admin work is really mundane, which i've started experiencing it today. the difference is the people that you have around you. and i'm glad that the people around me is so wonderful. :D

first is the fellow temp staff: 4 girls and 4 guys in total. all the girls are fresh graduates from jcs with grace from rj, xiaojie from ac and yuanting from ny (she knows mr low! and someone said the two of us looked like sisters. heh). grace actually went for jay's concert! (she dun look chinese. i'm thinking eurasian)

3 of the guys are fresh from the army, with kenny looking totally unconvincing of that part. (another qj! but i think he actually looked more boyish. only realised that he just ORD-ed when he asked me how do i calculate cca points for sjab and ventures. heh) mak (we thought it was mark) looked like the laoda and deliang is so tall. (both of us reported to our first day of work today. didn't realise he was so tall until shirley from hr brought us around) as for nelson, nothing is known yet because i didn't see him until we report to caren.

my dept is CBD2 and i'm taking over kenny. so for the first half of the day i was hanging around with him and yuanting (same dept) as they showed me the ropes of doing the work. was pretty standard, just that i think the archives will drive me nuts if i hafta keep staring at it, which i think i would have to after we're done with the paperwork. ohyes there's old typewriters! :D

then my supervisor. he calls himself Ooi (which is the last word of his name) and everytime he talks on the phone he would say 'ooi', which would remind me of oui. initially i really thought that he's saying oui, until much later. he's very funny too. hehe.

went out for lunch with all except kenny nelson. ate mutton briyani at a indian shop around boat quay (i've always thought that stretch of bars and seafood restaurants are in clarke quay). the rice is ALOT i tell you. xiaojie and grace ordered chicken briyani and they got half a chicken (specialty of the day: chicken dum briyani). missed jay's poster (doubt i would get it anyway cuz only left office at 1240) [sounds kinda suaku but i was pretty amazed by the sight of the heart of raffles place during lunch hour. :D]

1730 went to caren's office (she's boss cuz big boss jon is away in japan for business) to chat and update some stuff. i think caren's really a nice person too!

and not to mention the notbad pay. hehe. :D

eh. can the information for otc come sooner?
7:55 PM

Great leaders take exceptional actions that inspire creativity and ever-higher levels of performance. They are responsible and accountable. And they want to win with a passion. They have an attitude: a very positive one. Great leadership is something that most people recognize when they see it. Great leaders reach for the stars! This is extreme personal leadership, and such leaders are referred to as "X"-Leaders.

X-Leadership differs substantially from managing. Whereas managers act to limit choices, X-Leaders constantly strive to develop fresh approaches to long-standing problems and to open most issues to new creative options. To be effective, X-Leaders project bold, bright ideas onto images that excite people. They make the impossible seem possible, and they build reason into the seemingly unreasonable. X-Leaders create passion and exhilaration for the mundane. They dream big and expect great things to happen. They believe that anything worth doing eventually will be done. X-Leaders recognize that what may seem extreme today will be commonplace tomorrow.

However, if you have a burning desire to lead, extreme personal leadership is a combination of knowledge and skills that can be learned. And, not only can extreme personal leadership be learned, it can be improved with practice. If you have a passion to lead, you can become the X-Leader who sees realities that most people choose not to see. You can bring yourself and those around you higher level of performance.

extracted from Wikipedia.

i'm doing something okay. haha.
11:00 PM

a day of my favourites. (:

slept at like 2am last night after reading through some of the personalities from the Enneagram Handbook which i've borrowed from Alex Choo after the meeting last night and seriously i would say it's quite true. it's like 95% accuracy? haha.

then was woken up at 7plus by my dad, asking me whether i wanna go to fairprice at AMK Hub. wanted to sleep in but got up in the end. and instead of amk hub we went over to the big Sheng Siong near Woodlands customs. got some of the taiwanese food like egg crisps! :D

when i'm there, i would like to see the uncles cleaning the fishes. i kinda like it when they are like removing the gills la. probably because i kept seeing it when i was young and when i accompanied my grandma to the market. i like this uncle. dunno why but i felt that he looked very kind and nice (but strict). heh.


then was home for lunch and i started to feel sleepy. wanted to further confirm with jianlin about zone competition but i went to nap instead. lol. then in the afternoon went back to Malaysia!

went to buy some more foodstuffs at Giant and i got a bottle of Tabasco sauce! a step closer to constructing a Bloody Mary. :D saw various recipes from the books that i've been reading and i suppose i can make do with vodka, just that i need to source for Cointreau. and my dad actually kinda agreed to give me a bottle of brandy for me to make fruit brandy! (like limoncello). Martell VSOP leh! (according to Raising the Bar, the current book that i'm reading, cognac is actually a family of brandy)

then i went over to the wine section again, which is like my favourite section cuz there's alcohol! ha. saw more alcohols like Malibu coconut rum (e bottle is simply beautiful!), Midori melon liqueur, lychee liqueur, Dewar 10yrold blended scotch whiskey, Beefeater London dry gin (which will make a better Martini than the dutch gin!), Jack Daniels, Russian vodka and Martini dry vermouth (which made me kinda go OMG cuz i didn't expect to find vermouth there).

anyway if anyone of you knows where to find Cointreau (or triple sec, which are actually the same thing), please tell me! meanwhile i shall ask my aunt to keep a lookout at the DFS when she comes back next saturday. :D

saw a pair of nice flats but don't have my size. :(

then off to get a haircut! this time i got lucky and got my favourite hairdresser. dunno why i just like her more. haha. I LOVE MY NEW HAIR! short hair does suit me better. :D then went opposite the salon to get nail polish remover. damn cheap leh! RM4.50 which is like around 2bucks or even lesser than that. :D there's also Silky Girl lip gloss! hoho.

then dinner, which was alot of food. ate stingray and crabs. :D

i think my job interview with the bank should be alright. hopefully i can get the job! if not it should be the MOE where elaine commented that got no food in the pantry. lol. but there's charissa and my cousin. ha.

can the instructors postings be out soon?! i want to know who's my GI!

p.s. anybody wanna watch 27 Dresses?
9:21 PM

我们都曾经寂寞而给对方承诺
我们都因为折磨而厌倦了生活
只是这样的日子 同样的方式
还要 多久

我们改变了态度而接纳了对方
我们委屈了自己成全谁的梦想
只是这样的日子 还剩下多少
已不 重要

actually i should be glad with the friends that i have and whine about not having friends whom i can talk to at times like yeterday night. if not the previous two emo entries would be published, and not kept in my posts as drafts. the first entry started with by nature i'm an optimistic person but at times like this i really cannot be optimistic. but well i'm back to my optimistic self! (:

BIG THANKS to the person who listened to me rant and shared experience with me. and to another person who came to entertain me and accompanied me until 3am in the morning. i guess i'm really lucky, because when i felt emo regarding those issues somehow there's someone whom i can talk to. or maybe because i just snatched the person who came to talk to me to pour all my rants.

every day is a new day.

能安慰自己的人 比较容易快乐
9:15 AM

What Chong Wei Ting Means

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable. You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life.You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you.At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs. You are very charming... dangerously so. You have the potential to break a lot of hearts.You know how what you want, how to get it, and that you will get it.You have the power to rule the world. Let's hope you're a benevolent dictator! You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life.You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home.You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble.

6:12 PM

i dun like minutes!! rahh. even though i've tried convincing myself that after this one i wouldnt be touching any more minutes cuz there's another assistant secretary who will be doing this saikang job. but still.

i guess it could be because the other day weihao was telling me that my minutes (which i wrote for charissa cuz she wasnt present) looked like stories instead of minutes cuz i wrote long paragraphs. that's my problem cuz i dun like to summarize. i like to write in details. (that's why in the past my entries are bloody long) dunno why in sec1/2 my chinese summary are like damn zai. i can get like 8/10 leh.

could some company call me like real soon? maybe delifrance or starbucks which i've sent my applications to. f&b is always prefered. if only i can find my way to the record labels like HIM or Sony Music or sth. too bad JVR is only based in taiwan. :(

i'm restless yet i want to do something yet i'm lazy to do something, like actually settling on a date to go for driving practical lessons. it's all because of higher cost of living that i'm lazy to go over to ssdcl to apply for a PDL and an additional 80cents charge that i'm not booking a lesson online. perhaps i would cycle over to ssdcl if the weather is fine tomorrow. but i think i would just die by cycling from khatib to yiochukang. that's like more than the distance i've covered from khatib to sembawang. sigh.

i'm so whiny that i cannot stand it myself. rahh.

edited:

OMG i have actually finished the minutes!!
10:56 PM

我们的开始 是很长的电影
放映了三年 我票都还留着
冰上的芭蕾 脑海中还在旋转
望着你 慢慢忘记你

朦胧的时间 我们溜了多远
冰刀划的圈 圈起来谁改变
如果再重来 会不会稍嫌狼狈
爱是不是 不开口才珍贵

再给我两分钟 让我把记忆结成冰
别融化了眼泪 你妆都花了
要我怎么记得
记得你叫我忘了吧
记得你叫我忘了吧
你说你会哭 不是因为在乎

*
i want it and i believe i can get it.

it's time to put the law of attraction to test. (the NLP programme is really powerful)
8:13 PM

18.01.2008 IS SUCH A MEMORABLE NIGHT!!!!!

i bet all the other fans who attended the concert would definitely agree with me. i mean, how often would your idol organise a concert on his birthday! which jay said 没想到生日要那么喘 (after singing/dancing 牛仔很忙).

and OMG there's really a lot of concert memorabilia! 15 types in total with the most expensive one going at 65 bucks (jacket and a chain-bracelet) regretted that i didn't bring enough money! only bought the 新加坡版公仔(my best buy), 经典版购物袋 (you should be seeing me carry it soon. :D), 粉红公仔手机吊饰 & 黑色织带票夹组. got my brother's church friend to help me get a tshirt, posters, files and the 公仔版购物袋. hehe. (apparently alot of other people had asked her to help them buy, and the money she hafta bring is like 400bucks!! OMG. but i did see someone spending 200bucks straightaway)

saw arthur and liwen too. hehe.

had a glitzy start with the feathers and golden-ish amour-ish costume, singing 黄金甲 (what else?), 无双, 最后的战役 and then a change of clothes (9 in total). then came my second favourite outfit, tshirt with fur-ish looking vest and pants (& leather gloves). sang 不能说的秘密 & 退后. then took a breather and asked whether there's a birthday cake for him. (which is no, and he followed up saying 没关系, 我妈妈在家里有准备) & then 麦芽糖.

next is cowboy clothes! 牛仔很忙! after the song he asked 谁要带我回家? & the part about 没想到生日要那么喘. then back to his birthday and he asked 生日要谢谢谁? which we replied 妈妈. and of course the next song is 听妈妈的话. there's this video during the song, showing 周润发 yo yo-ing like some hip-hopper (which all of us laughed) and during a break in the song, 张学友 sang the chorus! :D

next is my second favourite part!! transparent piano! black suit with white tie and fedora!


that's my favourite outfit. sang 黑色幽默 & 最长的电影 (accompanied by the MV, which made me nearly cry!) before launching into the next song, he said 其实啊, 每个地方啊, 几乎都是穿一样的. 那今天怎么样不一样, 就把外套脱掉.(i find this part quite funny) 因为这里还蛮热的. 但没关系. 其实因为之前感冒啊, 那现在来到这里, 觉得很温暖很舒服. (& sth like有点像烤箱).

then it's 安静 which he surprisingly didn't play the piano and 忘词 for the chorus again. & 白色风车. while changing clothes, a video played, with 宇豪 & the cute girl which danced with Jay in 牛仔很忙MV. 宇豪calls her大妮 and was sad that Jay snatched her away. got this part which he thinks to himself, 就算会双截棍又怎样? (plays the scene in the 双截棍MV where Jay plays with the nanchaku) & he vowed to get her back. then 宇豪 appeared on the right side of the stage, playing the piano. (which i think is the piece Secret)

then Jay appeared on the left side, in tshirt & jeans, playing the same tune. didn't recognize the tune, so i think it's either Secret or the piece which they were playing against each other in the movie. & then they danced! (street dance) quite zai okay.

next is white Oriental-ish costume with white fedora. (while waiting a lady played 二胡 and a poem written by 方文山 appeared on the screens) sang 千里之外, 菊花台 & 本草钢目, which he danced the zai-est dance! some of the steps is like the dance chuankai, john, lijian & glen danced in 2006. didn't know he can dance so well already! haha. 弹头 came out and Jay played with the 扯铃, which flew quite high!

next is 南拳妈妈, singing Tonight, What Can I Do & 牡丹江. 6th set of clothes is white long-sleeved shirt, checkered vest, black pants and a cane. (think he's trying old England look) it's 夜的第七章 along with Lara as the female voice and 宇豪 singing along (he appeared in the MV as the assistant of Sherlock Jay and also the murderer)

next he appeared on the right side with a humgunous pink high heel with 2 sexy women dancing around him as he sang 夜曲 (don't really understand why the women were there, when 夜曲 is supposed to be sad)

then 迷迭香 with salsa dancers and he did a dance with one of the female dancers, who went down to the crowds and danced around as Jay got changed. the band continued playing the song, which is damn nice but i didn't manage to record it down. :(

then my favourite part. acoustic with a guy at the tribal-ish drums, 宇豪 at keyboard, 弹头 vocals, Jay (black shimmery shirt & purple pants) & 张杰 & another guy guitars. Jay demanded for birthday song, which we sang in english & chinese version, led by 弹头. then he 发表生日感言 (新加坡的朋友最够意思了) & recommend 南拳妈妈to 办签唱会in singapore cuz the first time he came he 发现新加坡的歌迷最热情了 (but he never had a 签唱会 in singapore after his first album!) & also 这里最温馨的就是没有狗仔队啦 & 新加坡是个好地方! heh.

then 张杰 reckons that out of all the songs Jay sang, there's this song which he feels that Jay didn't bring out the feel and they sang the slow version of 忍者. then sang about some anti-Jay song which 南拳妈妈 put in their album (Jay ask how come their company let them put such a song, and then realising later that it's his company JVR. ha). and Jay sang the 改编版 of 双截棍.

then 彩虹&开不了口. after that he's like should sing some happy love songs and not always the sad ones and prompted us to guess the next song, which is 甜甜的. the crowd started getting even more high in the next song, 阳光宅男. before that Jay & his band disappeared for a while. then the drummer came out and prompted us to chant for Jay with his drumbeats. then Jay appeared playing another set of drums! (which he threw the drumsticks to the crowd in front). during the song he walked down of the stage la!! omg.

last set of clothes: golden jacket & pants with black top inside. appeared while playing 古筝 & launched into 发如雪. then he kept swirling his fan as he sang 霍元甲 & played with nanchaku as he sang 双截棍, e last song of the night. (which he threw his nanchaku out too)

ohyes the effects are marvellous too! love every bit of the concert! and it was a very very happy one with Jay being so happy and everything (i'm guessing it's because it's his birthday). JVR better use 18jan's concert as the footage for the DVDs and CDs! i reckon it would be the most special, since we wun be singing birthday songs at his other concerts eh!

p.s i think i know which hotel Jay resides in. hehe.
11:22 AM

even celine found a job. now i'm the only one left rotting at home.

not that there isn't any jobs available, but the thing is that i don't want an admin job! yet the type of temp jobs in abundance is admin. i did have an offer for 3weeks but i suppose it's probably taken up by now since i haven't give an answer (peijun's probably gonna nag at me for being indecisive). anyway since my parents ain't complaining and my mum's asking me to start my driving practical lessons i suppose that's gonna be the only thing in my agenda until i get an offer from the waitressing jobs that i've applied online.

otc'08 isnt turning out as bad as i thought it would be, cuz initially i didn't know old friends like celine peijun hweepeng yongsheng would be joining until a few days before the first meeting. ohyes and siying who would probably kena in the end. got assistant secretary (i have a very strong feeling that i'm being recommended by william after telling him i'm a secretary in my another cca) and assistant instructor (AI).

and celine i saw your entry. let's pray together and who knows, we might be swapping with each other or neither of us would get our ideal GI. i'm crossing my fingers regarding another matter cuz it's complicated.

anyway there's Jay's concert that will make me happy. (:
1:51 PM

11:17 PM

귀엽다!! and they are really sweet in the whole show!
고은찬 (go go chan!)

2:59 PM

having a birthday so early in the year has its pros and cons.

pros can be like start to learn to drive earlier, start drinking alcohol earlier, start watching restricted movies earlier, which is pretty much doing stuff that is restricted earlier than the others.

cons would be paying adult fees at polyclinics earlier than the others and well, being older earlier than the others.

not celebrating a birthday in school feels weird. which makes me go kinda subtle about celebrating one.

went out early to go swissotel, wanting to get the forms so that can start work immediately, but well, met the boss at the HR department and rules will have to be enforced. then it was off to meet the asjab people and ate at Waruku. guess what. i realised there is no cake! :(

then went walking around to bugis and to liangseah street for dessert. me pj celine jq were contemplating to walk all the way to orchard cuz of rising cost of living but the rain dashed all our hopes. instead went to sasa and watson where i got my first 2way foundation.

initially planned to have dinner with my family but because of indecisiveness (we cant decide where to go for dinner with me being lazy to decide) and because i'm in town with shiyun waikuan and i wanna meet up with the bwg guys (in e end only 3: dean zhikai weide) so i ate out. kinda funny that i hafta buy my own cake home. but well, it's from Secret Recipe! <3

well just now before i typed this part down i was still feeling kinda pissed off with some stuff that happened at home (well you cant really do much when you have 3 brothers who are obsessedly obsessed with DOTA and were in a midst of playing when you reached home and shld have taken some sort of initiative) and then my mum and eldest brother came with an hongbao and the DVD that i had been wanting for so long (cuz my dad initially refused to buy cuz it's so damn expensive in singapore and the pirated version is so damn cheap in malaysia)

i really hafta say that people really do mature when we grow up. in the past if you tell me that i would buy christmas presents for my family i would have think that you're totally out of your mind. and look what i did for last christmas. even though i have some kind of love-hate relationship with my family (which actually become more balanced out over the years), i would say that i do love them after all (not that i would admit in their face).

and regarding birthday. it got me thinking after i heard about bwg's no-present policy and the guys offering to pay for my dinner tonight. what mattered is not the presents or the cakes, it's the effort of remembering your birthday, which would indicate that to a certain extent, you do play a role in these people's lives. if not they wouldnt have remembered your birthday. was quite surprised when some very old friends like roger (i was really surprised to receive his birthday e-greetings because i can't remember the last time i've talked to him) and jieying (since i met her in 2005 she had been wishing me happy birthday, even though the last time we met is like in june 2006). and the friends at the Just Jam forum.

ohyes. thanks for the presents. like the puzzle which took me damn long trying to figure out which goes where without turning to the back to look at the numbers. the rose, the Incredibles balloon and the slippers. love you all. (:

at least i'm ending my birthday on a happy note. have a good night! (: (and off to champagne i go!)
11:04 PM

it was pretty bad omen when i woke up like 45mins before the basic theory test. practically rushed all the way to ssdcl. somemore on the way i think i saw _____. i quickly took the chance to cross the road before we see each other.

managed to reach before 9am (when i set off at like 8.32am from home). but i went into the wrong room. (went to the trial test room ) but luckily the lady at room4 let me proceed. was damn nervous cuz i passed my trial test at 3rd try. i was one of the last few people to leave the room. e lady on my right failed, so i'm even more nervous. i checked like thrice and once in chinese. haha. but thankfully i PASSED!!

then walked all the way to AMK library. kinda sad that now with the rising cost of living (read: student fare to adult fare) i have to walk more instead of taking bus and i need to think twice when rosalind asked me if i'm going back to anderson for asjab GM and sec1 campfire night. (i've decided to forego them and i forgot to reply rosalind. haha) me and charissa had been lamenting during the meeting on wednesday. but at least i think i can fake my way through to get a student meal.

stupid tcc. called them to ask about the salary of a part-time waitress and she said i hafta go down for the interview at Bugis Junction. next week then. (provided they are still offering). i think i should be content with the banquet job that's like my backup. or try the temporary administrative assistant at MFA. (wouldnt it be e same as any other office job?)

ahh. my favourite weekend.

life is a voyage that is homeward bound - herman melville

2:53 PM