Tuesday, June 28, 2005

WORK SUCKS.

this is the second job i've done that's repetitive, mundane, and requires no brains. the first was the Cisco cash processing officer job. mel, cindy and yuxin will know. anyway, this job i'm doing now is basically insert a piece of discount coupon (that's for today. tomorrow we'll be pasting the coupon) into the NDP fun pack's discount coupon booklet. supposed to complete 26,ooo booklets today but a manpower strength of 15 wasn't enough to do it within 8 hours. the events company don't want to pay us the 1.5x OT pay, so we decided we shall just work by the hour and get paid by the hour. so snowball the work lor. we'll need to paste coupon stickers in 54,000 booklets in total within the next 3 days. to find out which company is paying us for the discount coupon cock up, go grab a 2005 NDP fun pack!

it's very boring lor. the Cisco job was touching cash (i see millions of dollars everyday. it means nothing to me. just dirty used notes and fresh notes that provide lovely papercuts. i see bloody han sup Cisco policemen too.) this one is touching coupons (i see no cute army boys. just irritating asses.) i seriously don't know which one is better.

the worst thing about this job is the work place is in Jurong Camp. yup, that's the other side of Earth. the walk to the working area in the camp is 10 minutes from the entrance. and very unfortunately, the canteen is right beside the entrance.

60 minutes to Boon Lay. 10 minutes walk in to work. 10 minutes walk out for lunch. 10 minutes walk in to work. 10 minutes walk out to the road. 60 minutes to Eunos.

lucky there's eunice. or else i'll be bored to tears.

3 more days to go before this job ends. tahaaaaan.....

janet at 10:29 PM

Sunday, June 26, 2005

I SAW GAY TODAY
wearing an orange tee... working for dbs... i'm glad for the colour orange.. otherwise i wouldn't have spotted him. he was just 2 metres away from me.

our eyes met for half a second and i immediately looked down and searched for my phone in my bag and went OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG till i found my phone and shared my happiness with yizi and mel who knows wtf gay is.

cindy and yuxin!!! I SAW GAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

when yizi picked up my call, i went "yiziyiziisawgayisawgay" and 2 ladies in the mango store rummaging through the clothes turned to look at me. they probably thought i was a sua koo but I DIDN'T CARE CUZ I SAW GAY. after so long. muahahahhhaaa.. =)

janet at 12:36 AM

Saturday, June 25, 2005

sometimes i'm so thankful... i don't know who to thank.

so thank you
for being part of my life be it in a big or small way
for supporting me in one way or another
for listening
for caring
for shaping my days and nights
and for just simply being there when i needed you

you can be anyone
but you are always my someone
my friend, my family, my mentor, my teacher, anyone.

(i'm not dying. i merely did some reflection)

janet at 1:56 AM

Thursday, June 23, 2005

it all started with a sore throat. then came the fever. sucks. and i have to sleep without the aircon so my siblings relegated me to the living room. sucks. couldn't even sleep well. kept waking up. so for the past 2 days, i've been napping. the longest period i've slept through was for 5 hours. i wake up, eat, eat medicine, watch tv, sleep. wake up, eat, eat medicine, watch tv, sleep. damn miserable. i'm recovering.. yay..

when i was feverish, i had a lot of weird dreams. my brain was pretty fried. 38.1 degs last night. had a headache and my body was warm but i was feeling cold. and the freaking antibiotics capsules are so huge and has this weird smell that makes me wanna puke.

woke up and my temperature was still running. went for my final theory test anyhow. I PASSED! i'm proud to say i finished it in 20 minutes. =) the touchscreen test system is cool. so much better than the booklet test. applied for my practical test date.. 8th of december. still a long way to go. exams would've ended by then.

still feeling quite uncomfortable. not sure if it's the sickness or i've been sleeping too much these days.

out.. going to rest..

janet at 10:39 PM

Monday, June 20, 2005

PCK was actually quite nice. the storyline wasn't very good but i think the singing, dancing and costumes were pretty good. the lyrics were pretty singaporean, i.e. singlish. it wasn't too bad really. irene ang really slimmed down a lot. she wore red slacks and she has really thin legs now. mariefrance bodyline works man. and i finally saw pierre png =) cept he wasn't his good looking self.

thanks to yizi again, for the 10 tickets. we were 10 rows from the stage. it's pretty near if you think about it but tickets were overpriced for the premiem seats. i'm not complaining cuz the tickets were free. heh.. still enjoyed myself anyhow. saw yizi's friend shuyu, and mel's parents and bro at the musical.

the weather's been really hot lately. sucks.

janet at 10:03 PM

Friday, June 17, 2005

hall application this year is done online, and there's no request for an attached photo. that makes it hard to choose who to get into the block. no choice lar, choose based on achievements, which can be really inaccurate.

ranked the foreigners yesterday, relatively easy cuz there're only 49 in total. the headache will start when we need to rank the locals. without photos to judge, it's going to be really difficult.

every block has a fair chance of getting good looking people. good luck to block A. may we get all the chiobu-s and yandao-s. but i think these people will just be evenly distributed throughout the hall. IF they even exist in the first place. like maybe 1 per block or something. lol.

mm.. 1.5 months into the holidays. means i'm 1.5 months away from moving back into hall. time flies.

rubin has reliable source that biz and law may move in the beginning of 2006. if that's true, i'll be spending my last semester 2 in the bukit timah campus. which means i'll save a lot of money if i shift back home and travel to bukit timah from home. but that also means i'll need to give up IHG. and i'm not really prepared to move out. i want to be a slack senior!! haven't gotten my chance yet. but the dean says we'll move in mid 2006. which means i'll get to stay on for 1 whole year. and if i decide to do a double major, i'll need an extra semester to complete the essentials. and that means i'll get to do my last semester in bukit timah. it'll be a good for me since i won't be staying in hall then. and i get to experience being isolated from the rest of NUS.

then there's another problem. what should i major in. i did better for HR than marketing this sem although i like marketing more. i'll need to decide and spend my last year doing the essential modules for the major. or maybe i should just major in both.

whatever lar. i'll go watch some tv for now.

janet at 2:26 PM

Monday, June 13, 2005

the malacca sun-day trip company included lena, veron, charmaine, summer, hatta, small jason, daniel and kenny. we met at kranji mrt at 7+am. and for the first time i took a public bus into malaysia. bus 170. coincidentally, we bumped into keguang on the bus. he was on his way to pick miss chet up who wascoming back to singapore from penang. how sweet =) proceeded to clear the customs and continued the bus 170 journey to the bus terminal in johor. we thought we were going to miss the 8.30am bus to malacca, but fortunately there was a 9am bus. if we had missed any of the morning buses, we would've just hung around in johor and shop and eat.

caught the 9am bus with lousy seats. everyone had to sit with a stranger (cuz there's no fixed seats) for 3 hours of travel to the malacca bus central. arrived at about 12pm, and first thing jason did was to check out the return tickets. the only tickets we could get was for a 5.15pm bus back to johor. since we weren't planning to stay a night, we were left with no other choice but to take that bus back. so basically, we travelled 7 hours, to be in malacca for 5 hours. didn't have time to visit the church and fort. merely walked past the area in search for the really good peranakan food which we never did find.

(during the search for the peranakan food, kenny noticed a bee cheng hiang, the ba kwa shop, and he was shocked. he thought malaysia doesn't sell pork. *shrug*)

then magically a shopping centre appeared in front of us and naturally we went in for the air con cuz it was really sunny and we were walking quite a bit endangering our lives on the roads of malacca. they have a huge signboard which shows the number of accidents and deaths on the roads last year and the records for this year. i think i nearly helped increase the figure. anyway, shopping centre. we had the chicken rice balls for lunch at some chicken rice ball restaurant. the chicken rice balls were ok ok only. not as fantastic as i thought they would be. we were left with a short period of 4 hours to shop after lunch.

the factory outlet store rocks!! there were so many nice tops and low prices. i bought 2 tops for a grand total of 37 ringgit from there. if i had more money on me to spend, there would be much more things to buy. could've bought some tees for my brother. too bad for him lar. i also bought a straw bag for 15 ringgit (after much bargaining). and 4 melody pops for $1.10 each. MELODY POPS!! there's cola, strawberry and watermelon flavour! the money ran out fast cuz i only had about 100 ringgit to spend for this trip. but there was still 5 ringit left for A&W curly fries at the bus sentral before we leave malacca. woah... the curly fries... were really curly.. and nice!

by the time we arrived back in johor it was 8+pm and i have zero ringgit left on me except for all the coins that my mum gave me which were really useful when visiting the tandas. had to pay for dinner and cab fare in sing dollars. in fact, most of us ran out of ringgit by then. dinner was seafood stuff. and i learnt that crayfish is actually not a fish. it tasted good =)

and for the first time in my life, i walked on the causeway. the queue for the bus was very long and it was pretty late already. one would think tha there's nothing dangerous about walking on the causeway. but there're cars coming your direction at fast speed. and the path is not even as the tiles are quite messed up. and of course the most perilious thing on the causeway is the air con compressors that are right there for you to knock your head into. let's all hope kenny doesn't lose his gepness.

by the time we cleared the singapore customs, it was almost midnight. my legs were aching when i got home.

lessons to learn from the trip are to 1. bring more ringgit and 2. one day in malacca is not enough. it will be more worthwhile to stay for one night there. else it'll just be a rush to do this and visit that.

janet at 1:00 PM

Friday, June 10, 2005

Million Dollar Baby is a great show. it shall be now classified as one of my favourite movies along with the shawshank redemption and sleepers and so on.

you would think it's a crap movie like some stupid baby comedy shit, like i first did. but no. it's hell of a good show. it's partly about boxing, but more on achieving dreams, determination, passion, seeking forgiveness, living, and even euthanasia.

watch it.

janet at 2:14 AM

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Who kicked a hole in the sky so the heavens would cry over me?
Who stole the soul from the sun in a world come undone at the seams?
Let there be love
I hope the weather is calm as you sail up your heavenly stream
Suspended clear in the sky are the words that we sing in our dreams
Let there be love
Come on baby blue shake up your tired eyes
The world is waiting for you
May all your dreaming fill the empty sky
But if it makes you happy keep on clapping
Just remember I'll be by your side
And if you only go it's gonna pass you by

janet at 6:52 PM

Sunday, June 05, 2005

haven't been on msn recently. even if i do log on, it's for a while. my brother has been hogging the modem to play counterstrike, maple story, survival project and whatever games he's addicted to now. when i get to use the modem, i don't feel like using it. cept for downloading movies and songs.

i'm still alive and kicking in case you were missing me. if you need to contact me and i'm not online, call me on my handphone or at my place. but who has numbers of friends' homes these days? old friends maybe.

coldplay's new album x & y is going to be released tomorrow. not a big fan but they play good music. mm.. guess i'll download it. i can't remember the last time i purchased a CD. the last CD i bought was probably U2's greatest hits, and that was a few years ago.

anyone who has female friends who want to rent a room in hall? i know of someone who has rooms to rent out and this is an advertisement. i'm not getting commission or anything, just helping to ask around. let me know ok? then i can refer your friend to my friend.

the air smells bad. reeks of some kind of smelly rice. and it isn't coming from my kitchen. someone else is cooking bad food.

i can't sit and read a book properly. my final theory test is coming up and i'm reading a few pages every few days. it's really important for me to pass it and i don't know why i'm not putting in effort to study for the test. it happens right? like you know you ought to do this cuz it's important and all but you can't get down to doing it. it's probably due to laziness. i'd like to think it's something bigger than lazy.

an entry without a point.

janet at 2:01 PM

Friday, June 03, 2005

Unleashed is actually nicer than i expected it to be. it's the first Jet Li's hollywood movie i've watched and i decided that i prefer him over Jackie Chan. i was squirming in my seat during the fight scenes cuz the sound effects were so good i could hear very clearly the breaking of ribs and all. i'm not too big on action movies, but Unleashed has a nice touching story plot. Jet Li is actually Danny the dog, trained to be a fighting machine and a dog to obey his master. so he goes all fighter mode when he is unleashed. 3/5 coco crunch!

H2G2, short for HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, shall get 2/5 coco crunch, for being funny. Marvin the robot thingy is depressingly cute. =)

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Haisian stuffs

well i was supposed to meet weili for a movie (i did), agnes and sarah for dinner. too bad sarah had to go home for dinner. i guess we'll have to meet up again, the 3 of us, and have a heart to heart talk. it's been too long. and i know i've missed out a lot on their lives cuz stuffs have happened. important things that are life-changing to them happened and i wasn't there by their sides. i need to know. nothing complicated has happened to me to make my life seem dramatic, but i'm sure there'll be a lot to talk about. and it felt a little weird just now cuz everyone's rushing to talk about themselves. well except me. i feel that there's nothing important in my life that i could contribute. cept that i'm graduating in a year, still staying in hall, family's the same, siblings have grown up, have a pet hamster, and have no idea what i want to do after i graduate. i have absolutely nothing interesting to say about my life for the past few years.

but it was nice just sitting there with agnes and weili, reminiscing about our haising days. how we used to hang in white sands' coffeebean (which weili said has closed down, sad); how lincoln still owes agnes a box of mentos cuz he made a bet that agnes will never make it to 3E1 but she did cuz she's damn hardworking and smart but lincoln apparently think otherwise; how shaun and agnes used to argue cuz shaun had an attitude problem back in sec 1 and 2 and they had to tolerate each other cuz they sat side by side in class; how ferouz used to get bullied by the normal academic people like weili and gang cuz agnes doesn't like him and agnes was the "steady" of their big brother, jiaju (who's married now); how abeline the fucking most ugly girl in haising who hated agnes's, sarah's and my guts and we nearly fought in school cuz that fucking bitch screamed at agnes in her face during recess time; how long has it been since i've gone to agnes's house to hang that her mum actually asked about me; how weili and shaun used to hate each other's guts but apparently weili doesn't remember anything about disliking shaun; how sarah, agnes and me hated sheryl (and honestly i don't really remember why we hate(d) her but i remember the day of confrontation when agnes broke a coffee glass at coffeebean); how small soldier walked like a chao ah beng when he's so short and how thick skinned he was to keep bugging me; how wai wai was so bully-able (i remember writing a chinese composition and i had a dog in the story and it's name was wai huat) back then and how he used to like agnes (HAHAHA). well i'm sorry i have to name names here but i'm sure you all miss all those stuffs too, right?? =P

i supposed we were really ah lians back then. but being in E1 and E2 means that we were totally studious too. how much things have changed, we've grown out of our childish manners and now conversations revolve around work and what we want to be after we graduate. cept for dear weili who just started his poly school life and smoking to his death who will never stop pestering me to introduce chio undergraduates to him. talking about smoking, i swear i nearly choked and died from 2nd hand smoke cuz 4/6 people were smoking at the same time while i was eating my freaking burger. is it that hard to quit?

ex haisians, don't you all miss haising? i wouldn't mind going back to 13 years old and relive the 4 years again. even if that means to be in st johns learning nursing all over again; to have socks cut by ms ng and visit the science centre with rolled down socks; to fall in and out of love (ok this is not true, i don't fall out of love); to travel 45 minutes everyday to and fro school; to be sent to the principal to get threatened to drop me out of A maths class cuz i fucking talked during one lesson when mr thoh was being such a bitch; to quit st johns cuz they wanted me to be number 1 for competition (but i guess if i get to relive haising, i'll not quit and take up the challenge cuz i enjoyed foot drills hated first aid, but who cares); to be hated by abeline and all the other seniors who think agnes, sarah and i were bitches; to see johan's sickening face in class for 2 whole years; to sing hymms and listen to bible reading every assembly; to wear that ugly turqoise uniform; to face mr njoo's potholed face; to see mrs poi's unshaven arm pits during geography classes; to run around the school compound for PE; stay back after school for stupid remedial lessons or build a class garden; to get caught for playing water outside our class corridor on boon wee's birthday (but we were punished in a very wonderful way: ms goh made us play with super soakers and water guns on a saturday in the parade square); and so on and so forth.

i guess secondary school days beat the primary schools and jc days, and maybe even the hall days cuz it was the most havoc time of my life. and it was very innocent too. =)

pardon the grammatical errors and stuff. i'm too lazy to edit. but this entry will serve as a good reminiscence when i read my archives later on.

janet at 12:58 AM