Last day at Office!

My boss is still away, so I'm blatantly slacking in the office now, playing neopets, sms-ing and reading Wu Chun's blog. My colleague has given up on me i suspect.

Heard from my student that HanaKimi has an odd ending, a not too perfect one, but maybe that might just make the show a bit more realistic. The show makes me jealous, cos everyone inside is just so genuinely nice and sweet and perfect, but i suppose that's the way it is in shows. And sometimes, i cant help but wonder what celebs are really like in reality. And that's why i got into this nutty mode of mine, telling everybody that I would like to know Wu Chun personally to see for myself how they behave.
And yes, sometimes I think it silly that fans go all the way out for their idols when their efforts are only a gauge of popularity for their idols, but yet, I find myself behaving in the same irrational manner. I wonder how many Cinderella stories are there out there- when the idol actually get to know their fans personally, and to reciprocate the love (or infatuation) they are showered with?
See, I'm really going NUTS. Someone's gotta save me from what I have become.
But it's nice to daydream once in awhile i suppose. I think this might just be the role (and power) of celebs.

And was googling and realised that the best pics of Wu Chun are actually posted on his own site, which makes qte abit of sense- who would post disgusting pics of themselves on their blogs?
Wu Chun's english vers of his blogs entry is rather ... entertaining. I can't access the chinese vers from office, so I had to be content with the english one.
And it's really getting very alarming for me, that I have fallen so deep into the pit, cos I don't normally research about celebs. At the most if they impress me, they go onto my dp in MSN (and these people are rarely not koreans). But now!!

Meeting up with Erns later for dinner at Bugis, after which I'm planning to head off to the gym again. Read from "Mind Your Body" in ST today that muscles cannot turn into fats, and doing a lot of weights would not necessarily give you bulky muscles like body builders because women in general lack sufficient testosterone to grow to that absurd size. Weights training can actually help tone! That's gd news, and I sincerely hope I would be able to keep up my pace and stick with this regiment for long. I want to lose some weight for myself by my 19th b'day!

Starting internship at a law firm tmr, hope that I would like the place tmr. But i heard that it's a nice place, so still looking fwd to it! (:
(Wonder if I would get an allowance? >_<)

Back to HanaKimi on Youtube!~

I've found motivation to GYM!

Since CNY ended, there hasn't been really any interesting things that happened to me, except that A's results are officially going to be out after 2.30pm this friday, which is making me freak out every other while.

I finally willed myself to go the the gym (for two days in a row!), and I'm determined to keep it up. HEH, talk about the power of love. I can't believe there is still anything in this world that was able to motivate me to work out and exercise, and travel all the way to tampines to do so. But still, i actually enjoyed the gym. This is highly disturbing. At least during that time, I'm too busy panting to think about my impending grades.

I have officially joined the league of babe and prisc to become one of those mad fans of Wu Zun after watching HanaKimi (which I have become hopelessly addicted to). I was actually thinking of buying Farenheit's album (which is a shocker since the last album i bought was ... zaizai's Make a Wish?), and going on to watch Tokyo Juliet. I might go bug Prisc to lend me her DVDs again.

Visited Ang with Wenxi, Monica and Charmaine on Sat evening, and saw qte a few of her old councillors and students at her place. And (unencouragingly), most of them were doing very well (and had done so for the A's), and it just freaked me out further that i might not be in the same league as them. GARR. But that aside, it was nice listening to the seniors talk about their mischievous times in HC, and recount all the silly things that we did, and also Ang's cooking was superb. Ate abit more than I should, but I felt it my duty to help since Ang did put in alot of effort to prepare and not many people were eating >_<

Last day of work tmr at current workplace. Going for my internship soon! hope that it'll be loads of fun.

It's getting boring without erns online now that she has found a new job that doesnt really allow her to use MSN. (Though she claims she is nice enough to occasionally use Meebo. Talk about responsibility. HEH.)

Meeting up with the Losers (once again) this sat. Would be able to get my new (2nd hand) phone from Liane! (: But still, we are keeping up the tradition of seeing each other at least once a wk ... how disturbing.

WU ZUN!

PARTY time (:

Finally, party time's over. Back to work, and feeling quite sickened by the fact that i've to get back to work. (And that results are going to be out next week.) MOE has yet to offically announce when the grades would be released, but rumours are rife that it would be out next friday. ERPS.

Anw, CNY has been great for me this year (though i didn't really feel the festive mood), but bad for my mum. According to her, she gave alot of angpows but we received very little -_-" heh.

17th Feb (CNY EVE)
Went to Chinatown with Stef after reunion dinner (which did not offer steamboat this yr, but it was nevertheless yummy.) and it was really crowded. Couldn't stay up late that night, even though i was supposed to and fell asleep the moment i reached home.

18th Feb (CNY 1st Day)
Visited my Gran's house and just bummed around, watching tv, junking, getting fat and occasionally going out to the hall to greet people and chat. Nothing interesting happened (as always)- TV remained intact despite being switched on for more than 24h, and with the random cousins of mine trying to fight to have the channel tuned to Cartoon Network, when I'm watching something halfway through. CME is obviously failing. Maybe it should start from home ... like manners.
But they are kida after all?
They've got the privilege of feigning ignorance, opening their eyes wide big, look genuinely misunderstood and say, "OH, did i do something wrong?" and get away with it. The power of being a kid of today.
Visited my Babysitter in Yishun at night, and had dinner at Mac's because most (chinese) food stalls were closed, and went back to Gran's house to realise that she left dinner for us. So we stuffed ourselves with the 2nd dinner.

19th Feb
Lazed around at home, wasn't as happening as my brother, who organised some gathering with his Chinese High friends and went around visiting and collecting angpows. So allowed myself to lie in and sleep till about one. I think I was the only one at home (excluding my maid), even my parents had plans. My mum was encouraging me to get a life, and visit some friends, unfortunately, I suffered from serious inertia and couldn't move my bum off my bed. Finished reading Devil beside You manga, and felt disappointed that the character in the book was way cuter than Mike He, and Kingone Wang cuter than his manga counterpart.
Visited my other Gran's house in the evening, and met up with the cousins who are at least about my age. Nice talking to them, and one of my J1 cousins in SA miraculously turned good looking (hunky and just plain cute). I think it's just the school surroundings that does that to people. heh. I really can't think of any other logical explanation, unless he's in love (speaking of which, i won't be surprised). Nevertheless, it's always nice to catch up and yak with these cousins of mine (:

20th Feb (3rd day)
Some of the sevenD people came over to my place in the noon, haven't seen them for ages, since most of the boys had disappeared into NS. And when they are out, they just continue talking about NS anyway. I wonder if the pt of NS is to let unsociable and uncommunicative guys have a common topic. As for the rest, it's nice to see ahgake and hing, and listen to jR that rubbish talk crap in his trademark ahbeng way. Crys is attached, though i didn't have a chance to ask her more about her new NP-ITE boyfriend, but she looks really doll-like now with her curls (:
Monica, Wenxi and Weeleng came over slightly later. And its always nice to have councillors around, we can just stone and sit around and then start gossiping. Though our gossip topic hardly deviates.

21st Feb (YEARMATES GATHERING!)
Less than 10 people turned up, and none of them paid me back (cept for cel). So Babe is in trouble, I'm going to fine her by making her pay double! But still, it was nice. My maid cooked and fried some finger food, and we just sat in the car porch, listening to lame jokes and stuffing ourselves with food. Of course, given out yrmates, we have to do something silly, and meix and babe hid cel's wallet inside my tissue box (thereby contaminating the whole box of facial tissue), and yes it was the joke for everyone else for the rest of the night (can you believe at the silly things we laugh at?) Yearmates also bummed over at my TV room, to watch Hana Kimi (which i have to admit I'm recently addicted because Wu Zun is not bad) and the silly Channel 8 9pm show -_-" (that one is just plain cheesy, and boring. I can't believe Cel and Babe actually watches it. But it speaks alot about their taste i suppose), followed by Angels of Mission on Channel U, before most of them left reluctantly. Kaix the Pangsai stayed till 11 plus to entertain me though, long time since I've rubbished around with her. My mum says she turned prettier. (URGHS!) Still, it's good to have lame company.

22nd Feb (406 GATHERING)
Turn out was quite good, though sadly, we kinda more-or-less stayed in our own cliques. But still had quite abit of fun playing bridge with the disgusting Juanie who does stuff like put down Ace of Clubd and call for Ace of Clubs as her partner, declare me the winner of the set when I put down 2 Diamond -_-" and Ern while she complained about her bitchy counterpart sect (: Most people left qte early though (unlike my yrmates), though cel yanling juanie and erns stayed back to play cards and watch shows. Yuhning came, cos Bryan's in camp. Liane had to leave early cos she has driving, prisc cos she's tired and Monkey home to talk to Bryan online (I bet!). And (even more) sadly, the losers are mtg up again in time to come. This is disturbing. And partly cos I want to borrow Hana Kimi from Prisc.


This pretty much sums up my CNY which has been quite exciting, making work now extremely mundane for me. URGHS. and I had to wake up at 7 to come to work at 7.30am cos my boss and colleague is away. I'm the only one at office now.
It's my chance to wreck it. HEH.
(and my chance to flirt with the China construction worker ah? -_-")

Tis the seaon to be JOLLY!

It's 12.30pm, I am eating breakfast alone, in front of the computer screen, on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year ... and enjoying life so much (:

My brother is out visiting his friends, my parents probably back at my gran's hse, and i woke up too late to be engaged in any commitments for the earlier part of the day. I would be going over to my other gran's (mum's mum) house later for dinner and catching up with all my favourite cousins.

It was a quiet day ytd at my gran's hse (dad's mum), with fewer relatives this yr coming over because of otheir own other commitments, but not that it really affected me all that much since I don't really talk to those people that I meet only once a yr or so. But still it was enjoyable, because of all the gd food- my mum reckons that i would gain at least 2kg in this week. I think i would bust the weighing machine. I'm worried ... but I'm not doing anything abt this except to junk more.

Visited Chinatown on New Year's Eve after reunion dinner with Stef and my Mum. It was really super crowded and you don't really have to walk, the crowd just pushes you along, and even if you see something you like, it would be a matter of seconds before you are at the third stall down because the people behind you just won't allow you the luxury of a second to contemplate and decide if you would like to get it. And I managed to manoveure myself around in that mess of people for one half hours in 4.5inches stiletto heels (: SO proud of myself. (though of course i never meant to wear that to chinatown in the first place) But i managed to get some Mochi to add to my goody collection at home, and my mum some flowers (carnations and forget-me-nots)at a rather gd deal. Didn't manage to see the firecrackers though, it was mucht too far away, but the fireworks were normal (after all we see loads of them during new year countdown and nat day).

Looking fwd to all the gatherings at my house (: Whee.
20th- (tentatively) visiting the loser gang houses, ahgake coming by, snr in the noon and xiaoxiaogrp/ 204 in the evening (though none of these are confirmed)
21st- YEARMATES GATHERING!! (with more than 2 people)
22nd- 406 gathering (:


I love the year of the PIG (:
(afterall, it's my year)

Half Day OFF!

GOOD NEWS!
I might just get half day off from work today, meaning that I would be able to join the councillors for lunch even though i might miss the celebrations altogther (: Nevertheless, it has made my day slightly better with that wonderful piece of news, since it's really quite dull here without Doris (my only other colleague)

V-day was pathetic for me, and I dropped those 2 pri sch students whom i taught on that day, they were just too naughty for me -_-" This is when I think I rather forgo earning more money >_< I still have dignity!

Looking forward to CNY- to going to Chinatown with Stef and Mon on CNY Eve, to visiting each other's houses with the loser gang, to yearmate's and 406 (tentative) gathering at my place and to lotsa angpow collection from the adults! And of course, to my new waldrobe which I'm supposed to go stock up today with Prisc (:

And I am just reminded that it was Budget Day ytd, and I would have to go find out when would the GST hike be for the company. I think thanks to Budget Day, we didnt have results released today. I would think that Singaporeans can't take the double blow (and heart attack) of finding how badly their kids did and that GST is going to rise to 7% on July 1st. Thank god that it wasn't April 1st, bosses would have a hard time trying to tell people that it's not a joke the gvt is pulling.

A sad V-day.

There's nothing to do again in the office, and I have realised to my horror that almost everyone in the office would be taking leave during the CNY period. I'm feeling sore that I have to get back to work so early, and that I'm the only person who would be handling the running of the office, and that I'm going to miss CNY celeb at HC and that results are going to be out very soon. This is so depressing.

And of course, my indian student keep wanting me to come back to teach him for his common test during CNY. ERRRs. And I couldnt believe I agreed to teach him another subject without extra charging him. Maybe I would change my mind the next time (: And tell him about my plans, but that would have to depend very much on my mood.

Have tuition with my pri school students later, and its (once again) very repulsive that I'm spending my V-day with my 2 least favourite students in my least favourite way. I'm planning to donate my students to Prisc, because I would very much rather spend more time on my sec school students and since I think I handle my sec school students better (:

Whoever said that V-day is one that is filled with love and happiness should be drowned. I'm feeling sore and depressed and repulsed.

Someone help save my V-day.

Okay, maybe I can look forward to my V-day date with Joonie tonight ... in bed ;)

YEARMATES GATHERING ON 21ST

Boss was late for work today, so I stood outside the office like a dumdum for about 40mins. And to think that i rushed out of house with a sandwich wedged between my teeth, giving my neighbour a weak smile when i saw him snigger. But it also means 40mins less of trying to look like i'm busy.


Just came back from running an errand- going to the nearby Prime Supermarket to get batteries, tissue paper ... and an egg tart for myself. Working at the office is really bad for my dieting plans, because I eat when I'm bored, when I'm working, when I'm stressed and when it's meals time. Which essentially means that I'm eating at least 6 meals a day. And CNY is coming ... and that means eating 24/7. How am I ever going to fit into my clothes.


My mum cleaned up my room for me ytd, and it looks really lovely now. Maybe cos there are very few books, except for junk novels and random assessment books for my students, that's why it looks so much nicer now! Can you imagine trying to decorate your room with Serway or Campbell or trigo notes? :x I'm finally out of that age! And yearmates can come explore my pretty room on the 21st (if not i will kill babe. I will never forget that 2 people yrmate gathering that she organized.)


Talked to Mon on the phone ytd for more than an hour, and I'm feeling really sleepy and lethargic at work now. It's darnit nice to be whining and gossiping and laughing at how smelly people can be on the mrts. (: I hope my mum will let me out on CNY eve with Mon and Stef to Chinatown for some super cheap shopping!

CNY's coming!

Had a relatively busy day at work today, was putting in more effort than usual updating stuff, going to the bank to bank in money and helping Doris with the running of the office ... and I kind of managed to finish Devil Beside You (though not the entire series in the office). I was trying to youtube while my uncle was out so that I would not get ticked off again. I'm learning the trick of slacking quite well ;) Although, it's unfair that erns get to slack blatantly.

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Devil beside You was surprisingly nice, and (shockingly!) I did enjoy watching Rainie playing that angelic, cute-sy and err, innocent or plain dumb (I can't tell) role. As usual, I wasn't attracted to the main character (Mike He), although I would have to admit that he can look quite good when he spots another hairstyle (while I saw on this clip when the cast of Devil beside You went onto Jackie's Guess- wo cai wo cai wo cai cai cai ). I like Yuan Yi (played by Kingone Wang Chuan Yi) in the show, Huien claims he looks like just some other random Korean, but at least he looks good enough to pass off as one ;). It doesn't help that he played a super-nice-guy basketball capt in the show. Basketballers just have this effect on me ... beats me why. The plot was not fantastic but at least it was comical, and managed to get me laughing quite a bit, which is a nice change from all the typical heartbreaking tear-jerkers taiwanese (and korean) dramas. Ern, Prisc and my student was introducing Hanakimi to me, and I was just contemplating on whether I should start it now that I completed Devil Beside You. No wonder Youtube earns big bucks ... it's darnit addictive.

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Pot luck yesterday at my place was rather sad. Monkey went out with Bryan on an early V-day date, DJ had a Columbia interview (I hope she gets in, so she can fly to US and get out of my sight ;) ) and Erns was sick so it was just the four of us- Prisc, Liane, Huien and Me. No one actually really cooked anything. Prisc brought microwaved chicken wings (straight from instant food packets -_-), liane brought sweet and sour pork and chicken from the shop with the shortest queue near her house, Huien was 2 hours late and brought a bag of gummies, I got ngoh heong from Jackson's Food Centre on my way home from tuition. But still, we somehow managed to pass more than 4hrs laughing ourselves silly and chatting about nothing in particular. And it's really quite disturbing that the losers have been meeting quite alot during this break, 'cos we usually tend to meet about once a year, and still think it was frequent -_- Now, we are meeting at least once every week ... don't we sound like lovers? Dating every weekend? .... EEKS.

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My V-day is going to be spent with my 2 least favourite students. How repulsive.

Can I skip it?

/

Joonie would be left waiting for me.

Updates from The Office Epi2

Class outing last night was fantastic and turn-out was actually quite good with more than a quarter present (kep, chinswee, crys, charl, jas, ail, michf, pea, ahgake, ed, hing, me). They were at Manhattan's Fish Market when I reached (I arrived fashionably late (: ), and it was such a pity that I had taken my dinner because they had free leftovers from their seafood platter that actually looks rather appetizing. And I would have stuffed myself if I really wasn't feeling so bloated. But for some strange reason, my fork just keeps finding itself to the plate and random fries and fish just gets popped into my mouth without me being conscious until most of the plate is wiped out.

Manhattan's Fish Market is an interesting place, because they are one of those rare seafood restaurants that I see, show save-the-wildlife and sea creatures on their projector and yet serve all kind of seafood. Is it some kind of bad joke, or are they just plain ignorant?

We went on to Swensen's after that for desserts. The girls shared topless five (there were 5 of us left after ail, michf and pea left early), though crys didn't eat 'cos she was just recovered from flu and an ear infection, while the guys had banana crumble and some other random thing. But I thought the night was lovely because it was so nice to catch up with old friends, whether you had known them very well or not, and to see how everyone is doing now. Hing is still working hard at applying for Unis while going for hospital attachment with ed, Jas is working for this company that organises camps and holds inspirational workshop for kids, Ail is going to teach soon, so is Crys who is currently tutoring as well, Kep is working at the shipyard ... as a foreman or so he claims, charl at an MNC doing accounts .. and reading most of the time, ahgake is going to start working as a call centre employee soon, chinswee is still being a housewife at home (: Woah, it seems like everyone seems to be having quite exciting lives now that A's has ended.

But nevertheless, I'm thankful to Hing who organized the outing (because he found it disturbing that chinswee asked him out) because it really felt so good meeting up with these people that I havent seen for eons. And i can't help but wonder, how many of these people will I still meet and keep in touch after say ... 5yrs?

Sharan is flying off for Cambodia today. I hope she will have a safe trip there and not mistakenly step on a landmine, or get kidnapped by terrorist. HMMs.

I trying harder to make myself more useful in the office today, and trying to learn as much as I can so that I would not be feeling so lost when Doris goes on leave (soon :x ). Trying to really understand how I can quote customers and compiling the list of regulars and hardware contractors so that I would have a better idea on who I'm talking to. Work is getting exciting. Right.

I'm actually watching ... and interesting in Devil Beside Me starring Rainie Yang and this other actor whom I'm not too familiar with. It's embarrassing that I am into such TW drama serials again. And I was just wondering if I should borrow the vcd from ahgake so that I can finish it once and for all.

Potluck this Sunday 2pm at my place (: The Losers Congregate again!

Yearmates Gathering on 21st Feb evening at my place (: (And i hope Babe isn't cheating on me when she told me more than 5 people are coming)

Just for Laughs

Lee Joon Ki

Lee Joon Ki

The King and the Clown.

Joon Ki

Joon Ki

The Office Life

Once again, the Princess updates from the office. I swear I feel like a (delusional) Paris Hilton, just that instead of filming my life as a commoner, I'm blogging my life as a commoner (: Because obviously, the real working world out there does not condone my current atrocious behaviour and I would have gotten fired on the spot for slacking so much at work, but since my Uncle and Dad has kindly offered me a sheltered make-believe office experience, there is nothing much I can do but accept this wonderful offer right?

Doris is back today, after listening to me whine about all the troubles I got myself in when she was away. I made quite a few horrible mistakes (from taking wrong orders to calculating wrong prices for customers) yesterday while she was away, and I can tell my Uncle is either too flustered or too exasperated to teach me much. So i basically sat in the Office, being nothing but a hindrance and occasionally answering phone calls, taking down msgs and telling the people on the other side of the line that Doris is sick and Ken (my uncle) is out and I know nothing because I'm new. Doris says that saying that I'm new is a good excuse (: that gets me off most of the time. But life is back to normal today, because it was just another day of random filing, cleaning the phones, changing the water for the air purifier and occasionally answering the calls again. Of course, not to forget updating my blog, chatting occasionally online, reading, watching youtube (I've learnt my lesson and I'm doing it with the mute button on now).

Completed Jeffrey Archer's False Impressions yesterday in office (but a not too apalling behaviour compared to blasting Fly Daddy Fly), it wasn't fantastic, maybe because I've been reading so many of J.Archer's books that they are getting predictable. But nevertheless, I always enjoy that shot of adrenaline that thrillers give me, and there are few authors that actually interest me. Those that do (Archer, Baldacci) are getting quite typical and losing quite some of their excitement. Recently started Lee Child, hope he will live up to my expectations. I hope to actually complete the Thriller Collection in Cheng San by the time I enter Uni (which isn't all too hard if my working duties are to maintain at this rate, and since ChengSan Library doesn't boast of an all too impressive collection.)

Had tuition yesterday with 2 Primary School (P5 and P6) kids in Boon Keng, and it was really one hell of a time compared to sec school kids. The P6 one kept arguing with me and talking about everything but work, so progress was really slow. And he kept asking me if he could play Maple (errs, I think I would never understand what exactly is the hype surrounding dwarfs shooting mushrooms and their friends. hmmm, why don't they just shoot Prisc?). The other one was not as good in Chinese, so his mum wanted me to teach him Chinese, and i think I nearly died. So i cheated by just doing his Chinese textbook with him (I would have puked blood trying to handle comprehension). After that, I went through reproduction with him, and I was really stunned by the amount of stuff he knew, and I eventually realised wasnt all too surprising since he reads National Geographic and a lot of other Science magazines. In fact, he was P5 and knew stuff about DNA, genes and Inheritence, which makes him quite a formidable foe as he would be able to see through the rubbish Science stuff that I had planned to just blabber to him. Darn. This P5 kid was also quite interesting because he kept farting throughout the lesson and found it extremely amusing ... I guess kids just cannot be embarrassed (: Which is nice, in a way. Their mum was a lovely woman, very nice and welcoming, so didn't make me feel too awkward when I couldnt really control her kids who were running about the house, and into the kitchen trying to steal the cookies she was baking. But I suppose it's a nice change after teaching boring sec school kids yeah? Though of course there are exceptions since some of my students are just plain sweet while others like Dramas (and Wu Zun -_-" why is everyone obsessed with him?!) and it's quite fun to chat with them ... and feel young. This break is making me age.

Erns sent me a link of Xiaxue undergoing a nose job yesterday on youtube, and I to be honest, I was quite surprised that so many staff were operating on her, because it seems a far cry from the more serious ops (e.g. lipo/ breast augmen) that I have witnessed. Nevertheless, I suppose its for visual effects, and lucky her gets a free Nose Job! I want one too, and another one to shape me chin ... to a pretty one like Lee Joon Ki's. I was just wondering if Joonie's had ever had done anything to his face before because he seems to be quite different from his past (and i do not mean only hair style), but even if he did, I applaud it because I think it's a job damn well done. In fact, I think he looks almost perfect (:

Erns just commented that I'm getting too whiny here, ok maybe it's time to change the tone eh?

The Princess Whines again

I got ticked off yesterday by my boss-cum-uncle for openly watching youtube ("Fly Daddy Fly" starring Lee Joon Ki) and accidentally blasting the volume too loudly (and i guess i accidentally laughed out loud). Not that I was particularly affected by it but more of, embarrassed about it. Since he technically can't complain/bitch to my parents or fire me, but i can sense that he doesnt like me as a worker (but there is seriously nothing to do in here). I'm trying hard to make myself useful, but I sense his impatience when he's trying to teach a greenhorn like me to deal with an industry that I am unfamiliar with (though it should technically run in my blood). But my fellow colleague, Doris, has been lovely (though sick today and i wonder if it's because of me) in explaining to me the day-to-day running of the office, the procedures and the jargons used. Unfortunately for me, most of the customers speak Hokkien (If you are wondering, I'm working in the Construction/Fencing Industry now.) and I can't decipher out a single word of what they are trying to tell me, which means i usually end up asking them in atrocious chinese if they understand chinese. Yes, and I technically got A1 for Higher Chinese- I suspect it's because there's no orals and RGS girls are infamous for being hardcore muggers (I'm just one of the typical prototypes.)

My uncle just left and Doris is sick, so now it's a one-man-show for me in the office. I hope nothing terrible crops up that I would have to deal with later :x My mum was telling me that maybe I should go the extra mile and work with the workers in the workshop as well. (Basically the office that I'm working at now is connected to a workshop/factory where fences are manufactured.) Which should be quite interesting, but I'm suffering from inertia and not moving my bum at all. Speaking of which, i think the foreign workers are actually rather interesting people. As they live in the workshop itself, I happen to see their living quarters and find really amusing stuff that they bring to Singapore. One of them (probably from india) brought along a pooh bear stuff toy to hug to sleep, another brought along a pretty transparent umbrella (the types usually used for stage dancing) to ... admire?

There are 5 foreign workers that work here permanently, 3 from India, 1 from China and 1 from Thailand. Since all of them cannot speak english, they don't communicate, but they are bunkmates. What an interesting rlnship, aint it? (: I havent met the thai one before, the Indian workers look alike to me so I can't tell who exactly am I talking to and the guy from China is surprisingly not-too-bad looking, which can be quite refreshing :P But no, I dont flirt with him because, I'm loyal to my darling Joonie (yes, i dreamt of him again last night. it's such a pity that we lovers can only meet at night. but romantic too aint it? (: )

Class outing tomorrow, although less than a quarter will turn up, considering the potential psc guys are already in army, and most of the girls are probably working and estranged from the class (like me. just that I have been for the past half year or so.), I'm still contemplating if I should turn up since my brother has an english test on friday and it's my duty to make sure he can miraculously make a drastic improvement and churn out some award winning essay in less than 2days. How possible is that, because if I can do so, I can probably charge 50-an-hour for english tuition.

Just to clarify, my social circle does not only include ernie-ku, and I only speak of this certain person many a times here because I think she's the epitome of humour- she's literally a walking joke.

The Princess's Daily Update

Taking a break from work -yet again- since today is a relatively quiet day as CNY is coming and the workers are going home. Just finished keying in the purchase invoices for the Month of Feb (which isnt alot since you can count for yourself how many days of Feb has passed) and hopefully i didnt make a mistake. And the only reason why i'm worried about making mistakes is not because i would get scolded but because i would have to rectify them- see what i mean by the perks of working in my family business? (:

I kindof envy ernie-ku for having a slacker job than me (how is that even possible! She is practically redundant), her main duty in the office is to surf blogs and defame people. Occasionally, i hear her complaining as if the world has ended because the corporate travel agents are not done with their booking, and she (being a pampered brat) is highly displeased that she would have to call to remind. I guess sometimes she forgets that she is inefficient too, that's probably why she has such absurdly high standards for others. Ah yes, brain inefficiency to be exact, ernie-ku's main foe.

Tuition these few days have been quite problematic for me, not because the students are difficult to teach but because my mum is making sucha big fuss that I am not giving enough time for my brother when i take on so many cases. It's getting on my nerves and one day i swear i might just explode. I just wish he could actually live for himself and get some work done. So that i dont get blamed for his faults. I WISH, and i probably had been for the past few years.

Actually i'm starting to regret taking up the cases in Bukit Panjang now, for one, it's too far and secondly, it's twice a week for the both of them. Ok, I'm pampered. And i have to admit it, I don't like teaching ... at all. I guess, most people don't really enjoy their jobs anyway, this is just how life is afterall.

The Princess Whines.

I think i'm blatantly slacking in the office, but honestly, tell me which company that hires A level students do not expect them to slack? (: That's why we get paid peanuts and get treated like dirt. But nevertheless, i quite like my current job and since i'm only here cos it is a family business, i think my pay is really quite good for the amt of things i do and the number of mistakes i am allowed to make.

It's really quite fun having get togethers with old friends, though i think its really quite a pity that I havent seen most of my JC friends (except for Hing in UK and sharan and Hing -again- when i went back to HC to visit ang and junetan). But to think about it, i never really expected to keep in contact with most of my friends anyway, so i think its really quite wonderful that i'm meeting up with the losers (and esp king of all losers Mushroom Head Prisc) almost every week. Having a potluck lunch this sunday, how exciting isnt it? I might just put my cooking skills to a test (i hear a horrified gasp from ernie-ku. TOO BAD.) I'm so looking forward to it (:

Heard a rumour that A's results might be out on V-day. Tell me how sadistic can MOE get? After "Define Radian." I suppose I should have mentally prepared myself for anything. But can't they at least let me enjoy CNY?

Experiencing Life as a Commoner.

It's been a pretty exciting week for me because work started full force for me- working at my uncle's fencing factory (as an admin worker) in the day and tutoring at night. It's rather exhausting (my brother just commented that my eyebags were getting alot worst) but it's quite fulfilling. After all, i'm finally not being a slob all day at home but making some contribution (mainly to my bank acount -grins-) to the society, helping those in need (aint i noble? *tears*). But i think i'm quite fortunate that my (private tutoring) students are lovely people- either very friendly or easy to teach. However, I have to admit that teaching pri sch cases can be quite puke-blood cases, considering you have to strike a balance between maintaining discipline in the class -for some odd reasons pri sch children dont like to sit down. i wonder if they are trying to train to get pretty legs since young- and trying to make the class interesting -how on earth do you try to spice up 23 x 24? and how do you explain what does a sentence mean to a bunch of 7yrolds?-. But nevertheless, i think i really do get a sense of achievement from teaching these difficult kids, and i think im probably learning more than them. Now I understand how difficult it must have been for klui and kathytang to endure the people like me .. and dj of course.

Celebrated Stupid Monkey's b'day on sat. The 2nd consecutive b'day on a saturday we celebrated for our fellow loser mate. Ended up in some Jap restaurant in Wisma, but it was really ALOT of fun. Maybe because we spent most of our time embarrassing ourselves and laughing ourselves silly. For one, i screamed when i dropped my 95cents sushi on the table (excluding gst) and it was kinda .. abit loud, so it got most of the people in the restaurant staring at us (specifically liane and dj cos i was back facing the rest =P) and liane laughed till she cried and rubbed off all her eyeshadow (: see, free make up removal by leepeishan the babe. AHH, i mean princesspeishan (it alliterates!)

We then started to share what was the most interesting and fulfilling thing that we did during the week, and it ended sounding like a group therapy thingy 'cos we clapped after everyone's speech (oblivious to the stares from the public). And these are what the losers did:

1. DJ: She threw grenades. (And didnt die. DARN it.)

2. Liane: She completed 4 books ... during work.

3. Huien: ERMS, i forgot. This is how significant it is.

4. Peishan: I started work ... finally. No longer jobless (:

5. Yuhning: She turned 19. (afterall, its her b'day) and She lost weight. (I'm jealous.)

6. Prisc: She didnt trip (WOW!). She tutored kids (and didn't kill them). Someone thought she was pretty (He must have been blind. Or physically impaired.)

I'm proud of my loser clique.