4th MVG Awards: Millie's Birthday Card

Juz wanna write this.

I find this card really meaningful, cuz one look and you can see its self-made. Though the look of the card is rather cheesy, I really do like it alot. And do believe me, the card was given to me in the 2nd year of poly. :P


Millie's Card.


Her Cute Card.

Ugly Singaporeans..

Just one more day before the Workfare Bonus ends and I think I have already gotten a look at the true colors of the average Singaporean.

5 Simple Ways to define a average Singaporean:
1. Gian Ben
2. Kiasu
3. Gian Lui
4. Care only for themselves.
5. Act Smart

Why do I say this? Cuz of the different types of people I met throughout the course of work these 2 days. Working in the service centre is alot different from the call centre. Life in the Call Centre is much more sheltered and the customers can't identify you. But down here, its different, they can do that.

Strangely enough, I just don't really give a damn whether will the CPF Board fire me there. Maybe cuz the work down there is plain rubbish, seeing the number of jokers that keep appearing there. Juz today, there was this lady who seeked for my help, but wouldn't let me help. And there were this bunch of customers eager to ask their various queries to get CPF statements, but for GOODNESS Sake! There are 8 booths and 1 helper only. So please be patient and not act like you own me! Saying things like, "Oei!, Hello!, Uncle!" Those words certainly aren't going to make me give you any priority in serving you 1st :P

The random idiocrsy there is even more rubbish, especially from the non-IT savvy group. I respect that the elderly might not know all these, so I do my best to aid them whenever I can. Still I can get them shouting at me to help them get their paper. "Look at the queue, please understand." The younger generation group are even worse, asking questions like, "Eh, the screen says Submit, but how come the keyboard no Submit key?"

Help me! or Rather, FIRE ME!

3rd MVG Award. By Lovable Kai li

Decided I should put this in the MVG awards. Kai Li was my 1st girlfriend when I was in poly, though it was only for a short period of six days, it was comparable to my most recent relationship. Why so, I don't know.

Maybe its because of the feeling, or because of how they gave the gift to me, for her, she made them herself, and seriously, any guy would be touched by the extend their gf went to make them feel special.


The Car Card


Contents of the Car Card

Haiz. I just started work today at the Tampines Service Centre. Not saying I don't like the job, but to stand for 7 hours straight is TOTURE! Furthermore, the guy whom I dislike is there. I hope I can get transferred back to the call centre due to my leg injury.

A slight defer from the MVG. The Sport and Fitness Expo at Suntec

Sorry to all viewers for the slight deferment.

Today, was quite Jialat. I watched my Sat earnings of 27 Bucks grown wings and flapping away. Reason was I felt sick and overslept. Will have to apologize to Tan Hui for this.

Went down later to the Sport and Fitness Expo later to help out with the aikido booth recruitment. Got alot of free stuffs, Probably I'll be going down tomorrow to videotape the demostration again. There was this rather irate joker at the booth, talking to everyone in the vicinity, really thought of telling him to scram, but couldn't since it was a recruitment booth. However, the Chief Instructor and Bernie were less subtle, blatantly hinting him to get lost.

Took a very nice pic from the K800i. A prized shot.


My Cool Shot. Yay.

Had my 1st taste of Turtle Soup today. I liked the soup, but didn't really like the chewy meat. Erk.


Torture Soup.

What am i?

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

The MVG: 2nd Gift.

This gift was given to me by my very good friend, Joy. Believe it or not, I used to have a crush on this cool muay thai tomboy in the past. But now, we are still very good friends, though we hardly contact here and there. She's someone who can be relied upon and you will know that she will be there when you need her. I actually went to look for a penguin for her.


This cool Giraffe was from her.

The MVG Awards: Most Valued Gifts Awards.

Keep coming across alot of wishlists of things to buy recently. So now I got this idea to set up this list of gifts which I really treasure deep down in my heart.

Alright. The 1st on the line is this really cool "turtle" card that was given by Guojiu and friends for one of my birthdays. Think it was the 20th one. You know, birthdays are important. There's alot of people out there who think that all these thoughts are utter rubbish, but I beg to differ. Birthdays are a celebration of your right to be alive, and to be a complete different image of the homosapien species. You don't really find someone out there in the everyday world that looks like an exact carbon copy of you out there right. In other words, U are special.


The front cover of the "Card".


The contents to behold.

So who's gift is next? :D

My Cool Colleagues.

Today's work was pretty boring. Just got this crappy call from a Mr Ding that almost spolit my weekend if not for Gavin. Thanks very much. I really have got a good impression of him.

Now for some pics!

I decided to take this pic of my desk. Looks pretty cluttered, should have packed some stuff before taking the pic on impulse. :P And well, I'm next to the door.


My own desk. Hope the day of my own office will come someday.

My colleagues, Sarah and Faizal, really a funny bunch, from a certain angle, he really does look like Hady Mirza, this year's Singapore Idol. Ya know what's the best thing? This guy was from TP and my course mate, and during BMT, when I'm in Whiskey Coy, he was in the rival Scorpion Coy. What a small world.


My Scorpion Friend.

And here's another pic of the day, with our Hady Mirza lookalike and Ms Sarah Kim. Sarah ah, she's a really funny person, rather cute too. Her concepts on "How drinking soya milk makes you look beautiful...", "This is my concept of Body Art..." Basically, she's kinda gonna rock some guys world, if you really do meet her, that is. Please too, don't judge her by her appearance, she might look rather lian, chor lor, china girl etc. But please, don't be fooled. She's actually just your sweet and innocent 18 girl-next-door babe in the making.

New Pics this week.

Was passing by the guardhouse at my condo yesterday, took a pic of the two cats the guard keeps. Cute Cats. Always when I get a fish for them, they don't come.


Meow.

Was chewing on some Gummi Bears in the workplace, when i remembered my hp screensaver. haha.

Fair Weathered Friends.

Went down to meet Shimin today. Realized what a fair weathered friend she can be sometimes. I used to agree with her in the past, regarding her troubles at the workplace. Now, while I'm working, I beg to differ, and what does she do? She starts throwing her kiddy tantrums at me in public, stamping her feet when I disagreed with her on something. You gotta give and take. Don't expect your colleagues to treat you like a queen just when you're new. I'm not saying of the expectation to be ill-treated by them. It's great that you fight back, but please, don't keep complaining to your boss about them, thats gonna make them dislike you more.

Don't bother matchmaking your "friends" to me. I was just trying to sound interested. Its' not as if you really had that in mind, come to think of it. Probably its just to show to me that you are way better circumstances than me, but from last time, I've always thought of your wee little ambition to find a rich guy to marry just a little off-keyed and absurd bullshit. You think just about every guy juz wants to find some hot bimbo to marry? Yeah, you got brains, but you do lack PR skills. We men too, most of our kind thinks that the hot bimbo just here to get laid, and F-off when they have their fun. I hope you understand having so many boyfriends isn't cool, its just some motivation by some childish needs leading to total crap.

I hope you caught your superstar show, since its way more important than friends, and only when you need me to chat, I tried to be there, but say the truth, as a friend, I doubt you have really shown an existence to me.

(I may be a nice guy, but certainly, every guy does have his darker side. And my darker side is not liking people who take me for granted. )

Facts of Life.

Working at the CPF Board Service Centre has been a great lesson for me.

Juz from answering the numerous calls the whole day, I get an overview of how life is like to the lower-income half of the Singapore people. Their life is where a single dollar counts in every part of their lives. A single call resulting in a single bonus can lead to them living with hope for another day. Sometimes listening to the old folks telling me about their lives really pains me. I do hope the G-Men can do what they can to help them. Everyone must play their part.

Also, the old folks rely very much on hearsay, some ignorant people might completely distort the real deal, thus making them confused, and us CSOs even more blur in processing their requests. Some examples include, "Put $50 into ur CPF A/C to get $400", "Don't work, money will come on its own." There's no free lunch in this world, everyone's out to work, earn their keep. Even for myself, its the case.

But there are really some kind souls out there, who are willing to help these old dudes out, doing them a unconditional fav. God bless them.

Once, this old auntie was telling me about her job, I needed to know her job scope to better provide her with an answer.
She said in Hokkien, "I cook curry chicken, when there's a funeral or wake. I'm there to cook. Do you need any?"
I was like, " Er. no (...), then i went on to explain how she could get her bonus.

Another case, this old man was telling me his family background, he screwed/complained/chat with me for whole 30 mins about it. He sounds so down. No $, only able to rent a place, but then can't really read well, jobless. But due to the address he stated, he could only be paid 200 bucks, since it was located in a high-end area. I did my best to be professional, and give a caring ear at the same time, but it wasn't easy. Both ends are really far apart.

Sometimes I wish I can do more. I do wish that these old folks are happy, everytime I hang up the phone after the conversation.

There's also those filthy rich, who also want such gains. I depise them, since their pockets are already lined up with cash, why still seek the government?

I'll dedicated the time i'm gonna spend at work to making life better for them in anyway i can.

Blessing are needed.

The 16th is coming...

The 16th day of the month is finally coming, then in 5 more days i'll shall be able to get my pay for the past 2 weeks work. Yippee. Crap, yesterday got my arm injured due to Ian's shiho-nage, guess it was "revenge" from another point of view. haha.

Things I might do with the money,
1. Maybe plan a farewell.
2. Bring the money overseas.
3. Treat my family members to dinner.
4. Get a digital tv USB Adapter.

Still considering whether I should work for Sky in the incoming IT Fair. I can't say that he's a very good boss either.

I'm Wet, wet, wet...

Finally I have some time to blog now. I've been drenched like mad for the past week, gettting caught in the rain like nobody's freaking business. I work 5.5 days, but I get drenched 4.5 of these days. Caught a cold in the end.

Went to get a new phone yesterday, the K800i. I rather liked the interface of the phone, though I'm not so used to the txt msging function as to now.

So now the K800i is outta my list, does it means that the would be camera that I'm buying is also out?

Anyway, I'm to work.

Work, work.

Time now is 4:02pm...(yay, ending work. Heehee.)

Know what kinda time this is? Its the end of the day timing. For days, everytime I look at the clock to check how long is the time left to finish work, this is the time the clock shows me, and it has been the same since the 1st day I started work!


Work...work. Taken this noon.

Been thinking about buying this phone, waiting for my 2-year plan to end. Wah...its coming.


The K800i Sony Ericsson phone.

2 more weeks to pay day.

Few more days to pay day. Feel so happy. Will be able to do so many things that I'm longing to do. The best thing that I wanna get to do is a camera costing b/w 399-499 bucks. Thats enuff for me. 2nd thing is to get the Joi Chua album, I really loved the way she sings in SCV.

OMG. Cindy was asking that the 3 of us meet at my place for our gathering. Looks like I gotta start packing my room. I don't want her to see how crappy it looks man. But well, it's a typical guy's room. What more can you say? I wonder how would her room look like?? Scarcely look really messy.

Think I should take a before and after photo and post it here. Haha. Btw, my dear Whiskey coy friends, I've developed the photos, once I've scanned them into the com, I'll post a url here for you guys to download from there.

Oh yeah:

My old deceased basketball shoe.

Shaky Limbs.

My wrists and back still hurt from the new techniques Ahmad invented yesterday. Now, even when I hold a pen, my hand starts shaking from the pain. My back still hurts. damn pain.

Life facing the Verbal Assault Specialist.

The Verbal Assault Specialist. The one and only Hokkien Peng.

1 week has passed since I started working at the CPF Board. Hours of incessant calls, sometimes I really feel so pei chek with the Singaporeans calling to there. Literally a bunch of jokers. The english-speaking callers are not bad, the chinese, well, I could do. Wah, but the Hokkien-speaking are really one kind. They can talk talk talk, end of the call I wil just be thinking, "Huh? ??? WTF they talking?"

Anyway, true to say, the only "Temp CSO" that can speak Hokkien dialect is me, so lan lan gotta handle these #$%$##*^ cases. Hope the new batch of temps coming tomorrow can take over this crap task.


I feel....Lonely. Am I destined to spend my life alone? Always look at the cards u gave me. They are special. Am I suppose to be forever living in regret of the one chance I missed 7 years ago? ..I wished I could turn back time, back to the time we were just friends, feelings still there, a line u will understand, I loved you then, now I still do, regardless of how much you have changed.

Forever the GOLDFISH in my heart.

Wishlist to complete

Here's my wishlist for this term:

1. A USB adaptor to watch tv on the notebook.
2. More names to write on my Death Note.
3. Settle my accomodation in the OZ fast.
4. Buy my camera with the money earned from my job.
5. Meet up with Cindy and Alvin.
6. Develop the photos taken.
7. Get my pay!
8. Get Norman return me my stuff.
9. Treat Xiao Bai to Sakura.

Hmm, after not playing basketball for so long, since going to the gym, I realized my endurance more or less increased. I'm better "equipped" to VS the bigger sized guys now. And thanks to the new pair of shoes I bought, I almost "seemed" to be able to tenkan and irimi tenkan around my opponents. Haha.

Feb is drawing nearer. My workplace is rather cool and abit to boring too, except for the workplace horror, a quote from my mentor, Marcus. Was telling Eng Cheong about it, and his answer was, "Well, at least the exchange is better for you."

Went down to Vivocity's Food Republic today, Tried this "Thunder Tea Rice" I admit I really loved the rice, it tasted so GOOD! But as for the Thunder Tea, I almost puked. Instead, my dad really LOVED eating it, after he swapped his hotpot with my thunder tea rice.

Oh yeah, I got a article about it. Maybe I can pass it to Sarah tmr, since she's a vegetarian. She should like it. Or to Julian, the would-be culinary expert. Anyway theses 3 dudes are my colleagues while I'm hanging out at CPF Board.

OMGosh. Look at the time. Sleeping time.

Work work.

2nd day of work. Bleach...

2nd day of work and I'm beginning to feel the pressure of answering calls. Met my mentor today, seems he's from a certain JC. Haha, He says he knows "someone".

Quote: This girl looks really young, especially with her ponytail in school. With cute chubby cheeks..

Gotta get ready with the phone answering, hope nt too much stress. My feet are killing me, jus' not used to wearing office shoes.

Good thing i have this foot massager. Gee.

Personal DNA.

Took this personal DNA Test.

Here.

Job Ahoy!

Began working my new job today. I'm now working at CPF Main Office at the Call Centre. As a Customer Service Officer. (I think.) Wish me luck in doing my stuff correctly. The funny thing today was, that I met Ah Yeo there! Seems like he's working as a temp there. Then in 2 weeks time he's gonna go work in Melbourne. Hmm, can go over there to look for him. Hope I can understand my job scope better and last thru the 2 months. Hope I can get along well with my supervisor.

Maybe I can see the camera in my hand..the T10. My Black T10.

You know, Usually, such cameras are usually bought by couples who wish to share stuff together, but then I find it such a waste. Better if I get one, then when my other half wishes to use it, then can just get it from me. No need for so much hassles.

Nw I'm beginining to think relationships are such a bore, no reason to start one.

No. I mustn't think like this. This is not me.

(Identity Crisis.)