so helpful, so wadeva rubbish. but behind them, that's the real "H" without the mask? or was it just an act? ahh i dunno. but i can see the obvious difference.

"H", do u know tt u might get me into trouble by your feign acts?!
there were quite a number of these incidents where u got me into trouble!
I decided to let it pass, or simply ignore wad u said.
However, sometimes i dun really have a choice. i have to actually listen to wad u said. sigh.

A silent killer is wad u are to me.

u know the chinese idiom "yi ya huan ya"?
I can actually do the same thing to u, "H'.
but why must I? If i were to do that, it'll be kinda like 'zi xiang can sha" right?
Moreover, it's already been thus far, no one will actually believe me.

sigh. wadeva!

**********************

to balance work assignment and sch assignment is not much of a problem, if you have cooperating partner(s), am i right to say that? this thing has been dragging since last last tues till now. is that really tough? i dunno. i really feel like carrying on, instead of waiting. Time is precious.

**********************

today, i actually planned to visit my grandpa in hosp after my work. i planned to visit him often, maybe except tues.
But, as predicted, i'll end work late today. so my mum told me not to come, and to settle my dinner myself.

i meet meihua and szhi 6.30pm at Chinatown station for dinner. (chinatown station is only 6-7 mins walk frm my office). so i msged szhi and asked her to come as early as possible, immdiately aft she ended work at 6pm at boonkeng.

when i shut down my com at 6pm. boss asked me in and said got new mail and etc etc.
since tmr i wun be gng to office, cos of sch, i wun be able to contact custs and so on. thus, no choice, but to on the com again, call cust up, "chat chat", and he'll get back to me tmr. sabrina will handle. ok good, so i can leave. Meihua was already waiting there. and soon aft i reached, szhi reached too. :)

We had a 'combo' meal at the food street. most of the stalls were closed today. not much to eat. we ordered tangyuan, satays, dumplings noodle, rojak, popiah and drinks. haha. not much actually, but quite full. =D

**********************

today's a bz day at work, phone kept ringing! i was rushing a pax's tour request, while answering calls in between. answering calls = some new things to do. in the end, i took 4 hrs to complete 1 new proposal. -.-'!

now, there're ppl calling up to ask for CNY tours to Vietnam. but cos our CNY tours have fixed departure dates, some cant make it on the given fixed dep. date. and because of that, some said will see if they can get leave, if not den will have to give that a miss. sigh :(

hope i can manage to get 20 pax for each tour. if not... haiz. i duno.

**********************

Hope my Grandpa is getting better.
*Wish upon a star*

2005-11-29T00:03:00.000+08:00

My goodness. Am i considered a Singaporean or Vietnamese?

Last sat, a caucasian walked in and asked me to recommended him some attracions in Vietnam. he wanna depart on Tues (tomorrow) to Hanoi, den to Danang, back to Hanoi and finally back to S'pore. i described a lot to him, showed him pictures, and introduced some other places to him.

THEN...

aft that, he said he still has 3 more days to spend in Singapore before flying off to Vietnam. so he asked me to recommend some attractions in Singapore where he can visit or spend the nxt 3 days.

First thing i thot of and said to him "Sentosa!"

he went b4 few days ago.

"Zoo"

he went b4 too.

"Botanic Garden"

again, he visited already.

den i asked him wad kinda places he'd like to go.

he said same as wad he'd like to do in Vietnam, sightseeing in some famous places.
He's not familiar, tt's why he wanted some recommendations.

and tada, i was stucked!! i duno where else in Singapore can i recommend.
"erm, maybe u'd like to visit beaches? like East Coast park?"

he replied "ahh, not really. no other places? or is singapore too small for me to visit any more placs? hahaha. just kidding, alright, i think it's ok, cos i'm only thinking how i shld spend these 3 days. haha. so i see, u're a Vietnamese?"

"NOOOO! i'm local, a Singaporean!"
(immediately, i was thinking 'how come i can describe Vietnam as if i know the places very well, but when it comes to MY OWN country, i'm tongue-tied?!')

so embarassing. how i hope the ground could swallow me up!

so he continued "OHHHHhhh, so u're local? haha. i see. thats cool!"

hahaha. omg omg. but seriously arh, singapore so small, where and wad to visit? every shopping ctrs are almost the same. haiz.

anwyay, Saturday was a great day. aft work, i went out wif my darling pal.
Adventure till evening time.

Great Great day!

Sunday
BORING DAY

aft tuition, went home projs and work, work and projs.
and some ocassional chats in msn.
Thats all!

TODAY! (mon)
started off with a busy morning at office, busy wif my 'CNY project'. dateline this wed (shit!)

den followed by some scoldings and naggings from boss. (sigh!)

and den, complaints from 2 customers who joined our tour. they came back ytd. they complained abt the tour guide's attitude.
ok, according to our Tourism Law, it's not our fault. if they're unhappy, they can sue the company who provides the guide (i.e. our operator) directly. but nvm, since they're custs, no choice. nevertheless, i'll feedback this to our operators~

arnd 5+pm, Mr Conrad De Souza came to visit us. only both of us in office (sabrina on MC, lady boss on leave, boss left early).
He din even have a chance to talk to us. we were very busy.

so he sat at a corner, reading our brochures, magazines etc. he was kinda bored. aft abt 30mins, he sian liao. asked us for our logbook, signed and said he'd talk to us tmr, and he left.

i left office at 6.37pm! (i was suposed to meet zhu, kim and rena 6.10pm at Dhoby Ghaut station!!!) msged them to tell them i'd be late. i was rushing the CNY translation.

in the end, no choice, but tobring home to do. damn. i din wanna bring any work back home, cos i wanna do BPT and my FYP projects. but still, no choice. sian.

NEVERMIND!

Despite a LOUSY day at work, i had fun wif my 3 darling sistas over steamboat at marina! yay. we finally had a steamboat together!! great!

That is, to celebrate Kim's bday! haha. so cool, we had a really fun feast together.

We ate a lot. haha. i was really very full. all of us were very full, right?

den we decided to walk back to station, instead of taking public bus.
It was a very long journey, took abt 30 mins or so.
The path was so ulu too.
Imagine walking alone, so scary.

haha. thou somehow tiring, it was a good form of exercise!

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ok, tmr's sch day. dun think i;m going for morning lecture. i'll edit BPT survey qnaire, and do on my CNY work thingy. damn lots to do. any kind soul willing to lend a helping hand? haha.

i got an intuition that boss or sabrina will call me tmr morning.

NONONO!!

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Alright, the time now is 12.56am, i'm gonna tidy up my "CNY project" thingy now.

Gd night, everyone :)

2005-11-21T22:11:00.000+08:00

Oh man!
He found out that we haven touched on his webpage design.
Shit!
We got lectured and nagged by him. expected.

He even said we are so relaxed, after work totally wash our hands off work assignments etc, go home watch tv, enjoy etc, and said we dunno how to take our initiatives to bring work home to do if we cant finish there!
wth! who says!!!

hey! regarding that ang moh's itinerary, i almost everyday reached home, after dinner, i did research on the places online, which 4-star hotels got gym, and near city/attraction areas, how far are they from airport or another place. i did all these in order for me to plan the best to suit all my pax requirements and interests. he's not an ez cust. although boss told me to "give up" if he kept demanding more, or increase the service charge, but i still continued to work on it, hoping that he would accept my proposal eventually. i dun mind doing sthg extra for customers, so long as their requests are reasonable.

from morning till nite keep staring at the com, typing and clicking away until my eyes watered, and u said we wash our hands off after work!

even if so, we still got our OWN sch assignment and projects, plus our tourism internship project ok. not just only work. did he take that into consideration?

Yes, he told us in a nice & calm manner today. i agreed to a certain extent of wad he said, about datelines, time management and his requirement/expectations, and tt we're lagging. but he din take our sch work into consideration too. we needa set aside time AFTER WORK for our projects too, since we only go back to sch once a week.

Well, anyway, we split the task. WL works on the website thingy, while i take charge of the CNY itineraries, quotations, posters etc, or in short, the CNY "thing" lah.

I'd finished planning 3 CNY itineraries. but i haven sent for quotations (on purpose! - *oops*) cos our Vietnam operators have yet to reply ALL my pax quotations and reservations etc. how am i gonna send them new itineraries (somemore it's THREE) when they haven got back to me on my current pax itineraries?! my pax itineraries are MORE impt!

Some are currently working on them, while the other is helping me to check for hotel room availability. they, too, have other agents or whoever to work on. so, i can understand that they need time to work on mine, although sometimes i was kinda impatient and resent them to request for 'urgent'.

and now, if i were to send them new itineraries, on top of my exisiting ones, how are they gonna reply? kinda messy and confusing, isnt it?

Wed den send them =X

*********

Anyway, i just reached home not long ago. Visited my grandpa in hosp. he's quite ok when i was there. phew!
some of my relatives and cousins were there too.

2005-11-20T22:58:00.000+08:00

i juz got home frm TTSH. to visit grandpa.

he got admitted again! sigh.

Just now, i was doing my 'economic analysis' part of BPT project while my aunt called. my mum answered. just nice when i completed and sent to xiusi, my mum hanged up the phone and said grandpa is admitted to hosp again. immediately, i switch off the main switch of my com, changed and left to ttsh wif my mum.

we took a cab there. when in the cab, i realised i din save my 1 of my document (i did some research on sapa, vietnam) and omg. it's gone now! but nvm, it's only a little bit.

sigh, my grandpa was asthmatic and has breathing difficulty again. he was juz discharged 2 weeks ago. was at the A&E dept for a long time b4 transferring to ward.

it was the same ward which I got admitted last yr! i saw my nurse Jenis! she was abt to leave le. and another nurse who still remembered me, but i forgot her name =X

I hope tmr i can end ON TIME, i.e. 5.30pm. but dun think so lah, nvm, i'll leave by 6pm no matter wad! i'm gonna visit grandpa straight after my work. Nurse Jenis will be on aftn shift tmr. great.

Hope my grandpa's ok.
Hope he'll get well soon.
=S

2005-11-19T22:28:00.000+08:00

sigh.

I got new projects from boss.

create 4 new CNY itineraries, and tour quotations, and marketing/promotional campaigns.

All due at the end of this month!

itineraries for CNY arent easy! most shops are closed. have to find out which days they're closed. and planned according to the timing and flight schedules.

wad the....!

I still got my own existing tour clients/custs ok.

my schedules are now so tight now:
Mon to Fri (except Tues)=> Work
Tues = School
Sat = Work half day, den stay back do FYP
Sun = Tuition, do project (BPT) and individual proj (UCCD)

sometimes, weekdays aft work, i gotta 'bring back' some work to do. those which i can do at home. like routing of my planned itinerary, or researching info on website.

we are always too busy to discuss fyp during work, not even lunch time. Thus, the only way is to stay back aft work on Sat.

now, with the new projects from boss, time schedules are even more tight.
tell me, Where can i find time for my own leisure?!
I wun wanna stay up so late to do or rush projects or custs itineraries.
so tiring.

oh yea, i haven done on the website thingie. (i really duno how to do!!)
he's gonna get real mad at me when he found out.

1 of my custs, the ang mohs (french & israeli) are driving me mad sia. re-plan and re-plan for them several times le. it's not like i alter/make changes from the exisiting proposals etc, but create a NEW one from the scratch. his tour = whole of vietnam with scenic spots, mountains, rivers, lakes, valleys, beaches etc. on top of that, he wants 4-star hotels, near the city areas & places of attractions, with decent GYM. Hotels hunting is tough. hv to look thru the brochures, websites provided, the actual map and to ask from the tour operator.
Finally, my tour operator in vietnam replied. it took 4 working days to reply thou i put "URGENT!!". see how difficult it is. cos we have to take the very young child into consideration. cant do too much walking. wad time muz be back in hotel, not too late. all have to accommodate wif the flights and train schedules.

oh yeah, and his budget is only SGD 3500 for 2 ADTs and 1 very young CHD. how can?!

Although the CHD is free of charge (for the land tour only!), the amount still exceed SDG 3500 lor. very diff sia. my boss even told me to tell him that if tt's the case, we're not able to provide him with this service.

nvm, i just sent out 2 new proposals to him. hope he'll consider.

******

ahh, anyway, anyone wanna go Vietnam or Vietnam-China (Nan ning, de tian etc)nxt mth or during CNY season?? or have frds/relatives interested, let me know k!

i gotta 'sell' at least 10 tour packages (aft i'd planned the 4 by the end of this mth) each! if not, i'm gonna get punishment (as wad he said). duno whether he's joking only or serious. hope he's only joking, but he sounded serious.

oh well. i can only hope so.

2005-11-18T21:18:00.000+08:00

What a lousy day!

tmr's gonna be another hellish day!

sigh. but luckily, it's Sat!

2005-11-16T23:21:00.000+08:00

Alhough it's been a few weeks already, i'm still learning.
Please teach me if i'm wrong.
Teach me the correct way to do it,
so that i can learn from any mistakes or get some new ideas etc.

To YOU, i may be a person who doesnt take her initiative to things which i'm not told.
BUT the point is, i'm still learning. Not all the things, i can figure it out myself. moreover, I need time to absorb too. If you dun teach me how, how am i gonna learn?

Yes, indeed i have to agree that i'd learnt quite a lot. but there're still so many things to learn. can i learn one thing, one step at a time? so many at one go will only make me more confused.

I hate to me blamed by sthg which is NOT within my control.
If i'm in charge of this thing, lets named it 'X', den if anything happened or went wrong with 'X', it is understandable that i have to be the one to take charge/consequences.
However, the thing that happened is NOT within my control, it is not sthg which i can foresee to happen (now i know how applicable and useful our Tourism & Hospitality Law is!)
So, it's not my fault! nobody's fault!

It's easy to push the blame to others. but, is this the right way?

And i hate it when YOU keep asking me if i'm done with this and that already anot. How am i supposed to do it fast when the other parties' replies are so slow? they are busy too, i understand that. when u keep pushing me, asking me if i'm done anot, i have to push them for my requests too. i understand that they have been trying very hard to do my request fast. cos i send them not just one or two per day. i'm kinda stuck in between u see.

and since, u let me take charge of everything, can i have the freedom to do it my own ways? i feel more comfortable to do it my own ways at my own pace. Dun worry, i'll get things done b4 the 'dateline'. unless the 'dateline' is very close, den i have to push them real hard to get reply within one working day.

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oh anyway, i'm looking forward to 25th November. =X

2005-11-14T23:40:00.000+08:00

to start off with ytd..

went for tuition as usual. 2 weeks nvr see my tutee le.
i thot he would be very happy, cos can go out play.
but he said his mum forbid him to go out play.
wahahaha.
so tuition better (as wad he said) got someone whom he can joke with.
tsk. who wanan joke wif him arh!

aft that, went to meet zhu for lunch at yishun. den went for kim's pressie hunting. we got 3 alternatives. duno which one to choose. so we msged rena and asked him to choose 1 2 or 3. he chose 3. but!! we wanted to buy 2. so, i told rena to pretend that she said 2.
hahahhaa. very qian da rite.

anyway, the pressie is very practical la. very usable. very handy. haha. hope she likes it :)

nxt, i went to meet szhi, xiusi and meihua at Bugis.
when szhi called me tt time, she was alraedy at Bugis station. whereas i was at Yishun station. Mei Hua and Xiusi on their ways. haha. den she sian 1/2.
She gotta attend her work event before that. haha.

We went to Katong for dinner. had katong laksa of cos. very delicious! actually meihua suggested to order chicken wings aft our laksa meal, but we were all too full! haha.
den meihua went to ta pao chicken rice for her parents.

as usual, xiusi brot along her camera, and we took quite a few pics too. haha :)

**********

tmr i'm "on leave".
haha. cos tmr is school day!

but actually, i rather go to work tmr.
cos i got a lot of things undone.
wed sure pia like siao!

and i told some custs over the phone that i'll get back to them tmr.
oh no!

2005-11-12T19:45:00.000+08:00

Ytd was kinda slack. hmm not say slack lah, but as compared to other days, ytd not so busy.

Boss, lady boss and sabrina on leave.

ALL on leave!!
left wif me and WanLing.

Actually it wasnt as scary as wad we thot would be. cos only 2 of us, newbies/interns. zzz.

ytd's issue of air tix were mostly for agency, v few customers. not much phone calls too.

As usual, i was doing on my tour thingie. for a new customer, another ang moh. he wants me to help him (and his family) plan this whole tour. between 10 to 15 Days Vietnam tours. He has no idea where in Vietnam to go, but he said he want a scenic tour, where he can see mountains, rivers, beaches. a holiday to relax.

Went to do research on some cities. and tada. done with the itinerary. 12Days WHOLE of vietnam. planned according to flight schedules too. but not all scenic leh. duno if he likes anot. gotta wait for his response. but the tour fee is pretty ex! cos i planned some days on 5* beach resorts instead of hotels. haha.

The other clients' tours all half done, all thanks to SLOW response from our Vietnam tour operators! i'd to send and re-send to them by putting "URGENT!!" as subject, den they'll reply. but if every itinerary i put urgent, den it defeats the purpose le. haizz. they hor.. argh!
and den boss will be there "jia ni arh, u finish XXX (any particular itinerary) tour thingie already anot?" *%&$#

*************

back to ytd. we were alone in the office the whole day. thus we went for break separately. WanLing said to me joking "u go for break now, if later suddenly got a lot of passengers flocked in i call u, u rush back ok" hahaha!!! i'll get choked sia. haha. den when i came back, it was her turn. i said the same thing to her "if i cannot handle alone, i call u arh" haha. anyway, we were joking la of cos. haha.

Karen from Universal Travel came to collect her pax's tickets. she was so surprised to see us alone in company. "all on leave arh? boss let u'all handle the whole agency urselves arh?! wow, u'all so li hai hor?"

oh yeah, when WanLing went for her lunch break. i was alone in the agency. suddenly got 3 calls ringing. i picked up 1 line and the rest left them ringing.

The line i picked up was from 'ah seng'. our corporate client i think. cos he seems to be familiar wif boss, lady boss and sab.

Ah Seng: hey, i ask u arh, phillipino go vietnam need to apply visa anot?
(i'm not sure)
me: think no need. i'm nt sure too, i... (haven finished saying(
Ah seng: hmm, u ask sabrina see she knows anot.
me: sabrina's on leave today, she'll be back on Monday.
Ah Seng: oh, den u ask boss.
me: he's on leave too.
Ah Seng: haha. den lady boss leh?
me: hhaha. she's ALSO on leave leh.
Ah Seng: wah! why all on leave? den who's around in the office?
me: only me lor.
Ah Seng: hahaha. alamak. like that arh. den where else got ppl know? or nvm lah.
me: i help u to check it out den i call u back ok?

i called UTC (as usual) to ask. they oso dunno.
i called Vietnam Airline (my another helpline!). they ALSO dunno!
the only way is to ask Vietnam Embassy liao. but their phone is always very hard to dial de. i called like 6 to 7 times, and for all, i was put on hold for 10 to 15 mins! in the end, "sorry, all our operators are engaged. pls call back later"
GRRRRrrrrr!!

i tired a lot of ways to use abacus to find out. wanling also tired, but need to key in passport number etc leh. so ma fan. haiz.

then in the end, after i try and error (with the help of my abacus notes), i managed to find out. ans is 'no need visa'. i was so happy. wanted to call him back (alread more than 1 hr liao). BUT.. but.. but..

I Lost his phone number. in between got other calls for hotel / reservation enquries, i used it as rough paper, and in the end, duno wad it gone le. haiz. suan le. hope he got the ans from other sources le.

***************

today half day. yay.

my operators have YET to reply me! i got 5 tour clients now. i sent them 4 different itineraries to ask for quotations and reservations of hotels etc. one of my pax departing this coming wed. duno if all hotels and stuff had been booked. argh!!!

After all reservations had been done, still needa do hotel vouchers for pax and suppliers in vietnam. damn them lah, reply so slow! i know they busy, i know i send them a lot, they got other agents too. but still. haiz. my pax departing THIS coming wed leh.

They better reply me by Monday early afternoon! if not, Tuesday, i wun be able to have peace in school!

*****************

One of my pax (and her family of 6 ADTS + 3 CHD) are now in Vietnam (Hanoi) le. 3rd day of their trip. right at THIS time, they are either strolling arnd the street near hotel, or at their Fortuna Hotel le. hope they truly enjoy their trip.

they'll be back Nxt Tues. hope they come back with compliments/satisfaction and not complaints.

2005-11-08T22:32:00.000+08:00

Today's the 1st day of sch for this sem!
for Tourism students.

had 2 modules lectures and tutorials.
kinda boring.
we were mainly chatting away.

oh yeah, during lectures, my supervisor called me. she said one of my custs had doubts on the itinerary and wadsoever. but she and her family had already paid and confirmed everything. now den she asked why like this why like that. argh! how am i supposed to answer her while i'm in SCHOOL?! haiz. see how tmr lah.

*pray hard that everything goes well* if not... =/

oh anyway, we all had a lot of stuff to catch up, since all of us are currently having our attachment.
thats great!

aft sch, we went to Grand Plaza Park Royal to celebrate Huiwen and Zany's bdays!
we took a lot of pics too. =)
Everyone enjoyed ourselves!

Went home wif Regina aft that. had a nice catch-up session wif her on train. her company's culture is abt the same as mine. haha great. a lot to chat on. she's doing the flight reservations etc.

anyway, juz a short entry. i'm tired. gotta go to bed soon.

gd nites!

2005-11-07T22:16:00.000+08:00

GREAT!
things were great today!

not too busy,
not too slack.

Had some short chats wif Sabrina (my supervisor) and Wan Ling (the other intern)
Even had a few short moments to discuss FYP wif Wan Ling.

everything's just nice.
I like it that way.

Wei Xin and Melvin came to my office today!
during their break time.
had a short chat wif them.
hehz
GREAT!
=)

how i hope the next 16 weeks can be like today!

2005-11-04T23:25:00.000+08:00

Things are getting better.

why? i'm not sure too.

maybe bcos my supervisor is back?
maybe bcos i'm immune it?
maybe bcos i'm becoming more familiar with those things le?

haha wadeva it is,
hopefully, it remains.
i hope.

next Mon, Tues and Wed = boss and lady boss on leave
next Thurs, Fri and Sat = sabrina (supervisor) on leave

tsk. take turns to go on leave de leh!!

hmm nxt tues, both of us (interns) on leave!! haha

leaving my poor supervisor ALONE in the company. poor her. really 'bao ga liao' de leh. haiz.

dunno why i'm so happy to hear that boss and lady boss will be on leave nxt Mon to Wed.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA =D

but wasted lah, tues i needa go sch.. haha..

omg. i hope he wun chance upon my blog!

=X

2005-10-26T21:30:00.000+08:00

lecturing after lecturing

scoldings after scoldings

busy almost every minute

lunch break gotta eat fast fast

expected to know everything (even if nobody taught me how, i gotta find/figure it out myself!!!)

and worst still, i'm in charged of tours (i have no choice!!)

thou in charged of tours, i have to know every other things too.

haiz. typed till here. i gotta get back to my work. all due tmr!

my stupid hse com, cant use the chinese version. how?! i gotta translate 2 new itineraries into chinese version leh! due tmr. die le, gonna get scoldings AGAIN :'(

2005-10-18T22:34:00.000+08:00

it's been a long time since i last blogged.

attachment has started.

tiring. lots of things to do and to learn. supervisor on leave, we die!

haiz. she's gonna be on leave again for the whole of nxt week. wish me gd luck den!!

the office is freezing cold! brrr

i'm sick now. how i hope i can take MC. but duno needa replace a day or 2 anot.

for the past week, i'd learnt a lot of things.

1) airfare for diff classes, diff destinations, diff ppl
2) hotel rates for diff hotels, 3*/4*/5*, diff classes
3) tour planning and itinerary (but haven go in-depth yet)
4) tour costing
5) flight reservation using SITA
6) issue flight tickets for diff groups, diff fare basis, diff types etc
7) answering passengers'/customers' enquiries
8) replying mails accordingly

hmm duno if i had missed out any.

i'm still confused wif the hotel rates etc. tour costing kinda difficult, cos diff day stay in diff hotel, have to calculate one by one according to the criterias.

i got agents asking me "is contennial hotel near to Grand World hotel?", "how far are they?", "wad are the difference in rates for 4D3N stay for twin-sharing room"

duh. the 1st qn, i have to ask my supervisor or boss. 2nd qn.. huh, how to tell, my far may not be far to u? for the 3rd qn, i had to refer to the rates, and calculate them myself. and i always forgot to include taxes!

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tmr gonna learn abacus system. not sure if it's the same as wad we've been taught in sch. even if so, think most of them i've given back to tchr le. =X

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ahh, and my boss actually asked me to help him improve on his website! omg. i know nuts abt com, esp website stuff. i told boss my IT skills v lousy, and i took maths instead of web-related modules for elective. but he said i shld at least have basic IT skills..

boss: so can u do it?
me: hmm i'll try
boss: dun say try, do it!

ahhh! heeeelp. any IT experts out there, heeeeeelp! those who took WP or another one (duno wads tt called) de..

but now have to do up a proposal to boss and seek for his approval 1st. sian.

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alright, i've gotta slp now. really very tired and sleepy.

i have more to mention, abt other non-work related stuff. but not today, not now.

GOOD NIGHT! =)

2005-10-04T13:44:00.000+08:00

ahh. how come the pics are being cropped.

the space for blogging is too small.

does anyone know how to fit the pic into the 'box'

i'm gng to JB soon. meeting them at 3pm.

i wun be online tonight, so jh, i shall reply ur long-awaited mail tmr den =P

2005-10-04T13:26:00.000+08:00

yr 1 frds bday celebration at marina sq's swensens

XiuSi, HuiWen, me, Zhen, Szhi and Chun Hui =)

2005-10-01T01:40:00.000+08:00

i thot formulas will be provided for maths pp today. we were given a booklet of formulas, but it's as gd as nothing! those formulas i need, were not in the booklet! argh. Q4(a) and (b), i completely duno how to do. forget it. exams are over.

anyway, this morning went to look for conrad. ahh i needa re-do my intro letter! tsk. my working hrs will be mon-fri 9-5.30pm, and sat 9-1pm. off on sun! hee. but sigh, why not alternate sats, den i can go to kids read on alternate sat.. he also brief me on my attire. yay. can be smart casual, no need formal :) he kept emphasing that slippers are not allowed.. and told me not to 'pon' work. zz. obviously rite..

one bad news frm conrad. he said if he's uncontactable, contact SCW, cos SCW will be his assisstant. ARGH~

went out wif zhu and kennedy aft exams. i reached cityhall at 5pm. ken was supposed to reach at 5.30, but he scared he wun b able to book out early, so 6pm. but he reached at 7+pm instead. cos he went home 1st~ tsk. so all the while, i was at suntec shopping for gifts and looking arnd at the International Wine Fair. hee. saw a lot of wines until i blur. some familiar names frm wad we learnt frm our wine appreciation course. merlot, chardonnay, souvignon blanc etc. haha interesting.

now is 2am in the morning. later i gotta wake up at 7am, pei kennedy to see doc at polyclinic at 8+am. freaking early. i better go to bed now, if not... ...

oh ya, last but not least,

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY to XIU SI!

and

HAPPY CHILDREN'S DAY!

2005-09-28T23:23:00.000+08:00

5 down. 1 more to go. yes, juz ONE more pp! and i can have one less burden. :)

a brief review on my past 5 papers..

Global Business Environment

i only started to read my GBE notes for the 1st time 2 days before my paper. i crapped thru the whole paper, using my OWN point of view and reasonings. somehow, i hope my craps did make sense. Andrew Gray will be lenient, pls tell me yes!

Financial Management

killer paper! i din know how to do the AFN and the Time Value for Money qn! i anyhow substitute numbers into the qn, hoping to get a few marks here n there. i din have the time to complete, as expected. i nvr completed my calculation-based papers before. this time round, it was of no exception.

Travel Agency Management

some unexpected qns, as expected. i'd done mental preparation before the paper, that i would encounter unexpected qns, general knowledge qns, weird qns, and so on. This was to prevent me 'suffering' from shock upon seeing the paper. haha. i kept writing and writing, not knowing if i had answered them correctly, and up to SCW's standard. i know, he definately wun be lenient at all. so, well. nothing to say.

Convention Management

same as above (TAM). except that, i cldnt crap as much as i could in TAM, cos i din know how to. in fact, i cant recall a single bit of CM paper right now, except for the drawing of floorplan. terrible. i'm so afraid to fail it, for i dun wanna see SCW nxt sem anymore. [but he's still our PTN nxt sem. stucked wif him since yr 1 sem 2. Gawd!]

Tourism and Hospitality Law

Strangely, unlike my other modules' revision, my butt could be glued on to the chair for hours when revising for law. i started revising airline law few hrs b4 my paper! I din study the casino law topic. when i looked at the paper, i thot, ok, not as bad as wad i expected (the only pp which made me feel this way!)

BUT...

my seat was in the middle, wif air-con blowing directly at me. at 1st, i thot i'm gonna be freezing and tt my hand would get 'chou1 jing1' (which always happen when i'm in a cold room)" but, since my hand din give me any prob for my previous 4 papers (strangely), i thot it shld be ok. However, halfway thru the paper, my right hand started to get numn, more numb and den chou jing! i cldnt write for a few mins. at tt moment, i wanted to request for a change of seat, but it would be v troublesome. so, nvm, i massaged my hand, while reading the nxt few qns. when it got better, i started writing again, but this time, my handwriting looked like those pri sch kids' writing. i cldnt control my pen well! i wrote v slowly. and worst still, got a qn i actually did correctly by identifying Lily as a trespasser, but i went to re-do it and changed her legal status to Invitee (cos i thot, since she's visitor of Tom, who's a guest of the hotel. she is considered as Invitee, thou at night, Tom wasnt with her and she went to the pool area herself. and i continued by saying since she's an invitee, hotel owes her great amt of duty of care, etc etc, and that hotel will be liable for her lost of earrings). i wrote until so shuang u know! and conrad said 1 more min left. i was left wif the whole of the airline qn [30 marks!]
Thus, i wrote a little for part (a), and 1 sentence for part (b), which is a 16-mark qn! Gosh. there goes my hope!

eeediotic hand, why happened during THL paper. Why not other pps like CM instead?! :-(

now tt i'm left wif ONE more pp: Mathematicss for Business, i hope i can do it well. as i'd mentioned earlier, i have nvr completed a calculation-based pp in exams b4. not even in my O lvl (except E maths paper 2)

i seriously hope my hand WILL cooperate wif me throughout my whole maths pp! If i kena a seat similiar to THL, OR if my hand really chou jing again during pp, i'll request to do the paper OUTSIDE the classroom, where there's no air-con! *Grr*

well, all the best for ppl (including me. heee!) having exams tmr and fri. :)

i cant wait~

2005-09-22T21:30:00.000+08:00

i wanted to blog ytd. in fact, i'd already typed halfway, but i decided to close the window, off the com, and went straight to bed.

i'm tired.

tore between the confronting facts, and my vexed emotions. (i shall not mention nw, to prevent me frm getting more vexed! den my poor keyboard will suffer..)

moreover, the incessant nagging frm my mum, sometimes when i reached home, makes my already fatigue day worst.

on top of all these, i'm in the midst of exams. 2 papers down. 4 more to go!

:'(

take me, take me away to a safe and peaceful place, away from chaos and confusions.

for all i wish for, is a peace of mind.

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*pause for minutes*

alright, on a lighter note,

i'm looking forward to next fri, the end of exam. but i only have 1 week break.
sat - xiusi and meihua's bday celeb
sun - children's day celeb at BL; chunhui and zhen's bday celeb
mon - hosp appt and visit attachment place
tues - JB trip wif my poly family

so i'm left wif wed till sat. i've gotta write intro letter or wadeva necessary things for my attachment company (so ma fan!). shall consult my LO abt that. and i think needa meet LO for briefing, signing of log book and etc.

so sorry ppl, i cant join u'all for any full-day activities frm wed. i need a day to ckean and tidy up my room. and i promised to meet jh one of the days. and of cos not forgetting... travelling arnd SG or having fun with my darling clone! hee :)

2005-09-18T21:24:00.000+08:00

finally, my wound at my ankle has stopped bleeding. it's recovering. v v itchy and pain ocassionally. cldnt scratch of cos, and cldnt ignore it, cos it is really v itchy, thus i "slapped" arnd the wound. hahaha.

i'd finally touched my GBE. one pathetic topic, which i dun really understand.

i only intend to study 3 topics out of duno how many topics. haiz.

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my tutee.. he changed the tuition timing without informing me in advance. this happens quite a few times already. grr. made me waste my time, waste my $ travelling. he wanted to change to 3pm, but i said 6pm! his concentration level was v low. kept saying 'i duno.. i duno', when i already taught him b4. every qn also 'i duno'. not that he really doesnt know, but he's so lazy to think. so i said to him "u really duno? ok, i shall explain to u all those words again."

he: yay. den dun have to do close passage later le, cos by the time u explain finish, time's up liao.

me: my agenda today is to complete blah blah blah. so, if i cant finish on time, nvm lor, i drag the time. cos i MUZ finish those today. den u have to drag ur dinner time oso lor.

he: okok, i do now.

he did diligently.. he knew how to do. den i asked him "thot u said u forget already?". he replied: "i suddenly remembered".

zzzzz.

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strange as it might seem, i duno wad exactly is gng on between one and the rest. a lot of 'complaints', comments and stuff. maybe the same 'encounter' as me? or maybe not? i'm not sure, and i dun wish to know.

2005-09-18T00:06:00.000+08:00

can someone take over me for my monday's GBE paper?

exams starting nxt week. 6 papers. every alternate day from the 1st to the last day of exam period. i haven touched a single bit on GBE (1st paper), CM (4th paper) and THL (5th paper). i dun understand the last few topics of FM (starting frm the wad Ki, Kp, investment portfolio etc thingie).

sigh. 15 topics for GBE (am i right?) i haven touched. i dun understand that module, thou it sounds like social studies or wad arh? haiz. i really duno. how i wish i wun be sitting for this paper. i slack thru this module w/o knowing wad it is, despite already completed 2 boring + freaking projs on Globalisation and Country Analysis (India). they were really KILLER projects.

actually i planned to start my GBE revision tonight. i went straight to topic 7, opened up and read, 30 mins later, i was still at the 2nd page, not understanding wad those greeks meant. i decided not to waste more time on that, so i switched to revising TAM. here i am online to see the lecture slides for TAM. the dl-ing was so darn slow! is it my com prob or wad? sigh.

tmr night i muz touch my GBE. easier said than done. i'm afraid i might end up switching to FM (my 2nd paper) instead. zzz.

i really see no link in why we, tourism students, muz study GBE. *yawnz*

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anyway, i'm posted to Vietlink International Travel. *sigh* i really detest sitting down in front of the com for the whole day. not my interest at all. but wad to do? try to adapt to it lor.

i hope i'll get to do more interesting stuff.

on a brighter note, my LO is not SCW! *phew!* heng arh!
not SCW, budden is his boss, Conrad De Souza! alamak. hope he wun be like SCW.
i wan Chen Yen Yin, i wan Andrew Gray!!! :'(

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was kinda pissed due to some wadeva reasons, which i dun wish to elaborate.

If wad u think is only to ur own benefits, ur own wadeva, how abt me? I, too, have exams ok. i needa study too ok. 6 papers are not "only" (unless u have more papers than me) it's a lot compared to my previous sems.

frankly, it's not really i have no time AT ALL. i can spare 1 or 2 hrs, but not whole day. but.. but.. sigh. forget it. i can try to help, but in another form. anyway, i hope i wun hv to repeat wad i'd been repeating for the past few days.

2005-09-13T11:40:00.000+08:00

Sunday [11-09-05]

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TO RENA! =D

a was boring day. i din go according to my plan for the day.

my initial plan:
1) give tuition at 12pm
2) attend funeral wake aft that
3) visit (or should i say 'ka-jiao') aunt wif cousin Jia Ying at her hse.

but the 1st 2 was cancelled, cos of my ankle, still cldnt walk properly. like a handicap :(
my mum forbids me to go out. but still, i went to my aunt's hse. was supposed to help me massage, but only applied cream.

had a hawaiian pizza feast wif JiaYing *yummy*

2005-09-13T11:09:00.000+08:00

Saturday [10-09-05]

BP-Mentoring 10th Anniversary held in SP
the day was fun! started off wif a surprise celebration for me by the comm. *Thank you so much!*

b4 the event starts, the games ppl were preparing to set up their stalls, registration ppl bz wif sorting those paper work, etc etc, Me and Stanley were bz taking pics arnd.

i was one of the ushers, ushering ppl to their seats etc. and also a 'photographer'.

den the event. we were, too, taking pics in the audi (haiz, so small!) Xiu si was helping me wif adjusting the brightness and stuff of my dad's digicam. hehz. the programme was great. esp the 2 humourous MCs :)

aft the event was reception, and followed by photo-taking (the badges photos taken by a professional photographer) some of the pics we took did not manage to be printed out. haiz. the one i took with Xiu Si, we waited for abt 30 mins, and we were told that our pics could not be printed out for duno wad reasons. so sad! :(

the heels we were wearing was kinda a torture! esp walking arnd continually the whole day. and i sprained my ankle twice, at the same area somemore! had to walk like a handicap aft that. zz.

nevertheless, i still enjoyed the day's event :)

xiusi and me

formal

informal

Mrs Lim and us

2 guards? =D

Yong Xin, Li Ying and Zi Hui with Barney and Tiger :)

Stanley, Zhan Hui, June and Lusi

Lusi, June and myself

registration ppl :)

the helpers :)

Jin Tai pri mentees :)

Yong Xin, the current President of the club, and me

pirated version of LJJ :P

2005-09-13T10:46:00.000+08:00

Friday [09-09-05]

xinhui was the 1st to wish me a happy bday by calling at 12.00am sharp, whereas huiwen's the 1st in msn. haha :)

woke up at 7am when i was supposed to wake up at 6.30am. so i was a little late for tutorial. it was a revision tutorial, so we were supposed to complete and show Ms Lee our completed work b4 we could leave.

received a very bad news when i was doing the paper. my closest frd's grandma passed away! sigh! :'(

moreover, i was also sms-ing my dear cousin Joanne, and Jie Hui when and where to meet. on top of that, was sms-ing xin hui and peiyi as well.

so during the tutorial, i was sms-ing and answering a call outside all along.

i din have the mood to continue doing my maths revision paper, feel like doing it at home, but i had to show it to her my completed work b4 i could go. so.. no choice but to DO.

anyway, as wad we'd promised to meet every yr on 09th Sept :)

the bday cake bot by xinhui to us. a surprise!

feng yi and xinhui

the 4 of us :)

2005-09-08T23:50:00.000+08:00

oh no. in another 9 mins time, it'll be 9/9 and i'll be 19! oh no. can someone help me stop the time now! i dun wanna be 19. i prefer to be stay as 18...

haven finished my maths tutorial! haven touched a single bit for exams revision, haven sorted out my modules notes and tutorials. oh no! i'd better start doing so on monday! sigh..

2005-09-08T23:10:00.000+08:00

Sunday (04/09/05)

Aft giving tuition at amk, went for an outing wif zhu. our theme of the day "Exploer the Eastern part of Singapore" hahaha.

we wanted to watch a movie. i msged zhan hui to ask if his bedok has any cinema. he took hours to reply (by that time we already finished lunch, finished watching our show, and already at simei). hahaha. we had mac for lunch at bedok, den watched One More Chance at Bedok too. darn funny the show!! haha.

aft that, we went to Popular at Simei to buy glue for wrapping pressies.

All the aboved-mentioned piaces are also available at Yishun. haha, but our aim is to 'explore the east' haha :P

by dinner time, i only had $0.45 left and zhu had a few cents left too. too poor to afford a meal at hawker centre. so we went to Mac (again! but this time at yishun) for dinner. haha. hmm redeemed pts 1 of cos :P

we shared a pkt of nuggets. below were 3 of the candid shots taken by zhu!

1) haiz, zhu are u taking a pic of me or wad?

2) making a wish?? haha. zhu, wad u doing wif ur cam?

3) haiz zhu arh, dun bother u liao, i sleep 1st!

hahahaha =X

oh yeah, btw, on our way home (on the north-south train from Raffles place to Yishun), there was a guy sitting in front of us. I saw him taking up his hp, positioning it in a way that he's like taking a pic/video of us. den kept adjusting his hp here and there while 'peeping' at us.. i knew sthg wasnt right. i guessed he's trying to take pics of us. so i stared at him! he saw me staring at him, thus quickily kept his hp in his bag, and took a magazine (called 'photoshop CS')out to read. he was only PRETENDING to read. his eyes kept wandering arnd, peeping at us. we both stared at him, he quickily looked at his mag! GRR.

we were talking abt him quite loudly, like "haiz, duno wads wrong wif his eyes huh" etc.. bet he could hear, unless he doesnt understand english! thus.. we took revenge! we took pic and even video of him too! the video has evidence of him peeping at us! haha. kena caught red-handed. of cos our photography skills were MUCH MUCH more better than him lah. we acted as if we were taking pics of ourselves (i posing here n there), but instead, HIM.

here, i shall present to u this SI BIAN TAI!!! =>

GRRRrrrrrr~~~~....!!!!! :@

2005-09-08T21:04:00.000+08:00

Saturday (03/09/05)

kids read in the morning. BBQ, proudly organised by zhu and kim, at night.
it was v fun. fun to meet up wif some of my sec sch sch-mates / st john frds. unfortunately, Rena (the other main character), Hui Yi, Sern Da and ah-chew din turn up. sadddded. as usual, pic speaks a thousand word. hee :)

starting the fire. (had a hard time setting up a fire. some kind souls were willing to help us :))

food!

wai preparing marshmellows *yUmMy*

Kim, my youngest meimei, wif her chkn wing. hehe

scandalous! wahahah!

zhu n wai :)

2 Ex-Secretaries of St John :)

YAN zhu + jia Ni = YAN NI (she's our production, that's why she's in the middle! haha)

wads Joseph doing?

ohh.. A "Mud-Pie"! haha :D

Kim, me and Apple

Joseph, Amberlin and me. quite dark thou.

3 sistas after bath :)

plus Joseph, the "super fan" and muz-have for our BBQs!

and finally, before we end the day.. my 'cake', bought by zhu and kim. it's really v nice! :)

had an enjoyable day :) thanks all!

3 of us + Joseph share cab home.
1st to alight: zhu (yishun)
2nd to alight: me (yishun)
3rd to alight: kim (yishun)
last to alight: Joseph (woodlands)

poor him, gotta send each of us home b4 he could go home. hahaha :P

2005-09-08T09:48:00.000+08:00

Friday (02/09/05)

szhi's and my bday celebration a Jap restaurant at suntec. aft a full lunch, was photo taking.. below are some pics we took. i'm so lazy to elaborate more. anyway, picture speaks a thousand words right? hehe.

My poly family :)

looks like 2 couples huh? haha

Rebecca, our class rep.

this pic is hilarious! seems like szhi was falling, and wenz trying to hold her. haha.

Kisses from wenz to us *muacks*

fake superstars. haha!

ok, tt's all for now. i shall post the wonderful bbq pics i had wif my sec + sjab frds tonight. :)

2005-09-02T20:56:00.000+08:00

Wed (30/08/05)

Conrad hotel interview...

the 1st interview with Ms Rachael Wah was ok. i dun feel nervous at all. it seemed like we were chatting rather than interviewing. she's very friendly. asked me quite a lot of general qns. 1 of the qns she asked was "since u have knowledge of abacus and amadeus, why dun u wanna join the travel agency industry, but instead, the hotel?"

my ans was "hmm, cos i dun really like the very standard working hrs. for eg, from 9am till 6.30pm, wif one hr lunch break. den all the while will be sitting in front of a computer booking airline tix or make reservations, and answering calls. that'll be very boring. but hotel is different... etc etc"

and another qn she asked was "is conrad ur 1st choice? why did u choose conrad?"
my ans: "actually, my 1st choice is Fullerton hotel, den followed by conrad..." (i shouldnt have said tt!!! argh)
she: oh, so u had been to fullerton interview?
me: hmm nope. my tchr gave me conrad and ritz carlton instead. i juz had my ritz interview few days ago.
she: ohh ic. so how was the ritz interview? haha. i'm juz curious.
me: haha. so-so lah. (dun dare to tell her how terrible it was!)

aft the 15-20 mins interview, she asked me to wait outside.

den 5 mins later, the HR manager came to me and asked me in for interview. i was like "huh? i thot i juz went in for interview?"

It was the 2nd interview!

situation was so different from the 1st. tensed. he asked me a lot of qns regarding my medical conditions, a lot in-depth. den asked me how has it affected me in my daily activities etc. (ahh anyway, i hope it wun affect my chance of being chosen as an intern)
aft that, followed by lots of scenerio qns. all very tough and tricky. (btw, which position is higher? general manager or manager?) argh. seems like he's not only testing my ability to ans, but also the hierarchy level in the hotel!

E.g. 1,
me: blah blah blah... i will inform the in-charge, ...
interviewer: which is?
me: (actually wanted to say supervisor, but hotel leh. i duno) hmm the person in-charged of my internship.
interviewer: wad position? manager?

E.g. 2,
me: ... i wun go directly to the manager, but instead, i'll go to the level higher than the buddy staff i'm attached to in the 1st week...
interviewer: level higher than ur buddy? which is?

E.g 3,
interviwer: guest furious.. wanna look for GM immediately. wad will u do?
me: ... ... call manager, and den ... ...
interviewer: manager or general manager
me: (rmb he said guest wanna look for GM) eh.. the General Manager
me: (manager higher position or GM?!) oops, sorry. the manager
interviewer: u sure?
me: (i dunno the organisational hierachy lvl leh!) yes, i'm sure.

is he testing my confidence level, or i said wrongly?

bleah! since wed aftn, i'd been hoping and wishing tt every vibration in my hp will be from conrad hotel! but no news abt it.. sigh. anyway, cant put too much hope on conrad. juz hope tt i wun be posted to those ulu Travel Agency far frm my hse.

Aft sch, went to meet Zhu, Eunice and Anna at NYDC outside heeren. Eunice's treat! (that was my lunch + dinner) haha, THANKEW EUNICE! anyway, everytime i see Eunice, her hairstyle will be different. haha. wonder wad will be her nxt hairstyle? haha.

Zhu and I went to take pics at a new print shop at Northpoint! heh. fun fun! esp the weird pose we thot of. hehz.

Friday (02/09/05)
szhi and my bday celebration at suntec. had a really full buffet lunch at a jap restaurant. we cldnt finish some of the food. (the other table was worst than us. hahaah. tsk tsk tsk =P) so we did some 'shou jiao' to those food =P

aft the super full lunch, was photo taking outside the restaurant. it was crazee! haha. i cant wait to see those pics! esp the one where szhi looks like she's gonna fall onto huiwen, and huiwen was trying to hold on to szhi!! (actually the pose was that huiwen supposed to propose to szhi wif a flower! haha!) so funny!

den followed by movie. Herbie! nice show! :)

went to comex and food fair at convention ctr wif meihua and regina aft movie. kinda crowded. haiz!

anyway, THANKS so much for the programmes of the day. i truly enjoyed it. and also the pressies!

how i wish my lavenders wun fade! maybe i shall laminate the buds and do a bookmark (when it fades). ;)

tmr shall be another day of fun!

kids read programme in the morning. i din go for the past 2 weeks, cos of the mentor bonding camp and ritz interview respectively. i missed Elton, and i bet he misses me too. hehz =P

aft that shall go buy food for bbq

and night time will be BBQ at semb park wif some of my sec schmates. Will be abt 10 ppl. sern da juz told me he cant make it tmr. so last min. sigh. but nvm la, he got family dinner i think. sad sad.
and that joseph arh. never reply sms one leh. haiz.. hope he rmbs to bring wad he's supposed to bring tmr.

i'm so looking fwd to it now. gonna be fun, fun and more fun. hehe :D

2005-08-27T20:11:00.000+08:00

i din know how to go to Ritz-Carlton Millenia hotel. it was 11.45am. the interview was at 1pm. i meet Azlin at 12.15pm. i was afraid i couldnt find my way, so i took a cab. $15.40. freaking ex k! the cost is equivalent to the journey from my hse to SP!! i reached at 12.30pm cos of the traffic jam! haiz. i should have taken MRT to cityhall, den take cab to Ritz from there. Azlin called me at 12.20 and said she'd reached but din see me. i told her i was still in cab.
den i saw the hotel "Carlton" and i told Azlin i was reaching already. but strange, the driver din stop me there but drove past. i told the driver "excuse me, i'm going to Ritz and it's there (pointing to Carlton hotel) can u stop me at the lobby pls?"

driver: *slowed down* eh, u wanna go to Carlton Hotel or Ritz-Carlton hotel? they are 2 different hotels.
me: *blur* ohh, it's called the Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore.
driver: yeah, Ritz-Carlton is at the millenia walk there, abt 5 mins frm now.

when i reached the lobby. there was a staff who opened the cab door for me, he smiled and said "Gd aftn ma'am, welcome to the Ritz-Carlton". i was den greeted by 2 ladies at the entrance. one who opened the door for me, and the other who asked me where i was heading to. i called Azlin and we decided to meet at the front desk. so i told the lady tt i wanna go to the front desk. she escorted me to the front desk. she asked if it was my 1st time to Ritz. i nodded. so while walking to the front desk, she "intro" me some places etc.

*at the front desk*
she: do u have any person in particular that u;re looking for?
me: yes, Ms Agnes Thio of the HR Dept. but i'm waiting for my frd here 1st
she: ohh. do take a seat over there *leading me to a sofa* while waiting
me: it's ok, she's coming to the front desk now. thank you very much
she: my pleasure! btw the HR dept is at the other side, if later u're going, u can approach our staff, we'll be pleased to guide u there.

wow. no wonder it's a world-class cum 6-star hotel in singapore!

5 mins gone and i still din c azlin. i msged her and said i was at the front desk already and asked if she's reaching or wad.

she called me and said she was also at the front desk! we din see each other. den she asked me to go over to the shop near to the front desk. but i din see any shops. only lifts. she even asked me if i was at the wrong counter or wad. cldnt be wad. the staff lead me there de. so i asked her to ask a staff.

she called me again and said "shit. i am at the wrong hotel. i am at Carlton hotel, not ritz!" she quickily took a cab to Ritz. haha. see! so confusing right. Carlton and Ritz-Carlton. one is world-class hotel, the other one i duno. hahaha. haiz.

interivew was.. hmm yucky! her expectations are so high. she's very straightforward. haiz. sounds stress working at Ritz.

their motto is "we are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen". she asked me to explain wad tt means. -.-'!

haiz. i can forget abt anticipating their 2nd call for 2nd round of interview le. :(
hope Conrad interview will be better. i definately need more than juz luck! *pray hard*

this coming wed 10.40am. hope everything will run smoothly.

for those who're gng for sentosa interview on wed 4.30pm, Good Luck!!! :)

2005-08-22T19:27:00.000+08:00

2 weeks of hiatus. not that i have given up my blog. I have so much to blog abt actually. but bcos...

1stly, i dun have that much time to pen down wad's in my mind
2ndly, since i update my diary around once a week, i dun wanna type amost the same thing in my blog again.
3rdly, this is a public blog. thou there's a lot of things i wanna say, but i cant type as freely and as open-minded as wad i wrote in my diary, cos of some reasons.

Stressed. Tired. Headaches.

have been sleeping past mid-night, arnd 1+ to 2am these few days, thou my doc instructed me to be in bed by 11-12pm. my mum keeps using the following to 'force' me to slp, latest by 12am:

"Doctor says blah blah blah...",
"if u dun slp, nxt day u wun hv energy, den u will blah blah blah..."
"ltr u faint again like last yr, den blah blah blah..."

argh. can she stop bombarding me wif all these? i know she meant well. but i have to complete wadeva part b4 i could sleep! u think i enjoy staying till late nights working on projs and stuff? i'm not a fast worker, i need time to think, to analyse, to absorb. that's me. i slow in everything in nature. u cant rush me to do sthg, this will only add on to my stress level. but of cos i know the dateline. i'll definately complete it within a specific dateline.

have been piling up probs n tolerating wif remarks and wadsoever since duno when. sometimes i knew wads gng on, but i juz pretended i dunno anything. being ignorant. for some things, it's better not to know than to know it and den get upset over it, right? an acid-tongue u have sometimes, wadeva u wanna say, it's alright. afterall, it's ur mouth, i cant control anyway. some trustworthy frds told me "make ur stand.. do only wad u can to ur best ability.. voice out ur feelings.. u're a human, u have ur own rights.." blah blah blah. well, i dun believe in 'arguing'. i dun wanna create unhappiness among others. so i chose to remain quiet. but my patience is limited. dun worry, no offence, no ill-intention, no nothing.

juz like an inflating balloon, gonna burst anytime soon. control! ren!

anyway, 2 projects are submitted. left with 3 more freaking ones, plus FM test this coming Thursday. i dun even know wad my lecturer is teaching, and recently i din do my tutorials, i really catch no ball. and where the hell can i find time to study for it, if every day is gonna be project day?! gonna study wad i can on wed, squeezing as much as i can into my puny brain. haiz. wish me luck man!

today's supposed to be GBE country analysis project submission dateline (by 5pm), but cos of some reasons here and there, we din manage to submit. *SIGH!!!* luckily, my tchr, Andrew Gray, is kind enough to extend the dateline for us. hope he doesnt penalise our marks. but even if he does, there's nthg we can complain abt. it's our fault(?) for not handing it up on time. haiz. :(

A really "last-min" and confusing project i shld say. Ytd, i realised tt we hadnt done risk analysis, recommendation, conclusion, executive summary, contents, acknowledgements, references and appendices. How are we gonna hand up like this?

sometimes i wonder if this is really a group project. everyone does our own analysis on each environmental factor. person 1 doesnt know the progress and wads gng on abt person 2's work, and vice versa. Project meetings will be gng to lib, each doing our own part on own com, den go home.

I thot project meetings are supposed to be like.. everyone of us sit down and discuss on each part, make sure everyone knows wad is going on (not juz a few) and den allocate tasks? and if anyone in the grp faces any difficulty or has any doubts, the others will help to think of possible solutions / consult tchr, and not juz work on our own parts and the rest of the parts all "i dunno lah"? In this way, the stress level can be greatly reduced, right? cos at least u know someone is there when u need help.
that's team work isnt it? or am i wrong? if so, i'd appreciate if you could tell me the defination of proj/proj meetings den?

1+ more week. juz one more week b4 all the projs are being submitted and presented!!

aft tt will be study break and den EXAMS. our exam time table is out.

Module ~ Date ~ Time
GBE ~ 19 sept (mon) ~ 6 - 8.10pm
FM ~ 21 sept (wed) ~ 9 - 11.10am
TAM ~ 23 sept (fri) ~ 9 - 11.10am
CM ~ 26 sept (mon) ~ 9 - 11.10am
THL ~ 28 sept (wed) ~ 2 - 4.10pm
MFB ~ 30 sept (fri) ~ 2 - 4.10pm

1st day of exam period till last day of exam period. how "lucky" can this be. bleah.

30 Sept. i'm looking fwd to this day! aft that will be 1 week of "holiday" before the start of my 5-month attachment on 10 Oct. the one week of holiday will be:
- hosp appts (which i'd postponed to),
- catching up wif my dear frds! muz-muz! (promised meng ching to go out wif her 1 of the days, jiehui, hope she's not too bz wif her projs and stuff :), xinhui, peiyi )
- "adventure" wif clone / 3 sistas (hope it's not their exam period)
- tidying my room
- Sleeping =P

[ oh btw, i am posted to Conrad Centennial Hotel / Ritz carlton Millenia. (fr attachment) not sure which 1 yet cos i haven went thru the interviews. hope i get into either one (preferrably Conrad). thou so sad i wasnt posted to my 1st choice fullerton hotel! but anyway, wish me luck :) ]

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alright, on a much lighter note.. i had a great time wif my cca frds on sat. the Mentors Bonding Activity @ ECP. it was fun. Dennis and i went to Shila's hse to help prepare food (thou i'm a medic cum photographer) cos it was too early. Both of us left at 12+pm, cos the event started at 1pm. Dennis was a game station IC, and me (and Lusi) are medics.

unfortunately, it rained in the aftn, towards the ending of the games.

Lusi and I din manage to take much pics, cos we were attending to a sick casualty near Mac (which was abt 15 mins walk away from our shelter). 15 mins to and fro Mac, and abt 20mins waiting for Stanley to cycle the freshie, who wasnt feeling well, back. so abt 1 hr gone.

bbq was great too, unfortunately, i cldnt eat much of those bbq food, cos i juz recovered from slight fever and sore throat few days earlier. i cant afford to fall sick as i still have 3 projs + presentations to go.

there was 1 freshie who accidentally cut her finger quite deeply, that blood kept oozing from her wound continuously, dripping to the ground. her hand was filled wif blood too! at 1st i thot she cut her hand and the wound was v big. but nope, a small but deep wound. i used alcohol swaps to wash and apply direct pressure to her wound, but the 1st aid box only had 2 really SMALL alcohol swaps! i used detol to clean the rest of her fingers, which hurts (from her expression). *ouch* but luckily the bleeding stopped after a short while :)
hope her finger is alright now.

b4 going home, some of us sat at the beach taking photos. haha. posing here and there. fun fun!

To the mentors who were present: i'd already uploaded the pics and sent to the gmail. do take a look and tell me which pic u like the best ok? hehe :)

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that was the day which i enjoyed myself, without touching on projs, tutorials or any sch-related stuff. nothing else but only fun.

not tt i was too free, juz tt.. i needa break from my hectic schedule :)

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that's all for the time being. i know it's a real long entry. if u managed to read word by word thus far, congrats! :)

2005-08-06T22:25:00.000+08:00

Ytd's visit to the High Commission of India was erm.. ok lah, useful to a certain extent. but i still cant find all the info i wan for my economics analysis part, like wage level, price stability, cost of living, standard of living, income distribution, consumption patterns, estimated market potential. argh!
those lots and lots of statistics really turned me off. *yawnz*

night time, went to watch 'Charlie and the Chocolate factory' with zhu, zhaoyan and charlotte at Yishun GV. it was a nice show! esp those yummy chocs. the waterfall, river, all made up of CHOCOLATES! like omg. chocolates! hahaha :P

today, went to kids read as usual. but today it was diff! i was away outside the room discussing sthg wif shila, den when i went back to my mentee, Elton, i saw tears welling in his eyes! i was so shocked! the mentor, whom i asked to accompany my mentee for a short while, gave him spelling, but he din wanna do spelling. and the mentor insisted on giving spelling, so he cried. (thats wad i heard frm the mentor la) haiz. but luckily it was only a short while. shila and i managed to sweet talk him a bit, den he smiled liao. -.-'! haha

aft that went to suntec wif zhu. den to conrad hotel to explore. we din really explore the hotel, but enjoyed slacking in there. we went to the swimming pool area to c ppl swim. there were this korean/jap father and son, so cute and funny! haha

nxt we sat at the sofa at the lobby. there was a pianist playing on the piano, while we took a nap there. hehz. so comfy.

overall, conrad hotel is small, and lesser guests as compared to fullerton :P
i'll still choose fullerton over conrad, despite the housekeeping dept in fullerton. i hope i WUN kena F&B and lounge. but chances are slim la. sigh. shall see how den.

tmr, actually was supposed to go to my er gu's hse with my cousin, jiaying. but i have to go sentosa wif my CM grp members for project, to choose a suitable venue and etc etc at sentosa for our planning of 'corporate fitness day' event.

hopefully it wun take long, so tt i can still visit my aunt aft tt :)
hmm.. i'm so sorry Jiaying, if not, nxt sun or nxt nxt sun ok? :/

juz realised i had postponed my hosp appt (cardiac) from XX june to nxt fri. luckily NUH sent me a letter of notification, if not, i forgot to postpone again. i'm gonna postpone my cardiac and the wadeva appts all to october, aft exams. my '1 week break b4 attachment' hahah :P

haiz. wk 1 was over! those projects are driving all of us to nuts! (esp the GBE country analysis project!) heeeeelp!!

2005-08-04T22:48:00.000+08:00

it's juz the start of Term 2, and time flies. week 1 of this term is ending. it means that projs submission datelines and presentations are drawing near.

MFB submission = wk 2 (nxt wk)
MFB presentation = wk 2 & 3

TAM submission = wk 3
TAM presentation = wk 3 & 4

THL submission = wk 4
THL presentation = wk 4 & 5 (hmm i'm not sure abt this)

GBE submission = wk 4
GBE Presentation = wk 5 & 6 (or 4 and 5?)

CM submission = wk 5
CM presentation = wk 5 & 6

FM CA2 = wk 4

i'm not 100% sure if all the aboved schedules are accurate. lazy to take those projects' papers out to dbl confirm rite now..

on top of the aboved projects datelines and presentations, of cos i've arranged for some fun-filled activities..

rebecca's bday celebration on 12th aug (wk 2)
mentors mass bonding activities @ ECP on 20th Aug (wk 3)
steamboat feast wif my 3 dear sistas :) :) :) (wk 4)
szhi n my bday celeb on 2nd sept (wk 5)
bday celeb by zhu on 4th sept (wk 5)
surprise bday celeb for pei on 9th sept (wk 6)
mentoring 10th Anniversary at NP on 10th sept (wk 6)

and also..

kids read on every sat, aft that, a reserved day to go out wif my darling clone :)
amk tuition every sunday (he can really make me laugh and grr till -.-'!_ aft that depends, either go out wif frds or visit my aunt wif cousin JiaYing :)

hehe. at least 2 activities per week. great! my extra time will be proj discussions, visiting wadeva companies/indian embassy.. if got more time, either go out or slp. :) :)

the TAM proj, my grp is doing on Turkey. the names of the places, hotels, and even the capital cities are v diff to pronounce. some in turkish! omg, guess we'll have a hard time when doing our tour package promotion (presentation).

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hmm.. projs aside 1st..

my attachment list is out on monday. 23 companies in total, we have to choose 12, and ranked them from 1 to 12. I'd decided on my 1st choice. but it only allows 5 vacancies. so 2nd and 3rd choices are equally impt. i'd already chosen 12 choices, but duno how to rank them.

i wanna check out the actual location and working environment b4 choosing. (for my 2nd choice onwards) haiz. confused arh.

nxt, the resumes.. my CIP thingie. duno how to write for my sec sch. i had completed 29 hrs of CIP in sec 4. it was only stated in report book, but where were the records?! no records = nothing! i only have sec 1 and sec 2's records.. and my eeeeeeediotic sec sch din give us a testimonial. Grr.

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hmm b4 i end, i shall reply my tags here (duno why i cant tag at my taggie!)

jh: join mentoring club! den we can meet during major events like the coming 10th Anniversary! hee hee!

xh: u take care too! rmb our surprise plan arh? hahaha. anw, gd luck for ur As, jia you, but aft As dun come and bug on me. i'm on attachment. haha!

Si: yeah lor. how u on the air-con tt time de arh? we see here see there v long leh. haha. nxt time u help us on and off k? hehe :P

2005-07-31T21:25:00.000+08:00

my com is FINALLY in its working condition. hopefully it remains like this.

today's the last day of my 1 week break. *sigh*

besides projs projs and more projs, i'm glad that i did at least enjoy my 1 week break :)

TUESDAY EVENING, i went to the chalet @ ECP, organised by the yr 1 mentors, with Piriya. Stanley brot us there. we reached the chalet at abt 7+pm. 1st thing we did = EAT! haha. the freshies were so gd to us, kept 'zhao dai-ing' us. so, Piriya, Stanley and I very 'bu ke qi', sat down to chat and eat. we were chatting abt our projects stuff. piriya was saying tt she has 7 projs! she's taking the same course, same option as me. but last time, i had 6. phew. 7 projects were like omg! her 'Eco-tourism' project is really tough. gd luck man. i cant help her on that proj, cos my grp got 59% for our 'medical-tourism' proj. but but.. 1 gd thing for her is... her tchr is NOT that kiwi! so gd. she even had wad 3D2N stayover at a frd's hse, not to have fun, but 'projects marathon' omg! really v stressed! as for me, haiz.. that GBE project is enuf to kill. bleah. stanley only had 2 projects. tsk. win liao lor. he muz have really 'enjoyed' listening to our grievances. could see that he was so stunned by our workload.

ahh. enough of those projects. i told piriya "tonight, we shall forget all abt projects. lets enjoy! the word 'project' doesnt exist in our vocab" :) :)

den 3 of us played bluff with shu hui and he lang. piriya was the best 'liar', followed by me. YAY! *muahahaha*

THURSDAY
... was project day! went to sch for maths project discussion from 12 to 3pm. we finished it within 3 hrs. juz tt we haven compiled. yay. we're efficient :)

aft that, went to Wei Liang's hse for GBE project. hmm.. seriously i dunno wads gng on for GBE. cos i haven been listening to lectures and tutorials. why muz i study GBE? why?! i have totally ZERO interest for this module lor. wad country analysis project. so sian. argh. anyway, i was very sleepy at wei liang's hse.. cos i slept for only approx. 5 hrs the night b4. *yawnz*

FRIDAY
...was F.U.N! played badminton at Hougang sports hall with szhi, xiusi, huiwen, meihua, azlin and hafizah. it was v fun! hehz. aft the badminton session, we went to hougang mall for lunch. den i followed szhi home. to bath and put my racket at her hse. hehe.

aft bathing, we went to PS for movie. Little Brother. it was a very touching and sad show. sigh. a story of a cancer child who had brain tumour, and how he fought with his illness. unfortunately, his ward-mate 'woon' passed away. so sad! the story setting, the treatments they underwent and everything reminded me of my cousin who died of brain tumour too. T.T the smile on her face when lying on the bed, those words she said to me are still so vivid in my mind. T.T

SATURDAY
Kids Read programme in the morning as usual. only a few turned up. most of them couldnt make it. sigh. some left early. Firdhaus too. left wif only me and some freshies. we had a HARD time figuring out how to OFF the aircon. *xiusi arh, help!* haha. den debrief session. one freshie complained to me abt her mentees, liping and de xiang. very hyper and noisy. haha. other than that no prob. hehz.

aft kids read, i went to Chan Bro travel agency to take brochures. i had a hard time finding my way there. duno why i ended up at subordinate court. i asked the 'guard' (is he a guard?) he route to Fookhai bldg. he said opp chinatown point (actually it should be BEHIND). so i believed him and crossed the road. it was a BIG mistake k.. ended up at duno which hotel.. i asked for direction again. this time the guy said behind chinatown pt.. aft walking round and round, i finally found my way there. it was drizzling somemore!

nxt i went to Raffles place to look for Ananda Travel agency. i toured around the area and ended up at CHIJMES. still cldnt find tt agency. i suspected tt it might have moved or wad.. so i gave up.. went back to yishun.. CC to look for zhu. hee :)

actually cres wanted to meet me at PS on fri evening, but in the end din, den he suggested sat, but i said nono cos initially i was to meet zhu. so sunday. but since zhu was bz on sat, we changed our plan to sunday. haha. too bad lah cres.

the msn conversation b/w me and zhu were funny. haha. anyway, zhu, dun worry lah, u WON'T get them as ur 'jiefu' de. rest assure u WON'T! haha.

SUNDAY
haha. went for tuition as usual. haha. this time my tutee did the homework i gave him. great! den he kept asking me wad reward i'm gonna give. i replied "wait till u get at least 55% for ur english den say" haha. aft lesson, i gave him 3 vocab exercises. he complained that i usually gave 2 assignments, why today 1 MORE? should be 1 LESS instead, cos he did his homework, muz reward him. -.-'

met zhu aft tuition. she's such a darling clone to pei me to ananda travel agency main branch at Thong Teck Building at orchard. we din know the way there. zhu suggested we go Borders to look for street directory (since there's no internet access)

when we reached that building. we were told that Ananda has either moved or closed down! argh!!! wasted trip again. damn. ANANDA TRAVEL is the travel agency that i know of, which specialises in Meditteranean countries!!! there goes my 'hope' sobs.

the guard at that building said the business was very poor, v little customers, so maybe closed down. ahh.. i guess so ba.. since it only specialises in meditteranean countries like turkey, greece, jordon etc.. sounds boring right? those places dun interest me at all, if i were to choose, i wun choose to go those countries too. haha :P

i'd enjoyed 3 days continuously already. it was so great! take it as a break. a break from all other things (my projects, my fan nao etc) KJ was right, i should take a break. :)

hmm.. i have to get back to projects tmr. *yawn*

ahh. i suddenly have the urge of ponning sch tmr. tsk!

*brain wash*

2005-07-18T16:16:00.000+08:00

The last time i blogged was 10 days ago, using the BIT lib com R6-09.
Today, i got back the same com again. hehz. but the difference is.. this time i'm not using my own log in account. I forgot to bring my admin card. argh. and WeiXin is so kind to lend me hers. Thanks Wei Xin. if not, i gotta rot for 1.5 hrs before meeting zhu at yishun.

nthg to talk abt for the past week i think, except for sat.

We (xiusi, szhi, meihua and I) went to tiong bahru's Ya Kun for breakfast before the 'Meet-the-Parents-session' event. *yummy* think none of us finished all of our food except for xiusi, rite? hehz

the event was quite ok. After briefing the student helpers on their roles and position to be stationed etc (i'm in charge of group B and C) the 4 of us, logistics (Yvonne, Vicky, Mei Hua and I) went patrolling to make sure that sufficient no. of ppl were positioned at the station, and also to make sure they dun 'eat snake'. Meihua and I patrolled from Gate 7 all the way to the MRT station's gate, while Vicky and Yvonne patrolled SB and gate 3. heez. tiring but fun.

aft the 'talk', was the tour around Sch of Biz. quite bo liao. saw some parents taking pictures here and there. hmm as if SB is v nice. -.-' haha

everything was ok. the food that was chosen by the 2 teachers wasnt very nice, except for the otah. haiz. and bcos of those tchrs, there goes my cream puffs. haiz.

aft the event, went to celebrate kennedy's bday at esplanade. initially it was raining, but luckily, it stopped soon after. phew!

we sat under the light, with the cake in the middle. there're supposed to have 1 big candle and 9 small candles (19 yrs old), but the cake shop aunty gave zhu 2 big candles and 8 small candles!! (28 yrs old!) haha! so we asked ken to choose whether he wants '18 yrs old' or round off to '20 yrs old'. he chose the former of cos. haha.

the cake was chocolate, chosen by zhu! with cherries and 2 strawberries on top. the chocs flake was yummy!

while we were eating the cake, we heard a loud 'bomb'. it was the fireworks. (the NDP rehersal thingie was going on) haha. we quickily went to take pics. ken was waving frantically, running here and there, asking me to take pics of him with the fireworks. but frankly, i was too engrossed wif the fireworks, aiming the camera at the best position.. that i din even bother him. haha.

I had 1 pic with nice fireworks, and at the bottom of the pics, were 2 hands waving like crazy. like, u know a drowning person, with hands above the water level, shouting for help desperately? yeah.. similar to that. HAHA! den there're a few nice firework pics, with ken's face kena 'chopped' into half. HAHAHA!!

think he was too excited abt it that he dropped his cake on the ground!! wahahahah! i'd taken a pic of that too. shall post those pics when i'd uploaded them.

actually, we planned to go to the merlion aft that. but ken wanted to help his bro buy a big ring file, so we went to MPH to search for it. none was suitable. luckily zhu has it at home, so problem solved.

seeing that ken was so tired and sleepy (he kept yawning), we decided to go home, and come back next sat.

oh yeah, going for a steamboat at marina nxt sat too. aft a big feast, can go for a walk along the waterfront to merlion. yay. to burn off the calories too. :)

yay. looking forward to nxt sat! heeheez

the time now is 4.45pm, i still have abt 35 more mins, before i went off to meet zhu for dinner.

oh yeah, have been seeing zhu almost everyday since last monday. except for friday and sunday, rite? hmmm... haha.. who says 'one will lose contact wif close frds aft gng to diff sch/separated?' haha :D

ahh. anyway, my hse com's rotting. i can only on up to 10 minutes, and it will pass out. the com repair guy said he's currenly bz, so i'll have to wait for abt 2 weeks or so b4 he can come to rescue my com. sigh. life without com is so inconvenient. moreover, i dun have any lab lessons this sem. so sad. i can only use com during breaks or aft sch. sigh.

next week will be my 1 week break. but..but.. got workshop to attend, projects to do etc, wad kinda holis is this. haha. but of cos, i wun forget to ENJOY! haha.

oh yeah, Xin Hui!!! nxt wk's my 1 week break. peiyi too i think. and u haven told me if u're free. humph. =P

i'm going on a hiatus again. shall blog when i have free time in sch, until my com is back to normal again. so, for the time being, try not to miss me too much. hehz.

to all my friends, cousins, clone and my dear readers, all the best and good luck for ur tests, projects, reports, and everything. =)

2005-07-08T12:05:00.000+08:00

finally, a free day for me..

free day as in, no prog for today, no needa stay back in sch for wadeva things, nthg! juz for maths lesson, that's all. hehz.

right now, i'm waiting for chuan hai's lesson to end, cos we're meeting at clubhse for 'econs session'. ahh.. not sure if i can still remember my yr 1's econs knowledge. hmm, first few topics are ok, but the rest, think i returned to Mr Sin already. haha =X

will be gng home early today. nan de mummy's at home the whole day and i end lesson early. hehe.. =)

will be bz again nxt wk, 2 boring tests, the event meeting, do brochures, briefing etc. right now, i'm not gonna think abt all these.. i wanna enjoy today, and most importantly, to recharge my energy and brain cells, cos most of them were being used up this wk.

TAM test was v tricky. some of the qns were out-of-the-notes questions. sian. anyway, used to it already lah, kiwi always sets difficult and general knowledge questions. bleah.

FM test was still ok, initially i was afraid tt i wun be able to complete the paper. but i did. hehz. formula sheet was given, so dun have waste brain cells to memorise the formulas. heez. when i opened up the paper, straight away i skipped all the theory-questions. haha. aft i finished doing the calculation-questions, den i came back to crap thru those theories. haha.

aft one day of TAM & FM tests and chan-brothers presentation, i went to meet zhu at cityhall. had a great dinner, and walked arnd raffles city for a short while b4 gng home. =)

2005-07-04T14:54:00.000+08:00

okays.. i haven blogged for some days, cos my com is still in coma. i've no time to bother abt my com these days, maybe i shall get it fix during my 1 week 'break'

so now, i'm in school using com. lesson's supposed to end at 4pm, but bcos SP won some competition or wadsoever, our director decided to celebrate by giving us half day off. so we ended at 2pm.. hmm.. half-day off should be 12pm right, why 2pm? humph!

i stayed back to compile GBE report, and i'm done. except for the appendices which i print tmr. yay. finally done! thats why i have the time now to blog. hehz :)

saturday's CSSC duty with Marzuk and a student union gal was not that bad. it was supposed to be boring (as wad many of those who went described), cos our duties were to do registration work. i.e. when students came in, we have to record their names, and the time-in. most of them were here to use computers. we had to allocated com to them, maximum 2 hrs of bookings. other than that, we had nthg to do. (thats why they said it was boring). haha. but we brot our notes/tutorials to do. meanwhile, we chatted and explored the CSSC. some of the children are cute. esp the indian siblings. the brother was v KPO. while waiting for computers, he went over to the counter and disturbed us. he kept imitating wad marzuk said..

Marzuk: ok
boy: ok *standing at the counter*
marzuk: bye
boy: bye *still standing at the counter*
marzuk: u can go now
boy: u can go now
marzuk: u're parrot arh?
boy: u're a parrot arh?
*pause*
marzuk: i very stupid (sthg like tt)
boy: i'm not stupid!

hahaha!! we were expecting him to repeat after marzuk. haha, but he's too smart!

and there were two sec 2 boys, who were v rude. when the student union gal went in to inform him that his time was up, he scolded vulgarities at her. grr! den minutes later, he came out, wanted to extend his booking. but i told him that he couldnt, cos maximum can use for only 2 hrs, and if he wanted to continue using, he had to wait till a later time. at least let others have a chance to use. but he argued back and said "can wad, u allocated me to another com lor, den start again for the 1st hr lah". i told him it was Mdm Tan's instruction. marzuk added that "if u dun believe, u call Mdm Tan, u wan me to help u call and ask her?" This time, he gave up, and said "aiya ok lah u'all win lah"

humph!

anyway, had a feast with zhu at chinatown. haha great, except for the ice-cream. hahaha, which made us so full that we feel like puking when we see food.

aft our feast, we toured around chinatown, thinking of evil plans for kennedy's bday! like wad trick to use etc.. haha. hmmm. we have some evil ideas in mind already. heh heh heh.. =P

sunday morning, went to miaoyan's tutee's hse to tutor him. 1st session.
that boy has a great sense of humour, likes to joke, but not serious in his work. i am supposed to teach him english, but he kept talking abt china thingie, tang shi (poems) etc. -.-'

btw, he's a prc. v gd in chinese, scored almost 100%. maths abt 90%, science 70+%, but his english, 38%. wad a great contrast yeah?

i went thru a worksheet with him, abt anonyms (hmm the opposite word) for eg, when i said 'tight', he has to say 'loose'.

me: popular means well-liked by ppl.. so wad's the opposite of 'popular'?
he: haha. so easy!
me: ok den tell me wad?
he: not polular!
me: huh?
he: not - space - popular => not popular
me: -.-'

i asked him to speak to me in english, if not i gif extra homework (juz to scare him). so, he obeyed and spoke to me in eng. halfway thru (when he was telling me stories abt china), he was stucked and said "ok now i speak to you in chinese" den blah blah blah (in chinese). i said "horhor. u use chinese, later gif u extra homework". he quickily replied "but before that, i told u that i'm going to speak chinese already". DOTS! like tt oso can...

haha.

aft that, i met xiusi, szhi and meihua at chinatown. (yes, again!) this time not for a feast but to visit Chan Brothers travel agency to do our TAM research tutorial. we took quite a number of brochures, esp me! hehz =P

so, my weekends were spent at chinatown. haha.

alright, it's already 3+pm, i'm gng home for a nap den either do tutorials or study for thur's tests. 2 tests on the same day. *yawn* and so far, i only completed chapter 1 of TAM. oh no! think i better get gng. byeee.

2005-06-28T12:49:00.000+08:00

my com's dead. but at least its owner is still alive.

GBE presentation was over. *phew*

but..but..but

another GBE proj is coming up. sthg like country analysis. *sigh*

i'm gng for GBE lecture soon.

bye

2005-06-22T17:29:00.000+08:00

my hse com is dying again. argh.

why muz my com always break down when i need it most? why?!?! haiz.

the 'event' meeting juz ended. i was changing the admin nos of those Yr 1s, cos there were mistakes. 1000 letters in total, 2 of us in charge of changing the admin nos, 5 were in charge of folding those letters and putting them into envelops, and xiusi was in charge of stamping. sounds like factory production line yeah? haha.

i wrote until hands ache, neck ache, back ache. *big yawn*

aft that, i checked my hp. 6 missed calls (within 1.5 hrs) from 6 diff people! one of them was my hse no. i called home and my mum answered. i was expecting my dad to ans, cos my mum's out to work during this time. but anyway, my mum's voice sounds v different, so soft and so.. erm.. i duno how to describe, juz not like her. I asked her wad happened, she said 'nthg lah, not feeling well, dun stay in sch so late, faster come home'. i asked her if she has cooked my dinner, but she asked me to call home later at 5.45pm. not anytime before that. she sounded like she was in a hurry to put down the phone. hmm sthg's not right.. haiz

anyway, i'm only here to edit a little on my GBE part and to send my grp members.

everything's done now. i gtg too.

i wan my com to be well soon!

2005-06-17T21:24:00.000+08:00

have plenty to write about this week actually, but i was feeling so tired every night when i reached home with heavy eyelids.. that i could lie on my bed and fell asleep immediately. *big yawn*

shall recall the main highlights of some days.

14/06 (Tues)

Lessons from 8am to 5pm. damn tiring. i was late for 8 mins. i reached Dover station at 7.59am! i walked briskly + ran.. but halfway down the escalator near the gate there, i slowed down my pace. cos i remembered "it was Chih Wee's Lecture". so i thot to myself "chey, i was still very early lah". haha. i reached MLT 9 at 8.08am. usually, lect begins at 8.05am, but for this particular teacher, 8.15am is considered early.

when i stepped into the LT, guess wad? so few ppl were inside. and HE came in at abt 8.15am, and as usual, he dilly dally here and there. hahaha.

aft sch, mei hua, siok zhi and I went to chinatown for dinner. Meihua was craving for her 'char kway teow', szhi for her 'fried ice-cream', and i wanted to try the 'rojak stall'. but to our great disappointment, all these 3 stalls werent opened! argh. suay. so we went to a nearby eating place for dinner. the laksa and chicken horfun/noodle taste gd! but that uncle very talkative. too talkative le. hahaha.

15/06 (Wed)

b4 fm lecture... we were waiting outside the tutorial room. while waiting, meihua, szhi and I played a childhood game 'er-ling-wu'. haha. fun. huiwen came and replaced meihua aft that. den aft that me and huiwen only, we played 'sissors paper stone' loser will be slapped by the winner on the overleaf of the palm. wah, she violent sia.. hit until my hands so red. haha. look at the photos on szhi's blog entry!

went for a briefing on the 'meet-the-parents-sessions' event for yr 1s, which is on 16th July (one mth away). i'm in the committee of 10 ppl to organise this event. i'm in-charge of outsourcing and briefing of students helpers. we'll be putting up notices soon. those interested can submit give us their names. hehz.

straight aft the briefing, i went to meet zhu at cityhall. we went to suntec for our early dinner. we wanted to go to marina mandarin aft that, but we ended up at the oriental's. hahaha. we walked in thru the wrong entrance (leading to the ballroom). think there was an event on, cos there were a quite a no. of ppl who were dressed up in formal business attire. and imagine 2 blur gals in their t-shirt and jeans walking in with lots of question marks in their heads? yes, the 2 gals were US! a staff in his formal attire approached us and asked if he could help, and where we were going? i was like "huh.. err..err.. the front desk.. ar nono, the lift lobby". he's so kind to show us the way :)

we went to the changing room at level 5. there were lockers there, with keys inside! thus, clever us made use of the lockers to put our bags inside, and off we went to explore and slack around, acting like tourists staying in that hotel. haha. hmm. the Oriental's is small but elegant. the staff there are very polite. we walked past a room or sthg, den there was a guy (he looks younger than or abt the same age as us, maybe on attachment ba) in his formal attire standing outside the room. when we walked past him, he greeted us "good afternoon, ladies" with a smile. we felt so honoured. hahahaha :)

aft our 'tour', we went back to that changing room to take our bags. i wanted to shower, but din bring clothes. hahaha. hmm so we washed our faces. handtowels were provided. self-service. haha, aft using the hand towels, we.. erm.. hahahaha. *sheesh* =X

it was only abt 6pm, we insisted on gng to the marina mandarin, so we tired to find our way there, but seemed that all the ways are blocked. argh. so we gave up and went suntec's starbucks n slacked n chatted till abt 8pm. :D

16/06 (Thurs)

stared at the com from 4.30pm till 12.20am. in between, 1 hr dinner break and 1 hr off to do maths tutorial. *eyes pain*

17/06 (Fri)

my proj grp members n I went to Wei Liang's hse to do GBE proj. he lives 3 bus stops away from me. hee hee! his 2 hamsters are so cute! the male one is so hyperactive. weiliang kept playing wif him, but left the poor pregnant female one alone in another cage. He held on to the hyperactive one so tt i could touch it. i kept looking at the hamster v closely. hmm juz LOOKing only. den meihua thot i wanna play wif it. she held on to hamster and wanted to put on my forearm, i quickly siam! weiliang n meihua laughed at me.

szhi left at 5pm for her PCK show. haha. meihua and I went back to the same 'laksa' stall, which we had for lunch, for our dinner. we ordered all other things expect those we had for lunch (laska and dessert). haha.

din know meihua's such an expert on FOOD. she can be a 'mei shi zhuan jia' hahaha.

alright, tt's all for this entry. i gotta get back to my GBE proj soon, and den sleep! :)

2005-06-11T21:22:00.000+08:00

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY TO JUNE!!! =D

today's great!

Kids Read Prog

only Elton was present, the other 2 of my 'kids' were absent. anyway, there were only 11 kids and 9 mentors, so most of us take one kid each. one-to-one is easier. hehz. we read the book on 'sweet sweet memory'. i read one para, and he continued another.

aft that, was 'drawing time'. i asked him to draw the scene of a zoo. aft he drew an animal, he showed me and asked me to guess the animal. one of the animals he drew was supposed to be a monkey. he drew a tree with a erm.. 'monkey' on it. he asked me to guess, and i cldnt figure out wad animal it was. but it really looked like casper (the friendly ghost), so i said 'casper arh?' he laughed and said 'monkey'. hahaha -.-'

he's so cute. oh yeah, i was so surprised tt he still remembered my name, considering the fact tt i only took him for ONE session (2nd session), and for the previous session (3rd session) he was absent. i asked him 'do u still remember my name?' he nodded and said 'Jia Ni'. wow. surprised. i'm so touched. i promised to gif him a choc nxt session. heez. :)

while he was drawing animals, I, being bored staring at him drawing, decided to draw sthg too. since he used his right hand to draw, his left hand was 'free', and i was sitting on his left side, so i put his left hand on the right side of a piece of blank paper and traced his left hand. aft tt, he traced mine on the left side of the paper. i wrote his name on his hand, and vice versa. haha. FUN! stanley said the pic of my hand looked fat. hmmm... hahaha.

Badminton wif Yan Zhu and Kennedy

badminton session wif zhu and ken was fun. haha. ken's badminton skills dropped. becoming lousier liao. hahaha. i rmbed his badminton skills was gd last time when we play wif him de.. haha or isit we improved le? haha. but he kept saying tt he 'rang wo men de' dots..

1st round was zhu & i VS ken. (if im not wrong, we won right?)
2nd round was ken & i VS zhu. (zhu won! wow)
3rd round was zhu and ken VS me (they won. but hey, 5-4, i wasnt tt bad afterall. hehz)

we played for 1.5 hrs, den sat down chat chat. he treated us Green Tea each. hahaha. we were wondering since when he's so gd de? haha. but chey. got favour to ask from us de. haha. he needs our help in writing 2 appeal letters to NTU and NUS biomedical sci. zhu chose the NTU one, which requires 50 words. less words but challenging, cos needa bind the pts within the 50-word limit. the NUS one, which i'm helping, requires 300 words. lengthy, but can crap a lot. ahh.. anyway, i haven started to think abt it. still thinking of how to start off the letter, dateline, tmr early aftn. dots.

he said if he managed to get into navy, and succeed in entering to either NUS or NTU biomedical sci course, he'll treat us to a meal each. haha. so aft that, zhu n i was planning a list of 10 places, and den evaluate each of them. so conclusion: sakae and ice-cream buffet! hahaha.

zhu juz sent him an email with the list of the 10 places and an evaluation of each of the 10. on top of tt, we came up wif terms and conditions, and a contract which he has to erm.. 'sign'? hahaha. that was veh funny. i was laughing my head off while reading the mail. and the title of the email was 'NTU Appeal letter. v v impt'. hahaha. i cant imagine his reaction when he opens the mail.

imagine him being so anxious and delighted when he receives an email titled "NTU Appeal letter. v v impt", den he quickily opens up eager to read. den aft reading a few lines, his mind will be filled with DOTS.. and den continued reading until he sian diao, eso towards the ending, and the 'signing off part' (yrs sincerely; yanzhu, the evil pig =P) HAHAHA. that's v lame. zhu, can u picture his expression? HAHAHAHA~

oh no, i cldnt stop laughing!

think i better help him think of his letter now.. 300 words. argh. i wanna slp! :P

2005-06-10T16:16:00.000+08:00

i just reached home. still v early. it's only 4.10pm now. heez..

i love fridays!!! :D

the 'catch-up' session with JH was amusing. before that i told her i might be late, cos i rushed home to get her cd-rom b4 gng to meet her again.. but i was early, i reached at 1.20pm. so i waited for jh at the 'map' there. since my calculus book and jacket was quite heavy, i went to the staircase area, wanted to put my things down. while walking towards the staircase, i saw jh at the escalator, i waved at her, assuming tt she would see me, cos she was looking at my direction (but she din). den a guy behind her, duno if he thot i was waving at him or thot i siao, waving to nobody.. he kept looking at me, and behind him, and when i was walking towards jh (i.e near him) he smiled at me and waved. HAHAHA!

and.. and..

the most amusing part...

when i was near jh, abt 2 meters away.. i wanted to scare her from behind, or in front of her.. but she looked towards the station control direction and quickened her pace, so i ran and tapped on her shoulder from behind. she stopped, looked back and stared at me blankly! (shld haven taken a pic of her expression-less look yeah?). i din know why but she stared at me blankly as if she din know me.. at that pt of time, i thot i recognise the wrong person . but no, it's her!

abt 2 seconds later, she 'EH' surprisingly at me, and gave me a stunned look.
i was puzzled and i asked her "i changed a lot meh? u cant recognise me arh?"
Den, she looked at the station ctrl area, den at me again.. and suddenly burst out laughing! i was more puzzled.

den found out tt she was the one who recognised the wrong person. she thot the gal standing at the station control (with back facing us) was me. cos she said her back view resembles me (hmmm, tt gal was taller, her hair was straighter, and she wore striking yellow. since when u see me wearing striking colours de? haha!) and her devious plan was to tickle me from behind, hoping tt i would scream (haha, u think i'll really scream arh? haha!)

hahaha. i shouldnt have tapped on her shoulder yeah?.. cant imagine if she really went to tickle that yellow gal, den wad will happen? how will the gal react? HAHAHA!

den i told her abt me trying to wave at her to catch her attention, but ended up she din notice me and instead the guy behind her waved back to me. -.-'

so we were laughing at each other, den we ended up at suntec (we din plan to go suntec). i asked jh where were we heading to..
she replied "how come we're at suntec arh?"
me: dunno leh, i followed u de
jh: i also followed u one leh.

-.-' so we ended up at Gelare, cos v few ppl inside.
i ordered chocolate chip ice cream, but how come my chocolate chip ice cream doesnt have 'chip' one arh? and it doesnt take gd. bleah.
jh ordered banana walnut ice-cream, and it tastes weird. bleah.

still remembered last mth, zhu and i went to Gelare at tampines mall to slack. we ordered ice-blended mocha. it din taste gd either.

so, nxt time, dun go Gelare, not only their drinks taste bad, their ice-cream also.
hmm..

anyway, we din really get to talk much, cos of time constraint, moreover, we kept laughing. also, jh kept complaining tt her hair is so short. hahaha.

hmm.. maybe we can have badminton session tmr with Kennedy. haha, provided if he can make it lah. if not, den as wad zhu said 'no yuan fen' haha.
juz called him, but he din pick up his phone.. should i give him 99 missed calls? HAHA.. nah, i'm not tt bad, maybe 9 missed calls are enuf. hahahaha

oh anyway, my voice is supposed to be fully recovered le. but how come today during maths lesson, i'm still a bit voice-less? and oh yeah. i was laughing and suan-ing jh, den suddenly no voice.. hmm.. heck lah, at least, at this moment, i'm perfectly ok. hee heez.

wad a long entry.. i'm sitting back and typing away like nobody's business. typing typing and typing. so shuang. good form of exercising my fingers too yeah? hehz. haha, so reluctant to leave. my fingers are in love wif my keyboard, how?

quite sian now. i'm chatting with zhu, yan ni and shun cai in msn now.

yan ni asked me who is the baby on my display pic. i said 'my son'..

<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
dang mama le nv sms me
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
never come and congrat me arh
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
haha
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
go ur baby man yue
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
yeah, he juz man yue
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
born on 6th may
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
hahaha.
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
k congrate
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
haha
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
thanks. haha -.-'
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
where ur hasband
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
who huh
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
tweety bird lor. hahaha
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
chey
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
v.funny lor
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
then ur baby should be small tweety ma
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
haha
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
he resembles me mah, cannot meh
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
haha.
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
but he doent know how to fly leh.
佳 [ - ilovefridays - ] 霓 says:
sad lah
<> 只有承认自己的不是...才能发掘自己的力量！ ..... says:
oh sad ar
etc.. etc..etc

haha. that's lame. hahaha.

she thot i'm in yr 2 now..
saw yusof and jefferson few days ago in train. yusof also thot i'm in yr 2 this yr. i told him yr 3, he doesnt believe me.. i said 'i 2 yrs older than u leh, u yr 1 now, so i yr 3 lor" hahaha.
nvm, i'm still young. but ytd was on the phone wif zhu, and she was complaining how old we are liao. and kept saying we're so old now, esp me, cos i'm 1 mth plus older than her. GRR! haha :)

*yawnz*

think i've exercised my fingers enuf le, time to go off, maybe to slp a little before my mum's back. so should i iron my clothes now.. there's a pile of it. ahh, this shows tt how lazy i am this whole week. sigh. think i shall iron it aft i wake up from my 30-min nap. heez :)

oh, how can i forgot to announce this...

i haven touched a single bit of chocs from last tuesday till yesterday! 10 days leh! wad an achievement! hahaha! :D

2005-06-10T11:26:00.000+08:00

i've finished lesson. now is only 11.20am.. early right? hehz.

i'm waiting for zhanhui to end his lect or tutorial, so tt i can pass him things. as soon as i pass him, i have to go off le. supposedly meeting Jie Hui at 1.30pm at city hall, cos she ends work at 1pm. thot i'll have a lot of time to rot in sch 1st, but argh! i forgot to bring her cd-rom AGAIN! sigh. so i'm going home later to take the cd-rom, and have to leave le. if nthg crops up, and i can meet zh at 12pm sharp, i'll be able to meet jie hui at around 1.30pm. hehz. hope i wun be late. if not... =X

she ends work at 1pm, and she has to give tuition at 3pm at bishan. so bz. only 2 hrs break in b/w. hmm...

jie hui said she highlighted and cut short her hair recently.. hmm duno if i can still recognise her anot.. considering tt i haven seen her for more than 5 mths already.. (or is it less than that? hmmm)

kennedy keeps asking zhu and i out for badminton, and complained that we always tell him "next week lah" and when next week comes, we'd again say 'next week lah' haha. we had postponed it since duno when. haha, too bad lah, we 2 very bz one. haha. maybe tmr evening ba? hahaha. :P

haha ok, zh ends lesson le, i gotta rush le. cya :)

2005-06-09T23:33:00.000+08:00

Happy belated 19th Birthday to my pri sch frd, Mei Hui. her bday was ytd. :)

Happy 12th Birthday to my darling cousin, Lynnette :)

i juz received a msg from Lynnette, saying that she'd received the pressie and card which i'd sent her.

hee heez so happy :) :) :)

i guess i've recovered from my flu and cough. now still has a bit of sore throat. my voice is back to normal le. :)

hehz.. went to Harbour Front to meet my darling clone today. din see her for more than a week le! haha. ahh anyway, we went to shih lin for a super early dinner? den slack at mac to chat chat... den home sweet home.. hehz :)

tmr's friday! finally. i'd been looking forward to fridays. cos only 3 hrs of lesson. and it's MATHS. heez. 9-12pm, thats all. yay.

jh was asking me to meet her tmr, but she hasnt confirmed wif me!!

tmr my mum will be at home for the whole day i think.. thot of going home early to pei her, or go out wif her aft sch.. but heard tt she's going out wif my aunt. hmm not sure.

or maybe i shld go home and pack my things, tidy my shelves and cupboards, and clean my room?

ahh... shall see how tmr ba.. jh better confirm wif me by 11.30am tmr. heez.

2005-06-07T09:37:00.000+08:00

i'm juz feeling bored. having a 1 hr break now. *yawnz*

You Have A Type B+ Personality

B+

You're a pro at going with the flow
You love to kick back and take in everything life has to offer
A total joy to be around, people crave your stability.

While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity.
Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's done
You're passionate - just selective about your passions

Do You Have a Type A Personality?

	Friend Bear You are everyone's ideal friend because you are sincere and genuinely kind. Sometimes you worry about your friends' problems so much, you forget about your own responsibilities, which can get you into trouble. For you, it's the little things that really count. You also happen to be the main driver of the Cloud Car. No speeding!
*Take the Which Care Bear Are You?* Quiz!**

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to obedience and warmth.

In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored.

You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage as something that will confine you. You are afraid of marriage.

In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

2005-06-05T21:36:00.000+08:00

this is so infuriating. i'm sick right now.. its so terrible. my nose is stuffed, my left ear is blocked, my throat hurts, my voice is getting worst and i'm having a splitting headache.. argh

as i'm typing this, i'm coughing away.

the phlegm in my throat is so irritating. i can neither cough out nor swallow it. i've been drinking a lot of warm water le.

think i'm addicted to the smell of 'feng you', over this weekend. i kept applying it to my forehead throughout the night. cos i was having headache. a gd substitute of my headache med.

i applied it when

1) i had spliting headache / headache etc
2) i had flu
3) i felt giddy
4) after i vomitted
5) to keep me awake (i know tt's a bit out of pt. haha)

i slpt in the afternoon.. from 2pm till 4pm, den from 4.45pm till 7.30pm. so i slpt for a total of 4 hrs and 45mins.

i'm slping in another 20mins time.

guess i better stop here, my eyes are watering.

2005-06-05T13:46:00.000+08:00

i'm sick, terribly sick, since tuesday. *sobs*

last week was cca week. we managed to recruit 94 members :)

but we only need 40.. hmm, have to interview them or give them trial session, den slowly eliminate them. heh heh :P

ytd's was my nephew's, Ethan, full month. went to da jie jie's hse in the morning and left at around 1+pm, cos i had to go back to sch for FO Camp.

Ethan's so small, so cute, so soft.. :)

i met Shi Ya at Dover at 3pm.. the rest of the mentors and freshies were at West Coast Park playing games. *I wanna play water bomb!!!*

we went to clubhse slack wif the food people-in-charge. haha.

the night hunt was alright. Lusiana and i was in charge of 1st aid. so we did patrolling at 12am till around 1am, together wif Zhan Hui. the tunnel was scary and so dark =X

anyway, the camp was quite a sucess. at least their efforts werent wasted :)

i'm so tired now, gng to slp soon, shall type again when i have the time to.

2005-05-30T21:49:00.000+08:00

i juz reached home. so tired. esp today's lesson started at 8am. *yawn*

i was so happy when chih wee cancelled his CM lecture tmr. so we start at 10am tmr instead. yay. but..... i still have to reach school at 8am, to do posters. *sobs*

i still have 6.5 more reports to do (dateline this wed). any kind souls out there to help me type? i'm straining my eyesight.

today's 'business' at mentoring booth was terrible. only 12 recruits signed up. and none of them is interested in FO Camp. some said they're still considering. so sad.

i was stucked in SAA office when i went up, supposedly to ask ms lim to photocopy more brochures... but when i stepped in, and before i could speak, she brot me into a room, with Shu Ling, the ex-treasurer. den she told me abt the problem regarding the money spent at chalet 3 wks ago. *stressed*

after that,we had a debrief cum meeting at clubhse... we discussed abt the money matters 1st, den think of ways to attract more ppl to booth...

anyway, mentoring's booth is located in the middle of nowhere, no place to hang our banner, no fan, so stuffy! argh. so unfair!

haiz. anyway, tmr morning has to design posters etc...

hope we manage to recruit more ppl. *jia you* :)

2005-05-29T10:32:00.000+08:00

i detest last minute information. and this always happens. wad to do? i hate to cancel my planned activities.

my plan wif ytd was
1) morning: kids read programme at BLCC
2) accompany my mum to expo's food fair
3) meet kennedy aft that to help him in preparing for his uni interview
4) home sweet home

but i was informed at 11+pm the night before that there would be a meeting and nxt batch committee interview the following day (yesterday). i had to be present. it was from 2pm to 5pm. after the interview, was meeting.

so meaning to say, i had to cancel my afternoon activities, which was to accompany my mum to expo's food fair and to meet kennedy :(

but since both the interview and meeting were impt, so.. no choice right.

***********

ytd was 'mentoring day'

i woke up wif a headache. i din slp well throughtout the night, cos the pain was terrible. i restricted myself from taking the 'miracle pill' cos i already taken one the week before. so i could only bear wif it.

i din wanna go out ytd. not to kids read, not to the interview, not to accompany my mum out, not to meet kennedy... i felt like sleeping, felt like resting and be alone at home. but again, the interview was impt. if i go for the interview, i might as well go kids read in the morning.

so... i went to kids read programme at BLCC in the morning.

the session wasnt as interesting as i thot it would be. cos 2 of my mentees, Elton and Dian were absent. so i took Alfian and Meng Keong. these 2 boys were very quiet ytd. initially, they din even wanna read, so i made a deal wif them, each one read one paragraph, including me. the 1st book was simple, a story abt pig de. one page one sentence that type. however, the 2nd book was more cheem. "hansel and gretel' i read this book during my 1st session to Dian. she found it interesting, and when i asked her to explain to me wad the story was abt, she was able to do so...

so, i thot these 2 guys will also understand, since they're all in pri 1 (or 2?)

unfortunately, they din.. they din seem interested at all. when chuan hai asked them wad the story was abt thus far, they shook their heads. i was very tired that time.. so i asked him to take over. he had a hard time making them to speak up too. so we called wen ke for help... hmmm this time, the boys spoke up... haha, he's pro. he ad his tactic. HAHA!

oh, i like Stanley's and June's mentees. they are so obedient.. hmm.. haha.

aft the kids read programme, we went to pizza hut @ Jurong Point for lunch. i had to go off early to prepare interview questions.

i reached sch at 2.15pm, faezah was alone in the clubhse. and omg. the clubhse was in a big mess. argh! i shall clean the clubhse one last time in june b4 i officially stepped down.

the interview started at 3pm.. it was ok, not bad.. the nxt logistic is
somehow confirmed already. yay! haha. pres and vp also. more or less confirmed, except for some. still pending.

during the interview, i was the one writing down the answers given by the interviewees.. 11 of them.. write until my hands 'turn sour'. luckily Faezah brot a recorder... so we record all the interview conversation down. i can listen it at home, and add in those pts which i missed out during the interview.

11 'reports' to do. argh. help!

aft interview was meeting. den we went to Clementi for dinner, and back to sch again for the trial run for night walk. the night walk was tiring. i felt very unbalanced, esp when walking down the stairs, i had to hold on to railings. and when walking on ground, i felt tt the left side of the land is slightly higher than my right side. juz felt so unstable. haiz.

and the tunnel at W5A was so dark and long and quiet and eerie.. =X

well, anyway. tmr's sch reopens. sigh. i somehow dun have the mood to study. i need more rest, i wan somemore holiday. this holiday's really too short and too packed.

i hate my timetable. monday 8-4pm, tues 8-5pm. and wads worst, i start my 8am lesson on both days wif the tchr i detest, and end my tues lesson wif him too. worst of all, he's teaching me 2 modules! both as lecturer and tutor. omg! i cant believe my luck man. guess he's gonna be my PTN, since he's teaching TWO modules. mind u, it's 2, not 1. gosh.

2005-05-27T10:43:00.000+08:00

ahh, it's raining now.

*rain rain go away
come again another day*

i'm gonna to expo later, the food fair, and den movie at J8, and lastly dinner with cousin Hui Min :)

mummy is asking me to accompany her to the food fair at expo tmr. haha. so think i'll be going 2 times... hehz, i dun mind, i love gng to expo, i duno why. haha.

i'm talking to Pei Yi in msn now.. she's having attachment at IBM at Tanah Merah area. wow.. big company sia. stress. she's sick, but still have to work.. sigh. poor her, hope she gets well soon :)

oh, PeiYi said there's chocolates at the food fair. OMG, CHOCOLATES!!!!! yes! i definitely wun miss it. *yUmMy*

the new comm mentors are meeting today, for the trial run at West Coast Park and sch. it'll be fun i guess. hehz. :)

yay, tmr got kids read programme at BLCC. haha, gonna have spelling session wif my 3 'little kids' again. yay!! :D

the rain has stopped! GREAT! see, juz nice. :D

2005-05-27T01:19:00.000+08:00

:)

came back frm chalet ytd morning. chalet was rather slack, but we had fun playing games, esp MONOPOLY! haha. i won the 2nd round! haha. Zhao Yan kept saying me 'SBC' and 'holy shit' hahaha! i shld have counted how many times he said tt to me. haah. moreover, he kept calling me "yanzhu's clone". hmm, so i'm known as 'yanzhu's clone' there. hahaha. interesting.

the way zhu and zhaoyan pissed each other off was interesting. haha. i was sitting in between them and laughing. oops =X

both of them said they're used to pissing each other off almost daily..
and zhao yan added "only weekends, we got break" HAHA!! =X

hmm i was kinda stressed during the 2nd nite of chalet. Nthg to do wif the chalet, it was my own problems...

pressure! from both sides. sigh.. seriously stressed.

but in the end, i chose to follow my heart, and i was glad i made the right decision. :)

den ytd's mentoring meeting was quite ok.. as per normal, with the new comm mentors. talking abt the passing down of positions to the new comm mentors, i guess wen ke is having 2nd thots abt it... he wanted to reshuffle the positions again. alamak.

oh yeah, did i mention tt the new comm mentors are more lively? haha. oops, i din mean anything =X

the meeting ended at around 9pm, we went to Jurong East for dinner... reached home at abt 11.30pm. i ran all the way home after alighting frm the bus. =/

today's badminton session at yishun cc was FUN. esp aft drinking POKKA GREEN TEA... hahaha. we had more energy. haha, 2 against 1. me and zhu VS ch. haha.

den we went to TTSH for erm.. lunch? den chatted for quite some time there.

i went to Ward 9C to look for some of the nurses who cared for me during my stay last yr, but sad to say, some of the nurses transferred ward liao. Nurse Jenis was off-duty. oh btw, she's online now. night shift today. she's in the ward now.. haha.

the time now is 2.06am, and i think i better get to bed. if my mum comes in anytime frm now, i'll be dead. haha. *shhh*

shall blog again when ni'm free. hehz.

wann an :)

2005-05-22T08:54:00.000+08:00

why are those wordings in my blogger in chinese? and they not those simplified chinese! i simply trial and error... dots. does anyone know how to change the language to English?

i had an enjoyable outing on Thursday with my 3 sistas, zhu, kim and rena :)

we took a lot of pictures too :)

we went to PS for a movie.*house of wax was so gross, n the sound effect towards the end was terribly loud*

aft that, we went to Fort Canning Park.. we din explore the park, just climbed halfway, and den climbed down. haha.

we then took bus 143 to Toa Payoh for dinner. zhu n i was sleeping on the bus.. she slept on my lap. looked so shuang. haha, luckily my legs werent numb, or else she gotta carry me down the bus! haha!

the nxt get-togther for us will be in SP. pizza hut for lunch! hehz.. was thinking of Friday, but have to see rena's timetable. Rena, pls send me ur timetable asap!! :)

ytd was 'mentoring' day. i went to Boon Lay cc for the kids read prog. to take pictures! haha. i took over 3 kids, Elton, Alfian and Dian. Dian's V V V CUTE! :) they're all in Pri One! aft reading 'eat up, gemma' to them, i asked them to draw fruits on paper. aft the 'drawing' session, we had a 'spelling' quiz. i was like 'everyone, lets spell fruits' den they spelt it... elton spelt fruits as 'FRIUTS' i din realise the mistake and i still said v gd and told him to write it on a paper. it was until June turned back and said "fruits spell wrongly, supposed to be 'UI' not 'IU' " hahah. =X thanks June for spotting the mistake...

aft that was meeting. from 2pm till 6+pm!. wow. that was long. we discussed abt the CCA Week, FO Camp and the 10th Anniversary thingie. heard from Chuan Hai that the total time allocated to me for the cca week is 16 hours, whereas for the others, they 'work' an average of 11 hrs per week. wah.. imagine standing at the booth for 16 hours a week promoting mentoring... hmmm. haha! nvm, i shall share some of my 16 hrs with Shi Ya, but she isnt in Singapore now..hmmm... shall wait for her to come back :)

aft meeting, Puay San, Kai Kit and I went for dinner at JP. u sat down and chit-chatted for quite some time, den walked around till abt 9.15pm b4 gng home.

oh yeah, ytd morning when i opened the door of my hse (when i was leaving home to boon lay), i saw my neighbours standing at the common corridor looking downstairs. i thot they were like looking down for fun.. den when i stepped outta my hse, locking the door, i saw many ppl looking downstairs from the opposite block. i was puzzled abt wad was going on. but i din bother to look down, i was rushing time. den my neighbour told me someone, frm the 9th storey (the unit below mine), committed suiside! i was like 'huh? serious?' but as usual, i cldnt be bothered, i ran down the stairs, den wah! the whole area was enclosed surrounded by policemen and some on-lookers.. and a so-called 'tent' wif a ..erm.. corpse inside? eeks, i din dare to look, i was trying to get out, but the area was enclosed, i was somehow trapped, so i walked the long way (1 big round), towards the lift den back to the stairs there. haiz.

anyway, nxt wk, i'm rather bz as well, except for thurs, but i have to go sch on thurs to collect certs for the mentors from a person named Doris.

oh no, wednesday's schedule is v disorganised. zhu's class chalet (aloha changi), reg's and xin's bday celeb (town area) and mentoring meeting at 6pm at clubhse, dover! oh no.

actually i thot of leaving the chalet for a while to go for the celebration, den go back to chalet again, but the celebration will end rather late, abt 10+pm? i dun wanna go back to aloha changi alone at that hour, i duno the way too. so i thot of leaving in the morning, go home bath and rest 1st, den go for celebration. gd rite?

den now, there;s mentoring meeting this wed. the majority wants it on wed, so we fixed the nxt meeting on this wed (25th) from 6pm-9pm! we shall be discussing abt the 10th anniversary etc, so it's an impt meeting.

argh! why muz it be on the same day and worst still, same time!

=S

haiz.. shall see how 1st lah huh..

hmm zhu will be coming to my hse later. and my box of ice-cream is waiting for her in the fridge now. haha :D

2005-05-17T10:56:00.000+08:00

YAY! my com has finally revived! after like 2+ mths!

WHEE!!! :)

my holiday was fun! travelling around singapore, from north to west to south to east den back to north. how interesting and fun can that be? hehz.

this wk, i'll be quite bz wif mentoring stuff.

ytd was fun too (besides the 'meeting' part)! we were doing banner, posters etc. i only painted a bit and my hands and pants were filled with a bit of paints everywhere. ahh! no thinner to wash off! my wallet is also stained! but luckily my innocent tweety is safe and sound :)

we did from morning till 9pm! was quite tiring. we made some mistakes when doing the banner, thus we had to re-do. i only help in painting. we still haven completed the banner, hav to back today to do. hmm.. later.

i still have to plan the 'time-table' for the Freshmen Orientation camp. yay! it's gonna be fun! :)

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2005-04-18T15:40:00.002+08:00

i'm back...

in school, main lib.

my hse com is still in coma. sigh. dunno wads wrong sia. but i think it's the internet problem. i'm gonna change the password soon. suspect some hackers! grr.

yay, exam's over, i'm gonna fail the ttp main paper (50%). it sux! bleah.

now's holiday. till 29th May. i haven really planned my holiday yet. got quite a few things to do...
mummy will be back from shandong on wed morning :)
gonna meet xinhui on friday :)

Next Week
wed and thurs got class chalet :)
fri got hosp appt (VS):(

the Week after Next
fri, sat and sun got mentoring camp/chalet.
it's for the year ones. we're looking for potential new mentors. ahh! i'm in charge of food again. alamak. but anyway, i'm only in-charge, doesnt mean i have to do everything. it's the year one's job. hee hee hee!!! :P
hmm, i wonder who shall be the suay person to be the next logistic. muahahaha!!

hmm, those are some impt dates. the rest, haven really confirmed or planned.

*yawnzZzZz* so tired!

juz cleaned and 'mopped' my cca club house. Luckily, Szhi the erm.. kind Angel, is willing to help me. hee, so i dun have to clean alone. we wore masks cos it was so dusty! haha. imagine us wearing masks while tidying the room. luckily the astro ppl din peep in, all else, they'll have a good laugh!

as usual, we played a bit of badminton. :)

hehz, i juz saw my cousin, Cai Feng. she juz graduated and she'll be starting work at an optical shop (hmm am i right?) opposite Lido. hehz, shall visit her when i'm free :) thot of going there to check my eyesight and make a specs, but she said the specs there are very ex. cos their target markets are those ang mohs, or rather non-singaporeans. sigh.

alright, i gotta go now..

good luck to Clone, kim and joseph for their upcoming exams.

JIA YOU!! :)

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2005-04-18T15:40:00.001+08:00

2005-03-12T17:15:00.000+08:00

hey ppl, sure miss me right?

my hse com died.. sigh..

me at my clone's hse, also my hse..

sama sama.

haha... haiz. lazy to blog now, wait till my com is completely well den i blog again.

gotta rush my EPI report. sigh.

good luck ppl...

duno when my com's gonna get well..

so meanwhile, try to miss me as much as possible. HAHAHA

=D

2005-02-08T13:17:00.000+08:00

juz came back from YSS.

the celebration ended at 10.30am, but we met at 11am.

so we came at the "right" time, where the teachers were leaving. haha.

we tour around the whole sch.. yss changed a lot. really a lot.

everything is changed.

even the theme. it used to be green, all green, everything also green..

but now, all blue and white. sigh.. so nice.

how i wish i was born later. haha.

we saw our sec 4 form tchr, Mr Look. chatted for a while. he kept 'wow-ing' when i told him wad my course is abt.. he said nxt time when he wana travel overseas, he'll come and find me. HAHA!!!

we saw our maths tchr, Mrs Phua too.

she was still in the HOD room when all the teachers left, the whole sch was so quiet le..

she was still doing her work. planning the time table for the school.

she said 1 of her maths dept tchr left, so the whole time-table have to be changed.

poor her, she had to finish doing it b4 she could go home.

she invites us over to her hse during CNY. haha. yay.

maybe we'll go on fri nite. haha. =D

*yawn*..

i'm so sleepy now. later still have to help to mop floor.

*yawn*

think i go take a nap 1st b4 my mum nag me to help her do things. haha.

byee..

Happy CNY eve =D
oh no!

haha..

2005-02-06T23:56:00.000+08:00

omg! juz received a damn sad news.

1 OF my sec sch's classmate's parents passed away, in a bike crash accident.

juz only!

and he's the only child!!

omg.

it's damn heartbreaking, esp CNY is nearing!!

hope he's alright now.

-praying for him-

2005-02-06T23:32:00.000+08:00

ytd's open hse was quite fun. but quite boring also lah.

haha.. contradicting rite.

i was at the information counter.. alone!

rebecca was at the convention ctr giving out leaflets? (so gd, got air-con)

szhi was near me at the music station.

her job was mainly to adjust the volume only. tsk. like how slack lor. haha.

think she too sian or wad lah, she called my name using the microphone, duno how many times sia. the speakers are centralised 1 i think.. the whole convention ctr and areas outside the convention centre can hear. she hor.. grr! haha.

she was bored, so came to my booth to join me. haha.

hmm.. i'm not suited to be at the info counter lah. i duno anything.

nobody told me any info. i din know anything at all.

ppl asking me questions like "i wanna know abt the film and media production, wad sch is it under?"

(i was thinking: got this course 1 meh?) haha

szhi guessed its the mass comm, so told her it's under the sch of business. bleah.

there were also questions like 'how come the sch of CLS doesnt have tour?' or 'is there any tour for the sch of CLS?'

(like how i know??) den i anyhow crap and said, "if u wanna know more abt the CLS courses, u can visit the CLS booth at the convention centre"

bleah.. all anyhow crap 1 la.. haha.

wad a lousy info counter. :P

ohh.. the SPINNOVEX was awesome.

there were displays of Final Year Projects. wow.. really remarkable!

2005-02-03T20:54:00.000+08:00

ytd was the mentoring basic counselling course.
the speaker was Pual yuen. his alma matar is SP. haha.
he's totally blind. he lost his eyesight abt 10 yrs ago. hmm..
he was a gd speaker. but we were half chatting, half listening to him. =X

the catering of food was quite alright i guess.
but too little food. not enuf for everyone.
cos of the budget constraint.
i ordered for 40 ppl's share, and the quantity the caterer gave was exactly 40!
40 brownies, 40 samosas, 40 cream puffs and 40 packets of drinks.
haha. we ended up buying nuggets from FC2's mac. haha

the talk ended at about 6.30pm.

had a terrible splitting headache towards the end of the talk.
at the end of the talk, when everyone was packing and leaving,
i felt like lying down.
but of cos i cldnt.

ShiYa tried to help me find panadols while i sat outside the LT7. but those shops in SP were closed!

kh went to club hse to get 2 panadols. i took 1 and later at the mrt station, i took another 1. my headache din get any better.

ren all the way to yishun.

thanks kh and denn for accompanying me to yishun station!

i reached home at 8.15pm.

took 2 more panadols. orphenadrine citrate. (prescribed by my ttsh doc)

went to sleep for a while.

got up immediately when my mum came back at abt 9+.

sigh!! cldnt slp so early, if not my mum will surely know sthg was wrong and asked me why i slept so early.

it got much better when i woke up this morning.

but i felt a bit nauseous during MR tutorial. slept thru the whole tutorial. waking up occasionally to copy notes and replying sms.

during BLaw and QA lectures, i kept answering calls and sms-ing.

rebecca also said so. haha.

heard from kaikit that someone is bringing sthg to the club hse, and they need someone to be at the club hse to open the door.

i was having lecture then. moreover i lend my club hse key to KJ too. haha.

in the end, KJ went aft his lesson. haha.

aft sch went to my grandma's hse take sthg.
was walking to her hse from station
past by a badminton court.
2 sec sch boys were playing badminton.

suddenly...

*OUCH*

i kenna hit by the shuttercork!!

........

their aiming so zun sia.

directly at the left side of my head sia.

count myself unlucky to walk pass there at the "right" time.

haha.

2005-01-31T20:51:00.000+08:00

ytd night den i realised i have a cardiac appt at NUH today.

i wrote it in my planner, but the 31 jan box so extra, at 1 corner, so din really notice it..

my mum cldnt make it tmr, she said i told her to last min.

i thot of going for the appt myself.

but i am no longer in that outpatient clinic which i used to attend to previously.

my cardiac doctor transferred me to another outpatient clinic. a more specialised one, w.e.f the nxt appt date (which is supposed to be today)

not sure if he (or that ang moh) will still be my doc. hopefully so (cos both docs are very nice and approachable), but hope not too (cos that Dr Quek always tells me the same thing 'dun worry.. juz dun do this this that that' whereas that ang moh's always use those cheem jargons which i dun understand.)

hmm..

i changed my appt date online today (so last min rite) haha.

i changed it to 21st feb 4.20pm

hope there's nothing on during that period of time.

xiusi, huiwen and regina went home early.

weixin din come to sch today

so left with rebecca, meihua, szhi and me.

FC6 was so crowded during lunch hour, szhi and i was so sian diao. decided to eat later.. so we walked outta FC6.

we suddenly had the thot of not going to TTP lecture.

i was so sleepy. felt like going home..

szhi said wanna go watch movie at PS.

i was so tired, din feel like going to PS, so went to JP instead.

but haha, too bad, dun have the show szhi wanted.

so we went to seoul garden for lunch.

kena cheated by the person there. *GRR*

i shldnt have eaten the ice-cream.

it made me headache after that.

i felt so cold aft that.

all bcos of the ice-cream's fault.

GRR.

and oh!! 1 funny incident there.. hahaha..

i better keep my mouth shut, if not angel will become a demon liao. =X

haha =X

2005-01-30T13:29:00.000+08:00

ytd was tiring. so sleepy. haha.

i slept for only 3 hours on fri night.

got up at 4.30am in the morning.

u muz be wondering how come so early. haha.

cos... i had to reach cck station control at 5.45am!! cannot be late.

so early rite.

Dennis told me my 1st train in yishun is 5.26am.

from yishun to cck = around 22mins.

so, i wud definately be late by 3 mins.

hmm.. the 1st train in yishun reached slightly before 5.26am. so i was on time. 5.45am! hee!!

when the 5 of us reached cck, we took a cab to raffles place.

it was the Singapore RiverTrail thingie. i was in charge of distribution the goodies bags etc.

i saw my cousin Xavier! he represented his Ai Tong School to participate in the above mentioned thingie haha.

aft the whole event ended, i went to meet zhu at cc. had my lunch there as well.. we chatted for abt 2 hrs in the study room. haha...

den i went home.

attended Mei Ying jiejie's wedd dinner ytd. i was so sleepy there. me and cousin Jia Ying were crapping and bz 'taking photos' using her cam phone. cos we had nthg better to do. the MC of the wedd ceremony kept singing. so noisy!! haha.

i only drank 1 glass of red wine ytd. cos i was already very sleepy, i dare not try more. haha. Jia Ying kept smelling the wine, but dare not try, aft i told her the after-effects. HAHAHA. i was exaggerating only :P

hmm i juz finished my ECMT part on 'advantages of e-commerce on budget airlines' haha. phew. can go to my aunt's hse le. i 2 sundays din go her hse le. later going to pray and shop shop wif my aunt and cousin i think. hees

2005-01-25T16:11:00.000+08:00

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2005-01-23T20:25:00.000+08:00

i'm very worried abt 2 things now.

1) i'm so worried for my dad. the blood vessel in the conjunctival tissue on the front of his left eye burst, causing the white part of his eye to be v red.

wad happened arh??

doc said no treatment, except putting eye drops and wait for the blood to disperse?!

hmm.. hope my dad gets well soon.

2) i'm so worried abt tmr. yes, tmr. Monday. i hope nothing will happen.
*praying hard*

2005-01-23T19:43:00.000+08:00

Happy Belated 19th Birthday to Jie Hui.
her bday was on 21st Jan. haha.

Happy 11th Birthday to cousin Xavier.
his bday is today!
and i juz posted his bday card ytd. oops. =X

ytd's 'selling hearts' thingie was not bad. quite fun i shld say. we went by grps of 4. i was wif xiusi, shiya and liangping. we went to Bugis.

i was selling at the exit towards Raffles Hospital. there was so few ppl! and the ppl traffic was one-way. i.e. from station to Raffles Hospital. stood there for 1 hr, only managed to sell 2. actually shld be 5. but the other 3 of them din have small notes, and i din have change for them either. so too bad lor. sigh.

xiusi managed to sell all at her place (the opposite exit towards the temple de). hmm.. so i decided to go to her place. it was so much better there.. a lot of ppl. haha. and i finished selling all shortly. so we help mc to sell hers, but only 3 lah, den we tired le. aft liangping and shiya sold finished theirs, we went for lunch at parco's food junction.

oh, while i was helping mc to sell hers, ck called and told me abt the catering. he said i'm not supposed to order food from outsiders. hmm.. but seriously i din know that it's not allowed. sigh.. i felt so guilty of causing so much troubles to them. :(

aft that call, i was stunned, i stood rooted to the ground, not knowing how to react. luckily i had already finished selling my 'hearts'.

HOW HOW HOW??
my mind was filled with thousands of 'HOW's.
cos since i already confirmed the order, i cldnt cancel it. if so, the caterer will think that i'm trying to fool him. moreover, that caterer is cres's mum's friend's caterer!!

went back to clubhouse, discussed abt it...
conclusion: reduced the no. of ppl to 40.

and since it's 'illegal' to order from outsiders for activities held in sch, we planned to ask the caterer to stop at convention ctr instead, less risky of being caught. if caught, we will get demerit points.

i hope we wun get caught. if not, i'll be in trouble.

*praying hard*

2005-01-21T19:35:00.000+08:00

ECMT (airlines) proj discussion day! at our fav study place, the pacific coffee opp marina sq.

i went to aunt's hse for lunch, den rush off to meet them at pacific coffee. i was late!! haiz. sorry!

i cldnt slp last night cos of my blocked nose. argh. and my aunt said my voice changed, cos sore throat la! my mama made crysanthemum tea for me.. and my aunt made honey lemon for me, she said honey lemon drink is v effective for sore throat.

aww.. so sour can. i think it's like 1/3 honey and 2/3 lemon lor! haha.

tmr i'll be selling 'hearts' (a keychain) with my cca friends, including xiusi!

i think me and xiusi will be at bugis area i think.. huiwen said she'll be going to bugis.. haha, thats why we chose BUGIS! hee..

do come and buy frm us ok?? it's $3 per keychain. we'll be there at abt 9am till duno wad time, until we're tired la. before 5pm for sure :)

hmm, for those who are v worried for me, sending comforting smses / msging me in msn asking me if i'm alright, really THANKS to u'all. i'm really ok now. seriously. once again, thanks for ur concern :)

I GOT IT SETTLED. phew..

Jane (aka jarnei) is flying to aust, melbourne today. hmm as in, NOW. her flight is 7.30pm!! bon voyage gal! rmb to bring some lavenders for me (if possible) hmm but heard that it's illegal to bring plants back to singapore. sigh. anyway, hope she the nxt 9 days. bleah :P

OH NO! i juz realised i haven posted my cousin's bday card. his bday is on this coming sun! OMG! i better post it NOW.

byee :)

-SOB-

2005-01-20T20:52:00.000+08:00

I SPENT SO MUCH TIME ON THIS!
WASTED SO MUCH EFFORT TO CONTACT THE PERSON.
U SET A DATELINE FOR ME.
I TRIED MY VERY BEST TO MEET THE DATELINE.
MOREOVER I HAVENT BEEN FEELING WELL SINCE LAST SUNDAY,
BUT I STILL TIRED MY VERY BEST TO DO MY PART
AND NOW U TELL ME THAT...

THAT EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE CANCELLED???!!!!!

WTH?!

I COULD HAVE SPENT MY TIME STUDYING FOR MY TTP AND MR TESTS. ESP MR!!!

U KNOW ECONS? THE OPPORTUNITY COST CONCEPT? SAME APPLICATION OK!

REALLY ON THE VERGE OF BREAKING DOWN SOON! VERY SOON!

ok. forget abt MY opportunity cost forgone. i feel so bad to keep calling the person asking for this and that, to KEEP making changes 3 times. he seems to be a very busy person. i feel so bad to disturb him at late nites. and when everything is confirmed, u expect me to tell him 'sorry sir, but i wish to cancel everything?'

sigh. ok. nobody's fault. i'll try my best to think of other solutions besides 'cancelling'.

my flu and sore throat dun seem to get any better. got worst instead, esp my flu. blk nose now. my brain hasnt been functioning well lately. this whole week. many ppl said so. and i agreed too. i hadnt been sleeping well lately too. partly cos of my flu and cough, partly bcos i was worrying abt those rubbish.

so i can conclude that the headache i'm having now is due to stress and insomnia!

sigh.. wad a lousy day. really lousy! =(

2005-01-19T19:59:00.000+08:00

i had a flu, 2 ulcers and a terrible sore throat since sunday!

this week was hell. so far, yes!!

SUNDAY.....

was busy calling the caterer in the early afternoon, settling the refreshment stuff for mentoring basic counselling course on 2 feb, discussing abt the budget etc.

checked with SP staff centre abt the buffet dinner, for the SAA dinner on 16 feb.

den.. OH NO. i haven studied for TTP theory. i thot more % will be tested on amadeus and the calculation of elasped flying time. hmm.. so faster mug. tried to squeeze everything into my puny brain.

studied 2 topics at 1 go, within an hr. den v tired. so went to sleep, leaving the cruise chapter untouched.

busy. really tired.

MONDAY...

hmm.. TTP tests wasnt as bad as i thot it would be. but wth. i spent a lot of time remembering the airline codes, country codes, city codes, calculation of time diff b/w countries, elapsed flying time.. and yet, v v few qns on those. grr.

oh, class photo taking session on monday. haha.

my sore throat was terrible. even swallowing water was painful. had to eat porridge during break time. din finished too.

wanted to study for MR test the nxt day (which i hadnt touched a single bit of it)
but i was very tired when i reached home. had a headache, irritating flu, slight fever, strained eyes. so went to sleep.. i set my alarm at 5.30pm. but i woke up at 6pm instead.

dinner time! i forced the food down into my oesophagus! i kept drinking water while chewing. haha. eeks.

my mum din know tt i wasnt feeling well la.

aft dinner, i STARTED touching MR. i realised i was stucked in topic 1 for the entire 1.5 hrs. until i cldnt tahan... went to bed.

TUESDAY...

thot of skipping BLAW tutorial and lecture. (i.e. to come for the MR test only), but mama at home the whole day. she wud surely ask why no sch or wadeva de ma. hard to 'lie' la. so forget it.. went to sch as usual.

b.law was boring as usual. 3 hrs tutorial. omg.

i fell asleep unconciously during blaw lecture. that so-called angel, szhi suddenly pushed my head (like wad she usually does. haha). wah.. really scare the hell outta me can!!!! tsk.. szhi, nxt time gif some warning signals 1st!! haha.

aft blaw lect was MR test. those qns.. erm... actually, frankly speaking, it wasnt tough if u really studied. cos most of the ans cud be found in notes. BUT... as i said, wadever i 'read through' din get into my head. so, i din know how to do most of the qns... i juz crap through. hopefully can gain some marks here and there.

oh, i was doing this particular qn on descriptive research. i rmbed i did studied that, but i forgot how to ans. i closed my eyes, trying to think hard.. but guess wad.. i FELL ASLEEP again. 1st time i cud fall asleep during test/exam! incredible! until i heard the veronica wong said '2 more mins left, nobody is allowed to leave.. write ur last statement... etc" DEN i woke up!! (so, i slpt for like 10 mins) but luckily i'd kinda completed the rest of the qns!!

WEDNESDAY

CSB interview today! gotta wear formal. i brot along mentoring attire, cos there's a mentoring session at Jin Tai pri in the aftn. so troublesome.

CSB interview was quite ok la.. cos we sort of buck up to be lenient. haha. tchr's qn was tough.

"how much do u know abt this job and our company?"

"wad kinda stress do u encounter and how did u overcome them?"

haha.. quite unexpected, cos i was expecting qns like "why do u wish to join the company?" etc.

haha.. so i juz crapped through la.

in the end, my comments frm the 5+1 interviewers were 'TOO SOFT' i lost marks on my voice level lor. 2/5! haiz. den the rest 4/5 hee. =)

mentoring session was ok also ba. but i still prefer clementi pri sch to jin tai pri. cos...

clementi is more convenient
clementi is more high-tech
clementi is more cleaner and tidy
clementi kids are more obedient
clementi students' uniform is nicer
...
...
...

haiz.. i miss clementi pri! i miss raj! i miss siraj!

hmm.. my mentee for my 1st session in Jin Tai is hozman. he's v obedient la. but always copy hw de! haha.

got this mentee called Daniel, said i 'china gal' (xiusi told me de) argh!!

and there's this mentee called fong guan. he looks chubby and cute. but his voice damn loud! they were told to fill in their hobbies, ambition, wad they wish to gain from mentoring etc.. the form that allows us to know the mentees better... and guess wad he wrote?

hobbies: eat and bite humans
ambition: actor
wad u wish to gain frm mentoring: more gifts from mentors

-.-' right... den his frd, Daniel (the boy who said i china gal)'s ambition is to be magician. i asked him why, he said bcos he cud turn me and dennis into toads!

-.-'!!

haha.

2005-01-15T23:11:00.000+08:00

stressed! haiz.

so many tests coming up!

so many events coming up for mentoring!

had mentoring meeting this morning. was supposed to be 2 hrs. but it turned out to be more than that. i went off at 1pm.

oh yeah, abt the events coming up for mentoring..

22 jan = charity (sell keychains)
2 feb = basic counselling course
16 feb = SAA Dinner @ staff centre
march = mentees outing (to CHOCOLATE FACTORY!!) =D
23-24 apr = mentoring chalet @ sentosa

etc etc etc

i'm in charge of F&B for basic counselling course, SAA Dinner and mentoring chalet.

i have to confirm the catering thingie by this coming week!

i have to check out the price, operating hrs and etc at staff centre by this coming week!

and i have TTP test on this coming mon, MR test on tues and CSB job interview thingie on wed!

and i haven studied for the tests. only 10% of TTP. and thats all.

stressed!

i juz finished typing the mins of meeting. PHEW.

a task completed =)

oh yeah, for the catering of food. problematic sia.

cres msged me aft my meeting, den i shun bian asked him if he has any lobang for catering service.. luckily he has. his mum's frd. haha. PHEW.

wad we planned to order for light refreshment is:
1) mini pizza
2) cream puff
3) mango pudding
4) drinks
for 90 ppl

but cres said his caterer doesnt provide so few dishes for so many ppl...

he said "8 dishes for 45 ppl" rather than "4 dishes for 90 ppl"

sigh.. and the budget is a problem too.

and i have to confirm everything by this week!!

i'm very tired now. shall contact the caterer and discussed with him tmr. i'm too tired to do anything now..

i wanna SLEEP now. yes sleep!

nites!!

2005-01-09T20:36:00.000+08:00

FRIDAY
watched Meet the Fockers with zhu at sun plaza. the cinema there was v ulu. there were only 10 ppl (including both of us) in the cinema. we sat at the very last row. juz anyhow sit. and as wad zhu said, we made ourselves VERY comfy there.. *ahem!*

there was this funny incident at northpoint. we were at B1 waiting for the lift when i digged into zhu's bag for sweet. den she opened her mouth, expecting me to feed her. so i pop the sweet into her mouth. AT THE SAME TIME, the lift door opened, and there was a teenage guy inside the lift. i guessed he saw our actions. *hope he din anyhow think lah* den we burst out laughing.. i accidentally banged onto the side of the lift *ouch* and continued laughing. *the lift door closed. only us and that guy in the lift*. i guessed that guy really tabuleh tahan us sia.. cos when the lift door opened at the 3rd lvl, he quickily ran out!!!

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!

YESTERDAY (SAT)

mentoring mass meeting in the morning. discussed abt the mentoring session at diff pri schs. a pretty BAD news to clementi and fuhua mentors: no more mentoring for clementi and fuhua. they no longer wan mentoring. (all bcos of that 5-day week thingie. GRR). I WAN CLEMENTI!!!!! sigh.

but sad to say, no more clementi. now only left with Jin Tai pri (at west coast road) and Zhang De (around SGH there). bleah. no choice, me and xiusi chose Jin Tai. but still not confirmed if we are really posted there.

on 22nd jan, some of the mentors will be selling keychains at $3 each, a form of charity! come and support us! hee. den on some saturdays, we have this story telling session thingie at any National Library Board. read stories to KIDS!!! yay!!! xiusi and I signed up for this. yay. i cant wait for both days to come!!! so excited! :D

aft mentoring mass meeting, there was committee meeting. a short while only lah. and aft the whole mentoring thingie, it was abt 12pm. and i was supposed to reach the booth at cityhall at 2.30 or 3pm (the person in charge, wei tshen, msged me in the morning)

i called XH. (she was supposed to be at boon lay booth de, but last min changed to cityhall. hee!!). oh, called her, den she was still at home. so meanwhile i had nthg to do.. took the train to cityhall.. den see time, wow so early, xh msged me and said she juz boarded the bus at her hse there.

i was so sian. really nthg to do at all. den i rmbed szhi told me she got work ytd. sooo... hee! i got into the train again and alighted at somerset. went to centrepoint juz to disturb her. i caught her yawning! haha. she was sleepy lah. haha.

we reached the booth at 2+, wow.. long queue sia.

oh btw, this was our own voluntary work. manning the donation tins.

when there wasnt a lot of students, we slack around. chat chat. got to know more frds. joyce, pamela, natalie and the other 1 forgot her name. that joyce damn lame. oh, she was from SP!!! hahaha. yay!

anyway, got this sch called the Holy Innocent High sch, this sch's students are.. really cmi lor. their tins damn light can. got 1 guy, he went out for 5.5 hrs, den came back with only ONE 10cent coin. see how pathetic. and he still had the cheek to say 'nobody wanna donate mah'. PLS LOR.. 5.5 hrs leh. only ONE coin?!?!?!?!

there were like 60+ Holy innocents' high students, and AT LEAST 50 students' tins were damn light! obviously they werent doing their jobs. if the tins were too light, we have the rights to tell them to ask for more donations. if they din want to, den we would have to write "tins too light" under the remarks. but most of them said "aiya, nvm lah.. light den light lor". wad kinda attitude is this man?!

and there was this guy, also from holy innocents', he came back on the dot. exactly 6 hrs. den when natalie recorded the time, he asked her "if i come back an hr later, the no. of CIP hrs will be 7 arh?" natalie nodded. and guess wad that guy said?

he told his frds: "wah lau, if we'd known earlier, we could eat and shop longer, den can get more cip hours" (in mandarin).

wah piang! go n die lah! GRR!

ohh, there was this cedar gal, she managed to get 3 FULL tins within 1.5 hrs. SUPER right? she came back THREE times lor, all full tins. when she came back the 3rd time, she said she had sthg impt to do, had to go off early. but her cip hrs were only 1.5. feel so sad for her lah. she put in a lot of effort to get 3 full tins, and yet, her record is only 1.5 hrs. btw, she's a prc.

i realised most of the PRCs' tins are much more heavier than singaporeans'. sigh. such a disgrace lor.

oh, bad news was there.. it started to RAIN at abt 3+.. the shelter there was as gd as nothing. we were wet. esp me! xh said i looked as if i juz had my bath! haha.

we packed the tins at around 8.30pm. den an adult called Nancy drove me and xh to amk station. we had some interesting conversation with nancy in her car. haha. bleah.

so tired in the train. was talking to XH when the mrt reached Khatib. i thot Yishun, so i said 'bye' to XH and quickily alighted. den XH said 'eh! khatib lah!' i thot she was trying to trick me (as wad she always does), so i alighted. i was puzzled, how come 'yishun' so little ppl alight de?! den i realised it was KHATIB. i quickily ran into the train b4 it closed. phew! XH was laughing like mad. argh. so paiseh lor. other passengers might be thinking how come this gal squeezed out, walked a few steps le, den ran in again. haha. bleah!! =X

anyway, glad that i did 5.5 hrs of voluntary work today. glad to be of service to the LK Youth Centre. the youth there did a bookmark for us, thanking us. i chose the PINK one of cos.. hee!

TODAY (sun)

went to ESPLANADE with zhu. yay! ESPLANADE again. 2nd time this yr. hee!!
we went up to the roof top, took some pics there.

oh there was this couple who offered us CHOCOLATE CAKE. cos i think either the guy's or the gal's bday. the cake was TOO big for the 2 of them, so everyone at the rooftop had a share of the cake. there wasnt a lot of ppl up there anw. haha. the cake was very creamy! but v nice. CHOCS!!! heez!

this reminded me of kim's bday! we bot cake for her, and celebrated at CC. we offered the canteen aunties a portion of the cake too.. but they no taste lah, said too sweet. choco mint cake lor.. so nice, duno how to appreciate sia. haha!

back to tthe topic.. we walked from esplanade to the merlion there, den we went into the Fullerton Hotel! wow, so grand. there's a basket of apples in each level. haha. we went up to almost every level (except lvl 4) and walked 1 round. saw the room inside, SO NICE!!! omg omg. really v v nice!!!!

took quite a few pics inside too. heez. =)

now i'm so tired!

yay! i enjoyed my weekend!!!! if every weekend is like this weekend. how nice and meaningful! =D

ahh! HAVEN TOUCHED ALL MY TUTORIALS! bleah. =X

2005-01-06T22:44:00.000+08:00

when i reached Dover station at 9.40am, Regina told me a "good" news.

"QA tutorial is cancelled"

sounds good right. but QA is the 1st lesson! 1 hr! haiz.. Mr Tang informed Rebecca so last min. haiz. i could have slept for another 1 hour!

we went to foodcourt 5 KFC for our super early LUNCH. (ahh, i juz had my breakfast b4 coming to sch).

luckily got QA prac. if not 3 hrs break!!

aft QA prac was break, we stayed in the lab to surf around.

meihua the zhutou, came to my com and disturbed me cos her hands itchy, so sign out of her own com.

since she was surfing friendster, i asked her to write me a testimonial.

she hor.. type so much bo liao stuff lor.. den we were like laughing and laughing. i wanted to delete, but she kept pushing my hands away and continued typing, den forced me to sign in, and she accepted it herself. -.-'!

lame right.

somemore she put 1 of my pic as display pic of duno which website. that pic is like so.. eeks. she said wad my version of sun yan zi.

how can anyhow insult sun yan zi right. tsk. -.-'

i stomachache, she down there laughing. argh! evil evil zhutou!

went home early today, cos stomachache.

i laid on bed, cldnt slp cos of the pain, roll here roll there, roll until got headache. ARGH.

woke up, used com. hmm.. wrote zhutou a testimonial. since she wans me to write 1 back for her. so fine, typed 1 lor.. as i was typing, i was laughing. but the more i laugh, my stomach hurts more.

at night, my mum cooked some duno wad ginger soup. really A LOT OF ginger lor. so it tastes like ginger. but the soup is BLACK in colour. eeks. black soup again.

sigh, black soup is so er xin, so yucky. why always black!!! grr. ALL black soup taste horrible lah.

why not pink soup. mabe it'll taste so much better!!

2005-01-05T21:31:00.000+08:00

ahh.. feel so guilty now!!

anyway, saw someone today.
2nd time this yr! =)

=)

oh, i din touch any chocs today! yay! 2 more days!
dun u tempt me with chocs k!! haha.

=D

2005-01-04T22:28:00.000+08:00

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY TO MY COUSIN, NOLAN!!! =)

it's been quite some time since i last saw him.. eew.. i miss him! =)

yes. mission 1/4 accomplished.

yay! i din consume any chocs today.

yay! FINALLY!!!

another 3 more days without chocs!

MISSION POSSIBLE.

to szhi : who says my 'tmr' will never come? hahaha.

2005-01-03T20:07:00.000+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY 2005!

haha. i know i'm slow. today's already the 3rd day of 2005.

my blogger din like me, din wanna let me post any entry for the past few days.

dunno wads wrong too. perhaps my blogger has mood swing lah.

last day of 2004 (new yr eve), i went to sch for a pathetic 1 hr MR lecture. aft that went to swiss culture at suntec with huiwen, xiusi, meihua, regina, weixin and rebecca for lunch. they went to kbox after lunch, while i went to orchard with zhu.

actually i so much wanted to go to the Esplanade!! but the thot of the crowd made me sian diao.

unforgettable incident on new yr eve : THAT MAROON GUY!!!

he blocked our way and made us missed a train! ok.. we decided to forgive and forget, so boarded the nxt passenger-service train. but that train terminated at AMK. argh! so we had to wait for another passenger-service train at amk! argh. so idiotic of him right. wasted our precious time.

NEW YEAR DAY! (010105)

went to newton food centre with zhu. to my dismay, only a few stalls were opened. i was wondering if they din open during public holiday. i found out from meihua the nxt day that newton food centre operates from 3+pm onwards till midnight or past midnight. argh.. din tell me earlier! haha. sorry clone, brought u there at the wrong time. haha. aft lunch, we went to J8.

saw fengyi, peiyi and their mum. hee! so great to see them on the 1st day of the year! haha.

we took pics. haha, 1st pic of the year. there's a super funny pic, decorated by zhu. haha, u've gotta see it and u'll know why. but i'm juz too lazy to scan. eh zhu, scan leh!! haha.

2ND DAY OF THE YEAR

it rained for the whole day. actually was supposed to go to my aunt's hse (every sun as usual if i have nthg much to do), but since it was raining, and i was lazy to carry my umbrella, so i decided not to go. (her hse is 10mins walk frm my hse, no shelter).

so i decided to use the com. surf around, chatting in msn. jh asked me to accompany her to heartland mall. i wanted to go, but the rain spoilt my mood sia. after much persuation from her, i decided to go. she told me "heartland mall ok. faster come hor, cya in 50mins time"

i reached 2 mins earlier. waited for 15mins, she was nowhere to be seen. i thot she would be late, cos of the rain, so continued to wait at the station.

while waiting, i read the location map at the station and walked around the station. I donated $5 for the tidal wave thingie (at the station). i saw a cheque which is $800? (or $80 :P) wow. so generous of him/her.
30mins gone, she was still nowhere to be seen. juz as i was abt to sms her, she smsed me.

jh: hey gal, u caught in the rain isit? where are u now?

me (replying her msg): i reached liao. u caught in the rain arh? haha

jh called me.

jh: where r u hiding?

me: i'm not hiding lah, where r u?

jh: i reached already but din see u leh

me: i oso din see u leh. kovan station no ppl de.

jh: what? u at mrt station arh? i said heartland mall mah. i at entrance!

argh!!! wasted our 30mins waiting for each other. usually ppl meet at mrt station 1 mah.

she went there, to a quite-big bookshop juz to buy 1 storybook which can be found in any bookshop. so lame of her right. haha. tsk. :P

hmm seriously, i gotta quit the habit of consuming too much chocs. i'd been eating chocs daily since 23rd dec 04! since i'd been eating daily, i told myself, i shall stop eating on the 1st day of new yr. but i forgot. 2nd day of new yr, i thot i succeeded. but at night, my aunt made chocs, for me! of cos i muz try right. so no choice. 3rd day (which is today), meihua and regina brot chocs, and i ate!!

ahh!!! ok. shall STOP tmr. like wad szhi said "THE CHALLENGE STARTS TMR"

for her, the challenge will be "not to use com for 4 days consecutively starting from tmr",

and for me, it will be "not gonna eat chocs for 3 days consecutively starting frm tmr"

do u think we can do it? hmm.. for her hard to say lah.. (haha), for me, hmm.. i think can lah! :D

anyway, my lesson starts at 2pm tmr! yay! can sleep more :)

2004-12-28T22:01:00.000+08:00

i was very thirsty juz now. for no reason.

i drank 2/3 of the 500ml bottle of water at 1 go.

while i was drinking, i suddenly burst out laughing.

why??

cos i thot of that 'toilet uncle' (szhi knows who). for no reason too.

while i was drinking and drinking.. his face 'appeared' right in front of me..

i associate that 'toilet uncle' with 'water'... hahahah!!!

everytime i see him, i wanna laugh.

when i think of him, i'll think of water. =X

that 'toilet uncle' is 1 of SP's lecturers. i dunno him personally.

he's juz so funny lah.

bleah =X

Singapore Zoological Garden

2004-12-26T22:49:00.000+08:00

today's FUN!

went to zoo with zhu and eunice.. yay!

saw lots of animals..

got penguins too. so cute!!! =)

got parrots too! hmm arent they supposed to be in the jurong bird park instead? haha.

the animal farm show was great!!

the sealions show too. the sealions were so cute. they can dance too!

ahh! cant wait to see the pics we took. 90% animals only. haha.

hmm.. saw Estar, my sjab senior. he works PT in the zoo. got free tix never tell us! haha.

these few days keep seeing sjab ppl.. haha, so qiao!

tues saw amberlin

wed saw amberlin again

thurs saw queenie

fri saw matthew

today (sun) saw estar.

tmr who will i meet? hahaha.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2004-12-25T21:21:00.000+08:00

yesterday was great!

hmm went to sch for an hr of MR lecture, from 12-1pm. lame right. juz an hour.

aft sch went to meet zhu and kim at somerset. walked around Heeren b4 settling down at cine to play UNO cards! haha.

oh, i wore pink, kim wore pinkish-red and zhu wore red. haha!! pure coincidence sia. nah, this is called telepathy! =)

i left at 4.35pm to Kallang. mc invited me to her church thingie at Singapore Indoor Stadium (SIS). met her friend, emily, at kallang. told her i would be wearing pink. and she spotted me. haha pro! (btw we never met b4).

it was rather crowded outside the entrance. quite slow sia.. cos of the security check. but we managed to squeeze in.

SIS was v v big!

din see mc at 1st, cos she was ushering.

so i was quite sian down there at my seat.. den emily came back and intro some of her church frds to me.. they are v v friendly :)

the performance and drama were great. esp that indian dance. v funny.

the whole thingie ended at around 10pm. emily drove us back. she sent me to Braddell station. :)

oh!! i saw jian ping too. my sjab officer! wah.. like how coincidental sia! and he was sitting behind me somemore!! really so qiao lor.

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today went to aunt's shop with my cousin, Jia Ying. we went to shop and save nearby to buy some junk food.. not bcos we were hungry.. but rather, we had nthg to do.

we planned to have a mini celebration at my aunt's shop house. Jia Ying suggested buying a bottle of shandy. but we cldnt find bottle kind.. den i suggested grape fruit wine. but it costs $16+ so ex.. so forget it. den saw barcadi, $5+, but the bottle is so small. only sufficient for the 2 of us. moreover it is alcoholic, i was afraid if she got addicted to it. haha.

so in the end, we brought a bottle of sparkling juice (grape) and some junk food. and we had a mini feast cum celebration at my aunt's shop house. haha.

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this xmas was great!! yay!! =)

hmm.. now is thanks-giving session.. hehz.

i wanna say a big THANK YOU to

aunt, cousin xavier and cousin nathan for the erm.. talking dictionary (duno wad is it called).

zhu for the mini T-shirt design with our photo in it, and always travelling arnd s'pore wif me.. *hahahah!!*

weiqi for the neon bear keychain

jiehui for a box of chocolates and choco cupcakes.

szhi for the winnie the pooh custard cupcakes.

xiusi for the transparent soap and noggats (how do u spell that?)

huiwen for the star bracelet

meihua for the metal star bookmark

wei xin for the seashell candle

regina for a pair of earrings

rebecca for pink baby angel hp chain

shuhui for the uno cards

mc for the handmade star attached to a straw with her heartfelt words written on it.

mc's church frds for those little candies and wishes.

everyone for ur wishes and being my friend :)

hmm... think thats abt all. i hope i din miss out anyone, did i?

if i'd missed out anyone or anything, shout at my tagboard. haha.

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tmr's plan : visit the ZOO!!! haha. long time din go le. i wanna see polar bears! haha.. i wanna see penguins!! but they are at jurong bird park. sob. jurong bird park shall be my nxt visit i think.. heh. i wanna go to all places of interests in singapore!! oh yeah, i miss ESPLANADE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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alright..

last but not the least...

MERRY

CHRISTMAS

!!!

=)

2004-12-24T11:58:00.000+08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE =)

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lets start off with YESTERDAY (thurs). it was a rotten day.

early in the morning 6+ am, my mum woke me up.
she said 'eh, late liao la! now going to 7 liao, still dun wanna wake up arh?' (in mandarin).
i opened my eyes and checked the time. only 6.25am lor, where got "going to 7 liao"?! -.-'! moreover my lesson started at 10am.
so i replied my mum "6 plus only la, still so early" and i continued to sleep..
but she kept waking me up.. kept saying "faster wake up lah" until i was quite frustrated.. so i got up. i was v tired k. grr! i could have slept for another 1+ hour!!!

i ended up sleeping in the train and during QA lecture. i was trying VERY hard not to close my eyes during MR tutorial!! (xiusi, szhi and i were scribbing words to one another, and this prevented me from dozing off) my mind was in 99.9% sleeping mode.

on my way home from sch in the train, an old man with a walking stick in his hand boarded the train at Bt Batok. it was quite crowded. the poor old man was standing in the middle of the train, like so unstable, and yet nobody gave up seat to him. in front of him was this middle-aged guy dressed smartly in business attire. he was siting down there staring into space. cant he see the old man standing right in front of him? (unless he's BLIND of cos!) cant he gif up his seat to him?

pls lor.. dressed until so formal like some successful businessman, but wads the use. he doesnt hv the simple courtesy of giving up seats to ppl who need it more than him.. and other passengers around him too. so selfish right. how i wish i could pull him out of the seat man!

den at night, when i was busy doing my 'four seasons hotel' thingie, an unknown person called my hp. a loud-voiced aunty. sounds like those 'san gu liu po' type.

she: hello, who are u? (in hokkien)
me: may i know who are u looking for? (in mandarin)
she: haaaar??? u who?
me: i think u called the wrong number.
she: simmi? ('what' in hokkien)
me: (louder) u called the wrong no. (in hokkien)
she slammed down the phone.

few mins later, my phone rang again. a different number, BUT SAME VOICE!

she: hello, u ah lim arh? (in hokkien)
me: no (in hokkien)
she: then who are u?
me: aunty, u called the wrong number. i'm not the person u're looking for (in mandarin)
she: haaar? den call ah lim. faster lah.
me: (getting frustrated le) there's no ah lim here. i duno any ah lim
she: cannot be lah, who are u?
me: (GRR!) aunty, sorry, u really called the wrong number. there's no such person!

i hanged up the phone!

1 min later, my hp rang AGAIN. another unknown number.. i suspected it was her again. i rejected the call.

so idiotic right. kept asking me who i am. i should be the 1 asking her lor. told her wrong number so many times le, she still insisted a 'no'. and why must she use different number each time she called? pls lor.. her voice so loud and sounded like those ba gua aunties, who cant recognise?!

moreover i was bz doing my assignment online lor. wth!

i duno why i was so fed up yesterday. not in good mood though.. got woken up early in the morning. was so tired k.. not enough sleep.

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i juz came back from SIS. was out from 10.45 (to sch) to 11.40 (from SIS). 13 hrs!

v sleepy now.

i shall blog abt today tmr.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!