Tuesday, September 26, 2006
oh hi guys! been quite some time since i updated, i've been busy with work actually. these 2 weeks seems like forever. i'll tell u wat my job is. ok u know the drawers tt u all r using now... they r just normal drawers right, u open and close them normally. but the company tt im working for has these special drawers from austria.. so special tt no matter how hard u push to close them... they will automatically stop at a certain point and close itself softly and properly. the actual name is called the SOFTCLOSE drawer. its the ideal drawer for hot tempered ppl. they wun spoil no matter how hard u push to close them, coz once it reaches 2cm frm the cabinet... it slows down and closes itself. and ya so for these drawers to work, they have 2 metallic poles underneath them and inside these poles contain oil pumps. the current oil pumps will squirt oil. and so our job is to change them. so we have to take out the pumps 1by1 and replace them with newer pumps made of better plastic -_-". and we r doing it for 2 weeks. and u know how many oil pumps the 6 of us have to change? 14,000 of them!!!!! and the warehouse is located in kaki bukit... no aircon, no fan. so its so damn hot especially in the afternoon. we perspire like nobody's business. but i ain't complaining... we earn $80 per day. max is from 9-6pm... but normally we 5pm can leave le... sometimes even 430. so its good considering the pay and working hours. and my pain ends this fri... yup.. i started last mon.
Singapore idol ended last nite. i voted once for jonathan. i preferred him to hady. he was my fav male contestant, of coz my fav female is jasmine.. but i have to say her dressing sux.. and it makes her look fat. i think hady deserves to win bcoz he is more versatile... but i think when u talk abt having an IDOL, the x-factor.. charisma... i think jonathan has what it takes. but hady garnered 70% of the votes. lets hope he does better than taufik. hope i wun see them often in 7-11 commercials promoting gulp.
oh ya celebrated shing's bday last saturday with the lamers, the JASS, mr and mrs james, and shing's cell group. quite happening although there wasn't enough food to fill every1... and my wish for shing on her 18th bday is that she attends sch regularly, comes early for lessons and for her mum to sign her water baptism form... although all of these doesnt concern me at all. but thats still my wish for her. lol. thx for being such a great buddy. and i hope u enjoyed taking back ur pirates comic lol!
and ya i added this new household item to my room recently. ok maybe not so recently... abt 2 weeks ago. its convenient, small compared to the normal ones... and its very act cute. it's just what i need.
a mini water dispenser! only $24.90 from ACTION CITY. look at the cuuuute penguin, so act cute. i place it in my room beside my bed. i dun have to step out of my room to go to the kitchen for water anymore. and the container fills exactly 8glasses for water (2litres)... just enough for my daily requirements. errr ya behind tt dispenser is a photo frame of my niece. its also beside my bed. my parents were the one who put it there. poor me, have to see her every morning when i wake up. and she stares at me when i sleep, how unglam.
thats all for now. so long and good nite. love live friday. pls come soon and end my misery in my job.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
alright guys, sorry for not updating for quite some time. after last wed, i was packed with activities thoroughout the week. 1b20 chalet was a blast! and this week i started working so i dun have much time to update. anyway, will talk more abt my job the next entry. i wana elaborate on the 1b20 class chalet. the turnout was very bad. 24 ppl in 1b20, out of which 11 confirmed that they could make it, in the end only 7 turned up. to the other 4 ppl who said that they would show up but eventually didn't, i have nth to say. but it was fun, even though u guys did not bother to show up. i'm usually wun be pissed abt such a small matter like this, but later u will know y im pissed this time round.
we started off playing scrabble, we didnt really follow the rules, as in we didn't form words that are in the english dictionary. there were words like SIAM, PEED, BOI and SIONG being formed. and we went on to play monopoly after that and learnt how to make investments in the game lol. it was fun. but the climax has to be when sherry arrived and introduced this game to us. (all captions are below the pics)
its like a truth or dare, except now, 1 person will command and a selected person will have to abide by the command. means all of us randomly pick an ice cream stick without knowing the numbers. once we have selected, the 'KING' will reveal himself and be the commander. he will say out his forfeit (to be thot of it himself) to every1 and then choose a suay number to carry it out. means if he chooses number 4, and u r holding the ice cream stick with the number 4.. then happy new year.
forfeit 1: i was the king. and the forfeit was to mix f&n orange with iced lemon tea and 5 twisties. the person who kana was ethan, who drank and ate this delicacy within 10secs. cool.
forfeit 2 (no photo): eugene was the king, and he filled half a 1.5litre coke bottle with plain water. with 1 gulp, the person selected have to finish it. who's the sway person? ME! sian....
forfeit 3: ethan was the king. this is f&n orange plus pizza hut's cheese and chilli bits. it smells exactly like vomit, trust me. the person selected will have to gulp it down. my stomach was so full with the previous half bottle of water... so i thot i wun be so sway.. coz there's only 1/6 chance of getting chosen. the sway one? ME AGAIN! SIAN!!! but it tasted quite ok lol.
forfeit 4: eugene was the king. and the sway person got to wear his shirt the other way round for 2hrs. a picture tells a thousand words... i dun have to tell u who is the sway one.
forfeit 5: i forgot who was the king. but the king chose 2 ppl, and he specifically wanted a girl and a guy. he wanted the guy to wear a girl's hairband for abt 15mins-half an hour and the girl was to wear the guy's shirt for the same amount of time. the sway ones... dinesh and sherry.
forfeit 6: put 1 hand and one leg in a pillow for abt 15-30mins. the sway person? sarah!
forfeit 7: wrap urself up in a blanket for a certain amount of time... which i forgot. ethan kana this time lol! and he looks like a rape victim... who is very happy tt he got raped.
ok i know u all r bored, so the new few will be summarized.
forfeit 8: eugene had to hold sherry's legs on his shoulders as she walked with her hands.
forfeit 9: sarah was forced to smell the toilet bowl and claim that it smells nice.
forfeit 10: lol i was the king! and i made the selected person wear the tshirt of some1 frm the opposite sex... the other way around! and the person chosen was eugene.. lol... revenge!
forfeit 11: i had to carry every1's bags for 5mins. super heavy i tell u!
forfeit 12: sarah had to walk with slippers on her hands and dustbins as her shoes.
forfeit 13: 2 ppl selected had to do leopard crawls.
forfeit 14: ethan and sarah were the sway ones to be wrapped up together!
forfeit 15: whoa sian. i was the sway one who got chosen to replace ethan and i had to lie down in a '96' position with sarah and both of us were tied up. butt to butt. for 8mins. webber wun be pleased when he sees this. oh ya, sarah seemed to be doing alot of forfeits in a row.
FINAL FORFEIT!: 2 selected ppl. 1 to be the pole, and one to be the dance. lol dinesh was the pole... ethan was the sexy dancer. he was such a good sport. every1 was actually. and it was fun bcoz of that.
and after that it was time to cut the cake. and i tell u, i was really shocked and at the same time touched when i saw the cake...
look at that! a cake with the class photo on it. $40 from sweet secrets. the 'PHOTO' on the cake is edible. my goodness, i really have to thank ethan for his efforts put in before, and during the chalet itself. it really amazing to see such a beautiful cake. and the sad thing was, on the cake was a photo of our WHOLE class, 24 ppl. and out of 24 ppl, only 7 turned up. thats y im pissed. the joy could not be shared.
and sarah got to eat my face. lol. 1b20 will still be the best.
so long and good nite.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
ok there seems to be a particular trend specially for today in all the blogs i've read. so i need to follow the trend. here goes: results are out! this sem's results seem to come sooner than the previous sems.
Principles of Marketing: B+
Human Resource Management: B+
Business Finance: B
Leadership & Character: B
Arts Appreciation: B
yup. i dun really know my gpa yet but i did a rough calculation and expect it to drop around 0.04-0.05 from last sem's 3.31. i know my results are disappointing, but i couldnt have asked for more. do i have regrets? of coz i do. do i have people whom i wana really blame for being slack? of coz i do. but thats not the point, the point is being happy with what i have and i am actually quite glad that the final exam papers did pull some of my results up like marketing and finance. the only one which i couldnt explain was HRM... where i got B+, so has aileen and dinesh. ya, dinesh got B+... quite rare. so this means im smart too lol! well the exam papers were alright, wat caused me to have such disappointing grades were my coursework... especially the mid sem papers, which i know i could have done much better. but it came the week after all the project deadlines and i was very very tired. oh well im glad for the projects my group all did very well.
MY GRATITUDES FOR THIS SEM:
my 2b01 project group. you guys are amazing. i am not shy to say that this group is the most effective group in my poly life so far. of coz, my yr1 grp was more cohesive and fun-loving, but this grp is more effective in terms of getting things done. too bad our time ended so soon, but i wish u all the best. thanks for securing A's in the marketing and HR projects. and dinesh, i have to thank u the most... i see u putting alot of effort in the project, and i know that. good for u that it has paid off. a valuable grp member indeed. and aileen, thanks for painstakingly carrying your laptop at least twice a week. i wanted to help, but who ask u stay so far =p. thx to chinghow for your youtube videos, directing abilities and your sweets. thanks alex for putting your knowledge in skincare products and thanks pat for making the reports flow. and u guys r damn power la! u put up with my untahanable nosensical lameness! whoa! i kowtow to u all!
2b01, thanks for all the candid moments in class. 1 sem seems so short, but i'm glad we've met, and i wish u all the very best. i hope we still remember each other although we only spent 15weeks as a class and we meet approx only 6hrs for tutorials every week. oh ya, the pizza hut outing was great! catch up often although we r all in diff diplomas ok.
sarah marie... thanks for your leadership project. without your help, my leadership wun even get a B. serious. and for that, i shall tell every1... sarah sarah is the best! sarah sarah ace her tests! sarah sarah beat the rest! ya i changed the last sentence coz this is a PG blog. i will grab webber for u, i promise. and thanks for ur snacks at every lecture and of coz, your laughter.
shing. thanks for studying with me during the study break and letting aileen and i take shelter at ur house during the last day of exams. we went mad i know... but it was fun studying with u. and of coz, sorry abt the last nite of exams. i really didnt know! forgive me.
and to all the people who have helped me in my tp life in sem2.1 in one way or another whom i forgot to thank, i am so sorry! will remember u... lets say... soon. u all r also the best!
sem 2.2 here i come! no more cds! whopee!! 1b20 class chalet tmr! looking forward to it! as ethan would say... it will COMFIRM be very fun!
so long and good nite to all the chicks, hunks and nerds.
Monday, September 11, 2006
hello people! this is it, the entry that you guys r waiting for, the chronicles of my china trip. if u do not already know, i'm back. well the tour on the whole was fun, with a mix of boring historical sightseeing and some very cheap shopping sprees. went to the eastern part of china (hangzhou suzhou wuxi nanjing) and finally to shanghai for 7 whole days. china is a nice country, they have so many good things which singapore doesnt have, but they also have some bad things which singapore also thankfully dun have.
before the tour even started, my flight took off last fri at 0115hrs... so every1 was very very sleepy and most of us slept on the plane. then when i woke up for the meals, i was only half awake. while eating the tasteless american breakfast served on board, i bit my own lips twice at different spots, super super pain. and throughout the next few days, the results are as follow.. godlike ulcers, super pain. now i think when i eat, i'll eat slower than some1 with braces. this pic was taken last nite, so its recent.
note: not for the faint hearted
the first day was quite alright and it got better when the tour guide brought us to watch a china cultural show in hangzhou. those guys are really damn good, they did many stunts, but the main point i wana talk about, is a CLAPPING GADGET. every seat inside is filled with this CLAPPING GADGET. super cute and creative. of coz the audience used it to clap. i reckoned that they recommended this gadget coz no one wans to clap for the performers in the past.
and the side view looks like this, i guess by the pic u can tell how we use it. jus swing it from right to left and vice versa. and yes, since it was so fun to play with, every1 "CLAPPED" for the performers very often
and i found out that china is no diff from singapore, clubbing is not something alien to them. and to all singaporean paikias, pls be thankful for mohammad sultan road, and be extremely thankful for MOS. if u thot the clubs in our country were of low standards... think again.
and i went to wuxi to visit the fliming site of THE THREE KINGDOMS... and i chanced upon an empress, which just so happen to look like my niece. she wasn't acting cute, she was cute. (and yes, she was my niece) we paid SGD $4 for her to be dressed like this for a photoshoot. quite a reasonable price.
and of coz, the city which i wana talk abt the most is shanghai. the most modern city in china. their vcds only cost SGD $2-$4! no more than that! and they r not pirated, they r actually original, only thing they r produced in china. they r exactly the same vcds that u r able to find in TS VIDEO shops in s'pore. so now u know, how much TS VIDEO earns by selling a vcd to u. if i, as a customer, am able to buy a vcd from $2-$4, how much do u think TS VIDEO paid for them? surely it has to be even cheaper. and to all sg pirates... china's original vcds are far cheaper than ur pirated cds... shame shame.
haha but when i went to shanghai's city area, i noticed an interesting movie poster. it was xmen3.. and it was COMING SOON! lol, singapore screened the movie like... 3 months ago? haha... LAG!!
and shanghai's nite view was damn beautiful, so much more beautiful than singapores'. here's a night view of the ORIENTAL PEARL. wat a sight. its said that the china government made it a must for all city buildings to be lighted up by 7pm. how nice. unlike singapore. u look at our city buildings, all u will see r the outline lightings of the suntec city office buildings, so unglam. my dad told me that singapore used to have bright building lightings at nite, but the government disallowed it coz some drivers said that the lightings r a distraction and they end up in accidents. wha lao, so noob. accident is bcoz ur driving lousy, not bcoz of the bright lights. try to find excuse only. act cute!
a closer look at the oriental pearl...
and this is the top view of shanghai's city at 269 floors high. we took a lift, and i tell u, the lift was extremely fast. we were at the first floor, and after 10secs... we reached the 120th floor, and after another approx 15secs, we reached the 269th floor. and the problem was that we couldn't feel anything at all, we did even feel like we were going up that fast. so most of us got a shock when we reached the 269th floor, and of coz the pressure in our ears was untahanable.
and now for the highlight of the trip.. the TOILETS in shanghai. got tv one! at every urinal somemore! both male and female toilets also got. but i only took a photo of the male toilet's one (duh!). i think its more beneficial for the ladies coz they stay in the toilet longer. i mean come on, a male's average peeing time is only about 10-15secs, y do we need a tv in front of us? i only watched as a plane took off and i was done peeing already. and they dun have it in the male cubicles, but female one have. so when a guy shits, he doesnt get to watch tv, but if he pees in the urinal, he can watch the tv. quite dumb ah, it will be more practical if they had it in the male cubicles. i think they scared that guys who do big business wun wana come out after that. lol but quite style ah.
the following pic was taken from the ENTRANCE OF MY SHANGHAI HOTEL ROOM. take note, its the entrance of my hotel room, NOT the entrance of my hotel toilet. proof: the doorbell on the left.
so act cute! i think this hotel is more suited for couples who wana make love after a bath. the toilet is IN the room itself, and the showers' door is transparent! and its situated in front of the main room door. so imagine if 2 ppl stay in the room, and 1 is bathing. and if some1 knocks on the door and the other person in the room goes to open the door... whoa got free show already. haha my dad and i stay in one room... so i had no choice but to take 2 cloth pegs and clip a towel on the door... so at least there's sth to cover us when we shower.
lol and that marks the end of the trip. will update again soon. so long and good nite.