Sweetest goodbye?

Not really.

Supposed to start packing abit at 6pm, but dammit, the construction people came so early! They came in like 2pm or something, I don't remember, and when they see that we're starting to pack, they start to dismantle the store!

Roar! They totally spoil the revenue for the two to three hours they've started knocking out the walls and stuff like that.

Nevermind they start knocking down the walls know, they started to take down the VCDs/DVDs, interrupting the sequence of the titles! I mean, we gotta pack it nicely, at least in alphabetical order so it's easier to unpack. But they gave us more work.

We had to hurry and hurry and even though we expected to finish at most by 3am, we finished by 11pm.

Damn, they're supposed to start knocking down the walls at 10pm but by 10.34pm, the store had already become like that:

Maybe you'll say, chey, not alot what. BUT you see those black lines on the orange walls? Supposedly there's metal thingy nailed to it. The workers have to first dismantle the shelves for the VCDs/DVDs, dismantle the poster lighted board thingy, unscrew the metal thingy, and then knock down the walls.

That's right. We lost alot of revenue cos when customers asked for some titles, we couldn't produce it cos it's already packed.

Nevermind.

They smoke in the store know!

I know it's normal for construction people to smoke in the place they're working at, but they kept smoking and smoking! Customers already complain we have moldy/mouldy (?) smell in our air con system :/

Now for the cute part: Lucius came!

And frankly, today was the first time I saw him smile so widely?

He's so cute lah. I was packing and he was there looking at us packing, I walked to him and asked "Lucius, do you want to help?"

"No, thanks", said Lucius.

But when his mum saw him so curious, she asked if she want to help, he went like "Yes! I want to help!"

Then he followed me to gather instructions to pack.

He was able to understand my instructions after one minute :D Brilliant boy.

When told to pass the discs with VE papers to Angela, and totally blank ones to me, Lucius did accordingly and helped till he finished the first three levels of disc which he can reach.

When I'm still packing the upper shelves, he asked "What can I help now?".

So I told him, it's okay already cos he's not tall enough to reach to the top.

"Nevermind! I'll ask my dad to carry me!"

Then he got his dad to carry him but his dad was busy at the counter so he just carried him at the counter.

I was busy packing and I back-faced him, then my butt hit someone.

I turned around thinking: Oh no, who did I hit with my butt?

I then saw Lucius walking towards his mum and dad and then smiled widely.

Probably cos everyone is so busy and when he got near me he got hit by my butt and he found it amusing? I don't know.

But he damn cute :D

I bet Angela love him too.

He kept wanting to help but they had to go liao.

Love him to bits man.

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Goodbye, the oh-so-familiar VE KAP where I started working at.

I'll miss the carpet flooring (if they decided to completely remove it but not replacing it with new ones)

I'll miss the oh-so-lousy sound system and oh-so-pathetic little TVs with have in store. (although I heard they might put in two [plasma?] LCD TVs for us)

I'll miss the unique counter which no other outlets have.

I'll miss the broken hatch cupboard doors behind the counter.

I'll miss having to bend down while serving customers cos the tables are too low (though I hate that)

I'll miss the storeroom cos they're removing it completely; they decided to take away out little private area in the storeroom during our breaks, the place where we can get so comfy in..

I'll miss the orange walls if they decided to change it to blue since all other stores are blue-based. I personally preferred orange cos it's bright and happy, makes me happy there too.

I'll miss the big counter which we can fit up to ten people, all squeezed together (though we never tried that before but the new counter gonna be able to fit a few people only? I don't know.)

Basically, I'll miss the old KAP.

Goodbye, the oh-so-familiar KAP.

A little gesture

This little boy who sat in front of me in the bus today resembles very much like Samuel. His built, his complexion, his cheeks, his eyes.. everything's the same except for the hair..

Reminds me of the "ah pui 叫姐姐" extreme cuteness of Samuel.

The little boy looked at me a handful of times.

I smiled at him.

He bashfully looked away.

He is a very curious boy, observing the surroundings quietly while his elder sister (at least ten years older) fell asleep beside him.

Before he recognize the place to alight soon, he hurriedly got into his sister's arms, getting ready to press the bell behind his sister.

He alighted with his mum and his sister.. I awed at the fact that how nice it is to have a younger four year old brother to look after.

I kept looking at him, even though he's already outside.

He saw me looking at him.

He waved goodbye to me.

I waved back.

I smiled throughout the rest of my journey. I smiled at his sweetness.

He made my day.

Kan Cheong Lah

Sian. I don't like the feeling of having to feel nervous all over again. If Ms Loo did not vomit on Tuesday, I would have rejoiced at the fact that I'm over and done with.

Hell, I'm not feeling very well. Mardiana is having her VIVA over at next door and I'm having mine after hers. Yesterday I had gastric pains on my way home from Chen's house and I was praying my stomach won't reject food when I reached home: I gotta eat my dinner.

Yeap, it did not reject food but when it's 3am and I'm going to sleep, I went to brush my teeth.

Brush, brush, brush, brush, brush..

*VOMITS*

Out comes my stomach acid (I think, cos it tasted sour) from my mouth.

Just half an hour away from my presentation and I'm nervous as hell. So nervous my stomach start to ache and stuff. ROAR.

I'm Rain's Baby

Time for me to do some updates with images.

I shall start with the latest event that had took placed on 21st January.

21st January 2007

RAIN's CONCERT!

Had been anticipating this day since year 2006 and it finally came! Was very worried about Rain because he injured himself during the HK concert. He was hurting so badly he couldn't even continue dancing.

Nonetheless, the concert wasn't canceled and he really did a superb job during the concert!

Rain is so so so so so so cute lah! And irresistibly sweet. I'm not saying this concert costs a bomb, I'm saying this cos he is seriously so nice :)

There's this part he went like "I've always wanted to say this to my girlfriend but I never got the chance to: You're my baby. From tonight, all of you are my babies.."

"My babies, the next song is for you!"

SO SWEET CAN!

I know I know, I'm sharing Rain with 248576353049584 other people but he's so sweet.

BTW, he speaks good English, in case any of you is wondering.

Also, there's this part which he was back facing us, while "kissing" one of the female dancers. Of cos crazy fans (I'm not afraid to admit) went totally crazy cos *(^%*&$%#*(#*% how can he kiss her?! Then Rain cheekily turn back and showed us the "jealous-right" face. Cannot stand his cuteness lor!

I thought he had fully recovered from his injury but NO, he actually still hurts from it, yet he still break dance for us! You know, he did hand stand or some sort, which after that, his right hand went to felt his left arm, cos it was hurting...

Definitely very heart aching :/

Anyway, here are some good photos from the concert taken by my humble 2.0megapixel Sony Ericsson k750i:



A photo "with" Rain before the concert.



The huge stage with many screens.



I can't remember which song this was but anyway, it's part of the concert.



The part where "rain" falls on Rain for the emotional song he sang. I know this photo quality is :/



Drunken fist dance. CUTE!



One of the very last parts with the wings like his Rain's World album cover. It's innovative for them to use the screens as the wings rather than making wings.

I enjoyed the concert thoroughly :) Many thanks to VE people who fork out the money to top up the rest of the concert ticket for my birthday :D Love you people!

13th January 2007

Chen Chen's birthday! Anyway, 6th Stories went out to hunt for our heels for VIVA. Didn't really celebrate for Chen but hope she's not disappointed since it's her 20th birthday. She had our company though :P

Ate Muthu's Curry for lunch! Know why we even went in? Wenna said when she walked past that restaurant last time, she felt I'll like it. But anyway, the reason to why we went in is simple: if the curry is not good enough, the boss wouldn't even have opened a Curry restaurant, so we went in.

I think the food is NICE! Furthermore, I think they earn quite alot? They take orders using PDA leh!





I simply love their mango juice, very rich in mango and not too sweet!

We ate this dessert which milk dumplings are fried and then placed in syrup. Sounds sweet right? INDEED. When it came, I just split the milk dumpling into half (like still a spoonful) and pop it in my mouth..

!!!!! It was terribly sweet that I wrinkled my face!



I love their spoon too! Not too big, not too small, and the curves of the spoon are made nicely that my mouth felt pampered when using it :X

After that, I went to meet my secondary school clique for the alumni band concert. The concert wasn't very well done but the most pissed off part was some people just don't understand the word: FREE SEATING.

My clique arrived late for the concert and only found three seats when there's five of us, so two sat on the stairs instead. When it's interval, obviously we try to find better seats which we can sit together right?

I mean, it's free seating what..

So I saw this empty row before I went to toilet and my clique occupied it.

Horror horror, the people who previously sat on the seats came back.

Nevermind, free seating, just ignore them.

"Excuse me, we were sitting here previously, can we have our seats back?"

That guy kept talking to us, then Peng went like "free seating."

"She said it's free seating that's why they're here", says the guy to his friend.

Dumbly, he asked us "Were you guys from downstairs?"

Meaning if we went up to occupy the better and more expensive seats..

WTF man.

Nevermind, we continued to ignore him.

"Do you mind we have our seats back?"

"Do you mind?"

"Do you mind?"

He kept saying that.

So irritating.

Zi Qian was so afraid we offend them she went like "hey.. you all wanna go?"

Then we had to let go of the seats.

Darn, if we had been persistent, we would have gotten nice and comfy seats cos the interval ends one minute after we left the seats.

We went back to our original seats and this middle aged usher came saying nobody can sit at the stairs cos of the fire exit.

FUNNY. Like we wouldn't run when there's fire like that.

He didn't even help to allocate seats for Peng and Shu Mei so the both of them went out of the concert hall.

Thanks arh. Our beautiful evening spoilt.

Anyway, it's so funny how some photos can bring back laughter to you..

Look at this photo.



Okay, the main focus of the photo isn't the beansprout-like mayonnaise on my burger which I was going to enjoy, it's the story behind it.

As usual, I ordered plain McSpicy because I don't like raw cabbage. So, I tried to squeeze mayonnaise on my burger like I always do, but this time, I tried to squeeze it out from the superbly small hole I managed to make out of the packet.

Needless to say, there was flying mayonnaise and it landed on Silvirin's shirt!



I tell you, there was more mayonnaise on her shirt than on my burger can!

And plenty of laughter after that :P

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BTW, please pray hard for me that Ms Susie Loo won't vomit again before my VIVA this Friday :/

"and you better stop eating MAC.."

"..cos everytime I come, you always eat that", says a regular male customer of my age.

Argh.....

It just happens that when he visits and when I'm working that day, I happen to eat MAC ah.

That customer is very health conscious and he thinks MAC is very very unhealthy.

He caught me take away MAC when I enter the store and he was inside.

"and you've been MIA for quite some time."

!!!!!!!!!!

This means, it's just so coincident that he visits today and I'm working and happen to eat MAC and let him see!

ROAR.

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Agus: So, Kai Ling, is your VIVA over?

Kai Ling: (-_-; inside her heart) Nope.

Agus: OH YA HOR! Your VIVA is next week and I'm your second marker!

Totally -_-;

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ME: "Er, do you want to get another 3 catalogue DVDs because it's Wednesday special and you can rent 5 CAT DVDs for $20.."

Customer: "Actually nevermind, cos I don't have any more shows in mind. Maybe you want to recommend me some?"

ME: "Hmmmm.. Maybe next time?"

Ida: (bursts into laughter) "How can you say that to him?!"

ME: "We busy mah..." (thinks of the new stocks that came and haven't keyed in)

Thank god that customer didn't mind me saying that, cos supposedly he should be the one saying maybe next time if I were to tell him I could recommend some..

After a day's work

Tired.

After carrying boxes of DVDs from the storeroom to the store, unpacking and packing them for returns.

Tired.

After finish packing the DVDs, still gotta do those new release shows.

Tired.

Will continue to be tired the next few days.

Tired.

Because I'm helping out the Open House just to complete 8 more CCA points to at least get a bronze.

Tired.

I should be switching to full time during March.

Tired.

Someone please offer me a higher pay but less work job.

Tired.

Time to relax first

Went for mahjong session at Kai Ling's crib today. First time play with Chen Chen.

My luck was not bad leh, but I didn't dare to go higher. I won quite alot in the first round when we played 10c/20c, then Lewis wanted to play 20c/40c but I don't want cos I know if I win alot first, I will definitely lose more at the end, and vice versa.

But in the end, I won the most.

ANYWAY, let me show you my very nice tiles which I won for both rounds.



See that set of animals?! FULL HOUSE leh! That's damn lucky. Already so full liao yet I had whiteboard, and half-color!

Which is like eight tais liao.

And another..



Ping hu.

I know nothing much cos everybody had won lidat before but please take closer look..

678 678 678 678 44

How rare is that?

HEHE.

9th January 2007

I went for work at VE Jurong West.

You know, I suspect the people at JW loves BIG stuff.

Their calculators are sooooo big.



And recently, their phone spoil too.



Their new phone is also so big lah! I mean the number pad. It's such a hassle to dial one number after one another cos your finger have to go another distance just to finish dialing!

Anyway, remember Singapore Idol Season Two COWBOY?

I mean one of the guys who's memorable enough like the first season's Banana Man.

Well, he is one of the customers at JW and I heard he's weird? Or maybe mentality low?

He kept borrowing this movie, you know.



So nice arh?

BTW, if I'm him, I believe I'll burn the whole disc.

Then again, he might not know or might not have the device to burn.

8th January 2007

REPORT SUBMITTED!!



VIVA schedule out! Agus is my second marker!



I hope he's not too mad about me forgetting the Mr. at the beginning of his name.

Must relax abit now lah.

Abit of sore throat due to KFC the day before.

TEEHEEHEE. 6th Storeys went shopping at Vivocity for formal wear and had fun! It's been a longgggggggggg time since I went shopping :)

7th January 2007

Went to Chen Chen's house to print our report. We've got a clan name: 6th Storeys!

It happens that me, Kai Ling, Wenna and Chen Chen all live on the 6th floor. Heh. Hence the name.

Spent $160 on ink and we printed sooooooo much!



Geez. Scary. But it's cheap lah. Around $35/person for two coloured sets :)

It'll be over soon..

Reports are dead boring!

But of cos, I'll still have to finish it.

I can't believe my first blog entry of 2007 is actually about report.

Anyway, I'm left with last three parts of the report and I'm here blogging not cos I have confident I can finish the last three parts fast but it's quite sian to see my blog dying on 2006 recaps. I just gotta do something about it.

My viva falls on a 23rd, and it's on a Tuesday! I love tuesdays :)

What's left to do after the completion of the report is to adjust the resolution of our final video, make a process video and prepare a powerpoint presentation!

Oh dear, I just realised that's quite alot to do also leh. SIAN.

Guess where's the venue of my presention?

INCUBATION LAB.

That's such a weird location.

GOOD LUCK TO THOSE STILL CHIONGING PROJECTS/REPORTS! SOON IT'LL BE OVER! SOON~!