Mervyn’s Party

Remember the day where me and my primary school friends went to town to buy our friend a present? I didnt snap the gift itself, but the paper bag it was in looked pretty pricey. :D

Saturday was his party, it was not a big party. I thought I could go and get inspired for my own 21st, but his party was way too small.

It was fun meeting up with my old school friends as well. We chatted about the past and our plans for the future. Many of our classmates have drifted apart and I’m happy we stayed.

Birthday boy is the guy with that Fitch NY shirt.

One of my primary school friends that I’m excited to meet is him. We were just friends, but in our class, both of us were close because of our love for books. He pretty much changed, from the bookworm to someone (idk..) cool? I’m still the same, heh!

I remember the time when he wanted to read Harry Potter, so I brought my big ass HP book to school. We were in class, going to exchange our books when our teacher caught us. Memories~

Well, I’m glad I met them and I hope we’ll have more outings in the near future. :)

Stirring up old musical feelings

I just downloaded shit load, actually 7, of Avril Lavigne’s music! She was like the first singer I listened to. And I miss listening to her so much. I can totally imagine me younger, smiling weirdly (I can’t smile last time) and just listening to her.

Avril Lavigne is always singing some heart break song, and at that time I had like 0 experience/interest in relationships. Maybe what I visioned was some scenes from television dramas.  I was so into dramas last time. Huan Zhu Ge Ge, anyone?

Today, I really wanted to be a good sister and tutor my sister. I came home and did tutor her for like 30 minutes and got real distracted. In a good way of course! Ah ma was forever nagging me to clean my store room, and I was like “Okay whatever, I’ll go clean it up.” And before I know it, I was pilling like hoards of rubbish into bags. It’s not my fault that I’m a packrat and probably my whole family is. Maybe you could blame it at the fact we have no storage system in my house? :D If I have loads of money, I’ll buy many Tupperware and tupperware my whole house.

Anyway, like I was saying, I was pilling hoards of rubbish. And Joyanna comes in to pitch in her help. And she too was cleaning up my storeroom and helping by moving the rubbish bags to the living room. Then (which is a good thing) Sharon comes in to help.

So it was a funny scene with all 3 sisters squeezing in the tiny storeroom to throwing random stuffs from 3-4 years ago into rubbish bags. There was one moment where I had to triple bag a rubbish bag because it keeps tearing!

I’m not one who perspire easily but Joyanna do, and at the end of the day, the back of her shirt was soaked! Poor girl, she just bathed too.

I like today. :) Cleared the whole storeroom, moved my father’s bicycle in it too. I also went to the market and bought lots of fruits home. And took Joyanna’s passport photo with this IC Photo iphone application.

Pink popcorns!

Yesterday I went out with my primary school friends as Mervyn’s birthday is coming up! It feels so good to finally go out with real friends. I thought I was not close with them in school but I was wrong when Cindy dug out a piece of her diary talking about us organizing a study group in school! *tears* I still have friends.

You know I dont really have much friends ever since I started dating 6 years ago. =/

In any case, I’m glad I reconnected with my primary school friends! We went to town yesterday and walked all day before deciding on a Tommy Hilfiger polo. We actually wanted to get him a Manhattan Portage bag, which we thought was the perfect gift, but after stalking his facebook photos, we found out he already owns one. Oh well!

After getting the present, we decided to walk around. As Valentine’s is coming in like 2 days (have you prepared a gift? I havent!), there was this display outside 313. And we decided to take a group shot!

We then walked around Orchard Central. And there was a booth giving out free pink popcorns! You know how I’m a sucker for free stuffs. :P Hehe, check out my pink popcorns! You can’t see it, but its pink. And check out my stitch iphone cover!

Hehe, I love that day and did not want to ruin it by going back home. So after my friends went back, I went to find my sister at Cine. She was selling candies at Softie-in-my-Lolly. I’m not a big fan of candies. Hello cavities? But I bought a packet of peach flavored lolly from her. Although I know that I cant afford to do that. :-( I think for this month, I’ll have to borrow about 100$ from my grandmother to last. After paying my school fees, I don’t have any money left. u^u

Anyway, there was this bunch of guys hovering around my sister’s workplace. And I’m like a little pissed because there was this bunch of guys and just my sister flirting around with them. >:( I have my flirtatious moments so I’m not going to talk about my sister’s. But the guys are just too much! Futhermore after work, my sister was going to hang out with them. :(

Why can’t I?

Why can’t I use your computer? It’s so unfair! Not happy.
So I was at my boyfriend’s house chill-laxing when he decided to take a nap. And I was like “Could you on your computer screen for me (it was connected to his TV at that time) ? And I’ll play while you sleep”. And he was like “No“.

Why not? His computer is basically just running in the background doing nothing, and I can’t play? It’s so unfair. In the end, I had to play my iPhone games with its puny screen when there is this big ass computer (thats already being switched on) sitting idly.

Early this afternoon, when I was napping, he was playing his computer. I’m not going to say he have no rights to his computer, but still.. Why is he allowed a better privilege than I do?

There is 2 reason which I think might be the reason:

  1. He was defraging his computer.
  2. He don’t like it when I immersed myself into my online life

But I’m going with the latter (had to google that phrase up before I used it. hehe). He doesn’t like my interest, probably why years back, he somehow manipulate me into choosing a course I didn’t like which ended up in me dropping out and wasting 3 years of my life and money. I still blame him for it, he thinks he did no wrong though. *rolls eyes*

Well Mr, do not blame me when I have a secret online life.

I’m not going to rant all day.

Remember the entry where I talked about not being respected?  I worked with Fion the next day and it was just awkward. She knew I was not happy with what she did and although I hate that silent awkwardness, I felt I should not initiate removing that awkward feeling between us. She did try though, she said hi, with a smile on her face. But my first thought was “Don’t you forget what you did yesterday”.

I did not want the same incident to happen again, so like a leader, I took charge and told her (with a very weak attempt; honestly, i was clenching my ass cheeks and toes in fear, and i was probably stuttering a little) that we should try my way of closing the shop. She was writing and didn’t look up while saying “okay”. That was rude, but I couldn’t care less. At least, we were doing closing my way and I told her what to do, like a real leader. I felt like I made the first step in learning how to be a leader.

Talking about leadership, I should probably remove “Leadership” in my resume.

Where is my respect?

Ugh! Who do she think she is?
I’m older, more senior (in rank) and definitely more wiser than her!

So yesterday, I did closing with this part-timer, Fion. And she was like this “know-it-all” girl all over the shop floor. Just like Aloy.

//Side Note: Aloy is the first person who is lower in rank and age, and bosses me around. He thinks he is always right and will do what he thinks is right. Whenever I encounter a person like this, I’ll go “He/She is so Aloy“.//

Anyway, about an hour before closing the shop, Fion wanted to do the settlement on both NETS and Visa machines. And I was like “No, you can’t do settlement before 10:00pm”. Then she gave that ‘you’re stupid’ face and said that she always do it like that and how the machines are going to get jammed later.

I ignored her. I know what and how I’m supposed to do my closing, okay? So don’t talk to me like you know better than me.

BUT, 30mins before the shop close, I heard my NETS and Visa machine being settled! I rushed to the machinese and lo! behold, she was there settling my machines! Doing my job! I was pissed, I asked Fion if she did it (I mean obviously she did it) and she said “Ya”.

Hello bitch? Didn’t you hear what I said?

My face turned. As in I can totally feel the blood draining from my face. I’m not one who scold people I don’t know very well. So I just had this angry face on and didn’t even talk to her for the rest of the day. I gave up. I told her once, she didn’t listen. What makes me think she’ll listen what I tell her to do later?

So all in all, she close shop 10 minutes early. Took out our till clearance (and opened them) early as well.

I just hope I can go back to Ion where everyone is friendly and respectful.
Fion, you just got listed in my black book.

Participating in the surprise party

Few days back, I participated in a surprise party for my colleague, Amin, who had to leave due to his NS(National Service) enlistment. I don’t know him that well, considering the fact that I just transferred in just over a month. However, Amin had already bonded with my existing colleagues as he had been working there for over a year!

It was weird since I don’t really know him, but no harm trying to be a good sport right?

There was 5 of us closing the shop that day, and all of us (excluding Amin) was like “Aw, I’m going to be sad when you leave.” But when in fact, everyone was waiting at Orchard Ion’s open space for him.

We even took photos together in the shop saying that how we can’t get a group “farewell” shot it was just us 5. (That’s me with the glasses!)

Amin was a lil’ sad, he did baked cheese cake for all us. Which I must add, tasted deeelicccious!

After closing the shop, Amin went out with some colleague for a “smoke break” when in fact it was a decoy to lure him to the party venue.

As soon as he came into view, there was everyone! shouting his name and smiling broadly.

Some waited for hours after their morning shifts till the time for the surprise party, while some personally went down to join. In any case, I’m sure Amin is pretty happy and touched.

2012 Chinese New Year

It was a love/hate relationship for this year’s CNY for me. Haha.
Love because for obvious reasons; you’ll be getting money!
Hate because I had to cut short my trip to Thailand. :-(

Chinese New Year was oookay. (You can’t complain when there is free money!) It was a time for family gatherings and stuffs but since I was celebrating with my boyfriend’s family, I was real awkward. I wasn’t close to any of them so I just sat around with my iPhone.

I had a group cousins shot in the first house I went. I was in fact actually standing, looking at them from a distance when one of my boyfriend’s aunty said to me “Go in the picture, you’re also a cousin.” Does that mean they accepted me as cousin-in-law? Hmm.

Me in the qibao. Please ignore the fact that I look pregnant. :-( I’m not, its just that the dress was unexpectedly protruding when I posed.

The dress is supposed to look like this. (picture taken before Thailand trip)

Took the above mentioned picture because I wanted to look for matching shoes while in Thailand. Couldn’t find anything though, so I had to wore my old pair of heels which I bought 2 years back. Also from Thailand, but worn less than 3 times?

During my CNY celebration, I had to go back to my workplace to get the shop key as I had to open the shop on the next day. Which was double pay(the second day of CNY), thats why I decided to work instead of getting more ang pows.

January is my rich month.

Trip back home.

So I went back to Chiang Mai, Thailand from 4Jan to 21Jan for 17 days. I love the life there, it’s carefree and easy unlike the business of the city.

The day I went back, the water stopped running, which was pretty funny because I had to bathe and all. Luckily, my family had stored water in this big container. I also remembered the times where we had to eat in the dark because the solar panels for our lights were spoilt. Or the fact that I had to watch my drama on my laptop 10mins at a time because there wasn’t enough electricity to charge it.

Yes, there is no electricity at my place. No water heater, no rice cooker, no nothing.

I didn’t take much pictures (who take pictures of their homes?) so I have little to offer, but this is what I have. :)

Highlights of the trip was going to the nearby Kindergarden (the next village) to celebrate Children’s Day. Unfortunately, it rained the night before and the ground was all slippery and wet. After walking on the path, your slippers would have like 1inch of soil underneath. Really heavy, haha.

There was volunteers from a university that helped organized the event.

Someone asked me to sing a song, and I sang “The ABC Song”. I said, “That’s how kids learn their ABCs in my country.”

There was games later on, and parents could join in the fun.

There was only one teacher in the school, and that’s Teacher Noi.

The other highlight was going to my cousin’s wedding. Her village was an hour away, and I had to go there as soon as I woke up. The journey was very, very cold.

Here is the bride! It’s been years since I last saw her.

And her younger sister.

Me and Surinchai, he’s a deaf-mute but he’s very hardworking. Everyone says he has a good heart.

Well, that’s about it! I got darker/tanner when I went back to Singapore. :(
My mum’s from the Karen hilltribe in Thailand, if you’re wondering. I can speak their language, Pgaz K’Nyau, pretty well, but I can’t speak Thai. Yikes!