Wednesday, January 19, 2005
sighie. i'm having a 7 hour break from 12noon to 7pm (cafe meeting)..too bad my room at pgp's not ready yet..admin's taking damn long to reallocate me to room B or C..and meanwhile..i've gotta pay for the stupid room A..wanna go there and sleep..argh! 3 1/2 more hours to go..time to get down to some serious blogging..haha...
i'm officially 20. so sad..birthday's over. but i had a lot of fun celebrating this year though..haha..only thing was i ate too much!!! think i had indigestion for the whole week man..bleagh. horrible feeling. haha..went to hardrock cafe on the 4th(tuesday) to support amanda dear. she was working that night and i told her quite long before that i would go have dinner there. she really does seem happy working there. i'm very happy for her too. haha..but her skirt abit short though (i sound so mama-ish :P) managed to get a table where she was stationed at so i got her to serve me. ooOo..the food was good. pretty big servings too. first time i had real onion rings..as in whole onion skins..not the diced up ones like BK. dun like onions but those were pretty nice. haha..wanted to give my fren a treat..so i wrote a "love letter" on amanda's ordering form to tell her to pass me the bill at the end..hee ;)
was supposed to meet up with my ex-colleagues from my lounge for dinner on wed evening (5th jan)..susu and meifang..got to suntec pretty late after meeting at the cafe..then susu told me she had to work overtime so would be very late..i managed to meet up with fang..and guess wat..siti was there too!! haha..that was already quite a surprise..then fang was acting very suspiciously..kept giggling and asking me and siti to go toilet when we din need to go. siti was super blur too..she was like.."go toilet for wat?" haha..hilarious ;) anyway..after that, it was siti's turn to disappear while fang brought me down to the basement..some vietnamese cafe..and surprise, surprise..calvin, auntie ang and ady were sitting there! haha..those idiots..calvin planned for the surprise gathering to celebrate my birthday..so sweet! siti came soon after trying to hide this big pink piglet behind her back..haha..it's okie..i totally din see anything :D they got me flowers (sunflower) and cake too..hee..had so much fun that night..not to mention someone sent us home in a very old car..where the back doors couldn't be opened from inside and everytime someone wanted to get down, poor auntie ang seated in front had to get out and open the back door for us..haha. and we got pretty used to the squeaky sound produced when the car's signalling to change lanes..in fact..i must say that the trip home was more fun than dinner itself *grinZ* ;)
6th jan (thurday) - 3rd day of gorging..........
buffet time! haha..went to goodwood park hotel in the evening with mum, dad and sis. we arrived so early that the staff were still having their pre-shift briefing! talk about being ks..haha. the hotel's weird..at first, me and sis couldn't seem to figure out where the lobby was. we kinda walked one whole round outside and couldn't find it. in the end, you actually had to walk pass the buffet place..it's just..somewhere inside. pretty posh from within but looks pretty normal outside. the buffet was good..not as much stuff as vienna (novena) but still quite good. normally i wouldn't eat deserts at buffets..but those there looked so nice i had to try them. really stuffed myself that day..think i nearly burst from eating too much :P
supposed to go cycling with my nus bunch (sounds like bananas..hahaha) on my birthday but got cancelled last minute..sighie. thought can help me to digest abit. anyway, i met deb, mandy, germ, junejoo, shumei, karen and cass for lunch at NYDC heerens. dear clot and jing called from indonesia and canada!!! haha..those darlings..thanks for the birthday wishes! hee..their timing super good loh..called when we just settled down for lunch. haha..i was too bloated from the buffet the prev night to eat anything so i shared a pathetically small chicken pie with germ. must have looked so funny..2 girls sharing that small thing. yupyup..went to visit the viet pple at cine kbox before going to watch movie with the rg gang. only a handful went..then fangxi (boyboy) and mervyn were singing a duet..where most of the time, merv was singing the girl's part and fx singing the guy's. did i mention our team's sexes seem a little mixed up in my prev post? haha ;) merv tried to get me to sing but i said i din know the songs. he asked me to sing birthday song and i told him it was really my birthday but he din believe..haha.
the movie (Nobody Knows - japanese movie) was pretty sad. not very appropriate for a birthday but still very enjoyable..the little girl's ssoooo pretty! too bad she 'died' in the end.
change of topic...i love my YEP team!!! they are siao on one. we've been back for less than a month but we've met up for like..5 to 6 times? and that doesn't include the chalet! haha..dinner, movie, karaoke, cookout at dino's. it's been crazy..and alot of fun ;) went to kaiwei's (dino) place the sunday before sem started (9th jan). i was there pretty late cos i wanted to watch the tsunami thingy on CNA..the one where they had a minute of silence. it was supposed to start at 6pm but i guess they started slightly earlier than that. then dad wasn't convinced that that was the actual thing so during the minute, he kept asking when the siren's going to sound (apparently civil defence supposed to sound some siren to announce the start of the minute of silence) argh. was pretty irritated :P anyway. i got to dino's place super late lah, like 7+ i think. got a little lost. serve me right for not checking out the directions before i left home! the food was good. well, or at least i'm still pretty alive now! rocky was online..yahoo messenger i think. it was so funny to chat..using simple english and broken vietnamese..pretty confusing..haha. and the team actually remembered my bday! they made me an 'agaragar cake' cos dino said they wanted to bake me a cake but he din have an oven..so they made me this agar agar and put candles on top instead..hee :D after that was a really long session of going through boss's photos..he connected his digicam to the tv..and gave us a live commentary to go along with it..haha..felt like we were watching some documentary.
as for the weekend that jus passed..had chalet on friday and saturday (14th, 15th jan). i met up with huimin to check-in at east coast costal sands in the afternoon. originally, we were supposed to have a 3D2N chalet (1 room)..but we realised there were adjoining rooms so we decided on having 2D1N with 2 rooms instead cos very few were staying for the 2nd night anyway. think most pple had lectures or were helping to prepare food. it was so boring loh. we were there alone for a few hours before robin turned up with his guitar. haha..then jennifer and jianhao..and all the rest came..gradually. in the end, we started the bbq at close to 830pm i think cos the food came late..and the charcoal came later. haha..we're such a great team! ;) there was this silly conspiracy going around cos fangxi, chinchao and binghui's bdays were around the corner so we were planning to trick them. fangxi's one fell flat before it even started. let's face it, girls are too smart to get tricked lah. then boss ruined cc's. supposed to have him bbqing alone with cc and he was supposed to flare up at cc cos nobody was helping him. but in the end, after he flared up, he couldn't help smiling..and spoilt the whole thing. hahaha. i was behind cc when it happened. he was going something like..what is there to be angry about with the chicken (chicken wings).. i very nearly choked on my drink. regina was the female lead for binghui's. apparently she 'loves' binghui (or otherwise loudly proclaimed by jeremy). haha..they were having a rehearsal with regina sitting down starring at the floor solemnly when she looked up and asked.."then 下一句是什么？". haha..ultimate man. laugh until stomach pain.... ^__________^ we got to watch our editted version of the video after the bbq. editting was superb, thanks to jianhao, mervyn, huimin, fangxi and zhenlin..did i miss anyone out? really wanted to help but was too busy with my accounts and stuff at the cafe..sighie. anyway..so much memories..so much fun..so much laughter..really felt super nostalgic but i din cry..kinda over that already (i spent the whole christmas missing the team and everything in vietnam..really unforgettable..haha..) i'm jus glad that all those memories happened. (can't wait to get my hands on the non-editted version..all 10 hours of it..haha...) boss mentioned about leading the t-teams (tsunami teams) and another team to thailand. kinda wanna go, especially the t-team but i've got my fop and cafe commitments..sighie. kinda feel like things are tying me down but wat to do..i made the choices. not regreting but jus a little disappointed. anyway, doubt my parents would actually let me go for the tsunami one. YEP was one thing, this is another. the living conditions and hygiene level would be so different. too bad i din make it down to the red cross to volunteer.
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
hehehee...i revamped my blog a bit more..added some photos at the top..all from my hanoi trip..and the song's also one that was played throughout the trip..cos we only had one cd with us..hahaha ;) more photos are up in my imagestation album too..can look under *links yah..enjoy! ^________^
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Monday, January 03, 2005
hee..i'm finally getting down to blog..
first of all..a very happy new year to everybody..
it's been quite a year for me..2004..lots of memorable things and interesting experiences..
there was my first job search..can't believe that was jus a year ago..seems pretty far back..haha..i wouldn't wanna do a job search anytime soon though..the endless waiting was really quite unbearable..considering i waited for a month before this certain inefficient job agency finally gave me a call..and more or less conned me into taking up the job at my beloved lounge..really a blessing in disguise..hee ;)
well, my first job at the airport..alot of my previous entries were made there during my midnight shifts..really miss that place and all my ex-colleagues..
truly a wonderful experience i won't forget...
first sem in nus bizad has passed..amazingly i'm still alive..haha..thinking back..can't imagine how i survived my crazily hectic schedule..guess this sem won't be any much better..i've learnt to cope..though not very well..heh..cap's pretty disappointing this sem..was kinda expecting to do better but..oh well..serve me right for not sticking to my 3-months mugging period huh..haa..
tried out quite a number of new stuff..bizcom, munchie monkey cafe, cluster leader, YEP, FOP...even though some weren't as fulfilling as i hoped or expected..they were all a learning and growing experience for me..especially YEP..if i can only choose to retain one of these experiences out of the whole lot..that's the one i'll definitely keep.......
haha..one of my YEP team mates did a recap of our 18 days in Hoa Sua School in our yahoo group email..i was thinking of doing that here too..but think that's too much details for me to handle..still trying to close my accounts..kinda wanna enjoy wat's left of my holiday so i've been putting that off a little..haha..here's an overview of my feelings and thoughts for those 18 days:
as i told my team during our pre-yep facilitation..i was kinda hesitant about the whole trip cos i din really have any close frens along with me and was afraid that i might not be able to fit in. think everyone had that sort of fear but probably just of different scale. one thing i noticed after i came back was that..as i grew more familiar with the individual members during the trip..i also became less independent cos of the cliques that were unconsciously formed. i had my group of "姐妹" with me..haha..actually it was more like..a "jiejie"(huimin) and a sister-turned-chipmunk (joy)..of cos..not forgetting "papa" (binghui) and "mama" (jianhao). hee..really had alot of fun with these pple..brought me so much laughter during the trip. sometimes..we din even know what we were laughing about ;) but i really was more independent before the trip. i'd jus go for outings and all without caring who else was going. but now, i find myself thinking that i'll be more comfortable and will prob have more fun if my clique's around. interesting how things evolve..comfort zones and all......
the nightly facilitations were draggy and boring at times..cos most of the time we simply wanted to get it over with and go bathe or go to bed. but i guess it really did help the team to bond and to know each other better. haha..maybe that was when we discovered every single guy on our team are SNAGs!! they'll suddenly come up with some super touching or emo comments..pretty sweet ;) on the more serious side..i think being singaporeans, we really do take things for granted. at least that much i can say for myself. basic things like food, water (for consumption and for daily use), accomodation..i never thought much about those back here. but when we were there, though food was good, it was more or less rationed cos the school had limited resources and alot of mouths to feed! haha..rice seemed to be in abundance though... yup..and as for water..first time i experienced water shortage. like, wake up in the morning and find that there's no water for us to wash up. guess we are really quite privileged. as for the kids at the school..they are indeed very lucky to get a new lease on life...
sighie. 18 days of communal living was really something. never thought i could be around pple for such a long period of time cos i always felt that i'm someone who needs to have some personal time and space. but somehow, it was really very enjoyable. waking up together with the drum beats in the background..waiting for huimin to wake up at 6+..then for zhenlin..then me and joy will slowly crawl out of bed..followed by peishan and amy..then we'll all crawl back in when we realise there's no water..hahaha ;) breakfast together..maggi mee/dong fen every single morning..really satisfying to have something hot to eat when you wake up to a chilly morning. and then everyone starts popping in vitamin c pills..and mervyn will be desperately trying to chew his down cos he couldn't swallow..hee. as the days went by..we received more and more smiles and greetings from the vietnamese and their once strange faces grew more and more familiar. it's very heartwarming to see them smile at you..especially the sincere ones ^_____^ bath time = gossip time. haha..huimin and joyjoy, our 2 social workers-to-be, will be trying their tricks on us..see who's lying and all. we had so much fun in tina's room..i mean..when do you have to wait 2 hrs just for your turn to have a 10min long bath? and of course..all our other meal times together and watsoever..sighie. really miss everyone. it's like having a long-term chalet. guess YEP isn't supposed to be liddat..but it did seem to be so..haha.
we did have our bad times as well..halong bay was quite an experience..but i guess everybody learned from it and grew to appreciate one another more..could really see the whole team pull together and stuck by one another. and i was really quite impressed by boss..the way he handled that incident and all..heh..think it wasn't what most of us expected. despite that incident..halong bay was very memorable in the sense that i got to know Loan..a very pretty, korean-looking, hearing-impaired girl. haha..she's like..the most gentle being i've ever met. although we couldn't commuicate well..i still enjoyed her company :) the boat ride was fun too. i love the sun and the sea..and the company was great too........
one of my greatest regret is actually being the treasurer. somehow, keeping the accounts took up more time than i expected and i wasn't able to interact or participate as much as i would have liked to. but no matter what, i made the best out of the whole trip, i made a lot of good frens and alot of good memories..guess i can go on and on about this trip..but i better end now. hope the team will stay together for a long time!!!
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