fhngkrengkjjkbnfkjbj.... this is what happens when i can't be bothered to type full sentences.... had my first day at Lakeside today. for some reason it is more relaxing than at Lakeside during semester practical sessions... less cutlery polishing to do, no need to lay table cloths (yet) blah blah blah... actually sat down with the technicians to have coffee and lunch with them and it was quite interesting to hear what they talk about. Like Ioannis' new mansionette in Wimbledon and Jeff was telling him that he can make a fortune during Wimbledon (Tennis) by charging spectators £1 for every use of the toilet or selling bacon burgers at £2.50. Ioannis was skeptical, but Lis said that ppl will actually buy them cuz she saw it when she went to Twickenham to watch rugby... Hmm... Maybe i can invest in a house in Wimbledon or Twickenham too..... yeah right.. like i will have the money.... Lunch was baked sole with prawns and asparagus and potato salad... very good. i love to get the recipes to all these good food i am eating in Lakeside. Dessert was tiramisu... all i can say is that it is Heavenly....................=)
Then went down to town to get registered with Kelly Services so that i can get my pay for working at Lakeside and then went to Oasis to get the bag that i saw yesteraday for £6 but din buy cuz i couldn't decide whether i shld get it or not... anyway, i decided that i want it now, so i went there but i couldn't find it anymore....!!!! It was only one day!!!! How can a bag disappear so quickly???? hmph. Nvm... a bag is a bag, i will eventually find another one i like and forget about this one.... (i hope!)
ooh... by the way... the clock has turned forward yesterday night 0200 became 0300.... so the time now is 1900 even though yestreday this time it was 1800.... it is still really bright outside, like 5 pm in Singapore.... i love this weather... =) Came back from town around 4plus.... went to town, then realised that Next had its half-yearly one day sale yesterday. I am like, so damn pissed, cuz i have been so looking forward to it, so that i can get the sandals that i really like at £15 instead of £29.99. now i can't get the sandals cuz it is £29.99. *sulk*. but who knows... maybe it is a blessing to wait... maybe i will see another pair that i will like *cross my fingers*. Basically juz walked around, look at things.... blah blah blah... the usual. I also went to Waterstones to look at the guide books, see if there is any place worth going next week. I feel like going to Dover and Canterbury... hmm.... will think about it....
Came back. then realise that the celiing light outside my room was dangling by a few wires... apparently while i was on town, the ceiling light dropped and is now only supported by the few wires... why does this kind of things always happen? first it's the toilet, now it's the light... never mind... i will go back and have a good dinner....=)
Sunday... 30th April... today is Mother's Day over here in UK. So to all mothers out there who are reading this, whoever you are, Happy Mothers' Day!! Happy Mothers' Day to my mummy back home as well... =) Talked to her before i came out (in the computer lab now)... will call her again later to say Happy Mothers' Day. I am a good girl. =)
Yesterday i went to the lake side for picnic with Synn, Kevin, Johnny and Derrick. Lakeside, as in by the lake, not Lakeside Restaurant, where i will be working over the next 5 days during lunch hour. =) Anyway, before we went for our picnic, Synn came over to my place to make the sandwiches. BTW, synn does really really really good egg mayo sandwich. I am hooked. =) back to the story, yeah, we were done with the sandwiches and was juz talking while waiting for derrick to finish conferencing with his sis, when out of nowhere, these things flew in through the window....and hit me on the head. It took me a while before i realise that it was eggs!!! FUCK!!! some kids from the houses nearby were juz walking around and throwing eggs into open kitchen windows, so that they'll rot and stink the place while everyone was home for easter... i dunnno what kind of kids they breed here.... but i dun know if they understand that you can't juz go around throwing eggs through open windows... so i had to go wash my hair and change clothes before going for the picnic. We can go and buy 4D now. the number is 1450, the time when the eggs came through.
then at 10 plus, i was in my room watching To Heart, when someone came knocking on my door. Was Ben, my flatmate from downstairs, then he asked me if i had any cannabis. ????? I din want to show that i was shocked or anything, so i juz said, no i have no cannabis. I mean, i know that this ppl here smoke pot and everything, but did they seriously think that everyone does it, like they do? Well, i dun and i never will. Then Ben continued to ask me, do you have any other drugs that you can sell to me, or do you know anyone else who sells drugs?? To all questions, i politely answered no. Then he asked me, do you have the key to Stephanie(my next door neighbour)'s door... i was like, why would i have her key? We're not like good friends or anything... (of course i din say the latter part). He then told me that he was thinking of breaking into Steph's room to get some cannabis. I am like okay.... I am seriously becoming a lil freaked.... I juz told him, i dun think whoever else that is still here have any drugs to sell to you.... so he goes like, okay, i'll go ask olivier. By then, i wanted him to leave, so i said, yeah, kay, even though i know olivier has no drugs.
It's juz Me, Oilvier and Iona left on the upper floor, the rest has all gone home... Iona has juz gone to Milton Keynes till Wednesday and Olivier is going for his field trip tmr. That leaves only me upstairs... Can do whatever i like.....=)
Happy Holidays!!!! I am officially on holiday now cuz i juz finished my last lesson before the holiday since i have no lessons tomorrow.... Yoo HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, great weather again, but what else could it be...??? =) i hope it remains like dat over the weekend too, so that i can have picnic....=�jAnd with my assignments handed in... i am going to chill and relax tonight.... =) Watch To Heart ep 2.
Talked to Synn today.... she is finally telling me that she and Kevin are indeed going out even though they said "they have drawn lines".. hahaha... good for them. =) yeah. No plans for my holidays yet... i have no idea what i'll be doing, but i could be working in Lakeside for my first week. Heard about the really serious SARS disease in Singapore that has cause the govt to close all schools up to JC till 6 April, that is a week of holiday. Actually told mummy that i could ask San Mei over to have a break, but she says cannot cuz San Mei got a lot of work to do.... sigh. Nvm then. Good time for them to recharge.... but i think it is stupid to close everything but not the polys and unis, "cuz these ppl can take better care of themselves..." what kind of crap is that? Poly students same age as JC students, where got can take better care of themselves...
ooh... i did 2.4km in the gym not so long ago and i clocked 17min 30s. Not gold or silver standard... but i passed!!! So not too bad....
I am wearing a skirt today.... Temperature is 18C. =) with short sleeve and sunglasses...=)
On other notes... my toilet is not fixed yet.... it is still dripping water and flooding my washroom... i will be going for lunch soon in the gardens.... Hmm....=)
I am seriously sounding like a broken recorder.... but the weather is so good....=)
Hwei Shan says that i am becoming like the English... everyday talk about either the weather or tea... i am not quite there yet... cuz i only talk about the weather, i dun talk about tea... cuz i dun have tea....=) but yeah.... i think today's weather is even better than the previous days' cuz it is 16C today and the weather is good enough to go out in skirts.... but i din... cuz i din know the weather will be that good...duh
Went to town yesterday... very crowded prob cuz the weather is that good.... Iona bought quite a bit of stuff... we went to Marks and Spencer and bought lunch and went to Guildford castle grounds to have lunch... it felt really good basking in the sun among the flowers, and not having to scream that it is really hot.....=)
Dunno why i woke up at 0836 this morning.... what the hell?!?!? It's the Sunday! Why did i wake up so early....??? Called HweiShan to ask abvout the results of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Found out that Alonso was on pole. WTF???? How did both the Renaults end up on the front row...??? At least Button outqualified Villneurve(or however you spell his name).
Anyway, woke up and saw my toilet was a lil flooded... my toilet bowl has been dripping water since last friday and the ppl can't do anything about it till Monday. sigh. never mind. Thanx god the weather is great. =) Really nice.
I am seriously becoming like the English. Weather weather weather....
today is the 2nd official day of spring!!! Happy spring everyone!!!! I really love the weather now... 17C today. Wonderful. Juz handed in an assignment on Thursday and 2 more to go for next week and it's my one month holiday!!!!! I am becoming like a broken recorder and repeating what i said b4, but i dun care... =) the weather really changes your mood isn't it??? heh. GOtta go to town now... buy sunglasses, have picnic in the gardens etc etc. Ahh, this is life!!!
Did i tell you how much i lovespring??? I really do and the flowers are so so so so so so pretty.... but i think i have been so busy with work that i hardly have time to actually stop and appreciate the beauty of it all... There are three projects due within the next week... and perhaps (or perhaps not) due to my procrastination... i have not finished or get to half way through any of them yet...
Went to London yesterday... Decided to go cuz i thought i deserved a break after all the rush that is otherwise known as the Lakeside Management Project... The weather was perfect... bright sunny beautiful weather... The only problem was the wind.... so damn bloody strong... nonetheless we went to Hyde Park for a picnic and had cheesecake, profiteroles, chocolates and chips... then Derrick made me pose as his model for his shots...ahahha... quite funny.... then went shopping... walked from Marble Arch to Picadilly Circus, then to Chinatown.. bought a flowy linen shirt from H&M. $15 pounds... totally worth it.... so pretty.... there are so many nice stuff in H&M... i now declare H&M my favourite shop...=)
Made some tao hway today... in case you dunno.... it's the tofu pudding... you know the one that they always sells in shops that also sell soya bean drink...??? Yeah, there is this tofu mix that you can buyin Chinatown for £1.30 to make your own tao hway and i think it is really nice... could be due to the fact that i have not eaten it for a long time... but i dun carre...i still like it....=)
ahahahah.... Spring is finally here!!!! All the flowers are blooming everywhere. our school plated a lot of daffodils everywhere and now they are all blooming, really pretty, cuz it looks like the tulip fields that we always see in the pictures, except this is daffodils...the trees also have new buds and leaves... and there was this tree that have its flowers blooming b4 the leaves actually grow out... so the whole tree is pink in colour.... very pretty...=) Love spring!!! So much so that i changed my icq nick to Fruhling. which is German for Spring...
So damn bloody cold today... going to the gym now....
Went to the Guildford Crown Court today cuz the case continues today.We had to do a law report based on the proceedings and today is the 3rd day of hearing. It can be interesting at times while boring at others... The case i chose was about infringment of trademark by this woman on Nike, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger and Heckett. They spent the whole afternoon on trademarks and the previous trademark acts etc etc... all it remember is Section 92.1b, cuz this was the one that woman infringed. No offence to ppl doing law, but i will never want to do law looking at all the stress the lawyers go through, the presentation, the research yada yada......
Tomorrow is Grace's 21st Birthday... I got her a card and a star shaped balloon... think she deserves to celebrate tmr since we worked so hard the past week....=)
Ooh yah.... must tell you something that happened b4 the presentation yesterday... We used an external .Zip drive to save our powerpoint as it was too big, then when we bought our laptop out, ioannis was looking at the ZIP drive with great curiosity and then asked us if it was an extra battery... when we told him it was a Zip drive, he went like... "okay, fine", you know the a lil embarrassed look?? Yeah, that was what he did and we laughed... bless ioannis... really funny and really good tutor...=)
Management Day have come and gone already... i can't imagine that all i have been working on for the past 2 weeks all end today... started out pretty okay. Wore my management suit... i think i look really good in it. =) Then at Lakeside had to cut the cakes we got for everyone for breakfast... i did not expect Ramsey and Maria to turn up today.... but for some strange reason both of them did, not sure if i was happy abt that... had briefing, then waiting staff briefing but during then i talk too much... became too long winded, then talked too quickly.... then Peter (our other F n B tutor) had to pull me aside to tell me not to say too much. Fine, then during mise en place (laying out of resturant), i had to run here and there and then i had to allocate the table, play the music, prepare the drink, oversee table layout and then i see quite a few mistakes that i think i should have noticed, but din see it until Peter pointed it out to me. Which should never be the case....=)
then after that, service. which was okay at the beginning, then i dunno why, i started doing the serving and etc etc... which again should not be the case... i did so much of those that Ioannis had to pull me aside, ask me who is the manager...then i say me. and Ioannis said, so be the manager... Which i think i did... good. =) We had one table that came really late... that's tbl 12 and they had to order 3 chateaubriands. and that took 25min and it totally slowed down our entire operations cuz we cannot get the figures till like 2.45pm and ioannis actually had to tell both of us to sit down and relax and he even served us...=) Bless him, ioannis...
Presentation was good... Ioannis said it was okay... but both of us dragged too long... talked too much... 16min instead of the usual 10min. ioannis told me that i am pretty monotonous... no tone, but clear voice, so gotta improve on my voice
Had some cake with Grace... celebrated a lil on the completion of our Management Day...=)
I can't believe this day has juz come and gone... so fast. I spent every night the past week working on this and then in 6 hours, it is over... But actually i think i did quite enjoy myself... i enjoyed wearing my management suit, din want to take it off at the end and despite all the stress and everything it was stimulating and i dare say enjoyable. =) I hope it is not because i have not felt so stressed for so long like in JC... Do i enjoy it? I dunno but the relief after all the stress is always immense... Hopefully, my results for my management day turn out okay.....=)
Tired tired tired.... was sleeping during my lecture juz now.., Have been working on my management project juz now and yesterday night and the night before yesterday night... then today i found out that we have 25 covers (out of a max of 45 covers) and Ioannis(my F n B tutor) told me that i should do some posters for marketing.... Argh... more work!!!!! So i did the posters but i need Grace to look through them and Ioannis to look through them etc etc and not juz that, we have to start doing the powerpoint for the presentation and i have not done that yet.... and we need to practise b4 the presentation and i have not done that too.... ARgh... and there are still 3 other projects and all of which i have not started on yet... and they are all due in 2 weeks. Shit.
You know how horrible it is when you have really inefficient project mates who juz wanna procrastinate till the last minute??? I dunno what kind of luck i have but I have projects mates that are like that for all except one project, which is an individual work. Duh. and what kind of project group have 9 ppl in it... WTF??? thenx god i am not doing 8 other ppl's work, at least there are about 4 other who would kind of bother. If no one bothers, i would be doing 9 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 15 people's work for 4 projects... sometimes i wish i can take the heck care attitute. Ha. The problem is, sigh, i can't. Juz not me.
i received this in the mail today...
Behind every successful man, there is a woman. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Dunno what kind of coincidence is this. Sometimes things are so uncanny it scares me....
sigh... who would have expected this to happen??? No one. But then again, i dun think i'll get to watch something like that if i was in Singapore... hmm.... everyone have kind of guessed/found out that Lawrence is going out with Michelle. Why else would he be going to the common room with her everyday. Because of this, no one really talks to Michelle or Lawrence now... other than Derrick who says that this is a decision between the both of them and me cuz Lawrence doesn't know that I know and seriously, even though i might not really approve i dun think it will be the good for anyone even if i start avoiding them. Actually i think Lawrence would have expected me to avoid him. But i dun see a need to do this lor, he is still my friend and he is a good friend. But right now i think more than anything I kind of pity him, dunno why... i shouldn't pity him... the only innocent one is his poor son back home in Singapore. Derrick said he kind of expected this when Lawrence made his decision to come here and study leaving behind his wife and kids in Singapore, but he also thought that Lawrence will be more responsible than this.... I have a feeling that Lawrence wants to divorce his wife. He once said that he might stay if he can get a job here. Bottom line, i dun think he wants to return to his wife. I think he doesn't have the balls to do so and also there is the problem of his son.
Sorry, but sometimes what synn said is quite right... he's a fucker... I am juz going to sit back and watch the show when his wife and son comes in June... if the show lasts that long.... =)
I am so mean.
