Thursday, April 28, 2005
work again, how nice.
i've just started work at summer vacations with shinleei and i'm really enjoying myself! first day on the job and i was told to tag along with a big group of indonesian uni students on their industrial trips to various institutes and schs like citibank, smu, nus and ura. been following them for the past 3 days and today was my last day with them. kinda sad that i wouldn't be seeing them anymore cos they are so much fun! even tho half the time we don't really understand what each other is talking abt, we still managed to hold a conversation by repeating sentences 10 times and in the process signing the sentence out in each of our own mute way! so now i'm back in the office with not much stuff to do (not that i would know how to handle stuff ard here at the moment), contemplating whether i should play bejeweled on yahoo but instead, i've decided to blog and update on the latest happenings! hohoho!
i guess this present job is quite suitable for me tho it pays really low but at least i would be enjoying my work by spending majority of time online deciding between bejeweled or reading the news! *grins* oh! yday while visiting smu with the group, i met lester and doreen! haha super happy to see familiar faces in places like these! apparently they are doing their project during vacation period..haiyo so poor thing man..and to see hunky partying away and training for bigger muscles, its a heaven and hell comparison if you asked me! kinda like the smu environment comparing it to nus. the pple in smu are friendlier and definitely less intimidating. maybe i should apply for smu..hmm..anyway, the visit to nus has greatly confirmed that it is definitely not the place for me (not that my grades would get me in anyway.) oh well! shall pray abt it and hopefully the answer will fall from the sky in yummy gummy candy letters spelling out the sch for me!
sigh, now that i'm greatly missing the indonesian pple, the urge to fly off to Bali is greater now! the sun! the sea! the spa! ahhh!! *too dreamy to blog further*
Useless fact of the day: I hammered my forehead against the wall when i was 3-4 yrs old and needed 3 stitches.
blip rambled on
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Saturday, April 23, 2005
phuket pictures!
blip rambled on
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Friday, April 15, 2005
get a wig.
hello hello! i'm finally back from limbo where my soul flew around aimlessly, took a plane to phuket and came back looking like mian bao chao ren! after lots of reminding that i should update my blog (i never knew pple actually read it...thot most of the time they were just browsing but anyway), i'm finally able to put my ass down to it!
so so so! what have i done??? for updates, i'm finally out of pan thitsa! gone are the days of waking up at 8.15am in the morning, taking the train to cityhall, walking into a shop with green carpet (have i ever mention that i dislike green? no? ok. i dislike green.) and staring into the computer all day long! i actually contemplated going back there to work if i really couldn't find a job, but the other day kim actually asked us back to the office to handle a complaint even tho we are like out of the office already! the feeling of going out in the middle of the day with the sun shining on my head is so sick man i tell you. after that i totally dropped the idea together with the fact that i must stop listening to her swoon abt isabel's beauty or else i might just rip out the green carpet and bind her with it.
oh! and i tell you! phuket is soooooo niceee! 4d3n is definitely not enough man..i'll definitely go back again and the next time i'm there, it will be at least a week! krabi! phi phi! james bond island! here i come! will post pictures when i have the time to do it! anyways, we went phi phi island for snorkeling on the 2nd day and my first try at snorkeling was quite a disaster. argh! didn't even manage to swim down to the bottom and touch the corals...sigh. but a significant discovery was that zen seems to be a thai-men killer! her influence have definitely benefited us greatly! :p hee! patong beach is indeed cleaner now and its surprising that i wasn't reminded of the tsunami that claimed many lives there. it was only when i got to phi phi island and saw the remains of whats left of the island that i was knocked back into reality. i guess we would never be able to understand what they have gone through, losing almost 80% of the population to the waves and having to get through life selling stuff to pple like me who actually thot of slashing the prices. but! i end up buying a nice beach mat from this nice auntie along the streets for 150baht! it was the original price ok! no slashing! that's the only way i could help her already =)
oh! back to phuket island..mey has proven to be a powerful price slasher! let's go through the steps of effective price slashing:
1) lookin around the shop for product of interest
2) ask for the price but! do not look extremely keened
3) listen to the price, look shocked
either..
4a) immediately slash it by 50% or more (eg.400baht to 150baht), or
4b) compare to the shop and the OTHER side of the road selling the same product at a much lower price and proceed to slashing it by 50% or more (this is usually more effective)
5) if other party is a young male, try to look fierce. if its a old male, try to ba jie by sa jiao-ing a little (this is extremely effective). if other party is female, regardless of age, just smile and insist.
6) end the conversation by saying "ok. $###baht and i take it now!"
there you have it! the 6 steps of effective price slashing. it usually works and steps could be improvised for better results (try batting eye lashes or something)
each day when we step out of the safety of coconut village resort, we have to mentally prepare ourselves for the amount of "miss miss..tuk tuk, tuk tuk", "arigato arigato!", "miss go where today? *attempts to hit butt with newspaper*, "hello! *whistles* come from korea?" and the famous pick up line used island wide--> "hello miss! where you from? wanna go disco tonight?" wonder if they ever get tired of doing that to every single woman that walk through their path. hmm. ah well! i guess i'll know the next time i'm there!
oh oh! the last day before we head out for the airport, there was actually a tsunami warning! the siren was sounding and pple at the resort were mumbling abt tsunami warnings amidst the constant repeat mode of tata young's "sexy naughty bitchy me" on the stereo system. thankfully all was well and nothing went wrong and i'm back in Singapore in one piece. it was only after the day i got back that i realised that another earthquake erupted in indonesia. thank You Lord for Your guidance and protection! :)
enough of phuket! right now, all my days are spent watching endless episodes of One Piece infront of the laptop! oh, AND! looking for a job! if anyone were to drop by my house any day, any time, i'll definitely be home. hahah! visitors anyone? shall get down to writing my application letter for the job tmr! maybe i'll head down to the gym tmr too...too much dim sum is a danger to life!
Useless fact of the day: If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Another useless fact of the day: i spend 1 hour typing this entry! it will be another month before my next one comes in!
blip rambled on
Friday, April 15, 2005
