my first day at work(yet again!)



My current newest job is working for Starhub Maxonline & CableTV. A roadshow assistant, basically a sales personel, but without commission. Why? Cos we are part timers. Used to have commissions for part timers when they were SCV, but because of the merge, pay and commission must be similar, so well, we too cannot have commission cos mobile peeps don't.

And I closed 5 deals today! Yipee! Just a sense of satisfaction, and it was quite stressful. But quite a happening job. All the pushing and promoting is pretty good experience for me I guess, though I met some people who had zilch knowledge, some thought they were so smart and keep asking me about the protocol of the modem. duh

Just that sigh......

If the commission thing was still there....

I would have been $50 richer.

Bloody hell.

:(

And I have 3 jobs now, technically speaking. Muahahahhahaa!

As we expected, we didn't win. Too last minute, never train and being lousy ourselves. Also, saw a few national youth squad people who joined. Well, it's allowed of course, but not very fair isn't it.

But it was great fun nonetheless, cheering like mad for the guys and experiencing the whole adrenaline of a competition. And of course, hearing the foul beep go off when I stepped on the foul line, 4 times. Bloody hell wasted my 30-over points.

Brought me to a point of make or break, whether or not I want to bowl competitive ever. One of the team member said this is the end of her bowling career and from now on she'll just use a house ball and bowl with her friends for fun. Her friends (and mine too) can never understand why we don't really want to bowl if we didn't bring our own ball. And it is quite hard to explain. Because it is customised? And she hates explaining, and now, once she has this mindset of giving it up, I guess she'd do fine laughing at stupid stunts and all. I share her sentiments.

Guess it is the same for every other thing. Even simple thing like Counterstrike, which I had played like once in my life and was quite happy. Laughed my heads out trying to stare at each other through the sniper's view, buying the most expensive gun and forcing our friend to run around while the 2 of us (each parked at a corner) will challenge to see who manage to kill him first. Stupid, silly things like that. Something you will never be able to do once you decided to go competitive or be serious about it. Like you will play strategy, and only want to play with your team and crap.

So if I'm to continue, I want solid foundational training, going back to how to stand how to release how to hold the ball. And be serious about it and really improve. Like an investment. Otherwise, just let it go and bowl once in a while for fun. Quit the team and be happy being recreational. No point having the name of being in the team and be half hearted and turn up once in a while, and will never improve.

So there, what should I do?

IVP is back

Damn lame. After postponing it like forever, it's suddenly back this Saturday & Sunday. A little scary, I feel, since I haven't been bowling much ever since the last decided that it to be postponed.

edit: this post has been edited to prevent any forms of arguments. :D

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U of M/ NTU/ Lizard in Ribena

I din manage to get a hall in U of M. Currently am on the waiting list, and my Papa is kinda worried still about the SARS stuff, though of course we all know that Canada is out of the WHO list, but yet parents are parents and I don't blame him at all.

And well if I really don't get a hall, there is no point for me going. I mean, it's all about fitting in and feeling the feeling there. And if I have to get a house or something (which no doubt will raise the cost by hell lot), I will go to school and then return to an empty home, do my own laundry and cook my own food. Then I might as well stay where I have a home and all my friends. Going all the way there, I mean, the least is to have like a hall where I can interact with all the students and shit. And even if I have a housemate, so what? Get the point?

So there, if I cannot get the confirmation in time, and it drives my morale low, and my Papa is still worried, then I guess I'd just have to postpone my trip. Not that I mind really. I wouldn't mind going, but with the hall issue, which to me, is a big deal, I'm cool about a postpone. It's not like I can't go already. I'm not going there to study for good, so well I guess, a semster can be any semster. If it's not this, it's the next.

Meanwhile, I'd just go apply for the SUSEP (Singapore Uni Exchange) and stay in NTU Hall for fun next semster with Ping and Rose and Cin I think. I wonder if having me there makes life a lil' easier as the odd number makes is hard to decide who should be roommates with who. So there.

Anyway, I saw like this lizard which crawled into my Ribena and just died there inside. Yucks. I mean it's totally disgusting. Someone just forgot to close the lid properly. And it's the 2-litre bottle somemore, and I haven't even drank an eighth of it. Such a waste of money.

Well I'm back! For more elaboration of my trip, please refer to the well written article from dear Ping here. I'd talk about the bloopers.

Basically an eat and sleep trip and of course, smuggling Menthol Lights for friends across the sea back to Singapore because it is so cheap. Anyway, our dear friend seem to be super suey. I mean, it's as suey as it can get man. Everytime she tries to buy a pack (which is only twice), she somehow almost, or is seen by someone she know. And her mummy is one who will freak out if she ever finds out, I mean, we're just talking about buying. So well, it's a mystery to me whether all the risk to save a few bucks for other was worth it.

Scenario Satu: We were eating, decided to buy a pack from this hawker. Just as we are reaching the guy, her mummy appeared. How close a shave is that? It only take 10 more seconds of dilly dally and her skin was saved. Imagine getting caught buying it. She would perhaps be quarantined at home for the rest of her 3 months holiday.

Scenario Dua: Walked into a Supermarket to try again. I said go buy shampoo first, she say, go check it out first. We took the 2nd path and just then, her mummy's good friend walked past us examining. How ultra suey is that? I mean, how often do you walk past a supermarket and happen to look in to see a friend's daughter there. Exact moment man. If only we went to buy shampoo first, nothing. But of course, so far, no news of gossip. So let's hope hard for her.

Anyway, the interaction with Rose and her parents warm my heart as I feel even more grateful that my family is somewhat like theirs, very happy. Well we're not as crappy (cos thank Lord we don't have a member at home like R***) but its so cute how daughter will go out with Mummy, Papa will drive and feel kinda bored but it's his job and he is alright with it. We'll shop around and spend too much money and/or overshot our planned meeting time, maybe miss a reservation (or a ferry) and Papas will be hanging out at the hawker centre having a cuppa, read a paper or explore the area, and call up every 15 minutes to find out where we are, drop by to see our progress and feel bored and disappear again. Simple things like that makes a family very family I guess. It doesn't have to be big hugs and wet smacks on the cheek. It only takes supermarket and supper trips and cheery nonsense in the car to make a family family.

Going to Batam with Ping tommorrow to visit Rose, who is already back there to attend a wedding. Will be back sooner than anyone wish. But there poses a problem. My passport is not with me but in my dad's office. So how?

Guess will have to get it from him tommorrow afternoon or lunch time or something.

Anyway, some silly facts I just read up only.

You think Batam is very small? Ha! It's 415 Sq Km. And how big is Singapore? 620! It's just a 67% our size!

Psst, I'd miss you dear, tho it's jus 3 days. :D

Bought the Samsung DVD player for Papa and Mama already. Intending to fix it up tommorrow in their room and let them huh? when they come home from work (and I wouldn't be around) Surprise, Surprise. Hope they will like it. Check it out!



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This is so embarrassing.

Erm. We are sacked from our jobs. Apparently it didn't anger me for being sacked, cos I am honestly damn bored about the job, and it's been 3 weeks. How many flyers can you give out for one whole month to a small estate? & of course there was a stalker, so yeah.

It's the way they were so hypocritical about it, cos just the day before they were so nice and smiley to us and talked like nothing is happening, and then today they asked the event company that hired us to sms us that "there were some complaints, so we don't have to turn up tommorrow onwards"

But well, I don't quite give a damn. Good to not have to work for a while. Till looking for another job I guess.

Meanwhile, it's Bukit Timah Hill, Ubin and Batam.

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Was kinda bored and I was reading a random blog which Blogger recommended, and she wrote a entry on how she has decided not to give people gifts wrapped up in silver wrapper and silken ribbons, but instead, a gift of time, allowing the honorable party choose whatever they want to do and do it together. Girlfriends go to spas and massages together and laugh at boys, mummy and daughters go sit at too many cafes and window shop, while daddy and daughter goes on a road trip.

Kinda make sense. A lot of sense. (And damn why din I read this earlier isn't it, splurged on a DVD player, but hey not the point, they need a player since our dear ol' VCD player is dying. Merely an upgrade)

But shouldn't this be the way? I mean, what point is it to give a friend you haven't met for months or years a piggy bank or a cap she will toss aside. Rather, why not indulge in pleasures of life and do something together, spa, whatever. Catch up on ol' times and not sit together in groups of 10s at Marche not knowing what to say to each other.

It's time to rethink our way of lives in this aspect everyone.

Stalker at Bedok

There is this a lil' crazy looking guy that is always around me & my friend when we fly around in my blades giving out flyers at Bedok for my job. At first I din think of it much. He is just a bored guy who has nothing much to do in life, maybe.

Then it became obvious. When I stand at the MRT station walkway, he will be sitting on those bikes parked and locked at the sides and stare and mumble to himself. So I moved away to another side. And he walked past me. Thrice. When I am done with the flyers and walk off to a "general meeting point", (for all of us are assigned different areas to give out the flyers) and then the girls were having their smoke break, HE WALKED PAST AGAIN! I'm like, it's so damn freaky. Seems like all day long, he just walks around to look for us. He combed all our slackzones and workpoints. There he walks, mumbles and points at us like he is telling an imaginary friend about us.....

And I have to work for another week. :((((((((((((((

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Anyway, I figured, since I do not have pictures of him (no no, not the stalker, my dardar, it's a different topic now) close up, nor do we have a very nice picture, but yet he complained that I do not put up his pictures, this will do.




Muahhahaaha.

Asian Civilisation museum
+ Many pictures taken at City Hall and Supreme Court.

Singapore is a very pretty place, as Ping says. True, I agree. Very picturesque.

I mean, just look at my pictures. :)




Scenics at City Hall



Majestic Supreme Court


Clock Tower between Victoria Concert Hall and Theatre.

Went to the Asian Civilisation Museum new wing at Empress Place. Nothing much though, but quite an alright place to go as a subsitute of boring town when you have nothing to do and stone around or watch movie, which is quite nothing too.

But the highlight was the photo taking and crap.

After the Museum visit, we went to SuperBowl @ Boat Quay for ultra huge bowl of porridge, which is quite nice but waaaay too much. And we once again wonder why we always so stupidly order 3 bowls when we can order 2 bowls to share between 3. After teh food, we were on our nonsense again and I think the Boat Quay people thought we were drunk and seemed quite happy about it.

"3 drunk gals brings good business to the place" -Intelligent Ping

Oh well anyway, here are the highlights


Waitress "lian bang" Ping

Waitress yoo-hu" Rose