working robot people and the great evil queen

after having worked for 3 weeks, my initial believe that working people are similar to robots has definitely been reinforced. i feel increasingly robotic as i go deeper and deeper into my working life.

daily routine includes:
before work - waking up at 0715hr, bathing, change, 10 mins of tv while gobbling down breakfast, leaving the house at 0815, waiting for the same expo train every morning and reaching work at 0900.
1st half of work day - chit chat for 15 mins, switch on laptop, open excel sheet, work work work work work, curse at laptop, curse at laptop, curse at laptop, lunch.
2nd half of work day - excel, excel, excel, email, email, email, email, excel, email, excel, email, excel and email ....LAPTOP HANGS. knnbccbomgwtfblahblahblah....6pm. and then i think to myself...woohoo! time to get off work. but nope that does not happen, the phone rings...a call from sup..go up to meet him/her, and tada...OT! knn.
OT- excel, excel, excel and finally cab home and dinner.
after dinner - one hour of tv, shower, chat online, chat on the phone, sleep.

like how freaking boring and robotic is that?! that has been my working life so far (except for occasional nights out), and i think will possibly be so for the next 11 mths.

but then again i think that's sort of the case for any other working person. because everybody here seems do the same at work everyweek. hence, we are all a bunch of working robot people.

then...there is the great evil queen, who can cause hell to break loose. anything that's submitted will definitely have to be redone. how anal. i think she's probably the reason why i'll be expecting more OTs. sucks.

oh yes to all who have started sch...enjoy it. i never thought that i wld miss the sch tt i disliked so much. but i kinda do...oh no...i miss the times i spent in the sch, not the sch. haha now tt's more accurate! so cherish the time u have left there...when u start work...u will mourn the loss of ur social life.
ok...i better scoot before i get discoverd for skiving. toodles.

pictures time.

more pics from commencement, and at villa bali after the ceremony.
one fine shopping day, when our legs almost broke from walking around searching for a belt.
wine bar and 5 emerald hill.
=)

NDP 2006 : on a very bright and sunny, late saturday afternoon, two very patriotic singaporeans braved the red sea and the very hot sun, and took part in their first live NDP....and they are none other than.....peach and saltz. for the first time in their lives, they watched the NDP live (which will be held in the national stadium for the last time), were upclose with the fireworks, got their pictures taken for smile2006, got filmed on STi (what's this?) for some "dispose your rubbish properly" campaign, and got weird stares from ppl in katong when they went there for their dinner after the parade, because of the spastic tattoos they had on their faces.

outside the national stadium. we felt damn out of place because almost everybody wore red or white...or red AND white...but erm..i was in brown (??) and ok..at least peach wore white.

amusing ourselves with the temp tattoos, clappers and goodie bag

the red sea and us.

the parade.

parachutes.

very patriotic us.

the program which we hardly paid attention to...

errr...we were damn suaku...we didn't know that the flag on the caps could light up...and we spent a good five mins shining light on it to figure out how come the caps of the rest of the ppl were glowing.... until...we found the bloody switch under the cap..hur hur

the fireworks were damn nice! miss "our global city, our home"!

bumped into sy's sister at the start and end of the parade. was telling her that she shouldn't go to the mrt station, coz there're tons of ppl there and it's damn crowded..butshe went to tell her friend tt she can't go there to meet them coz i said it's super havoc there due to terrorists. -_-" anyway tt's us in meem's car on the way to my house for games night!

last day

blogging from the office right now. very fortunately... my comp id got deleted and they had to restore it. and because it was restored, i am now able to use the internet! woohoo! haha..they forgot to block the net...heh. anyway it's my last day working as a temp here today...other than tt pretty sad lunch time that day...it's been a great 10 days working here...and of course the money is good too (for a temp staff)! but hard luck, i will only get my cheque tmr. bah. if not for the not so high pay and not so spectacular job scope, i sure wouldn't mind working here as a perm!

moving on...i'm finally hired permanently! starting work on 1 aug...the pay is the absolute starting pay of a fresh grad..sadly. but that doesn't really bother me that much...because it's the company that i've had my eyes on for a long i guess i'm pretty lucky.

ok...other than these ...life's been pretty much boring, but pleasant and lovely enough =)

oh yes...russell peters is coming to sg! go buy your tix from sistic! and also...don't forget to catch nacho libre...farking funny! i laughed until i was practically howling! totally unglamorous...but jack black is just so freaking fat and funny!

temp-ing

at last...i am no longer a shi jie bai lei (erm...useless being of the society??). thanks to siying...i'm part timing at this local company that produced this ugly machine that makes any passerby puke when he/she witnesses a person mounting the product and start to use it..i know i shldn't have opened my mouth, but i cldn't help but feedback to my colleagues that the machine's utterly gross, and had to continue by asking who the hell and why the hell did that person even come up with such a product?! the reply i got from my very chatty colleague was...."THERE...HE IS THE ONE WHO DESIGNED THE PRODUCT THAT YOU SAID IS GROSS!" (while pointing in the direction of the designer right infront of me of course.) yay...he just had to get me killed. anyway...heng the guy didn't hear it!

so...yay! my bank acct is finally surfacing from it's previously infinite negative balance.

did i mention that i'm working in a dept that consists of men, men, men and even more men?! so for the next weeks i will be stuck with nothing but males. booohooo...thankfully...they are nice people. *phew* my very friendly colleague (also the one who almost got me killed) very kindly brought me on a tour ard the entire building today...and while in the main office..we bumped into one of the staff of the marketing dept....and this was the conversation tt followed...

C (my colleague): oh this is sh...she's taking over qh in my dept
girl: huh?! since when did qh leave??
C: last fri..u dunno meh??
girl: really?? how come?
C: oh her sch term started....
girl: oh ok....
me: hello *smiles*
girl: huuuuhhhh.... i will miss qh...i like her very much...u know why? because she is very small sized..and very good to bully...but this one...errr...
me: hurhur (KNNBCCB.....$#$TP!#!P$T!T$O)
C: why?! this one's very good to disturb too!
me: hurhur...(knn! knn! knn! you stupid woman! you die! die! no wonder you are short, and will remain short for the rest of your life!)

lesson to be learnt by that dwarf...never insult a person who is bigger sized that you!

Happy Birthday Mummy!!

omg....shirt bursting birthday celebration at lei gardens in chijmes just now. and i declare lei gardens and tung lok the two best restaurants in singapore so far! haha...looking forward to more dinners there. ok...time for bed..so the photos shall do the talking..

tiramisu cake...courtesy of cootie

Commencement 2006

yay! we have all finally graduated! three years of being buried under numerous readings, mugging for exams, getting results that follow the " law of diminishing marginal returns", writing essays and studying useless breadth modules came to a conclusion with a 30sec stage appearance dressed in the graduation gown and mortar board. oh yes...not forgetting having our names flashed across the huge screens and the after-ceremony-cam-whoring session. and with this...i leave you with pics from my "square hat" moment.

the ceremony......
the photo-taking session...

and an event is nothing without some monkeying around!

it sucks to spend money everyday when not a single cent is coming into your pocket. i need a job. why the hell is job hunting so difficult? ok...i admit that i haven't been exactly active in my job hunt quest, but from the number of resumes that i have sent out, and jobs that i have applied, i have not even gotten a single call back! what?! is my resume that unspectacular and unappealing that it is filtered as spam, and goes straight into the trash bin the moment it reaches the companies? damn it. the fact that i haven't gotten a single call since mindef, makes it even more demoralising and depressing, and hence i have no drive to search for a job at all. even the recruiment agencies don't want to call me! ok fine...i am queen of excuses for my laziness.

world cup is seriously detrimental to one's health and sleep. i can't wait for it to be over. then again i don't feel like watching anymore. first england got ousted, then BRAZIL (omg, devastated)...and now even germany is out! booooooo...now i'm not interested in watching anymore...france and italy...bah...france is so obviously going to win. then again...who knows...all the impossibles have occured in this world cup.

dinner with the band family plus mr. alvin seville arumugam. shockingly...he lost tons of weight..damn.. if he can do it...i am sure i can too! wj is back for good. all we have to do is wait for sulin to get back, and we'll be reunited...cept for kenny who disappeared to god knows where. then again..kenny who?

wah i am in a major bitchy and mean mood these days. i have no qualms about dishing out insults, and snide remarks straight in people's faces. soon i'll be on everybody's hate list. just look at the way i shot insults across the table at mr. a-s-a (btw...he's the conductor of cjc band) last night....who the hell invites someone whom he/she hasn't seen in ages, only to insult the person throughout dinner? yup...me. then again..i am not the president-from-hell- for nothing! hahah!

alright back to my stonning and...waiting for 10pm to come. ciao.

insomnia

crap shit...i went to sleep at 12 plus last night..and was kinda proud of myself for going to bed at such an early hour. who's to know that i would wake up at 345am and not be able to go back to bed?! SIAN........what am i to do now?? :(

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mokmok's idea.....

4 days of pamphlet giving and i'm left with a body of muscle aches, absolute sleep deprivation, even worse complexion, knees that constantly buckle and infected eyes.

giving out pamphlets along orchard is certainly not easy. having to stand in the hot sun, smile at ppl, and face rude ppl is a completely trashy feeling! but at least i'm 183 bucks richer now. boy do i need the money!

i'm starting to feel the hazard that the world cup season does to one's health and sleep patterns. just one night of watching soccer is enough to kill me...i wonder how some can do this for the entire season :S

so now i'm back to being jobless, and back to bumming ard everyday...i hope someone reads my resume, likes it and hires me soon.

fei po saltz

fatty has finally begun her exercise regime! thirty mins of swimming three times a week. soon i will be fatty no more! i hope! and of course i am getting darker and darker each day...yucks...that part i hate!

alright...socceroo time!

life without electricity

long talk short say (chang hua duan shuo)...my entire street suffered a blackout at 2 freaking am last night...and i thought my dad didn't pay the electricity bills! had to wait for an hour before it came back on!

i never knew how precious electricity was until last night. the house phones wouldn't work because they are all cordless phones, the aircon couldn't work and so we couldn't sleep, there was no light, and we had to survive on one dim mag light, one cranky led torch and two lousy torches, the internet couldn't work so we could not find the tel no. for the singapore powers (is that what it's called?) online!

and i would like to applaud the power supply company for its excellent service! after they turned the power back on...they bothered to call us back to tell us that everything's in order again..at 3am in the morning. a bit moronic coz we already resigned to our sad fate and were falling asleep...but nevertheless, very good service!

Moondust

for jewellery addicts...check out this site.

Moondust

belongs to my sister's friend...she makes really nice jewelleries. a little pricey..but really nice. after you click on collections..remember to scroll down to the bottom, there's the range of items that she makes at the bottom of the page, and you can view them there. check out the 'plastix' collection. i love the turntable one!

ok i have not done anything productive at all since i got back. then again, i've only been back for three days. so i guess that's not too bad is it? the job hunt has certainly not started, and hence i am still living off my parents, and all i care about right now is to play. shite.

only consolation and thing that is holding back the nagging from my parents about my slow job hunt quest is........a call from mindef yesterday, inviting me to a test session next week. i applied for the post of research associate three weeks ago, and i guess i'm quite lucky that i've got some sort of offer upon reaching home. ok no..it's not even an offer..it's a blardee test..that i have no idea about. why i applied for that job? i have no idea either, it just sounded like one of the things i think i can manage. haha...ahh...we'll see how it goes.

so yes...i hope more of such calls come along in the next few days!

on to the next topic.........relationships!

was talking to two friends last night and this morning about relationships..romantic ones of course. and i was hearing stories about how people are putting off getting together because of studies and what not. i thought through it, and i realised that using studies as an excuse to not get together with a person, while making that person wait for you, or hold on to any form of hope of getting together with you, is one of the stupidest, most convenient, and totally trashy excuses in the world. like how pms is a farking bad excuse for girls' irritating bad moods and tantrums (see...i am not biased!).

"i don't want to get into a relationshiop now because i want to concentrate on my studies."

i am sure everyone has heard this at one point or another in their life, from someone that they thought they were going to get together with, or from other people who were supposed to get together. why do i say it is a blardee lame excuse? because...this excuse just shows how much of a person you are. if you were thinking of hardworking and conscientious and anything else positive, you are WRONG! it just shows how lousy you are at time management and at managing your life, and how lazy you are for coming up with this lousy excuse.

there is time for everything. time to eat, sleep, shit, play, study, work and of course a relationship. if you use that excuse, does that mean that other than eating, sleeping and shitting, you will ONLY study and do nothing else?! i know..some people will say..."oh but relationships are not a one person thing..they involve more than one person." so hello? you mean playing and going out with friends is a one person thing? you only go out with yourself all day long and only talk to you and yourself only?if you are a loner and a freak who does that..then ok you may be excused. however, if you are not, and you use that excuse...then i would think that in the future after you have gotten married (of course during a period of time when you are exceptionally free), and then suddenly you get very busy with your work, then you want to divorce your wife because...oh..you want to concentrate on your work?! what rubbish.

but of course..this reasoning is only applicable when the person that you are getting together with is not some obsessive mad person that demands that you spend 24/7 with him/her. if that person is like that...then by all means...use any excuse you want. you can even say you foresee yourself dying tmr, so getting together today is really a very bad idea. that, i agree will work too. some may say i am talking rubbish here...but seriously...go and think it through...using studies as an excuse is just really trash.

ok i am done with my rambling. shoot back if you want to. but i can't be bothere to argue with you , if you want to argue with me.ha!

last night

man..damn sad. our last night in brisbane and it's back to reality tmr. job hunting, humid weather, no money..sobz.

till we meet in boring old singapore....good nite mate!

more from down under

on fri, we woke up super duper early and attended lecture with sulin. omg...the stuff she learns is seriously ?!!?!?!??!?!?! to us. but a overall a good experience for me...and i think that's about as much experience as we'll get in studying overseas for the time being. after tt sulin drove us to harbour town in goldcoast for some shopping which killed our feet without any significant loot gained....sobz....

resting our feet at lavazza. look at the fattening stuff i'm consuming here...to think part of my plan was to come here and lose weight with sulin -_-"

later in the night...we drove to surfer's paradise. after so many years...the entire place is still about the same...even the jap restaurant that i had shabu-shabu in is still there! spent some time checking out the flea market, playing with the snow-like-sand, and laughing at the ridiculous stuff that condom kingdom sells (i got electrocuted by this stupid electric-shock game that they were selling...and my hand was numb for a good 5 mins!) before we headed home and collapsed on our beds.

surfer's paradise....
outside "ripley's believe it or not" museum....

trying to prevent our feet from sinking into the freaking cold snow-like-sand...peach 'bottled' one bottle of sand! haha...

at the flea market. full of arts and craft...look who tried to spoil my pic again?!

saturday afternoon was spent slacking at home...followed by dinner with sulin's friends...who are yet another bunch of whacky people. went over to one of their houses and ended up yakking and laughing like mad people for close to four hours, before we went to pancake house for supper. the pancakes are how yummy..nothing like those in singapore!

pancake house. was previously a church..love the deco. we were eating halfway when this bunch of goth people came in...man... their dressing's really bizarre!

did very little on sunday too. mostly eating!...as usual. haha..fish and chips (blardee huge pieces) at ithaca...sunny bank for grocery shopping...evening brisk walk to university of queensland, and explored it for a bit before we headed home for our steam boat dinner and drinking games

our very huge fish and chip platter.

the stupidest sign we have ever seen so far. sunny bank's where the asian community stays. and yes of course we had to encounter our very "lovely" fellow ethnic counterparts...who as usual were pests..and who held up the blardee cashier line..which got me damn irritated! anyway...now that i am blogging all the way from australia...am i still liable to being charged under that seditious acts thing??

UQ...nice campus with a huge lake...dunno for what also...

if only our arts building back home were half as nice...

and nothing beats a good steamboat and alcohol on a cold winter night!

sight-seeing day

the worst map reader on earth, and the almost perfect map reader ventured out to the city on their own today for a bit of sight-seeing. if you are wondering who the worst map reader is, it's definitely not me! us two blur blokes, took the public transport on our own today for the first time, and confusedly got off at the stop where everyone got off. after brunch at hungry jacks, we spent close to 20 mins walking up and down queens street searching for the tourist information booth,which was about 2m directly infront of us but blocked by a cafe. after we finally located the booth and got hold of the maps (which were entirely useless), we started our sightseeing tour.


first stop was the museum of brisbane (MoB) at first we were hesistant about entering the museum, but since we travelled so many miles to this country, and because there isn't much else to see in brisbane city, we took a walk through it. thankfully we did, because, we got a very nice tour which was guided by the mayor's own personal assistant for FREE(we lurve free stuff...heh!).

outside MoB in King George's Square. They converted what used to be a fountain into a square because of the drought condition in brisbane, but there's a few million dollars road project that's coming up, where a tunnel will be dug beneath the square to solve the traffic conditions. and there are two old trees that they gotta relocate in this project, which will cost them 440,000 ausd in all. crazy...i will keep the 440,000ausd for myself, take a pic of the trees for remembrance, then chop them down!HA!

the very nice guide's called mr. richard ang, and he was a singaporean. we were talking to the security guard of the museeum when mr ang appeared, and upon hearing that we're singaporeans, he offered to give us a tour around the entire museum, and brought us to all the restricted places....like the chamber of councils, the mayor's office, the circle seats for the auditorium, and most importantly, up to the clock tower!

clockwise from top left: us at the mayor's seat in the chamber of councils; me sitting in my seat aka the chief judge's seat with my personal assistant peach lee; in the lounge of the mayor's office where they host the foreign ministers and guests (that's where our prime ministers and whatever else ministers sit at....seee...we were there too! as imporant as them!); erm ok posing with the flags in the lounge.

in the lift of the clock tower, that's mr. ang and us...he offered us lunch and peach, a beer...but we rejected both coz damn stressed and paiseh..haha

the auditorium in the MoB...it has a super huge and magnificent pipe organ...it looks a bit like our victoria concert hall though

after MoB, we took THE LOOP also known as the red bus, and went for a ride around the city....and i got to rest my aching feet. haha...

the red bus, and us on it...taking pics like suaku tourists as usual(...my idea)...

next stop was st. john's cathedral. ok there is absolutely nothing to see here, because the cathedral's still under maintenance works. so we spent about 15 mins in there, prayed and asked God to bless us with good results (since today's results day) and lit a candle before making our way to the old windmill. anyway...God blessed us...THANK GOD! HAHA!

outside the cathedral, and the altar...nothing much to see....

we walked up the blardee steep slope of Turbot Street for what seemed like ages, before we decided to give up on the old windmill. so we turned some corners and headed off in the opposite direction towards the parliament house and queensland university of technolog instead. this was when the worst map reader decided to show me her map reading skills. and true enough...she brought me in the wrong direction!! and she only realised when we ended up at Turbot Street again!

cityhall station

conrad treasury casino

parliament house and QUT

after the parliament house and QUT...we decided to call it a day. hence...we hit the shops once again! hahahah! sadly, the shops in the city sell sucky stuff as compared to those in indooroopilly! so i guess we'll just stick to indooroopilly from now on!

at around 11 plus pm, we headed up to mt. coot-tha to enjoy the beautiful night scenery. the view of the city in the night from there's brilliant, and the sky was beautifully lit with stars, but unfortunately...the technology of my camera's not that great, so i didn'tmanage to take a good picture of that...but we did take a lot of stupid pictures though!

lelicated to peach aka sir stamford raffles aka the failed kungfu master! see the pic in the middle?! peach wore 4 layers..and she was as fat a penguin until she couldn't move her arms! sulin n i only wore a tee and jacket..and we couldn't stop laughing at her!

evil peach covered my face! and that's our final picture for the night! by the way...the black background is supposed to be the sky filled with stars, which obviously you cannot see, because it could not be taken :(

okie..time for bed..gd nite!

from down under....

GD'DAY MATE!!!!! how's it going?! yupp...it's 11.26am in sunshine state brisbane, and this place really lives up to it's name. the days are filled with glorious sunshine and clear blue skies which very fortunately are not accompanied with humid weather like yucky old singapore, but with a nice cool temperature of appproximately 25 degs a day, because it's almost winter time, and the nights are always filled with a million bright twinkling stars! the days have been absolutely brilliant - basking in the sun, drinking beer, people watching, dvd watching, chilling at home, experiment cooking (sulin is an absolutely splendid cook!) and yes most importantly...intense aussie shopping! haha!

brisbane is very much different from melbourne and sydney. a very suburbian place, where everywhere's filled with low rise buildings, and only the city's cluttered with the high rise buildings. if you think life in sydney and melbourne is slow...well then..all i have to say is life here seems much much much much much slower as compared to life there!everywhere just seems so quiet and peaceful, and things are slightly cheaper here (especially grocery shopping)! as usual, the people are friendly, and they go around gd'daying and how's-your-daying. speaking of which...on my 2nd day here, i walked into a shop, and this guy said to me...gddddd'ddddaaayyy with a huge smile..and nope, i did not faint because he was blardee cute, but i smiled back with a puzzled look because i was wondering why the hell did he tell me to "go and die" for ?!?! errrm...it took me about 10 seconds before i realised he was saying gd'day to me..hur hur

i think everyone's heard of the "so where the blardee hell are you?!" aussie tourism ad right? well...before i took off for this place, ff told me to say "well...i am the blardee hell here!" to the customs upon arrival! she thinks she is very funny, but i obviously did not do that, because i would love spending my 2 weeks out in the sun and not in the bunks. that is...the jail bunks!

so...have i mentioned before that i have a travelling partner this time round? i think not....but anyway it is none other than dear old peach! well, until now we can't believe that we are holidaying together..good choice or bad choice you may ask? so far...not too bad a choice. except for the fact that peach is a scaredy cat, but...that we all already know. HA!

today's stay home day for us, because we have laundry to do, dvds to watch, and we need to spend a day off the shops, in order to save money. i have introduced peach to supre, and she can't wait to explore the shop again, because we discovered it 15 mins before their closing time yesterday, so we decided to keep it on hold till our next shopping trip! contacted hil (who is up to no good again, heehee), the other day, and were contemplating whether to hop over tosydney for a couple of days to meet up with her...but decided against it, because that would mean that we will have to spend the rest of the holidays in sulin's house.....so i think we'll be going to gold coast instead :)

alright...picture time!!!!

Leaving Singapore:

the three very nice people who came to send us off...meems,kunies and jin! and a pic of the plane that we took here , after it landed at brisbane airport

Day 1:

First stop: Greek Fest.. Look at the wonderful weather, the amount of people sitting around chilling, enjoying the sunshine, and eating their greek food..and the amount of greek food (extremely salty, or extremely sweet...no in between!) we bought!

that's us monkeying around as usual...and peach and i with our first cup of beer upon arrival in aussie....

southbank...a little artificial strip of beach that's built in the middle of the city, where people lie on the beach or swim...very interesting! peach was saying how suay she is as the birds in the sommerset carpark always shit on her when she walk through that place...guess what?! she is suay indeed! a seagull shat on her! hahhahahahha!

Day 2:

the sky! so bootiful!...at kookabura cafe waiting for our pizzas. brisbane's filled with steep slopes, steep slopes and more steep slopes! each time we drive down one...i'll go.."whheeeee" haha..ok lame

one of our fav activities...grocery shopping! the peach slices pic is taken by we know who...

another of our fav activity...cooking....

peach finally found the ONE METRE long toblerone that she's been looking for since forever! we spent the entire tuesday in target and kmart buying cheap bonds underwear and amusing ourselves with all the toys and sweets in the stores!