Days of my Life

Sick for the past 2 days. Down with a very ‘Painful Fever’.

Definition of ‘Painful Fever’ -> High fever + Throbbing headache + Whole body ache, like the after effect of doing ‘chor kang’ ( Rough Work ) for the past 24 hours. A slight brush against my body could be really, very painful.

Worse, I was still at work when it hit me. Was complaining to a colleague, Lai Kwan, who was sitting beside me that I’m very cold and my whole body ache. And that woman actually told me without a hint of sympathy, “So fast, so old?” I managed to summon enough remaining strength to squint at her.

I managed to make it back home. Pop in 2 Panadols and slept through the night. Woke up at around 7 am. My mum’s first reaction upon seeing me was, ‘Your face is so red!’ I took a look at the mirror. True enough! It’s like the color of a baboon’s arse. Since it’s pay day, and the thought of having something like Mee Pok/Porridge for breakfast sicken me, I decided to pamper myself with a Hotcake with Sausage Meal from Mcdonalds. It’s at the same time, a very ‘light’ breakfast, suitable for the ’sick’ like me.

Tried to watch Forensic Heros 2, but still felt very tired. Since my shift starts at 3pm, I turned into bed at 9am again and clocked another 3 hours of sleep.

OH MY GOD! I spent 40 minutes talking to a psychotic guy yesterday. Things he said is rather contradicting. Claims that he and X is very good friend but things he told me was the exact opposite. Started talking about human rights and how he felt like he’s a bloody beggar, and how his dad chided him for losing his rights as a person ( huh? ). I seriously find it amusing that he’s in his 50s, yet still being fucked by his dad. I tried to end the conversation, to no avail. I manage to worm out of the situation eventually. *Phew*.

12:30 am

Just came back from the funeral. In another few hours time, I’ll be heading down to Yishun again to get ready for the final send off. Before leaving, one of the relatives asked my mum whether how many ‘Pink’ will be there for the final send off. My mum assured him that there’ll be at least one ( meaning me ).

Those who attended the Final Night ritual, and depending on your rank/genration’ will have to wear the various color code. I’m in the Pink category. For the first time in my life, I wore a Pink shirt. The largest size that they have there is Medium. Fuck! No XL! I was planning to go for the ‘relaxing’ look. Ended up I had to go for the ‘Tight-Fat’ look ( Should be Tight Fit! But I ain’t got firm pecs ).

It’s a Hokkien Style ritual, which also marks my first time attending one. I was expecting the ‘walk over the metal bridge’ part but well, that only applies to the Teochew Style. The lower portion of the joss sticks are of red color. It’s more like a celebration. Someone actually used a Digital Camera to take down the whole process.

I thought that the fact that they served Carlsberg over there is already a shock to me. I was wrong. They included Bak Gwa too. Which is like so ‘Chinese New Year’.

She was featured in the newspaper. My name wasn’t included in the obituary because there’s just so many names to be included. The name list ended with my Mum’s generation.

Nowadays, I felt that a funeral is like a Second Chinese New Year, meaning the only other time where you get to see the whole family ( even distant ones ) get together. Thankfully, for me, this one is more like a celebration. I really don’t need to attend another sad one this year.

Oh My God! This MTV is a classic. I was searching for the Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act version, but I stumble upon the original one by Martha & the Vandellas. And it’s in black and white somemore.

Now, for the Whoopi Goldberg version. I love this movie. Once in a while, it’s a very healthy thing to watch re-runs of funny old movies. Haha…

Called Weilong for a chat yesterday night. The current plan which I’m subscribing to right now is none other than the Sunsaver Plan. One of the benefits is that I’m able to make free local outgoing calls to 3 M1 friends. I’d only input 2 numbers though. One is Weilong and the other one is Ah Li. Thought to input Shirmaine’s number, but she’s a Starhub user. Cuiling, on the other hand, is more like a sms pal. We can really bitch via the SMS/MSN channel, but calling each other? No way! Haha…

He’s ( Weilong ) doing great at this new job currently. I had labelled him a ‘factory seller’, because that’s what he sort of really do. He complained that the job scope is getting boring and that he need a long break. Had asked me to go for a Cruise Trip. Hmmm… Maybe I need to take a break too..

-_-” Tell me about it! Talking about job scope getting boring. I happen to be doing almost the same thing everyday. Worse, yesterday an ‘ah chek’ started scolding the minute I picked up the phone. And I was ‘butter’ for the next 30 minutes.

I really appreciate/admire those subscriber who don’t make a single noise when enquring about their payments and bills. *Hat off*

Thankfully, I’m not those people who will sulk over a bad episode for the entire day. I don’t even take them home with me. ‘It’s over’, once I stepped foot out of that building. Anyway, tomorrow is still going to be a better day.

Woohoo~~

Elva’s album is out. The wait is finally over.

… Actually, it’s not over yet! I’m rather low in cash right now, therefore, will have to wait till my pay-day before I can actually get my hand on one of those. Beside, I’m not going to be a fool to get the album that early, because they will usually release a special edition about 1 month after the main release.

Hmm… Hopefully, the songs be as great as her previous one. To date, her 5th Chinese Album is still me favorite one.

Another to date info. I’ve never catch her live in person before. Whenever she’s in town to promote her album, it’s either I’m busy, or I didn’t even know it. Hopefully she will come to Singapore for promotion this year. It’ll be kinda crazy to ‘dump’ all her albums in front of her, for her to sign. Wahaha

Does hanging up the telephone means that you win the debate/argument? A bloody bitch hanged up on me today! Worse! I sort of slapped myself by happily saying goodbye to her when I’d already heard the cold ‘cluck’ sound on the other end of the line. What’s wrong with me anyway? Or just what the hell is wrong with her?

The new Gatsby commerical is really corny. I’d a great laugh out of it. What’s with Takuya Kimura and the spraying of deodorant over his whole body about anyway?

Question! Can one really derive that kind of great excitement/pleasure out of it? I’m toying with the idea of trying, but it’s kinda wasteful. I bet if I was to do it everyday, that can of deodorant will last me only for 1 week. Haha…

Currently, I’m enjoying this TVBI Drama Series. The title of the show is Forsenic Heroes 2. Dont ask me why I watched most of Part 2 already before I start myself with Part 1 -_-”

One of my colleague is quite exaggerating. She actually brought her lab top down to the cafe for lunch the other day, just to watch the show. I happened to be on the same table, managed to catch part of it. Fuck! One of the main actress died in the show. I heard from the others, it’s coz she’ll be busy with another TV show, that’s why they have to ‘kill’ her off. What a waste! This show is kind of like CSI in some sense.

It’s official! Charmaine and Yoyo had just joined the ranks of my favourite actress and models. A reshuffle of my current favorites. Sadly, Kenix Kwok is out of the list already.

1) Miranda Kerr

2) Jessica Alba

3) Gigi Lai

4) Charmaine

5) Keri Hilson

Hmmm… I shall not add Yoyo into my Top 5. Haha… I still prefers gals with long hair more. She sort of cut her hair short in Forsenic Heroes 2. Not really my shot of Vodka.

Went to Mandai Zoological Garden yesterday. NSL, where Li’s working at currently, had a Family Day celebration yesterday. I tagged along as the entrance fee is cheap, $10. It’s simply irresistible and beside, I haven’t been to the Zoo for so many years.

Other than the fact that I’d to take care of Isaac and Chin Chin ( Workload was shared by Li too), the ‘visit’ was fun. I was surprised by some of the changes. The A & W isn’t there anymore. I also didn’t see the Golden Lion Tamarin. During my last visit, it was sitting on a tree, situated near the entrance, greeting the visitor.

However, I get to see the magnificent White Tigers. Take note! Singapore has 3 of ‘em and I didn’t even knew till yesterday. The last time I saw them was at a Zoo in Taiwan last year. We had to pass by them 3 times. The first time was when we weremaking our way to the Pavillion where the Family Day event was held. The second time time was when we were making our way back to the entrance to get a map ( We are kinda lost). And the 3rd time was back to the entrance ( again ) but this time was to go home. We were quite lucky to witnesss all 3 of them ’swimming’ in the water during the 3rd pass-by. *Clap Hands*

My main aim was to visit Reptile Garden. I don’t know, but I do love snake. Not that I enjoy having one around my neck, but I just find them amazing. However, my favourites was quite a letdown. All of them were coiled up , totally in their own world’, on the tree branches in their respective Display Area. The Green Anaconda was the only ‘living thing’ among them. At the very least, it’s moving around in the water.

Li sense of smell of really superb. She really does live up to the K9 title which I had gave her. Even before reaching the Zebra area, she had already smell their from a distance. Her reason? Their shit is extremely smelly. I wonder does she has an issue with Zebra. When approaching their area, she said, ” We see those on the roads everyday! Why are we even here!”

-_-” She’s actually refering to the Zebra Crossing.

I learnt a new fact about Polar Bear yesterday. They are at least 3 meters tall, when standing up. By the way, I’m refering to those grown up. Poor thing! They look like they are suffering from skin dieases. Their once-white fur is covered with patches of green.

The Majestic Lion doesn’t even looked scary at all. Yar right! I bet I will be shivering with fear and wetting my pants if one of those is to make a roar right in front of me.

Li was quite suay. Her number wasn’t called out during the lucky draw. For twice her number came so close, yet Lady Luck didn’t smile at her. I took part in the games. Quite fun! I loved the last game of the 4 the most. We had 10 members. 2 need to filled up plastic bags ( those kind when you ‘tah pau’ kopi ) full with water, followed then, another have to ‘deliver’ the water bag, using a ladle and throw it into a canvas hold by 2 other members. They will then swing the canvas to throw the water bag out of theit to the one standing on a chair, who will then throw it to the other 2 who are holding on to yet another piece of canvas on the other side. Another swinging motion to ‘throw’  the water bag out to another member and then to ME, who’s standing at the end of the line, in charge of the water bag collection. We came in 2nd.

My next event would by with M1. Quite lucky! I’m given a free ride to the Singapore Flyer. Something which I will never spent money on for a thrill/experience. Haha…

My meal break was pushed from 715 pm to 8 pm last evening. The service level wasn’t doing that great. It’s kinda depressing to finish a call, only to see that there’s still 30 odds people on the waiting queue. Worse! Lots of people are calling in for voucher and one even hung up on me as I couldn’t give her a great offer. They started their usual ‘Your competitors are doing better then you! Is that the best that you can offer?’.

… *screaming* Seriously, I really felt like telling them that ‘There’s no free lunch in the world!’ and that if they want more, they will have to earn their upkeep. At the very least, give us a reason to keep you.

So happen that Nathaniel meal break was scheduled at 8pm too. He had helped me with a case the day before. That customer requested to speak to a Filipino. I was frantically looking around the floor for that special request when I saw Nathaniel. He looked like a Muslim, still I decided to try my luck. Viola! Case closed.

… And he thought that I’m a Malaysian. Not that it still surprises me, coz quite a number of people had  thought so too. I sms-ed Maine for her opinion. She replied that if it wasn’t for my Pink I/C, she had thought so too!

Conclusion -> I need to undergo a ‘facelift’. Is this what they call an ‘Identity Crisis’?

MY informed me yesterday that he still has a movie voucher and it’s going to expire soon. The date had been set on 28 of June! Hopefully there will be good movies by then.

Received a sms from Fay yesterday. It’s a ‘Thank You’ message, for the birthday greeting which I’d sent her on the 8th of June. She’d went to Vietnam for a holiday which explain the delay. Envy her! When you are attached married, you get to travel round the world with the one that you love.

Just when I thought I know Maine inside-out, I was wrong. Yesterday she called me for a loan, money  bicycle. The thing that shocked me wasn’t the bicycle part, it’s the ‘I’ll be going for night cycling’ part. Since when? The girl who can’t even run, can cycle?

… Too bad! I don’t have a bicycle.

The result is out. I’d completed the 15 km in 1 hour 44 mins, which is a minute faster then Real Run last year. Un-bloody-believable! And I was still intoxicated with alcohol when I was running. Maybe that’s part of the ‘ingredient’ to run faster. Haha…

I’d stocked up my stash of alcohol. Chew Li had brought back a bottle of Vodka for me while MJ’s had asked his dad to helped get a bottle of Tequila at the DFS. I think I’ll still need to get a Barcardi and Chivas! Anyone who’ll be going overseas, do help me! I’ll pay!

Finally, after 3 months, I’m confirmed. More pay, more allowance, and not to forget the Work Sim. $135 free for me to utilise every month. I’m going to be a spoil brat, using my cell even when I’m at home. I’d yet to use the Handset Voucher. Maybe I should get a Nokia!

One of my acquaintance has this sick habit of hanging ‘herself’ high up in the air to sell. The other day, I told Li that if this continue, I’ll make sure that she ‘can’t sell’. It’s kinda sick to have to entertain people like that.

Last Saturday was 8th Uncle’s birthday celebration. 10 of us finished 4 bottles of Chivas. And that’s my first time to go for a running event ( Saucony 15km Run) in a ‘I’m still high’ mode. I KO-ed at 8km , feeling a bit giddy. I walk and run for the next 7 km. Thankfully, I managed finish it.

Met up with my Great Eastern Life agent, Jit Siew, yesterday. I’d to change my giro deduction from yearly to monthly, because to see a lump sum of money deducted from my already ‘penniless’ bank is kinda hard. Beside, it’s also quite ‘kang ko’ to save up till $800 plus, only to see it go, in one go.

Shoot! I’d mixed up my insurance policy. All along I thought I’d a saving plan, I was wrong. Mine was a life insurance or what they call it. I’ll have to get a savings one soon. It’s a fight between Prudential and Great Eastern Life. I vaguely remember that Shirmaine had gotten one from Prudential back in those days. Therefore, I called her, in hope of getting vital information. Ended up, she told me that I shouldn’t be asking her, as she don’t know and I should be asking those agents instead.

… She’s in bitch mode! I hung up soon after!

Every little thing

That you say or do

I hung up

I hanging up on you

* Hung Up by Aunty Maddy ( Madonna )

Was supposed to meet with Shu Hui, Miurel and Kelvin for dinner @ Cineleisure. However, it was cancelled as Shuhui couldn’t make it the last minute. What a drag! i was looking forward to the ‘catching up’ session and Pastamania.

1) The last time I saw Shu Hui was in the hospital. She was hospitalised due to some reason.

2) The last time I actually saw Miurel was during Poly-Year 3.

3) The last time I saw Kelvin was during SISPEC training. He’s in Foxtrot while I’m in Echo.

Never mind! There’s still next time.

My initial plan for the evening was to reach Jurong Point by 1830, have dinner before heading in to the cinema to enjoy The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. However, by 1825, I was still on board M1 Shuttle Service (to Jurong East), stuck in the traffic. You know how they always say Mother Nature can be a bitch? Let us add Traffic Congestion can be a bloddy bitch too!

On board the shuttle with me are Julia and her cousin. Julia was my coursemate in Fish Tank. She’s from the Customer Relation ( Winback ) Department, and was attached to my training group for a week as she had missed her’s ‘during her time’. It’s kinda good to have friends working in different department. At least when you are in need of help, you know who to approach. For example, Mary Lou is in the Shop Hotline.

SL sucks today! Despite having the manpower, we are still unable to cope. Hopefully there will be more people posted into our hotline to share the work load.

Xiaver had asked me to join Mizuno Wave Run the other day. What’s holding me back? The registration fee! Fuck! $30 for 10km, which makes it even more expensive then Army Half Marathon. I’m paying only like $28 for 21 km. However, the catch is pretty good. A Blue Mizuno Running Singlet and a Mizuno Shoebag. Shall I be a goodie bag whore and sign up for the event?

Anyway, I felt obligated to let Julia know that I’d spoke to Klein at the cookhousecafeteria during one of the mealbreak. To cut the story short. Klein is an asshole ( think of playboy and you will roughly know what I’m refering to ), and Julia sort of hated him. She told me, “Oh! you don’t have to tell me! You can even fornicate with him for all I care!”

“For..ni..Fornicate? What does it mean?”

She broke into one of her signature laughter and said, “You don’t know?” She later told me that it has got something to do with sex!

Someone remind me that she’s in fact a woman!

I was complaining to her that I won’t able to grab dinner before the movie and she told me to smuggle some food inside. “Go for Lohn John Silver! That’s what I always do!”

“I see where you get your weight from!” I said. To which she threw me a penetrating glance.

I managed to grab 2 burgers from Mcdonalds and sneaked it in. I was rather miffed by the door bitch! Li and I wanted to go in first to use the toilet. However, she refused to tear our tickets, and told us to leave it with her first as it’s not ready yet.

… After 5 minutes, I walked out of the toilet, and I saw Ivan they all walking in. So much for ‘not ready yet’. Strange but true!

The show is quite good. I was looking forward to enjoying it but then the kids sitting behind are playing with plastic bag ( I know! I have yet to figure out the fun of it too! ) and kept telling their parents ( I suppose) that they want to go home!

After we walked out, Ying Qi suggested that we should catch a later show next time, to avoid the kids! Haha

Rushed down to Novena to collect my Race Pack after work yesterday. Initially, I was scheduled to knock off at 1730. However, thanks to a bloody bitch, I stayed till close to 1545. Worse, the shuttle reached only @ 1800. Thankully, Sharon is taking 5 downstairs. In between puffing fags, she shared with me her days in M1, what to look out for and what not to do.

While on board MRT, I received a text from WL, asking to meet for dinner. And we met up at Novena. There wasn’t a queue. I managed to collect my race pack within minutes. I was helping Fen to collect her’s, and they didn’t even looked at the authorisation letter. Kinda made me wondered, why they even asked us to print it out in the first place.

The 3 person whom I enjoy a meal of  KFC with are namely, a) Wei long, b)Shirmaine and c) Frank that Slart. Due to the fact that I’m down with sore throat/fever last week, I’m deprived of heaty food. Therefore, I chose KFC for dinner. It may sound exaggerating but Weilong and I each finished a Buddy Meal. I didn’t even know that Fish Zinger can taste so good!

The last time where we actually had a chat was like… … AGES ago!. Qui Li is out of town, over in Hong Kong for a Biz trip. Therefore, he can afford to go ‘happy’. We were deciding to settle for a drink in Mohd Sultan, when his car was hit. To be precise, his back was kissed by someone. It was quite a big impact. I was too stunned for words, that I actually asked the stupid obvious, “Is you car being hit?”

Gawd! I’m truly dim!

We spent the next 45 minutes, trying to reach for a settlement. Since I’m the one with a camera phone, I began to walk around and take pictures.

It’s quite fortunate that no one is hurt in this accident.