first day of work and a little something from the past...

first day of work today... feeling a little nervous, afterall its my first official banking job, being a customer service officer, with no background or past experience, previous jobs with DBS not withstanding, the job scope is different... this is frontline job, firsthand contact with the bank's customers, moreover, i am a representative of the AmEx, one of the biggest and most famous credit card and banks in the world. Peggy, Christina and Irene were kind to me and Dorothy... taking care not to overload us with too much information and too many job scope in the first day. They were friendly and helpful as well... patient and warm... luckily, we manage to perform admirably, raking in 50 or so signups for the new atm cards. something which i can feel that they are quite happy over. In the end, Dorothy and me got introduced to Corrine, according to Peggy, she was the one who decided to employ us, must be the HR manager or something. She was real friendly too... from the corner of our eyes, we spotted a plaque which says "Outstanding Achiever" which stood proudly on her table... fantastic eh... Dorothy is going to be my partner for the month to come, surprisingly, she is church friend of Charlotte, and they go to some church in Yishun together... hmmm... it was a good day at work today nonetheless, hopefully can impress them enough that they wun mind us coming back to work when we grad, seems like a fantastic environment to work in too...

When i got home, watching the news where fruit bats are found in HDB estate, mummy suddenly relate her past to me. she was saying that my fourth aunt used to eat a lot of bats cos she at asthma in the past. Grandma was the one who bought it for her... talk about exotic food... she was saying that last time, she and her sisters were like rivals, very naughty and mischevious and they would fight each other and gang up on each other too... the tender age that they had to go out to work, setting up roadside stalls to sell potatoes, sweet potatoes, having to go pick up scraps from the discards of the rich caucasians in the past. how dirty they were when they had to toil to get food to feed the ducks, chickens, pigs... how they played and acted as wayang shows with strings attached to ceilings and pretending to fly... how fierce grandma was in the past where everyone got tied up to the ceiling and caned till they had blue black or they bleed. How grandpa was the saviour, when they had to go hide from grandma in the plantation. how pathetic it was to have 10 cents for pocket money for an entire week, that they had to resort to stealing grandma's bottles to sell... how their neighbour Ah Cai used to bring them out to movies, feeling proud that he has a following of 7 sisters... how poor they were that 2nd aunt was given away to other people to raised up, how they played and had fun in the dirty pools... as she went on... i could see the tears well up in her eyes... those memories, meant a lot to her... it was something which she never shared before...

the good life that we have now.... and we dont appreciate it... sigh...

Good Day...

Done with the interview... woohoo!! gosh it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be, i din even consider it as an interview at all actually. when i got there, i was expecting a private interview with the bank manager or something, that will be pretty stressful but in the end it turned out all rather simple, like a normal casual conversation as if the job was already meant for me... in a short period of time, the manager was introducing me to the layout of the bank and the brief outlook of the jobscope... i knew the job was mine... i'm starting on friday... wooohoo... According to the manager, the bank is the only one in singapore, i am suppose to be working like a mobile customer cum ambassador kinda thing, help pple with their queries and solve their problems and help them fill up forms and stuff lidat. Well, sounds pretty cool, but lunch hours compromised again.... but at the very least, to say i work at Amex as customer service sounds "seh" enuff... haha...

after the interview, i gave charlotte a call to tell her the good news, she was exclaiming... haha... can sense her excitement man... not like she is anyone to me nor i am anyone to her... but perhaps, she think of me as a friend, afterall we talk cock so much, and she tried so hard to find me a job and is pretty friendly now... headed down to Kelly Services to sign up the contract before coming back to Raffles place to meet the rest for lunch. Suppose to have Kwanhwa, Junzhi and Joanna and supposedly one of their friends each. Kwanhua din turn up, den i found out that he is actually working at BNP... haha, just beside me. Shuling turned up with Junzhi, i was pretty surprised that she remembered me cos i only met her once before in sch for lunch together with Joanna. she is now working at the same firm as Junzhi... such a small world. Much later, Joanna came with Dorothy... i recognised Dorothy immediately, her face was distinct as before, i remembered vividly that i met her before... sorry shuling, thou i manage to recall that i met you before later, but it must have been quite long ago since i last saw you... it was a funny lunch cos dorothy was damn crappy, keep teasing junzhi, and junzhi was funny as usual... its hard to see why anyone would not like to hang out with him. he is just damn nonsensically funny. Happy to see her after my thai trip... think she might have suspected something but she wasnt shunning me, just normal... looking forward to the gathering on saturday.

on the way back, passed by Raffles Place with Dorothy, got spotted by Junxiang... haha... damn long never see him that bloke... a while's chat allowed me to find out that he is working at the same building as Kwanhwa, thou in different bank. He is working at the German bank.. both share the same building thou, great seeing him again... Canon was having promotion at Raffles Square there, had models working in the area den i spotted a girl who was damn hot and kinda like "seh", got a sweet smile.. while i was spotting her from a distance, a eurasian girl came up and ask me to do a survey for her... for starhub... think she is rather young, less than 20, but kinda sweet looking thou, friendly... but thats what this line is for... one has to be friendly... me and junxiang did the survey for her before departing...

its a good day man... got the "seh" job, get to see my eye candy and her and on top of that, made friends with Dorothy and shuling, met up with old friends like junzhi and junxiang and not forgetting the 2 hot babes that i spotted....

good day.... good day...

lost identity

cant believe it, i actually found my way out of the house today. made myself go all the way down to marina bay to collect my transitlink card before travelling across half the singapore to the mint to run some errands for mum before coming home. Charlotte found me a job at American Express this morning, supposed to send in my resume to see if i get shortlisted. she wrote my resume for me.. haha... so sweet... she said she will get back to be if she hear of any news. late afternoon, she called and told me i was shortlisted and i had to go for interview tmr... woah... how cool... work at American Express.. even if its a lousy job, it will still sound SEH... cos its Amex...

she seemed nervous and anxious that i get the job. she say they are quite particular, "u must put on your best front k? wear proper officewear and proper shoes. hair must be prim and proper and must remember to shave ok? must speak out more and dun keep quiet." hehehz... sounds just like a gf doesnt she... but too bad she is not mine... maybe at the end of this all, i will be able to be her friend officially... hope i get the job man... boredom is killing me, so bored that i finished reading Da Vinci's Code in one day yesterday... but anyway, the sudden interview left me kinda shock cos my hair is in a mess since i came back from thailand and haven gone for a haircut...

immediately sms joseph, praying that he will be free today, otherwise tmr's interview would be a goner even before it starts... coincidentally, roger booked an appt with him today and he happen to be a bugis... good, save me a lot of trouble since i am going down to office after the haircut.

after the haircut, made my way to office, i was clearly surprised by the overwhelming enthusiasm by the team... seems like KL and HK has a positive influence on them... thats really fantastic... i was kinda lost, loss of what to do and what my role is... spoke to nancy about it, glad she is there to give some pointers... hopefully things will work out and i will be on my way soon... i cant wait... oh yah, jan said she will gimme a post in the restuarant if i choose to help her out there next time...

Good Luck for interview tmr... i got a few well wishers in sijie, amelia, joanna, patrick... i wun disappoint... got more on my mind but will post again after tmr...

Lee Joon Ki

my first venture out of home since coming back from thailand... this time with my thailand buddies, daming, wingkit and lorraine... well... we are suppose to go catch Xmen3, something which we failed to catch in thailand... but in the end, everyone was late and nobody bought the tickets... great... we missed it again... den whats new? we had to settle for another alternative... "King and the Clown" a korean movie, i dun mind korean movies at all, actually looking forward to this show cos of the reviews from the papers... and most importantly, they say Lee joon Ki is a head turner beauty in the show and even all the actresses were envious and felt threatened by him... Ok, in case you are wondering, he is one of the 2 male jesters in the show, who due to his fair complexion and dainty manners, has to play a female lead most of the time...

Shall not go into the details of the movie, but when i first saw him, i was like "woahhhhh!!!" he can really be one of the chioest girl in the world, he has the to-die-for complexion and features which can make most girls turn green with envy.... cant help but be mesmerised by him, so say the others... but it din take long before the rest of the guys start making comparison, den all of them turn to look at me and sniggered... dunno whats on their mind until the end of the movie where they start, Gong Gil looks like you lah, Jingpei... a fairer and skinnier version of you... I'm like "WHAT??" please lah, he how chio can?? den they continued and went on and on and on...

actually, its a compliment, i seriously think he will make it as a female.... but it just meant that i got a common face, recalling all the people that i have been compared to.... from Niu Nai of Energy to Andy Hui to now Lee Joon Ki... somehow, i dun get the star treatment that they are enjoying... but still pple should just watch the show. not because i look like Lee Joon Ki, but simply because its just damn hilarious and funny, i couldnt sit straight cos most of the time i am laughin... seriously... its pretty good...

"Sawadee" Land of Smiles - Thailand

finally back from Thailand, can't say if its a relief or i miss the place... the place is pretty fun all the same, minus the drunk-hangovers and the food poisoning... Overall it was still a very fun trip considering the company i had and of course the places i visited and activities that we had....

began with flying from Changi airport on this little aircraft carrier from AirAsia... the plane is tiny... the short wingspan got everyone worried initially but fears were allayed when the nonsense got started on the plane. Dai dees and Bridge were the order of the day, the main game had to be Daniel, Andrew, Angel and Renhan, loser of each game gotta lick slippers... haha... poor angel and andrew, cant remember how many times they licked renhan and daniel's slippers...

Arrived at past midnight, and managed to get rooms at local Inns at Kao San, rested for the night before shopping begins the next day... supper that night was funny too, daming keep getting suaned by the locals for having small eyes... *lol*

had my first thai massage the next day before we embarked on our journey to southern thailand for our boat to Koh Phangan and Koh Tao... the beach at Koh Phangan was beautiful, water is clear and shallow, we had lotsa fun at the beaches with the beach games, lotsa caucasians ard... the spanishs and the italians are OH-SO-HOT... seriously... the entire beach is littered with pple sun-tanning... topless and covered... plenty of bare-nakedness to go ard... nobody really cared much anyway, the beach was too beautiful to pay attention to human beauty... thou, i must say, so faces are too pretty not to be head turners... the party at night commemorated the month's full moon... it was wild and havoc... coinciding with world cup din take away the fun... got intoxicated from drinking 8 buckets of liquer... it was really crazy... head spinning and whirling... i din even know how i made my way back to the hotel room... through the streets of carnival as well... quite amazed... the next day was terrible, i was basically stoning and lost... haha... but we gotta leave for Koh Tao where our dives start... i was really regretting that i drank so much... i dun wanna miss my dives..

Luckily, at Koh Tao we have a day's rest, so by the next day i recovered enough to dive... phew... Koh Tao is a tiny island by itself compared to Koh Phangan... serene and pretty and got this village feel thou its fast becoming a popular dive site... according to the locals, there are 25 dive sites... damn mouth watering... did a total of 4 dives in total.. the clear water made everything possible.... swam through caves, in between fallen pinnacles, catching stingrays and eels in their holes and trouts as well... lucky ones like han they all managed to catch sight of giant turtles and lobsters... the fishes are beautiful and colourful... as they swim in between the corals... can feel fishes nibbling your leg... so fun and unreal... its a world out there... its the underwater world... i think its something i dun mind doing for the rest of my life.... diving and diving... we ran into a 2 groups of yellow back frusiliers in the morning dive.... there are millions of them, so much that u cant see the end of the group and all you see are shadows of dark shape... they are like wallpapers on our bedroom walls, we swam through them, they splited half and encircled us... it was damn cool to turn round and round to find yourself in the middle of a fishy whirlpool... breathtaking...

the nights were entertained largely by the world cup matches, thou we managed to rent 2 bikes and begin to explore the island on the last 2 days... managed to discover many spots with many nice views, i'm glad to have my camera with me most of the time, pity i had to depend on han for the underwater pictures thou... lorraine, thams, wingkit and siding are a great company and companions... soon, we ended our 5 day adventures on the island and are making our way back to Bangkok... it was all shopping after that... visits to the famous Chatujak(weekend bazaar) was crazy, they had all sorts of funny stuff there and its a place where one cannot finish visiting in 1 weekend... i'm serious about that... they had 30 over markets in the area selling all different kinds of things... its stuffy thou and humid and the heat is killing... but shopping paradise for the cheapos and exotic buys nonetheless... had i not been suffering from food poisoning, it could have been a paradise for me too... it all happened the day before we visited Chatujak, where we were gouging street food cos its damn cheap and tasty... in the end, i had to give the Swan Lum night market a miss and had to take cab back alone myself when the rest were having fun... damn... trapped in the cab and jam for more than an hour... its was torturous as the cab driver look like a ruffian and always talkin in thai and on the phone with his friends... makes me feel like they are plotting a robbery when he took me through unfamiliar streets, i had to mantain a tough looking front despite my illness... tough job... basically, the food poisoning killed the last part of my trip and the plans that i had... couldnt buy things that i planned for... sorry pple, becca, weizhen, viv, jingting, karen, wendy, carmen, yuan, cj, xiwen, pat and barney... din managed to get anything for you guys thou i planned to.... in the end, i came back with nothing much to boost about for my loot except for the memories and the fotos of the places and stupid things that we did... gotta share photos soon guys!!!

Thinking of you...

i dunno what to do... just feel like seeing you before i leave... glad you had dinner with me, simple fare at Imperial Treasure... but the company is good... fun and happy... felt blissed, calm and serene... i feel bad having to made u walk all the way from raffles place to bugis eventually in your heels, cos of we were undecided over dinner... i always enjoyed the small chitchat sessions and the never ending exchanges of complains and weird incidents...

i din say a lot tonite, cos i am contented looking at you... your every smile and expression... i want to remember them by heart for the 9 days i wun be ard... i know i will miss you, but i couldnt bear to tell u, cos i dunno what your reaction will be like... will you run away and not see me again... or you will jus diss me... i hope it is neither... take care when going jb this weekend k?
there is a song in Summer More More Tea which goes "thinking of you... I dunno what to do..." thats what i am feeling now...

Thailand tmr... and looking for jobs when i am back... need to earn more cash...
meanwhile, this is the song of the moment:

歌手：曹格 专辑：格格blue

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early in the morning i put breakfast at your table
一夜都没睡但我不曾如此清醒
我早餐准备了你爱吃的东西
这次换我等你被咖啡的香味叫醒
想要找回每天早晨对我微笑着的你
还能够做些什么代替我的歉意
总是望着我小心翼翼顺着我呼吸
而我竟然理所当然让你精疲力尽
you were my superwoman
安静的在身边无条件给我梦寐以求的温柔
but i am only human
我怎么不懂你多寂寞残忍的犯了错
不能失去你 ooh-babe---
ooh—babe---
you fought your way through the rush hour
try to make it home just for me
月光下静静靠着彼此只求夜长一点
有多久没有好好看你只是认定了我
无论在什么时候回头都有你的笑容
是我忽略了你也会有想要哭的感觉
没有一种付出应该永远心甘情愿
再给被宠坏的男人最后一次机会
换我忍耐换我等待不要真的弃权
you were my superwoman
安静的在身边无条件给我梦寐以求的温柔
but i am only human
我怎么不懂你多寂寞残忍的犯了错
不能失去你 ooh-babe---
是我把爱想得太简单
以为只要我存在就能让你取暖
心里唯一的superwoman没有人能代替
不能想像更不能原谅这样让爱化成灰烬
you were my superwoman
安静的在身边无条件给我梦寐以求的温柔
but i am only human(希望只是一个只是一个人)
我怎么不懂你多寂寞残忍的犯了错(不能失去你)
if you feel it in your heart and you understand me.
stop right where you are, everybody sing along with me
you were my superwoman
安静的在身边无条件给我梦寐以求的温柔
but i am only human
我怎么不懂你多寂寞残忍的犯了错(不能失去你)
you were my superwoman
ooo~yes,u were
安静的在身边无条件给我梦寐以求的温柔
but i am only human
我怎么不懂你多寂寞残忍的犯了错(不能失去你)

meeting my mentor

Met Zexian today, been a long time since i saw him, the last had to be during ns or even jc days... he and jo were my mentors from my secondary school days... i used mentors because i haven been to church in years. but back then, Jo was my cell leader... and Zexian, her bf and prospective husband... I learnt a lot from the 2 of them back then, they were people whom i always look up and and respect and i always felt that they are people who listen with their hearts rather than logic... that is remarkable considering that they are older than me by only 5 or 6 years... they are people who can be trusted... both of them got married last year, but to different partners at the same church in East Coast but different timings, however the dates are pretty near to each other thou... irony of life... their breakup allowed me to learn a lot of things too, things are never to be taken for granted, anything can just happen and with a twist of fate or events, what was there, could never be there or even the same anymore... theirs was a 5 years relationship which most people in church thought they will get married eventually...

it was a major shock to receive a sms from him a few days earlier, asking me how i was and wanting to meet up, i had lost contact with him over the years cos of me leaving church and NS and whatever there was... i msged him and sent my well wishes during his wedding, something which he appreciated a lot... he is like a big brother to me, someone whom i can trust a lot but seeing him today shocked me greatly, his hair were mostly white and grey... hardly what you would expect from someone merely 29, thou working in EDB could very well be a reason and cause for it... we chatted a lot over lunch and coffee.. he seemed happy there and enjoying the work, and has plans to get me in if i am interested... something which i appreciated a lot... talked about the future plans, the updates in church and his life with his wife who is 3 months pregnant.. so cool... we can talk about almost everything in life... he asked whats my plans were, i told him simply i wanted to start up next time but i had to look for sources of capital which meant that i had to work first... that was his sentiments, he would love to start something of his own too, thou his dad has his own F&B business... den he started talking to me in a big brotherly manner which made me think a lot... planning for the future and stuff lidat, not that i didnt think about it or plan for it, but he took me to a deeper level of planning... i am grateful for that... I think now, a job for me in EDB cum SSC is a possibility, that is something which i can look into, thou its govt job but its something along my line of interest, which might possibly made me shelve my plans for graduation and go for honours... i have to start thinking and planning... the latest i have is one more sem...

I was surprised to learnt of what they thought of me when i was younger, that i was someone who was very real to them too, with the capacity to hold things and a heart to do so... and mature for someone who was my age as i see things in another way which most people my age dont. but they understand that there could be underlying reasons beneath it, but they never pushed me into responsibilities which i didnt wanted at that point of time, something that was very different from the church's stand, but i am not blaming anyone or anything... maybe its because of that that i am closer to them and feel more bonded to them. According to him, i was an external source of strength to Jo at that time, cos she was grateful to find me in a secondary sch ministry for who i am and what i possessed... i'm touched... there are a lot other things which we talked about too, but i am feeling it more now than i can put it into words...
I shall make more effort to keep in touch with him, now to find Jo... haven met her in ages... I promised him that i will meet him when i am back from Thailand... I shall just do that... and if i can, find something for him in thailand...

working class gathering

looking forward to today's gathering actually, been a while since everyone saw everyone else at Wala's... by now, even charlene is back from beijing but the rest of us are still stuck at our jobs. pathetic jobs... waiting at city hall for everyone's arrival(as usual late). we witnessed some of the stunts which we might pull off ourselves next time... xiwen called in to report sick for mc.... barney arriving only to complain that work is boring... and its only his first week. charlene super late as usual... carmen arrived in something which the rest called working in CBD for 5 to 10 years already look... in other words... AUNTIE... hehehz.. evil but she played along...

after much haggering and indecisiveness, we ended up in Thai Express for dinner... proceeded to CA at marina square for desserts... had a marvellous variety of cheesecake and waffle... stayed and talk cock, den we came up with the concept of opening restaurant next time, "Anywhere". where you wanna eat ah? "Anywhere" loh... what you wanna eat ah? "Anything" loh... hehehz... sounds pretty lame, but we are pretty sure that it will be famous amongst the people... barney even thot of the lamest adverts for it...
"Son, where you wanna eat?"
"Anywhere loh"
"That's a great idea, son. Let's go Anywhere!"
"Anywhere near you"

hur hur hur... talk about lame... but still its gonna be a hit... we could sell our bakery ideas there... haha... took some fotos... and we are planning for a trip to msia or indon for a kelong stay... hope it works out... i gotta ask daddy for details... we ended up at starbucks for another chit chat session before going home... i wonder how life is gonna be next time... after work, we meet up and chill out den go home... sigh... working...

Stars galore

damn sick of my job at DBS already... its making me form a phobia about working next time.. maybe its just because the job is boring... i fall asleep almost every hour... damn...

walked by to suntec after work to find xiwen and vivian... haha.. they seemed to be enjoying themselves at the fair.. damn... i should i picked up the job, i bet i can easily earn what i earn in 4 days at DBS with one day of work at the IT fair... damn regret man... think i can top up 200 bucks each day, including the commissions from the sales of course... sigh... $$$ fly away... sians...

den the next thing was that i got hounded by insurance agents... a horde of them rushed up to me and before i know anything, i was whisked away to a table for some survey... den i heard some comments, you look like Xu Zhi An leh.. aka Andy Hui... nono... you look like Niu Nai from Energy... says another... oh well.. common face i guess.. its a compliment thou... heard of the comparison with Niu Nai many times, thou i still dunno who he is... but Andy Hui is the first time.. haha..