I need to be guai. I need to control. I need to watch my expenses.
Why am i saying this?? To recoup the amount i've spent yesterday, I need to work about 8 days at the current pay rate. To earn back the amount i've spend this week, I need to work another 7-8 days (because I went to the dentist). So it takes about 15 days to earn back everything that i spent this week. This means that I need to work about 3 weeks juz to cover what i spent this week. Very very very bad.
Go figure.
Innocence.
Blogger Lost My Post.
Numbers of the day: 4, 6, 113, 136, 23, 60
Got
tagged by Hwei Shan to do this quiz, but then i decided I wasn't going to, but Mars kind-of "insisted" that i do it, so here goes:
The Book Thing. Which Is Not Unlike The Music Thing.Prose or poetry?Prose. Am so not a poetic person, or one to really appreciate it.
Book(s) you're reading nowErm, Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edward-Jones (What kind of name is Imogen?!) and Anonymous
And ______ (I forgot the book title, don't ask me how, the book is somewhere on my room floor) by Elizabeth Berg
Last book(s) you readAgain, Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edward-Jones (What kind of name is Imogen?!) and Anonymous. I juz finished it, like now. It's a bit of a "Day in the life of Anonymous", who is a hotel manager in one of the 5-star hotels in Mayfair. I like it, cuz I SO identify with some of the incidences and terms used in the book.
Next book(s) you're going to buy /readMagazines doesn't really count right? I'm not sure if it is the next book, but FOR SURE, i am going to read it, I've been waiting for it for ages. It's Phyllis Reynold Naylor's Alice On Her Way.
Other than that, maybe Sophie Kinsella's Undomestic Goddess and Sarah Mason's new book.
Book you've read the most timesThis is easy. It is
Jane Green's Bookends. This book has been by my bed, or rather on my bed since I bought it after my block test when I was in J1. The first (of the two) books that made me cry. And laugh out loud. The best Chick-Lit book I've ever read.
The other book lying on my bed is Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Ree's The Boy Next Door, for the "awww" and feel-goodness before i sleep.
Longest book you've readFrom cover to cover, it would be Essentials of Services Marketing: Concepts, Strategies and Cases by Hoffman and Bateson. It was my textbook, and the required reading was the whole textbook, and I was very guai. I read through the whole textbook. :)
One book that you wanted to read that disappointed youSpellbound or the US title, To Have and To Hold, by Jane Green too. Think she've been spending too much time taking care of kids and her garden. Her books after Bookends and Babyville are just, not so good. Thank god I did not pay full price for the hard back at WHSmith.
Have you read books in a language different from yours?I read the abridged version of Jia by XX (Shit, I can't believe i forgot his name. Is it Lu Xun??). It was one of those required reading for Chinese test, and probably the only one that i really enjoyed. Ooh... also this Taiwanese author Zhu Xiu Juan's books. Nu Qiang Ren and ______ (I forgot the 2nd title that I read already!!! I was only sec 3 then!!)
In a language really really different?? I've read a German issue of Glamour. Not read
read, but u know, try to read the words u know and decipher what the hell the article is about?? It's technically not a book, but it is bound like a book, so still a book yeah???
Writer you've read the most books fromFreya North. Read every single book of hers!!! Ooh, Does TinTin count too?? I've read every single Tin Tin book too!!
Some books you like (not necessarily your favourites)The whole Spot series, as in, u know, Spot the dog?? (Yes, i'm a kid, so what? Sue me)
The entire Tin Tin Series.
The still-being-completed
Alice series (by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor! I'll be 34 by the time she finishes the entire series!!)
Roald Dahl's Boy
Pip by Freya North
Poppy by Freya North too.
One Hit Wonder by Lisa Jewell
Sarah Mason's 2nd book, forgot the title.
Sara Caspian's One Hit Wonder
Flying off Course by Rigas Doganis (a brilliant analysis of the aviation industry)
Global Airlines by Pat Hanlon (ditto above)
Organisational Behaviour by Stephen P. Robbins (yes, i like this book, cuz it's the most readable OB text in the sea of un-readable OB text in the world)
Michael Crichton's Airframe
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (I hated this book in sec 2, loved it after that)
JB Priestly's An Inspector Calls
Jon Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (one of the best book's I've read, juz because it is SO me)
3 books you don't likeBuchanan, D. and Huczynski, A. (2004) Organisational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction, 5ed., Harlow, Essex: FT-Prentice Hall (The most un-readable OB text in this planet)
Hmm... I dun really have books i dun like... Cuz I don't start reading books that i dun like, and if i don't like the book, I always try to forget that i've read a book i dun like.
3 people who should take this surveyEh, i dunno leh. Mars and Shan has already taken it. KT? The lurkers?? Corinne?? Rena?
Am looking though the
Surrey Alumni 2005 Singapore Reception Photos... and i don't recognise half of the people in the photos, other than the recent graduates, which is rather normal...
One more year in Surrey for me!!!! So Fast... I'll be joining these people in a year's time... ARGH.
Bleah.
Lazy Sunday Afternoon, but a relatively busy Sunday Evening...
Went shopping with Mummy at People's Park. Bought things for self, for Mummy, for Matthew.
Went to makan at food street. Saw Ix Shen. No, he is not with Erica Lee.
Oh, am starting work on Tuesday. At this place called
Olive Bistro. It's quite ulu, in the International Business Park in Jurong. But it is just right for me. Cuz it's juz 5 min by bus from my place and if i feel like it, I can also walk along the Ulu Pandan running track to work! And I *think* I am only working lunch time from 11-3!!! The manager is quite flexible, and the operations is quite casual, a bit like Cafe Cartel. So am quite happy with this arrangement I've got. :) I get to earn some spending money, and not sit on my butt the whole day, and yet still have the time to rest, chill and hang out!
Btw, Cafe Cartel did call me back to ask if I can start work tomorrow. Hmm... to work in Cafe Cartel, you have to pay $28 upfront for 2 polo tees and an apron and a name tag, which u prob will not use for the rest of your life. It's 40min by bus to get to Orchard Cine. Operating hours are till 11pm on weekdays and till 2am on weekends. I can be working ANY time. Well, the pay might be slightly better, but the odds are against it.
I think the decision is quite clear, no?? Anyway, Cafe Cartel did say they will call me by Saturday. It's Sunday when they called.
Another Lazy Sunday Afternoon.
Watched a really old teen movie called Here on Earth. Story basically goes like this: Stupid prep jock (Chris Klein) leaves school and comes to this small little village in the middle of nowhere and wreaks havoc and then pisses off the small town hunk (Josh Hartnett), who got into a car race with him, and in the process, destroyed the town's main diner. Both jock and hunk are sentenced to community service in helping rebuild the main diner. And Jock got to know hunk's girlfriend. Let's call her the Damsel in Distress (DinD, played by Leelee Sobieski). Anyway, jock and DinD got to know each other and fell in love. and DinD decided to break up with hunk and move to Boston to be with jock. Hunk is disappointed but not much he can do. DinD then found out that she had a terminal illness and (something happened along the way, but i was having lunch, so missed it) moved back to small town to live alone. Hunk and DinD became good friends and hunk realises how much DinD loves jock, decided that jock and DinD are meant to be together, so told off jock etc etc, eventually jock came through his senses for DinD (pseudo happy ending, but not for me, cuz i support hunk). Cut to next scene, u see a funeral, everyone is sad, hunk is crying, so u know DinD has died, but jock holds back his tears amid all the sadness around him (must be cuz of something along the lines of "You must remain strong for me" from DinD) (stupid act-strong jock).
The End.
Stupid show, but I guess it's something u watch when u wanna watch a brainless teen flick.
Ooh, i've got a slight tan. Not sure whether i like it... Jane and Sally (my hairdressers) say that i look more exotic being fair because it *very* seldom u see a Singaporean so fair. Or at least that's what they say. Oh well, can't do anything about it... Juz go back to UK and "bleach" again lor.
| Slow and Steady |
 Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy.
They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder.
It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment.
They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it. |
True? Or Not?? You be the Judge. :)
I got served chrysanthemum tea in a Tiger Beer mug today. That was weird.
Speaking of chrysanthemum, did u know there is a
National Chrysanthemum Society which "promotes the propagation and cultivation of the chrysanthemum and increase the bonds of fellowship among growers of the chrysanthemum."
I was at the Espirit in Raffles City today, and was at the Red Earth Cosmetics Counter, and the make up consultant over there was a lady. Which is nothing special. Until she opens her mouth, and then u realise that he/she is actually a shim. Hmm... not quite expected, but i guess it is a good thing, probably an indication of general acceptance of shims in this world?
It was a good day out to Orchard, Esplanade, Chinatown and Clarke Quay. The weather was good, not too hot, not raining, the company was good, the conversations were engaging, the music, when present, was soothing. What more could u ask for?
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Went to Jon's bday party at Toh Tuck... ate satay, hot dog, chicken wings, chicken kebabs, then had 3 cakes!!! Jonathan had 3 cakes for his birthday!!! All home baked!!! There was a chocolate fudge, then a very heavenly mango cake and blueberry cheese cake... How cool is that!!!!
Then after that, the group of us (Terrence, Janet and Ling) met Yue Soo and YinSher at Breko's at Holland Village for an all night card session!!! Damn cool!!! Never did anything like that before!!! Started with tai-tee, then went on to bluff, and ended off with introductory sessions of Bridge... Shiok leh!! Sent Ling back home and talked to the mummy and grandma, and admired the beautiful view in the early morning. And then realised that my junior Elly (Thio) is actually Ling's cousin!!! This world is WAY too small.
Juz when I thought that I would be the latest one home at 0730 or thereabouts, it transpired that my sister has not returned yet at this point of time...
The aunts and uncles came over for lunch. Turned out that all the cousins (that are 18 and over, unmarried, without a family) had the same idea yesterday night. San Mei went home around midnight-ish. Her brother San Yi was in Holland Village too until the wee hours of the morning. Funny how everyone asked me how come i didn't see him. I'm like, how come it must be me to recognise him? How come it's not him to recognise me??? Wee Suan's current location check? Unknown.
The new buzzword is "Upgrade". Matthew's bolster was getting too small for him, so (my) Mummy did a new one for him, a longer one for him to hug to sleep... and that is called an "upgrade", albeit in a different context. I guess it can also be called a "trade-in". From a older smaller pillow to a longer and newer one.
This is such a totally bo liao post. :)
I can't believe SIA even lost the the "Best IFE" award (which was only just announced)... I mean, after the disappointing results for the rest of the category, you would think that they have nailed this category down. At least that's what i thought. But no, they went and lost it to Emirates...
I did not go for the interview in the end. Because i called Raffles City to find out what this cafe is, and turned out, there is no such cafe there. So got a little freaked out, so in the end, i got my sis to call as an "interested applicant". This cafe is actually not open yet in Raffles City and will not open till July. And it is going to be a cafe which also sells Leonidas chocolates... and they are now looking for something more permanent (my sister said she was a student looking for a part time job). So decided that they probably don't want someone who is going to leave at the end of August. So I told the guy that I have accepted another job offer already and hence would not be going for the job interview.
The perk when u have a sister who is the IT executive in school: We have 3 identical tablet PCs at home now, and we're now both typing side by side (with my other laptop next to me) and we don't have to fight over one laptop now!!!!
Going for an interview later at Novena Square. Have u heard of the Bonbonniere Cafe in Raffles City Shopping Centre? That is the cafe that i have applied to, then got a text message this morning asking me to go for an interview at Novena Square instead. Okay. Maybe there is a branch at Novena Square too... and then so i agreed. Then the next message tells me to meet at the Long John Silvers in Novena Square. I'm like, okay? How come we're meeting at a fast food restaurant, and not the cafe where i am supposed to work?? Sounds a little dodgy. But am going to go anyway, just to practise my interview skills, if anything.
Will keep you updated...
I had sushi! I had sushi! I had sushi!!!!! I had my Ebikko (flying fish roe) and my chawanmushi!!!
Went to Orchard for the 1st time since i returned... quite a bit changed. There is an NYDC outside the Hereen now... Loads of new shops in Wisma and Ngee Ann...
I went into Mango and tried some clothes, an outfit to be exact. The top and the skirt matched beautifully... and the total price of the outfit? SGD 79!!!! Add to that a Mango bag that i've been eyeing since setting eyes on it at the beginning of year, total cost is SGD 134!!!
Saw the weirdest possible dress sense in Zara today. Maybe not weird. Juz plain ug-lee i think. Was juz on our way out when this woman juz came rushing through. She was wearing a white blouse with a black bra underneath, matched with a pair of pink Adidas surf shorts, inside which was a pair of black mini undies. It was not even a subtle g-string, but an ostentatious black undies. The icing on the cake?? A pair of baby pink panty hose, with a pair of white kitten heels. Sounds impossible?? Well, believe it. Both Shan and I saw it with our own eyes. It all belongs to the same person.
Btw, i did my first bak chang!!! After so so so so so so many many years of watching mummy do the bak chang, i finally did my own bak chang!!! And it turned out perfect!!! Yay. I think i deserve a pat on my back! ;)
Was looking at
SkyTrax's airline and airport surveys. Juz a brief introduction of what SkyTrax is, SkyTrax operates the world's largest passenger survey on airline and airport quality, conducted over an 11-month period, by 12 million passengers. The results have just been announced, which is disappointing, to say the least.
Disappointing, at least to me.
NO major first for SIA at all this year... They need to buck up, man.
Best Airline of the Year1. Cathay Pacific
2. Qantas Airways
3. Emirates
4. Singapore Airlines
Best Cabin Staff1. Asiana Airlines (Korean Airline)
2. Thai Airways
3. Malaysia Airlines
4. Singapore Airlines
Best First Class1. Cathay Pacific
2. Singapore Airlines
3. Malaysia Airlines
Best Business Class1. British Airways
2. South African Airways
3. Virgin Atlantic
Best Economy Class1. Malaysia Airlines
2. Emirates
3. Singapore Airlines
Best CateringSIA is ranked 8th for 1st Class Catering and
Out of the top 10 for Business and Economy.
Think there are quite a lot of surprises with the rankings this year. Asiana winning Best Cabin Staff is a surprise, everyone was expecting Malaysia to win it again this year, especially since they were the winners the past 4 years... though i am quite happy that MAS din win. BA winning Best Business Class, i think it's a joke. They probably have the smallest business class screen in the whole wide world. Virgin would have beaten them hands down with their Upper Class product.
But SQ? sigh... I can't believe they did not win anything decent at all... Not even a first in any of the sub categories... NEED to buck up... Time for more comment forms?? ;)
Been eating quite a bit since i came back.
The first thing i had on Singapore soil? Vitagen. Have not had it for nearly 8 months.
Then had Mummy's banana and orange cakes (2 separate cakes, not together)
Then my uncle bought Laksa
Then had fried noodles and Yong Tau Foo for dinner.
Felt asleep almost promptly after that at around 9 plus. Then woke up at 1.3oam. Been awake since then. Slept a total of 5 hours since waking up at 6pm, Singapore Time on Monday.
