Days of my Life

Today’s the first time I see lots of people in the call center. You know? It’s something like a mobilisation where everyone report back to camp? Yes! The call center was packed. The Service Level today couldn’t been better. Everyone managed to take a breather. Unlike the past few days, where u picked up call after call, non-stop. I was doing nothing for close to 10 minutes, and that moment of peace was of course, interrupted by yet another lame call.

I missed the days in LDS at Paya Lebar. It’s really a honeymoon period. I especially missed the Yong Tau Foo, which is not only cheap but good at the same time. Now? There are only 2 stalls to choose from. The Chinese one closes at around 2 pm, which means after that you can either choose to have the Muslim food, or you can also choose to have, Muslim food!

I’m getting sick of the food. Therefore, I make it a point to pack my own food. My favorite French Loaf from a nearby bakery.

This is quite an unhealthy job in some sense. Most of the time, your butt be glue to the seat. Meal break is only 45 mins, which means you won’t have time for ‘digestion’ of food. And in my own opinion, the food is really unhealthy. I’m surprised no one KO from DVT yet.

3 more days to Kenny Rodgers!

I told Shirmaine that today. That crazy woman replied me ‘You just can’t wait to see me!’

I replied her that it’s coz of Zhi Hao that I even bothered to turn up! I’m not about to let her have the last laugh ( Cheap Thrill )

Ivy suddenly dropped by my seat the other day and said, “You know?”

I immediately turned around to give her my undivided attention.

“Francis thought that you and Jia Yun are together?”

My jaw dropped. I quickly replied, “No! How come? We aren’t together! Look like meh?”

“Yar! I know! I told him no!”

I turned back to my computer, thinking that how did Ivy know? As far as I know, neither Jia Yun nor I are her ‘BFF’.

So, how did she know?

… Or are all Singles ‘blessed’ with a kind of ‘I’m not attached’ look that only women and gays knows?

“Is there anyway you can track down where the handphone owner is?” someone asked anxiously.

Still thinking whether is it possible and not wanting to reject him without even trying, I replied “I can try, but may I know how are you related to him, Sir?”

” He’s my brother…”

“Okay…”

” And he sent me an sms saying he’s going to commit suicide!”

Oh!

And you know how when you are in a state of shock, you will tend to say the stupidest thing? Well, I did! I actually offered to call his brother when I knew that the handphone must had been switched off already. I quickly approached one of the TM for advise. She, in turn, gave me the kangaroo look and said, “He should call the police instead!”

And I always thought that unless someone is missing for 24 hrs, else the police won’t take action. (Too much of HK drama )

Received an email with the heading, ‘ FAREWELL ‘ from Eliza today.

I double-clicked on the email, thinking that it’s a sucide message. Ended up, I only saw 2 lines with 4 words.

Testing Testing

Exam Exam

Good! And what the hell is that? I replied her with the following…

Huh?

How come your heading is Farewell..

But write testing testing, exam exam?

Ah Lian! You ho seh boh?

Too traumatized by the ‘brother’ picture you see ytd isit?

I can’t wait for our next drinking session. I missed drinking with her and kenneth.

I’ve yet to try anything from the famous Fura’s Kitchen. Fura is one of the TM and I heard that she’s a great cook. She will sell her home-cook porridge/nasi lemak to the mass in the call center. Due to the fact that I’m working strange shift, I haven’t try a single of her legendary yet!

I sat at the back today, with Fura facing me. Halfway through the day, she suddenly told me about the good old days where Pagers are the ‘IT’ thing. She said, “And you know when we were doing paging service?” I shook my head while she continued, “We’d got customer leaving the strangest message, like “Hi Darling! I miss you! Can’t wait to make love to you tonight…”

I went into a laughing fit. The best part was when she told me that she actually had to repeat the message after the customer just to make sure that it’s right.

Eliza emailed me the other day, telling me that she had just helped a customer to see why he couldn’t send out a picture message. Upon retrieving the photo, she got a shock of her life. The picture is actually the customer pe**s.

I asked her did the customer gave her a grin with a wink.

She said no, but the customer did pushed the blame to the ‘girlfriend’.

Haha… Happy Dayz~~

Just when I thought I’d met the weirdest people in the world, I was wrong.

Someone asked, “How do download a Bible into the hand phone!”

Seriously, I really don’t know. And I don’t think the handphone’s memory is big enough to contain the whole Bible -_-”

However, she said, ” I saw someone having it in their hand phone!”

Why not ask that ’someone’ instead?

Haha… Which brings us back to square 1. Weirdest people!

1930

MiWorld Building

Level 1, Cafeteria

While I was enjoying my French Loaf spread with Kaya/Butter, Cheese and Fried Dory Fish, Maine called. It was one of those whining session. Not that I really enjoyed it but it’d been a long time since she last did a ‘Moaning Myrtle’.

She’s sort of predictable. Just by listening to her tone, and the way she asks you ‘What are you doing?’, you can tell whether is it a ‘ there’s a new cute guy in my office ‘ sort of call or ‘ I hate that BITCH! ‘ sort of call. As usual, the first thing that I asked, “Shouldn’t you be calling your boyfriend? Desmond?”

“No mah! Sometimes got things cannot share with boyfriend one!”

“What about your girls?” I pressed on. She has a close group of gal pal since Secondary School days. “Or am I the last on the list again? Like you try calling them and they didn’t picked up! So you think it’s time to call Tan Kee Lin?”

“Haha… Actually you are the 3rd! I tried calling Ash and Angela!”

… That Bitch! Just as I’d expected!

Luckily I’d finished my dinner. I’d predicted that it’s going to take quite awhile, therefore I made a signal and mouthed to Jia Yun to go up first, while I continued the rest of the conversation in the cafeteria.

Before hanging up, she asked me to be online the next morning, ‘to be there for her’ ! I made a mental note not to.

1940

MiWorld Building,

Level 3, Call Center

My meal break is 45 minutes, therefore I still have till 8pm to rot. As soon as I stepped into the call center, I turned my head to take a look at the ‘Customer Awaiting List’. My legs almost gave way. 20 people on the holding list. I couldn’t help but to think, ‘is it just so difficult to use a cell? That you have to call?’

… On the other hand, without these people, I’m without a job. Just as I was getting comfortable in my seat, my cell rang again. As soon as I picked up, Maine said, ” I haven’t rant finish!’

Not wanting to incur her wrath, and feeling the need to do it for traditional sake, I gave an inaudible sigh and told her, “Okay! Continue!” as I made my way out to the staircase.

“I can’t help but feel this way! You know how stupid we can think about things?”

“Hey! Hey! What we? We are different! You are you! I am I!” I defended myself. I’m not about to fall into the same category with her.

“HAH! That’s because you don’t have a girlfriend! What till you are at my level!” She snapped. Ouch! Just what I need! A reminder telling me that I still 23+ single!

We are both in the Virgo Clan. Therefore, we shared some of the best and worst traits of a Virgo. Like it will take us a million of years to decide on getting something ( most of the times we end up not getting it ), HOWEVER, I don’t see us taking million of years to decide whether to put that sinful food into our mouth or not!

“By the way, I’ve a Saint James Membership card! We can go there someday!”

“How come? But St James is quite ex leh!”

“With me, it’s free!  I can bring you all in!”

“Yar right! You don’t even club remember?” I reminded her. What a waste! A membership card for someone who don’t even enjoy clubbing.

Again, she has to be a bimbo by saying, “I can pass you my card! Then you can go!”

“Do I look like Shirmaine Seow now? I don’t even have a double chin loh !” And I always thought that the card holder must be present as the door bitch will look at the card and give the person a once-over, deciding whether the person is, in fact, the card holder them-self.

26th (pay-day) is approaching.

30th ( Poly-Gathering) is approaching

1st (MPH sale) is also approaching.

I have all reasons to be happy

I was walking around in NTUCyesterday. Spaghetti and the various sauces are going on a discount. I was tempted to get it as Pasta happens to be my favorite. Rather then spending $10 odds at Pasta-mania for my favorite indulge, I might as well D.I.Y. 

Thing is… I ain’t a pro and at the same time, it’s kinda boring to go through the whole hog and enjoy it myself. I be planning a cousin’s gathering at my home anytime now~~

I’d already thought of the menu.

1) Garlic Bread

2) Spaghetti with Carbonara

3) Top that up with either mushroom/minced meat/hot dog

4) Should I add in Clam Chowder soup?

5) lotsa Doritos

And a lame classic movie for a good laugh…

I’ll need to ask Aunt Serena to help get the Cheese Dips.

Gramp’s maid, Lina, went back to Jarkata for a 15 days stay yesterday. Eldest Uncle had tasked Small Uncle to drive her to the airport. However, the arrow was deflected and pointed at my direction instead. What luck! Ended up, Ivan and I had to drove her there.

Oh Yeah!

Oh Yeah!

Oh Yeah!

5 more days to pay day!

9 more days to Poly-mats gathering @ Suntec, Kenny Rodgers!

I’m really looking forward to that. Had been a long time since I saw Zhi Hao, Regina and Lifen. Nowadays, with everyone in the working world, it’s just so hard to meet up. The only time that you can count on is when you bump into each other by luck, in the streets.

Shit! MY had fly me and watched The Forbidden Kingdom with his friends. I think I’ll either just ask WL to ‘hiong’ a copy out from JB or put my faith in PPS live.

An old hag hit a high note on me yesterday. I addressed her as ‘Mdm Tan’ as stated in her profile, she went livid and asked me why am I calling her Mdm Tan. That she’s not Mdm Tan and to call her ‘Miss Tan’ instead, when she’s born in 1969.

As soon as I hung up, I complained to Jia Yun, “THAT OLD VIRGIN!”. Really! What Mum’s said is true! A woman, over 30 and still a Miss, is cranky up there!

Fearing that WL might not be free next week, I asked him out for dinner. It’s his birthday next week. I knocked off at 6pm, and he told me to meet around 6 plus to 7. Which he eventually turned up at 9.

I went over to Qiu Li’s home to rot in the meantime. It had been years since I last stepped into her home. The first time was the most memorable one. We were planning to go queue for NDP tickets. The meet up was at her home. Along the way there, I slipped and fell. Had to go up her home to clean the wound. Her brilliant eldest sister passed me ‘Zumbak’. You know? The one that you use to apply on and rub with when you have contusion? AND told me that it will works, confidently.

… … … There’s pus in my wound the next morning -_-”

Anyway, QL told me that it’s the 8th floor. Trusting my sense of direction, I knocked on the door which I though should be the one. FUCK! It was the wrong one. I was mortified. I called her again and made a detour.

“Hey where is your house? Since when you moved house?”

“Where are you? I’d always been living in the same flat!” She said.

Oops! I finally found her home. It was rather easy to miss as her mother had took it on her own, and changed the unit no. She had re-arranged them into an auspicious looking number which read, 3818. I asked QL whether is it an offence to do such a thing. She reassured me that it’s fine and they had been doing it for years. The person living a few floors below them had even sort of copied them.

Halfway through watching ‘Liao Zhai’, Auntie Koh returned. It’d been a long time since I last saw her. She had slimmed down due to her ‘conversion’ to vegetarian. She reminded me of my Paternal Eldest Aunt though. The things that they said is somewhat similar. We chatted non-stop for like an hour and a half.

It was also only yesterday that I’d gotten to know QL’s dad. He had passed away in 1994. However, they had taken the pictures of the funeral, which is like a surprise to me. As I’d always thought that it a Taboo thing.  Auntie Koh is one strong lady. She had manged to brought up 4 girls on her own. When her husband passed away, the eldest daughter was only 13 and the youngest was just 6. Hats off to her!

After like a million years, bleedy WL finally called. We went to out old haunt, Different Tast, for dinner. They served the best egg and chicken curry.

After 3 days of night shifts and a day off, I’m finally back to morning. I’d to practically dragged myself out of bed today. Somehow, after waking up for a pee @ 230 in the wee, I can’t seem to get back to sleep. I shall ban myself from drinking soya milk before bed, starting from today.

Eddie’s new fishes had reported for work on Wednesday night. New fishes as in the new birds. I shared the cab home with 2 of the newbies, Randall and Nurul. Initially, I thought that they are U21. The shock came when they told me that they are 23 and 22 respectively. What did they do to help maintain their youth? Bird’s Nest as dessert? Praying to the moon?

Apparently, Jason hasn’t really tendered. Bible College ain’t due till August. Nat was the one who provided the info.At least Rebecca’s effort isn’t flush down the drain.

I was on the line with an old fart in the noon. The conversation got so draggy that I smsed Cuiling to chat. A couple of sms later, she said, ‘Please tell me that he kup already’. Thankfully, he did. I really hate talking to the older generation on the phone. If we are face to face, I can still show them brochures and guide them through. If they are on the line, like what a colleague, Zeenah, had once told me, it’s like talking to an alien.

This morning, I browsed through my collection of CDs and VCDs. After that, I pulled out those that are ‘outdated’ and packed them into a plastic bag. I sold them at Cash Converter later in the day, for $23.50.

I was still lazing my arse around when I heard the vibration of my cell. It was Frank Oh. Just yesterday, we were still talking about ‘to meet up for a quickie’ and TODAY, he called. What a surprise! He asked me what I’m to do, and I replied that I was waiting for the sun to come out, so I can go for a swim. I heard him took a sharp intake of breath at the other end. We agreed to meet at West Mall.

Upon seeing me, he said, “Wow! Tanning! The KL that I know would stay under an umbrella!”

-_-” I was like, since when I earned a living in Geylang!

He hasn’t changed one bit. I gave him a once-over. Still the same old metrosexual him.

While waiting for our turn at KFC, I asked him, “Where you get your shoes (white) from? Pedro?” He gave me a nod. Later on, he told me that his Polo-T is from Zara which he got it from a cheap sale. $30 only. What a steal! I went on and asked him about the brand of his bag. To my surprise, he told me that it’s a freebie from those ‘newly sign up’ sort of thing. Even a cheap bag look expensive on the right person. Haha…

Harvard had accepted him. THE Harvard. However, due to some personal issue, he won’t be going. NUS must be blind to reject  Harvard accepted.

Though I’m not utilising my Diploma, somehow, I feel safe with it. It makes a lot of difference in the worl d out there.

Cuiling’s BF had finally returned from Taiwan, Oversea Training. Out of Kay Poh, I asked her via sms whether was the ‘homecoming’ tearful at the airport. She replied, saying that it was long ( Okay! What’s long? ). Her BF had to find his barang and it took like another hour for her to find him.

Actually, it’s worth the wait. Because she added that he had gotten her ‘3 pink’. A top, a cap and a ‘I-forgot-what’s-the-last-one’ all from Gucci. She ended the sms with, ‘Envy Me!’

I replied her with, ‘Too bad I ain’t gay!’

Good for her! Seems like this is a relationship where she’ll be able to find more happiness then sadness.

You Go Gal~~

Jason had tendered. He was offered a place in Bible College ( Where’s that? ) by his pastor. He ended our shock with a even bigger shock by saying, “It’s God’s Calling!”

Nat, Jia Yun and I looked at one another. I bet we are thinking about the same thing. Just the 3 f us left, first it’s Rac leaving saying that it’s too stress and now it’s Jason’s turn saying that it’s God’s calling. Well, all the best to him.

I wonder how will Rebecca react when she hears the news. After all, she’s the one in charge of ‘grooming’ us. 3 weeks of whole-heartedly effort flushed down the porcelain bowl.