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Sunday, July 30, 2006

end of my internship

i m so glad it is finally here.

i no longer need to:

1) wake up freaking early in the morning
2) wake up freaking early in the morning, and keep thinking either i should keng one day MC
3) sleep on the smelly morning bus
4) do meaningless sai gang and make me feel like wasting my time
5) see that bastard tio chong heng who likes to threaten me, but in the end having to "lun" me with my fucking attitude shot back at him
6) taking much extended lunchbreak and refusing to go back office
7) keep looking at my computer screen and keep acting busy so that i can tio less sai gang
8) keep going to toilet so that i can siam more sai gang

however, with the end of my internship, i also cannot:

1) meet my fellow nus interns and enjoy a lot of jokes with them during lunch time
2) meet the smu friends that i've gotten to know
3) print anything and everything for free
4) "steal" highlighters, pencil lead and others
5) get my pathetic $800 monthly internship allowance

well, comparatively, seems like itz still a good deal to have my internship ends. my holidays finally started!!!!

but retrospectively, i have to say that most of my colleagues are pretty fine. they are quite nice people, and takes good care of me. somehow, i m treated like a baby (they couldn't believe i am 24.... they keep thinking i am 18-19 lidat. they were astonished when they realised i've finished army!! do i look so juvenile?). being treated like a baby means that, they treat me fine other than the constant sai gang.

at the end of it all, i've gotten 3 treats in all. on thursday, one single colleague treat me to the canteen cos she wun be joining the outing on friday. on friday noon, the section bought pizzas and treated me. in the night, the whole department, taking my departure as an excuse/opportunity for a departmental meeting. so, we went bowling at marina south, and had a gau gau dinner at long beach marina. the dinner is the best among all the 3 treats.... probably cost a few hundred bucks bah for a 16 person dinner. seafood... gau gau... probably one of my most gau dinner.

and, i've also gotten 2 gifts from the department and the people. 3 colleagues from my section bought another mp3 player for me. LE-MON mp3 player, 512mb. and, i've gotten an Azur 4200 (one of the many Philips Iron) from the department.

well... as a last day, i think i've got quite a pack of gifts.

all in all, thanks.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

AWOL

yesterday night, a fellow intern at philips smsed me, telling me that she wun be going for work tml. for no official reasons. we were talking about wanting to take MC every morning when we wake up. so, for her last week of internship, she decided to finally chu stunt (her first time). she works at a clinic, so she can get MC pretty easily.

although she probably dun meant so, but by smsing me, it is as good as jioing me to skip work as well lah!!!

so this morning, when i wake up, i took the liberty to give myself a day's leave. which is, as good as AWOL (absence without official leave).

i smsed my boss in the morning, saying i am not feeling well so would like to take a day off. she granted me, of course.

but come tml, i wun be able to give her an MC. cos i never go visit a doctor at all. i decided to fuck it, and play punk. i doubt they will ask one from me either. but let's juz see what happens tml. if they ask one from me, i am prepared to tell them i never visit the doctor (which is the truth), and my family dun practice visiting doctor when we are sick. cos my father knows chinese medicine, so he will always brew those bitter bitter medicine for us when we are sick (which is the truth again. i never say i took them this time, hahaha).

but today is a good day. i went to watch a movie "Thank you for smoking" myself at The Cathay. nothing much inside this new cineplex though. the show quite okay, as recommended by Ben. but there was one guy in the theatre being quite a nuisance. got thing no thing, he oso laugh. i was thinking wtf.... he really laugh for nothing. and keep laughing throughout the show, even when itz not funny, and not supposed to be funny.

also went to shop a little. bought myself 2 long sleeve shirts at Bugis. sibei expensive, but i like them. also "beoh" a pant and a blazer jacket from U2, but decided not to buy them today. already spent a bomb. wait till my pay comes out on Friday 28 then decide again.

now, itz late in the night at 11:56pm. i shall log off and go read my Harry Potter Book 6. i bought it on sunday at hougang mall. paperback. $19.90 before 20% discount. and guess what? fuck!! i saw hardcover copies selling at $9.95 at kinokunya today.

kanna sai.... blardee hell... why did i buy so early?!!?!?

Thursday, July 20, 2006

got it from a friend

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses!

5. When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!' Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.

8. When people say "life is short". What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

i've got good news

itz been some time since i last posted. not very long, but still a good 10 days.

anyway, i've got some good news again!! this time round, itz good news to myself only though.

i am ending my internship earlier. a good one whole week earlier. damn happy siah. although that also means i will be getting $200 less, but i get one whole good week of time for myself. i think i need a rest. the whole of this holiday has been quite busy.... and hey! what holiday? itz not a holiday at all.

i've been quite taxed in working. gotta get up early in the morning, and only to reach home at around 7pm after work. actually, working wouldn't be that bad if not because i am really doing mundane stuffs. moreover, prior to reservist, i had to put aside some of my already miserable little time for some physical training. after my reservist, i am still putting aside some time to do some training. would like to keep fit.

i've also started to give tuition. that took another half day away from my weekend. i needed some time to revise my material in o lvl too. they are quite foreign to me now, even though i was pretty good in them when i was 16. seemingly, i am more stupid at 24.

other than that, i also got quite a few choir stuffs to cope with. here and there, there are a few things to rush. rush is okay, but rush when i dun know how to do them is quite jiat lat.

on top of that, got FYP stuffs. well, although i am not paying a lot a lot of attention to it, but it still bothers me a bit here and there sometimes. but anyway, i've more or less made a decision already, even though i think that might not be exactly a good one. but fuck lah... think so much oso lidat. i'm not god. everything got itz good and bad points. i cannot predict the future, so juz fuck it.

here and there, there are other miscellaneous shit to attend to. thatz why i felt a bit deprived of time. i felt quite tired last week, but i still have to churn out the sponsorship letters. but i have to admit, i slacked a bit here and there. but i also have to say, i did my best in writing those letters. understand i have limited language capability. also understand that i dun normally draft such letters. i've to do some internet research and read other's guide.

but i guess i've got some rest on sunday and yesterday. sunday, i slacked whole day man. read comics, and sleep a lot. i wanted to read some of my seniors fyps, and also read some a maths stuffs. but in the end, i could not resist the temptation to a good rest. i think the only constructive stuffs i did is doing a final consolidation to the sponsorship letters and uploading them to yanhong bah. yesterday was a good day too, cos i've been allowed to leave earlier for my internship, and also catch up with my jc OG friends. itz been probably close to a year since i last meet them bah. at least half a year.

sometimes i wonder, why was i even that close to them in the first place. my jc og was quite a tight one. however, as time goes, the whole og left only the 4 of us still in close contact. thatz actually surprising, cos i am within the loop. judging from my character now, i am pretty "cold". i seldom go out, or ask past friends to meet up anymore. i probably was more "happening" last time. i guessed i've really changed a lot, after so many years.

anyway, long post already.

i am very happy i get to leave earlier for my internship!!! really very happy leh!! left only 1.5 weeks more to go!

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Thank you, NAC

Yes, a very big thanks to NAC, National Arts Council.

Why? I thank them for supporting Consonance's upcoming concert, FIVE!!! We, Consonance, have applied and been awarded a sponsorship from them!!!!! Yay!!

That was the happiest moment yesterday at work man!!! So now, we've more money to make a better concert for everyone in consonance. Itz a 5 year anniversary concert, and i think everyone would want something as a rememberance.

Oh, and let me show you what kinda of things i do for my VIP.






these are the amount of stuffs i've gotta scan. you think thatz a lot? think twice. i've been there for 8 weeks already. this is nothing, as compared to the total amount i've covered. when i say itz about my height, i am not really kidding. the first picture has a ruler in it for the sake of comparison. itz a 30cm long ruler.

but on a happier note, i've gotten myself a Creative Zen Nano mp3. 1 gb.

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shiok. only for $121. got it cheap from a friend's friend's friend. that person is working in creative, and have staff discount. yay!!

on a even happier note, Consonance have NAC SPONSORSHIP!!!!

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come on everyone, let's support the Arts!

Thursday, July 06, 2006

throw spanner

ask those who went thru army a question.

if u are a man, and are already 2 years into ur nsf, waiting to ord. then, ur oc throw you one spanner, and tells u to go for sergeant course because he thinks itz unfair for you, a going-to-be uni student to be juz a man.

how would you feel?

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this analogy is juz like my internship experience. i am into my eighth week into my VIP, and 4 more weeks to go. for the whole of the 8 weeks, i've been doing some "wuu-eh bo-eh" stuffs, like scanning, printing, photocopying, shrinking A2 or A1 into A3 without proper machines, do presentation, clean stores, carry stuffs, fix printers, organise catologs, and the list goes on. it really goes on.

now, suddenly, they feel that it is unfair for a uni student to do all these! the HOD feels that, itz quite unfair and improper to ask a uni student to do all the etc stuffs. he would have felt okay if it was a poly student.

personally, i think whether is it uni or poly, both are unfair. we came in in the first place, taking a shitty pay, for some exchange in experience and knowledge. if doing shit is an experience, i think i've had enuff of them. more so than most people i believe, since i've already went thru army and been in the shittest rank.

but anyway, i've already come to terms with my predicament. i am already sianz liaoz. so i dun even mind to do all the crappy stuffs, cos i am now simply waiting for time to go. i will fuck off, once the bell strikes. i am tired, and itz very difficult for me to psyche myself up again. so now, they say they want to give me a project to do, i feel damn sianz.

like i say, you are already waiting to ord liaoz, do you still want to go for sergeant course?

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moving on to a next topic, have anyone of u in 452 SAR gotten ur marksman monetary award? what the fuck are they doing by not giving it out to us??!? or at least, to me?!?

i need to pay for a new mp3 soon!!

Monday, July 03, 2006

2 weeks of slackness

i've more or less slack for 2 weeks. i've not run for the whole of last week. and the week before, during my reservist, i only ran a 2.4 (for my ippt), and another 4km leisure run with my platoon mates the night after ippt.

tonight, i attempted to jog leisurely again. as much as i wanted to jog leisurely, the run got rather exhausting after a while. not that i whack hard. definitely not so. cos i really din want to whack at all. itz because my fitness is back to square -1.

2 weeks of slackness can make wonders man... of cos, i indulged in some "unhealthy" activities recently too.

blardee hell. train train train.

slack working day

3 more hours before i end my work for the day

after my black face tactic last friday, i have a pretty (in fact, very slack) day today. so far, i've only scanned 1 page of document, and update one line of excel for some database. nothing else for me to do. last friday was pretty shitty. i find that the people here have started to take advantage of my presence, and take me for granted. i was told to do all kinda odd jobs for the whole day. one of the worst things is, i had to clear cupboards for them! fwark! i was really quite fed up then. i came here for an internship. although i knew that i will have to do odd jobs, i never really did expect that odd jobs take up 100% of my schedule. i think thatz a bit too much. i am willing to take a low pay of $800 a mth, cos there is supposed some tradeoffs. for a lower pay, i am supposed to learn something. i dun even mind the things i learn are not within what i study. in fact, i look forward to something new, outside my curriculum. and yeah, indeed, things like scanning are really out of my curriculum. i got what i "wanted".

i dun mind doing all the shit, but if so, give me the pay that i deserved. at least a $6-$6.50 per hour. if not, then give me something to learn.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Embarressed

embarressed cos i cannot solve some o lvl crappy maths...

haha... who can still remember the shit about relative velocity? wa lan eh... got a student ask me questions on this topic then i go concussed for a while... this kinda stuffs there is no way i can derive anything out, cos i dun even remember a single shit. in the end gotta get a fellow tutor to come and solve the questions for her.

the stupid thing is, i can remember partial fraction (a lvl stuffs) but i cannot remember relative velocity (o lvl stuffs).

this made me really want to revise everything back so as not to siah suay myself again. and i wanted to do so this evening. but it seems again that, i cannot force myself to sit down and study again.

very sianz. how?

another friend of mine is soon leaving singapore too. less and less friends whom i can be truthful with.