Chinese New Year

So, during these 3 days, I have to rush everything, and its lots of things.

1st, my CNY shopping is quite done. My mum has stuffed the fridge with practically chunks of meat, prawns, fish and more. Chinese New Year looks like a famine period to me, with all the people rushing to stock up food in their homes. If you have experienced going to NTUC during these days, you'll see why. People are practically flooding the supermarket, shovelling loads of goodies/ food/ drinks/ abalones/ meat/ mandarin oranges onto their shopping cart. I observed some cashiers doing their job, and i must say, being a cashier at NTUC is FREAKING TOUGH. They got loads of thingys to remember sia, like pasting 'PAID' stickers onto bulky items, Linkpoints, cash vouchers, membership thingys, codes for types of foods, scanning barcodes ... ... list can go on for abit more...

2nd, my own shopping is done. Bought a shirt at Natural Project [AMK] at $69, and a pair of jeans that had this shiny/tint look for $69.90, a belt at Spade for $35.90, and later, I'm going for a haircut and hair straightening [about $30] as well. I'm not buying shoes, cause I already have a pair of formal shoes that was worn for like, only once for a presentation. If counted, then my whole outfit seems to be around $200 ba. Hai... ... CNY is such an expensive festival. But it's worth it, since it's only once in a year.... ...

Went to school on Thursday to complete the Cell Bio logbook and to complete Project 1 report. Forgot to bring my logbook, so I went home, BUT THEN when i reached home, realised I left my keys WITH MY FRIENDS AT NYP!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL! You should know what I had to do to get my precious logbook ba...? So sian, wasted yet a few more trips of money... came back to NYP, and only had little time to complete till materials section!!!!!!!!!! Lol. but then anyway, went to the Cell Bio lecture, and guess what the Lecturer said?

"I'm only giving you until tomorrow, latest at 5pm to hand in your logbook."

What the... ... Then why did I need to rush?

So Friday was quite funny as well. I brought my LOGBOOK, but then I forgotten to hand them in together with the rest!!! Found out only at about 5.11pm, and I thought I am going to be dead foe Cell Bio module [Big fat zero if you did not hand in.] But luckily, passed it up on time Thanks to my imoto Marlene... whew. Went arcade, then spammed on KOF: MIA for only one game, then had to accompany my mum for CNY SHOPPING. If you are interested about what SERIOUS incident had happened to me and Marlene, which is about some lame idiot hogging the machine, then feel free to visit my imoto's blog, Marlene, under my links page. Careful though, you DO NOT WANT TO GET BURNT BY HER BLOG! > <

That's all for now, cause I need to cut my hair... byee, be blogging After the 1st few days of CNY.
HAPPY NIU YEAR EVERYONE AND HAVE A GREAT YEAR AHEAD!

My week is tough...

Before I knew it, this week descended upon me quite badly. But still, I love to blog about it, even though after 6 hours of sleep to replenish my energy from the torturous week.

1st, every morning when I wake up for lectures, my eye seems to be unable to be rid rid of the persisten sore eyes. It caused my eyes to have a SWOLLEN tearduct, IRRESISTABLY ITCHY and making my eyeballs go red colour like it was being painted. I've counted, and this symptom has been going on for @ least 4 days! Damn, but luckily when it approaches noon, it sort of dissipates.

2nd, Stress grabs hold of me again this week, as I have to do the poster for the Project 1, and do Report for it as well [for Comm Skills and Project1, the same report is graded, along with oral presentation for the Food exhibition.], and completion of the logbook for Cell Bio.

3rd, I have been sleeping late at night for consecutively 4 days, due to work and schoolwork. My poor eyeballs, I think they went red and sore because of this. *Plucks out eyeballs and sayang them* I nearly dropped in front of my lappie while playing Pets Society at a day, and consistent warnings of my eyes to shut down.

4th, I AM NOT EVEN DONE WITH CNY SHOPPING and HOUSECLEANING! I know it might sound funny, but my mum seriously has not tidied the house yet, and has not bought all the things needed to change the mood into CNY. Well, at least she managed to bring home something [pinaeapple biscuits, BLACK SESAME cookies {oooh I like it}, love letters, peanut crisps and a few déco for the house]. I am going to rush to shop for my clothes with my aunt today after school, and for tomorrow, because I CANNOT GO ON SATURDAY SINCE MY CAPTAIN DOSEN'T ALLOW AND NO ONE IS WILLING/ AVAILABLE TO WORK IN MY PLACE FOR GOODNESS SAKE! Frankly speaking, if this happens another time, I'll request to stop work totally then. But, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is what I really need, and not the condition of the workplace!

Well, that's mainly what was bothering me so much this week.

I had fun on Wednesday...

It was the Food exhibition for our Project 1, and we [the evil gang] had prepared sooooooooooo much for it. We went for trials after trials, and finally, it was considered quite a huge sucess. :) I love it!

So, the minute I got to N607, I immediately headed for the finishing touches, as well as the last minute poster. I only had around 2 hours to make sure everything was completed and set up, while my other members were cooking the MJK for the visitors. We made a poster for the exhibition, and at the very last minute, I frantically made a small poster for our class as well, since we had no name for our class. The pictures of my hard work and sweat and 100% effort into doing it:My precious poster, with popup effects [MJK], papiér maché MJK model, and the ingredients drawings ^ ^Then came the exhibition pronto. Oooooh, it was very last minute thingy, because, like before we actually were totally ready, crowds came in already!!!!!!! I was the only one in the exhibit area, so I quickly finished everything and informed my evil gang. Didn't quite like the idea of being on the last row, since after the 1st and 2nd row, they WERE TOO FULL to actually eat more food. So there was not much attractions for our class bench, but nevertheless, Wanwen, Bixue and Jas managed to promote our Personal MJK [Mee Jiang Kueh] by distributing them to the crowds, so we didn't waste anything... Lol, lots of lecturers visited us, including Dr. Phoon, the Chinese Biochem lecturer, Ms Lye, Ms Sze, Ms Marlene and as well as some Food Science lecturers. Ms Tee was there as well, since she needed to grade us in terms of the poster, and oral presentation. Nice though, and after that we took lots of pictures. Well, NOT ACTUALLY ME who wanted to take so much, but, just see from the photos and you'll know who la:

LOL, who's this mental nutcase who escaped from IMH?

Ehem, not free, not free, stop taking photos, not free. . . . . . . Wanwen looks like a coconut head! ^ ^And here are the photos the gals [S.H, Y.T, K.L & H.W] requested me to post on my blog ^ ^ :

So, 0803 gals, are you satisfied? Muahahahahahahaha. Yours Truly, Mur-hwee san.

Nothing in Particular

Something really fun happened today.
Working as usual at Hougang PL, from 12 to 11. Late again as usual, but there was this interesting thing that happened. I realise that people's attitude changes so much given a period of time. The people I don't quite associate myself with [yesterday] has much, much more nicer attitude today. Well, I was surprised initially, but still was not totally convinced still. I think it was just an occasional change once in a while ba. Ate breakfast I bougt beforehand, which consisted of a stick of skewered gyoza [veggie filling lol] and a carrot cake.
I hate being stuck in the service and central position, cause for like, since a few weeks after Don left Hougang Branch, I HAVE been in this state till NOW. I don't know, but I feel a sense of bias in the part of job allocation lor. Tell me if I'm wrong then, if there is no bias. I still don't get the chance to be the cashier for one FULL day. Seriously. . . > <
Anyway, enough of the rant that I'm supposed not to say in this post. During my break, after my meal, went to NTUC to take a look, and saw YiTing sia... LOL! She did not see me even though she was almost standing right in front of me! I gave her a tap, then she saw me. ^ ^
Sales today hit nearly $3k, at $2957++, so you could have imagined the crowd we had to suffer for that HUGE amount of $$. I hate being split into many parts again, but LUCKILY after my Break, Julia came and shared the burden with me sia! She kept 'coughing' when she passed me, when I was eating pepper rice. LOL, so I 'coughed' back lor. Then came the night crowd. Another manager came in after Joshua left, and he spotted me without my nametag sia. Damn embarassing, but it was nothing. After that came the CONTINUOUS FLOW of customers. Luckily, no rude and violent behaviours was dished out, so it was considered lucky. 2 persons managing service was barely enough to do everything in order, so imagine when I DID it alone last time. Still, I felt quite stressed la, but not to the extent.
Credits to Julia and Teck Heng for helping me end service closing soooooooooo damn fast. OK Julia, posted liao hor! Don't dare say I never posted OK! This was the fastest closing I had ever done till now.
This is the interesting part> We shared Chicken Pepper Rice, courtesy of Mashi, since he really thought I was 'emo-ing' away to him. It was just a face I made, and he was so sure I was acting weird. Actually. . . . . . . nothing's wrong with me, LOL! To think that by that face I made, I can make people concern about me.
And the dishwasher was shit. He kept complaining when the crowd left and I gave him the hotplates left. He grumbled: "Wah Kao, still got so much rubbish!". When I herad him say that, I stopped at stared at him, totally unbeliveable. HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW WHY THERE IS SO MUCH F**KING RUBBISH YOU IDIOT. ASK THE CROWD, AND DON'T SHOW THAT F**KING ATTITUDE OF YOURS BY SLAMMING THE DISHWASHING MACHINE DOOR AND THROW YOUR TANTRUM LIKE A BABY WHEN YOU ARE OVER 40 YEARS OLD, F**KER. AND PLEASE DO A GOOD JOB OUT OF YOURSELF, CAUSE YOUR STATION IS PRACTICALLY SUBSTANDARD. Even though if I can't guarantee I can do a better job, at least I DON NOT THROW A TANTRUM LIKE YOU, and splash pumpkin soup on the side of the sink. > <>
I don't know if really anything is wrong, but for sure that there is this queer feeling in my body that tells me to 'stop doing anything and go home'. Maybe something was really wrong, not sure though.
Anyway, I'm too tired to actually lenthen this post anymore. Sweeeeet dreams baby.... and wake up to a new day, fresh and active. Bye for now....

A post of my emotions

Again, one week has passed, and my post has arrived on this day. Lol, but the previous week was very, very stressful, as far as I can remember. I had 2 tests on 2 consecutive days, and to make it worse, I forgotten to email my tutor the ingredient list. The practical was switched from Wednesday to Monday! Shit sia, I have forgotten everything like...

So on Monday, I had to take the Physics quiz at 4pm. Not very promising, even though it was an open book test. Tuesday was a bit more pleasant, for the Biostats quiz was surprisingly easier. Had German lessons on Wednesday, and ate together with my Sistas at Koufu. we went to Sakuran to do a bit of helpout, then left home. On Friday, Open House was all hot and hip, with me having to COLLECT REPORTS and hand them in to Dr. Phoon. Sucks to do this kind of thing when people around you are enjoying themselves over open house. Then went to the library to get a bit of quiet peaceful environment and waited for my imotos to complete their helpout in openhouse. Proceeded to have another spamming session in arcade, but it was not enough.

This week was no better. All the stress is killing me, and I could not meet up with my imotos for *stress relieving*, which I liked. Particularly in the Biochemistry project, in which I nearly caused someone to get F**ked up. Sorry to you, if you are ever gonna read this post. Didn't really mean for it to happen. I just oculdn't balance my time well enough to satisfy what is required of me. One thing really perked me up though, and it was my pet in pet society. level up damn fast, and that I am proud of. If not, I would have gone nuts.

Seriously, I have got to write a memo if I want to be ahead of time. Time isn't enough in my case. I've got soooo much things to do and prepare, yet I still have work, and exams oncoming. I really hate multi-tasking sia. Sooner or later, I will change for the better. Not sure about my revision, but I really NEED to revise soon, and get the habit of doing schoolwork when I'm at home. If not, I'll die for the exams for sure. My grades for the common test:

German Language: B+

Organic Chemistry: B+

Connunication Skills: B+

Cell Biology: D+

Physics for Food Science: D+

Well, I'm not very satisfied with cell bio and physics, so i am going to brush them up. Lately, I am staying up till 2-3am in the night, and now when I type this post, my EYES are trying to shut down everytime. I fight so hard to keep them open at times, but still I give in to the overpowering sensation most of the time. Is is that I cannot plan time well enough to cope with studies+work+homework+assignments, or is this just the reality of POLY LIFE? Can't type anything juicy and exciting right now, and can't be bothered.

Also had a family gathering with my relatives living in Australia, and we had dinner. Seriously, I hate eating the same food types again and again and again and again. WHY? Always the same, fried rice, then something else, then nothing was exciting to me at all. Really, I could have just went down to PL to enjoy a Pepper Steak for $15++, and still get satisfaction from it. During the gathering, we [children sitting on a separate table, obviously for some reason.] even had no soup, till I ASKED FOR ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F**K!!! NO CREATIVITY AND I HATE THEM FOR THAT! Who do they think we are sia, the adults. Never even ASK for wat we wanted at least... Boring, I tell you, but the photos session was perhaps the most exzciting thing that ever happened that day, which was after I docked off work. Expected something MORE DRAMATIC, but it was really quite disappointing. My cousins really changed/ westernized much. I guess its the environment that changes a person's look and accent, cause they adopted this American slang in their sentences. I envy them... to be able to travel overseas and actually live there permanently. When will I get the chance? I don't know... ...

Photos we took:

Have work tomorrow, and I dread going to work, due to several people I do not WISH to see at work. Seriously, PL @ Hougang has changed loads since Don left, and I am saddened. I don't feel so much more enthusiastic for work nowadays, and I get lesser than-ever-hours for weeks already. I practically dislike many people there, about their attitudes, actions and so on. If these people do not think what they do is wrong, then I really have nothing to say. I am only close to the older crew, and some new crew, but DEFINITELY NOT THAT PERSON. He's acting like he's the one planning the work allocation, which is supposed to be a captain's job. Sometimes, he gives me shitty attitude. Really sorry if youe EVER happen to read this post, but I still have to say it. I can't tolerate your shitty act-like-manager-and-thinks-the-whole-world-revolves-round-you-and-your-precious-order-and-freaking-rules attitude. One word for it: AVOID HIM ba, since he spoils my mood severely everytime I see him at work. He's cool, but too cold ba, and there's this aura of seriousness round him when we work. Like, I don't wish to go on anymore lest people get mistaken that my blog is only about ranting. It's not, and it features episodes from my life that I think I SHOULD blog and share bout it. Too bad if you're the one being ranted, but I'll try to minimise my violence if I rant next time. And I assure you, the next post is gonna be a HAPPY ONE. Sweet dreams for me, and Ganbatte for work tml.

SUNDAY IS HELL.

I'll never forget Sunday, NEVER WILL.
Working as usual, but more frustrated this time. I have NEVER felt sooooooo f**king insanely mad with anger like this AT WORK. Ok, so I came in at 12 exactly, so it was considered late for a few seconds. Punched in [fingerprint laser reader], entered and then worked as central again [Since like after Alice came in, I was always nearly the central person till now, before I could actually close the section in which I should be working as. Eg.> working as a cashier for the day, but ended up doing other things...till night, then could I touch cashier when I did closing. Odd isn't it?]. Oh, a central was supposed to be a person who runs round the store, seeing if anybody needed help, then offer it. Imagine a person scuttling round, helping crew if they cannot tahan.
I was actually fine with it initially, but it got worse as time passed by, especially after my break at 5pm. Ate with Julia, then before I knew it, it was 6pm already. The situation became mad when I was asked to do central again, and till a situation outbreak was caused by a particular person I would not like to name. He/she was supposed to be the server, and I was supposed to be a central right? How come I can end up as the server for like, 2-3 hours again?! During these hours, I was at the point of exploding with stress+anger. Yet I kept quiet. People asked if I was Ok, but I just said yes anyway... Can they tell that I am looking not OK? cause when i am stressed sometimes, they ask if i'm ok, and sometimes when i was ok, they'd ask also sia. Jen was the more sensitive one, so I guess she knew this. I wanted so much to practice kitchen for at least some time with Jen, but I could not, seeing that someone else had possessed the position as a central. I was soooooooo mad and soooooooo stressed, and with the continuous flow of people and large crowds, I was surprised why I didn't blow up. Luckily, Alice came out in the nick of time to help solve my service crisis [mixup of seating arrangements + Large crowds that had tables already. Confusing, that's all]. A short breather, but before I knew it, dishes came flying out so fast, and the piles of plates on the tables was increasing, and I couldn't split myself up into 2 persons. I managed to get by it in the nick of time, but I was shaking in rage and had abnormal breathing[the kind when you were angry, and panted excessively.] I had to fake a smile when they asked me if I was OK again. Great.
I went to the washroom to release most of my emotions, and before I knew it, I finally got to do central. Which presented another problem. The previous person did not inform the kitchen staff that the rice was decreasing! Luckily, Alice said something that relieved 50% of my stress: 'Let Murphy do central la, the poor boy has been servicing since he started work.'
Do you know that, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RICE IN YOUR RICEPOT LEFT, AND IF IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A PEAK PERIOD FOR DINING, THE CONSEQUENCES IS DISASTROUS? Imagine an ice cream store without any ice cream, and you'll know what I mean. Alice was soooooooooo mad that I can't find words to describe it. Blame it on that person, who was so damn careless not to inform that he had used up the last pot of rice in the reserve! And he still had the cheek to actually talk so much over other stuff. During that period of time, people were still flooding us with orders, and queues were still piling up like mad. We were frantic, and had to conserve our resources left: the instant rice packets heated via microwave. And one packet was like the size of a cake, barely enough for a bowl of rice. Poor Julia, who was supposed to dock off at 5, was compromised to stay till 9pm, just because of that mistake. I did my best, and so did anyone else la. Finally the situation stabilised, and Whew, was I GLAD! Went home after I changed @ 10pm, then the whole thing ended.
Try not to do the thing you are not confident of if you can't. And it's a second time, so... please do what the pros say. NOT TRYING to cricticize, but just no offence meant, if you ever read my blog. I'm just damn PISSED the whole day. :(

Merry X'mas and a Happy New Year!

Hey all, a very HAPPY and JUBILANT NEW YEAR, and hope that in 2009, what we encounter will be all good things, like everyone passing exams, get $$, get their dream presents on their birthday, and so on and so forth.... :)

So, I have gotten quite alot of presents from my friends. 6 in total [including 2 from colleagues]:

3 HP STRAPS FROM JASMINE and a hand-made card!
A PACKET OF SWEETS/CRACKERS FROM BIXUE!!!
A DOLL KEYCHAIN FROM WANWEN plus some X'mas cookies!!! A PHOTO FRAME FROM YITING with a X'mas card attched in front!!! A COFFEE MUG FROM my manager, ALICE, FILLED WITH FERRERRO's INSIDE!! Finally, A PIGGYBANK [from Jen]from the gift exchange from Pepper Lunch X'mas PartySo on the day of countdown to 2009, I went to NYP early in the morning, for the trial session thingy. We were fast this time round in clearing up after that, but still lagged behind others in terms of trying to finish the fruits we sliced/diced/mashed... and mind you, it was a large pile! Then later on, I myself hurried to AMK Hub via MRT to buy the last present for my evil gang, and before I stepped out of home, I took some sweets. On the MRT to Woodlands, I hurried in writing the words on each of their cards, but halfway, everyone HAD TO get out of the train due to some things. I managed to finish writing against the pillar nearby, then waited to get on the next train [trying not to be late...].

After reaching Causeway Point, I searched for the nearly 'Legendary' Seoul Garden in the mall. Finally I saw it, but only people from FS0802 was there. I hurried in stuffing the sweets equally amongst the present I bought them [Yo, so I actually bought them a $5 cute coin pouch stuffed with 3 sweets each, 2 Kopi candies and 1 Fox'es candies]. during this, LeAnne's gang came and shocked me into thinking my gang was here, but soon, I saw thwm at the escalator!!! PANIC!!! I have to stuff the remaining sweets, or else they would see the prezzies I got from them! SUCESS, then I hid them in a big pouch, and gave them the cards 1st. They then chose from the pouch for a prezzy, and Wanwen got the rabbito, Bixue got the Chicko, Yiting got the Monkey, and Jasmine got the Doggie coin pouch. Haha, I think they liked it. But so sorry of getting the prezzies soooooooooo late. :(

Then we proceeded into the restaurant, and then had a small feast in the corner with our classmates. I felt abit restricted, since I ate very little beef and seafood, but poor wanwen just can't suffer infection to her injured foot right?

We took some pics, haha.... all here>

Missy 1 & 2 holding their just-gotten prezzies I got them! Ma'am and Sir holding their just-gotten prezzies I got them! The steamboat/teppanyaki started...
And soon we crowded the hotplate and pot with meat/seafood/veggies

And soon the soup turned unrecognizeable, till it was salty and 'unfit' for us to consume.

After the man cleared away our dishes, we had ice cream... haha, the 'EVIL' ice creams.
Sir and Ma'am looking very 'loving' sitting together and eating ice cream. <3

The ice cream I scooped, and decorated with peanut powder.

Missy 1 and 2 made this 'ice cream cake'. LOL, ice cream on cake= ICE CREAM CAKE Had a photo with Ms Marlene [extreme right] after our little feast.

After we finished eating and left, our evil gang went to the arcade and immedietly bought a card worth $16, and started spamming on the machines..... *evil gleam in our eyes* Played lots of games, including the ones requiring the use of hammers [LOL], balls [hitting on-screen enemies] and one that requires you to sit on a machine and have this 4D-feel of a trip which you can choose. WANWEN AND JAS FREAKED OUT!!! LOOK AT THEIR PICS!!! THEY WERE WORSE THAN THE KIDS WHO TOOK IT BEFORE THEM. THEIR sCREAMS WERE LOUDER THAN ANYTHING IN THE ARCADE!!!!!!>

FREAKING OUT BEFORE THE GAME STARTED {0.O}

I don't want to say anything, just LOOK at their faces. {> <}We knew there was an extra surprise after the thing ended, but kept quiet. This is what HAPPENED TO THEM> {-_-}............................ WANWEN AND BIXUE is eating their prizes... {^ ^} A candid shot of my gang in this vintage/victorian houseware shop, after our trip to the arcade

Split up after that, and then rushed to meet my imotos at AMK hub at 4.30p.m . . . Dunno why but our legs brought us up to the arcade, then we had no choice but to accept fate, and we topped up our cards and played KOF: MIA... lost as usual, but this time round I wasn't that PISSED OFF like YTD. Then we played H.O.T.D.4, but Marlene's gun was slightly spoilt, so we died horribly around stage 2!!! !!! Hui-chan then left us, and then Marlene and I went to the Jubilee's zone X. It's seriously much, much more peaceful there, and finally my eardrums are spared from the noises in AMK Hub. Played KOF: MIA again with Marlene, but lost. *pouts* Then received 'tutorials' from Marlene regarding how I should play.Seriously I admit, some things were like, I'm just stubborn in it. That's why I forgot to guard strategically, and failed to use combos unrelentlessly, and failed to not jam on the directional controls. Wandered to play a few more games, and then went home to spend a very lonely+boring+lamest last days for 2008. *curses at..... [I don't even know what to curse, just felt that it sucks for not being able to celebrate my New Year. {>_<}]*