I woke up late today. But I thought I would reach the shop on time, anyway. I prepared a bottle of Milo and rushed off to work.
When I waited for the bus i already know i'm in the danger zone, ie. i may be late. Haha. I quickly got up the bus, quickly looked at my watch for umpteen times, quickly got off the bus, quickly dashed across the road, into the mall, up the escalators, quickly turned the key in the knob, quickly pushed up the shutters, quickly ran to the counter and switched on the computer, quickly pressed the keys and clocked in. AND...
Ah, yes, I was late. Late by one minute. What a waste. I wouldn't be late if the shop was on the first floor. Yeah. IF it was. Argh. I hope they don't deduct my pay.
Xiu Fen came back to TM Dano again. She was previously working here but had been transferred to AMK. Shi Yng was on MC today.
Hui Yan called again. She was telling me something about getting the receipts sent to the office by tomorrow. I couldn't hear her and kept asking her to repeat herself. She then scolded,"Why can't you hear what i'm saying?" I had the temptation to tell her there was some problem with my ear. Well, I resisted it lest i start to laugh. HAHAHAHAHAHA. So before she could say anything further, I told her to wait and went to turn down the volume. Ok. So i heard her instructions but don't exactly understand what crap she was crapping.
One customer bought two sets of 2 for $30 knitwear and asked me to pack them separately in transparent bags. Another customer was looking on and waiting. Poor you. Haha.
Another customer tried on loads of clothes but decided on this white blouse. I recommended her the pink, whisch was quite sweeet. She asked me if i had XXl for pink. Not in my storeroom. I called several outlets to check, but there wasn't any results. So i called the office and they said there wasn't any more stock of this pink XXL anymore, storewide, island-wide, world-wide. Had I known i wouldn't have shown her the pink one. She left without purchasing anything.
Calvin, Vida designer cum HQ Merchandising Department personnel, called and asked me to transfer out some stock. Tomorrow, maybe, when I've finished packing the goods in the storeroom. Now we can't even see the article numbers; just guess and see the pattern when taking out new stock.
Then came this over-enthu customer. She was here with her husband last night, but went off when they smell smoke. But today she mentioned something about catching a movie. So i served her, cause Fizah is no longer working at Dano. She's so jumpy-not nervous kinda jumpy, but jumpy kinda jumpy-and excited, occasionally smacking my arm like a good ol' buddy. Eew. Haha. And she seems to have a tendecy to lift up her blouse(guys, don't drool) to show off her tummy(which isn't really flat or toned). Maybe she was just looking at how the pants fits, I don't know. She tried on a pair of trousers, small size, which fits, but got the medium size which is loose and space-y. Whatever, as long as you feel comfortable(and buy something).
She was choosing betwwen a few jackets and asked for my comments. I told her,"I think this one is sufficient (pointing to the one that is cheaper) and you prefer this one to the others to right?" She agreed, and told me this is what she calls a 'good salesperson'. Haha. Yes I am. I don't care about sales. They won't increase our pay anyway.
In the end her bill amounted to $132.50. Great, but she left me with a whole lot of clothes to pack back. She wanted to exchange for hundred-dollar notes with her fifty-dollar notes. Wow. Rich woman/rich guy's woman. Hahaha.
By then the table was messy like... hell....
I went for my break at 3.10pm. Went to Long John Silvers. Had a Combo 1. Then i walked around and saw a mini crowd at the Oepn Plaza. I went in to take a look. There was some kinda NBA tournament going on there. Small-scale. There were, like, 15 spectators?
Then i went to walk around at 77th Street and Ice Lemon Tee.
Went back to the shop agian and continued to pack, pack, and pack.
My effort finally paid off. The blouse on the mannequin is finally selling. (And it has also brought on the sale of another polka-dot article!) No much effort, really. Haha.
An Indian lady wanted to exchange an item for its colour. Called Jason. Anything, just call him. He can settle everything, anything. I like to call him and disturb. HAHAHA.
Someone from the HQ called and told me about the 'letter' discount.
Around 6.30pm Gladys suddenly appeared at the counter. So she was the one who called and told me about the discounts.
Then she was telling me not to pack goods right now, during weeekends, cause now is the time to do sales. She asked me if it was very important for me to pack. I didn't really think so. So i went back to the storeroomto put anything back. Meanwhile the DVD player went nuts(maybe i had accidentally loosen the plug) and off-ed by itself. Gladys came in and told me "No Chinese songs". Maybe she thought i was changing the discs when i was not. Well i thought of doing that AFTER the songs stopped playing, but not before that. Haha. Don't play lor.
There were a lot of plastic bags full of clothes behind the counter. Gladys was asking me what to do with them . I didn't know, because nobody told me. So I called Shi Yng. She didn't answer. So G called HQ people who came to stock take yesterday. Some were supposed to be transferred out. SY returned the call. So it turns out, after a few missed calls and received calls, that the blue knitwear are to be transferred out while the rest are those without price tags. Xiu Fen had hung some at the back of the shop.
Gladys has a LG chocolate phone. But it's oily. Hahaha.
She said i very jiat lat. Don't know no nothing. Hahaha. I'm innocent! Heeheehee.
She asked me which goods were good-selling. I told her the $16 bags were. Hahaha. What has that got to do with apparel? Hahaha.
Then she found one camisole-lookalike t-shirt which she claims has a wrong cutting.
After an hour she went off. Yay. Freed, at last.
OH! Who knows. I was slacking in the storeroom reading smses when Xiu Fen came in, looking like she was getting new stock, and mouthed something. Gladys appeared behind her, next, saying ther's no more music. Oh S-H-I-T. She had came back with her friend to try on the t-shirt that supposedly had a wrong cutting. So i acted busy, pressed played on the remote control, and went out to serve customers again. G smiled slyly at me once. Chilly....They left a short while later. Lodge a complain against me , please, and get me fired. Haha. That's not gonna happen. They are short of manpower. Wahaha.
At night this McD manager(red blouse) came in with another blue-shirt lady. They took a long time and finally purchased something close to when the shop is closing. Guess they start work at 10pm today.
After work I wandered around before going to the bus stop. Wow it took REAL long. The bus came only at 10.50pm. I waited, like, 15 minutes. =)
I sat down beside a woman who had boarded the bus at the same stop. Then one guy Victor came up at the next stop. She was calling out to him and they started to chat with me in between. The woman was preaching about God, service, church, life, blah blah blah. "God is in control in us", "Why walk around following behind people's backs and walk with them? You should go to church. It's very fulfilling. Don't waste your time", "God is in control in us", "God is in control in us". Missionary? I guess that Victor guy has just converted to Christianity.
Woah. What a day.
And what a long entry.
Twenty-eight days to free-dom.
Oh. Twenty-seven i mean.
Sunday, 18 March 2007
Abuse
16 March 2007
This morning, I took the bus without my eZlink. (Gave it to my mother cause she's gonna to sign up for Singtel Student's Plan.) I dropped in 50 cents and told the bus uncle i was going to TM.
"Student's fare?"
"Yes"
"It's fifty-five cents"
"I thought it's forty-five cents?"
"Yah, fifty-five cents"
I thought 'Huh?' and went to take a seat.
Arrived at TM at 9am. Stock take day.
So boring. I helped to hold up the price tags while the HQ person scanned the barcodes. Then I helped to pack the goods back when the HQ person rips up everything to scan the barcodes. I paired up with this Bao Xian person. In betwwen there was so commotion when baby cockroaches appeared from the storeroom. In total there were seven people in the shop. We ended at around 11.15am.
Fizah came in at 12.30pm. Today's Fizah's last day. She's a really hardworking worker. Shi Yng says that next time, if the company wants to recruit Malays, they should recruit only students.
Anyway, the day goes by. There was this customer who patronised our shop yesterday. She wanted to exchange an item. It was a set including a necklace, a singlet and a jacket. She couldn't fit into the singlet and she han't tried yesterday. Now she wants to exchange it for another item. She kept complaining that we should change for her; we should try to keep our customers back. She was quoting OG and Isetan for allowing her to exchange goods. I was wondering if she often does this. So I called Jason. Can't, man. It's free size and she bought it during the sales period. No way. Bye bye lah, auntie. She stomped off yelling,"Fine! I won't come back to this shop again!" What a big reaction. Just don't wear the singlet. And stop pestering us, please, cause we can't do anything. You should tell it to the big bosses.
When I was on the down-riding escalator, I saw this couple on the up-riding escalator. (The two escalators were side-by-side.) They were sMoOcHiNg and getting real passionate. WAHAHAHAHAHA. Almost everyone were looking at them.
We spent the rest of the day re-packing the goods.
Finally. After a long day at work.
When I got up the bus, I dropped in fifty cents again. I told the bus uncle(who wasn't very old) i was going to Sengkang.
"One-forty"
"But isn't it supposed to be forty-five cents?"
"No, one-forty"
"But i'm referring to the student's fare"
"Do you have the card?"
"No, i didn't bring it"
"Card forty-five cents, cash fifty-five cents, no card one-forty"
"I'm paying by cash cause i didn't bring my card!" (I'm pissed off like mad right now.)
"But you don't have the card. So to Sengkang its one-forty"
"But i don't have any cash left!"
"You take bus you don't know?"
"I thought it was the student's fare!"
"No, cannot. It's one-forty"
"Now I don't have any cash with me!" (Actually there was ten-dollar note and a precious one-dollar ship note I exchanged with the cashier.)
"Cannot. No, cannot."
"So how?"
"No card, must give one-forty"
So i continued to "talk" to the bus uncle. Other passengers may think we were having a lil' chat. But no, I was about to shout vulgarities when we arrived at the next stop.
People started to stream in. Actually i stood there for a few seconds in the hopes of bargaining it out. But i had no choice but to move in with the crowd. Forget it. This asshole will never get it. Can't they be more flexible with the rules? What the TTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
So i walked further and further in . Who cares. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. I doubt the bus driver will get out of his seat to purposely come and challenge me. Don't bother to give me the ticket, cause there won't be any spot checks right now. HA. HA. HA. So I strutted to the back. It's written there clearly to "MOVE TO THE REAR". See, i'm so considerate. Yay! I've beaten the bus uncle! MUHAHAHAHA.....
End of "Confrontation with the Bus Uncle".
Yeah, so i saved $0.10 today. It's commendable. Everything starts small, okay?
I went home and loaded the files in my handphone into my laptop. What the hell. I still have to modify the dates by myself.
Ah, well. Tired with all that stuff.
This morning, I took the bus without my eZlink. (Gave it to my mother cause she's gonna to sign up for Singtel Student's Plan.) I dropped in 50 cents and told the bus uncle i was going to TM.
"Student's fare?"
"Yes"
"It's fifty-five cents"
"I thought it's forty-five cents?"
"Yah, fifty-five cents"
I thought 'Huh?' and went to take a seat.
Arrived at TM at 9am. Stock take day.
So boring. I helped to hold up the price tags while the HQ person scanned the barcodes. Then I helped to pack the goods back when the HQ person rips up everything to scan the barcodes. I paired up with this Bao Xian person. In betwwen there was so commotion when baby cockroaches appeared from the storeroom. In total there were seven people in the shop. We ended at around 11.15am.
Fizah came in at 12.30pm. Today's Fizah's last day. She's a really hardworking worker. Shi Yng says that next time, if the company wants to recruit Malays, they should recruit only students.
Anyway, the day goes by. There was this customer who patronised our shop yesterday. She wanted to exchange an item. It was a set including a necklace, a singlet and a jacket. She couldn't fit into the singlet and she han't tried yesterday. Now she wants to exchange it for another item. She kept complaining that we should change for her; we should try to keep our customers back. She was quoting OG and Isetan for allowing her to exchange goods. I was wondering if she often does this. So I called Jason. Can't, man. It's free size and she bought it during the sales period. No way. Bye bye lah, auntie. She stomped off yelling,"Fine! I won't come back to this shop again!" What a big reaction. Just don't wear the singlet. And stop pestering us, please, cause we can't do anything. You should tell it to the big bosses.
When I was on the down-riding escalator, I saw this couple on the up-riding escalator. (The two escalators were side-by-side.) They were sMoOcHiNg and getting real passionate. WAHAHAHAHAHA. Almost everyone were looking at them.
We spent the rest of the day re-packing the goods.
Finally. After a long day at work.
When I got up the bus, I dropped in fifty cents again. I told the bus uncle(who wasn't very old) i was going to Sengkang.
"One-forty"
"But isn't it supposed to be forty-five cents?"
"No, one-forty"
"But i'm referring to the student's fare"
"Do you have the card?"
"No, i didn't bring it"
"Card forty-five cents, cash fifty-five cents, no card one-forty"
"I'm paying by cash cause i didn't bring my card!" (I'm pissed off like mad right now.)
"But you don't have the card. So to Sengkang its one-forty"
"But i don't have any cash left!"
"You take bus you don't know?"
"I thought it was the student's fare!"
"No, cannot. It's one-forty"
"Now I don't have any cash with me!" (Actually there was ten-dollar note and a precious one-dollar ship note I exchanged with the cashier.)
"Cannot. No, cannot."
"So how?"
"No card, must give one-forty"
So i continued to "talk" to the bus uncle. Other passengers may think we were having a lil' chat. But no, I was about to shout vulgarities when we arrived at the next stop.
People started to stream in. Actually i stood there for a few seconds in the hopes of bargaining it out. But i had no choice but to move in with the crowd. Forget it. This asshole will never get it. Can't they be more flexible with the rules? What the TTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
So i walked further and further in . Who cares. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. I doubt the bus driver will get out of his seat to purposely come and challenge me. Don't bother to give me the ticket, cause there won't be any spot checks right now. HA. HA. HA. So I strutted to the back. It's written there clearly to "MOVE TO THE REAR". See, i'm so considerate. Yay! I've beaten the bus uncle! MUHAHAHAHA.....
End of "Confrontation with the Bus Uncle".
Yeah, so i saved $0.10 today. It's commendable. Everything starts small, okay?
I went home and loaded the files in my handphone into my laptop. What the hell. I still have to modify the dates by myself.
Ah, well. Tired with all that stuff.
Saturday, 17 March 2007
Zest
15 March 2007
Work ended at 4.30pm today.
After that i went to take the MRT to Harbourfront. Oops. The train driver saw me with my Blueberry Ice Blended.
Anyway, I reached Vivocity and bought some chocs at $5++ from Candy Empire. There was some sort of Barbie+Mac event going on at the main hall. Nice. The set-up was gorgeous. Private entry. Shucks.
I went to look for Dano. There wasn't any sign of it around there. I took a brochure of the shops listing of the mall, and there wasn't a Dano outlet there. Maybe it's at Harbourfront Centre or whatever.
Then I went to PageOne. It wasn't Avril Lavigne on the cover of the Billboard magazine. And mind you, it's $14++ for a magazine whose quality is the same as that as your TODAY newspaper. A guy there said there was Avril on the cover for this Arena magazine. But it's 'Unsuitable for the Young'. So i didn't get it. I guess it's a guy's mag.
Then i continued with my quest of finding Pull & Bear. Still couldn't find it. Forget it. If i had continued to search I would be late for my date.
So i took the MRT again to Orchard. I walked to Paragon Shopping Mall, where i met up with my elder brother. Gues what. I was buying my laptop today. We went up to the 4th floor to the Sony Gallery.
Yay! The model i wanted was there! So cool. Vaio. Haha. I've long set my mind on this one. I took a look around while my brother asked the salesperson questions about that model. I joined in here and then. Then my brother told the salesman that I need to consider it first. Huge investment, that man said. Haha.
The salesperson asked if i mind the weight. No, i didn't. The one i decided on was 2.8kg, 15.4 inches. There was another one with similar specs but it was something like 1.65kg and 13.3 inches.
After walking in circles and looking around, I decided on that one particular model. Yay! I knew i would do this. haha.
So.
$2,499. My brother paid using his debit card(get rewards mah). What the hell. I was supposed to return him the money in full sum. Haha.
The salesman then introduced us to the basic functions of the laptop. The first start-up was SUPER slow. Then he told us about the recovery, camera and stuff. We received a laptop case, the adaptor etc and a free wireless mouse. I've to charge the battery for 10 hours for the first time. Hurray!
My brother was hungry and grumbled about sacrificing his time to accompany me to buy the laptop. So I told him I would give him a treat-KFC! Haha!
So we went off to CP, bought dinner and walked home.
YAY.
Work ended at 4.30pm today.
After that i went to take the MRT to Harbourfront. Oops. The train driver saw me with my Blueberry Ice Blended.
Anyway, I reached Vivocity and bought some chocs at $5++ from Candy Empire. There was some sort of Barbie+Mac event going on at the main hall. Nice. The set-up was gorgeous. Private entry. Shucks.
I went to look for Dano. There wasn't any sign of it around there. I took a brochure of the shops listing of the mall, and there wasn't a Dano outlet there. Maybe it's at Harbourfront Centre or whatever.
Then I went to PageOne. It wasn't Avril Lavigne on the cover of the Billboard magazine. And mind you, it's $14++ for a magazine whose quality is the same as that as your TODAY newspaper. A guy there said there was Avril on the cover for this Arena magazine. But it's 'Unsuitable for the Young'. So i didn't get it. I guess it's a guy's mag.
Then i continued with my quest of finding Pull & Bear. Still couldn't find it. Forget it. If i had continued to search I would be late for my date.
So i took the MRT again to Orchard. I walked to Paragon Shopping Mall, where i met up with my elder brother. Gues what. I was buying my laptop today. We went up to the 4th floor to the Sony Gallery.
Yay! The model i wanted was there! So cool. Vaio. Haha. I've long set my mind on this one. I took a look around while my brother asked the salesperson questions about that model. I joined in here and then. Then my brother told the salesman that I need to consider it first. Huge investment, that man said. Haha.
The salesperson asked if i mind the weight. No, i didn't. The one i decided on was 2.8kg, 15.4 inches. There was another one with similar specs but it was something like 1.65kg and 13.3 inches.
After walking in circles and looking around, I decided on that one particular model. Yay! I knew i would do this. haha.
So.
$2,499. My brother paid using his debit card(get rewards mah). What the hell. I was supposed to return him the money in full sum. Haha.
The salesman then introduced us to the basic functions of the laptop. The first start-up was SUPER slow. Then he told us about the recovery, camera and stuff. We received a laptop case, the adaptor etc and a free wireless mouse. I've to charge the battery for 10 hours for the first time. Hurray!
My brother was hungry and grumbled about sacrificing his time to accompany me to buy the laptop. So I told him I would give him a treat-KFC! Haha!
So we went off to CP, bought dinner and walked home.
YAY.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Yield
13th March 2007
Around 9.40am, my phone rang. Shi Yng told me I was supposed to open shop that day. So I woke up, prepared, and went to work.
Woah. It was tough. The atmosphere was.... Anyway, the lights were already on when i reached the shop. So obviously she was already there. The computer waas switched on, but not set up yet. So i pressed the buttons and stuff and clocked in. I went to ask Shi Yng whether she wanted to clock in. She said no, it was her off day, and she was only here to oepn the shop. So she went off. We merely spoke a few sentences.
The office called. First, it was Hui Yan, the one reputedly fierce HQ personnel. She was asking me who closed shop on 7th March, because there is a mistake for the Visa/Master balance. Judging from the handwriting, i guessed it was Rohana, cause Shi Yng was off that day. And there was one day when Rohana didn't check the balance. I said "Dunno?" Then she started scolding me, saying we didn't void the receipt, and that we must check the machines first and blah blah blah. Scold all you want. I'm not afraid of you, cause I'm LEAVING soon!
Another call came. Pei Fang said that a Malay girl would be coming later. Oh, better than nothing.
This malay girl is Fizah(i remember her name by linking it to 'Visa'), a really nice and hardworking girl. She is an ITE student and is on holiday now. She said she had previously worked at Bugis but quit in February. Pei Fang had asked and pestered her to come back to work. The manpower is seriously lacking.
Then a China lady came in, carrying a baby. She wanted to try a pair of pants and asked me to help her carry her baby. I was shocked. I don't know how to carry babies, so i asked Fizah to help. The baby girl was tugging at and grabbing her mama's hair. Fizah loves the kid. I wanted to try it too. So i took over the baby and she was reaching out her hands. Within a few seconds my hands were tired. And the baby didn't look too comfortable. She was pinching my cheeks and pulling my hair. Haha. Brave lil' baby. She didn't cry when in others' hands.
14th March 2007
This morning I jaywalked with a police van just by the traffic light. Some kinda auxiliary department. I thought there wasn't anyone on board the van, so i crossed the road. Oops. There were like, two or three police officers there, just on the side of the van. Suddenly I started to walk very quickly. Haha. They didn't come after me. I guess it's not part of their job. They're not the traffic police.
I opened shop today. Business was poor.
At 12pm, Shi Yng came in. Uh-oh. I thought there was gonna be a cold war for the rest of the day. But no, Shi Yng behaved like nothing had happened. She's still so happy and cheerful.
Shi Yng and I talked very lil' today. Mostly about business. I had originally wanted to come to work at 4pm tomorrow, but i later changed to the 11am-4.30pm shift because i plan to do some stuff tomorrow
Fizah's working only till this Friday. She had called Pei Fang to tell her she didn't want to continue working anymore.
Later, Shi Yng asked me what was happening to me today. (I didn't speak much.) I replied by saying i was tired. Yes, i was indeed, That's part of the reason.
She was telling me how pissed off she was when Jason scolded her that Monday night. I didn't want to come back to work; she didn't want Suet Ling to come to the outlet; i didn't take the keys. She was calling Jason, asking him what she should do, cause i didn't take go over to take the keys and shw was off the next day. Jason scolded her and asked her to settle it herself. Her boyfriend purpoesely shouted "Don't work already lah!"
Then, later, i asked Shi Yng why wasn't she angry that I didn't show up that night. She said she had forgotten about it and only remembered on the bus when her boyfriend asked her if she was off the next day.
So I see.
I told her I was doing something grave with my friend.
Oh yes. Shi Yng put on blue eyeshadow today. Finally. She's always seen with pink eyeshadow. Guess she took my comment.
Then i went to snip off the leaves of the 'tree' inside the shop. They were getting long and brown. Shi Yng said the bosses always come to look at this tree because it is beautiful and lasts the longest, compared to other outlets. They last only a while at other outlets.
So I climbed on the ladder and cut off the brown parts. It was like doing handicraft. I cut the leaves such that their ends are sharp and pointed.
After the tree-cutting ceremony, i went to wash up. Oh, the scissors smell. I felt like puking when i took a sniff. And i got a cut on my arm. Itchy.
So i guess everything's back to normal.
Why do i have to go through this? It's okay.
Thirty-one more days to freedom.
Around 9.40am, my phone rang. Shi Yng told me I was supposed to open shop that day. So I woke up, prepared, and went to work.
Woah. It was tough. The atmosphere was.... Anyway, the lights were already on when i reached the shop. So obviously she was already there. The computer waas switched on, but not set up yet. So i pressed the buttons and stuff and clocked in. I went to ask Shi Yng whether she wanted to clock in. She said no, it was her off day, and she was only here to oepn the shop. So she went off. We merely spoke a few sentences.
The office called. First, it was Hui Yan, the one reputedly fierce HQ personnel. She was asking me who closed shop on 7th March, because there is a mistake for the Visa/Master balance. Judging from the handwriting, i guessed it was Rohana, cause Shi Yng was off that day. And there was one day when Rohana didn't check the balance. I said "Dunno?" Then she started scolding me, saying we didn't void the receipt, and that we must check the machines first and blah blah blah. Scold all you want. I'm not afraid of you, cause I'm LEAVING soon!
Another call came. Pei Fang said that a Malay girl would be coming later. Oh, better than nothing.
This malay girl is Fizah(i remember her name by linking it to 'Visa'), a really nice and hardworking girl. She is an ITE student and is on holiday now. She said she had previously worked at Bugis but quit in February. Pei Fang had asked and pestered her to come back to work. The manpower is seriously lacking.
Then a China lady came in, carrying a baby. She wanted to try a pair of pants and asked me to help her carry her baby. I was shocked. I don't know how to carry babies, so i asked Fizah to help. The baby girl was tugging at and grabbing her mama's hair. Fizah loves the kid. I wanted to try it too. So i took over the baby and she was reaching out her hands. Within a few seconds my hands were tired. And the baby didn't look too comfortable. She was pinching my cheeks and pulling my hair. Haha. Brave lil' baby. She didn't cry when in others' hands.
14th March 2007
This morning I jaywalked with a police van just by the traffic light. Some kinda auxiliary department. I thought there wasn't anyone on board the van, so i crossed the road. Oops. There were like, two or three police officers there, just on the side of the van. Suddenly I started to walk very quickly. Haha. They didn't come after me. I guess it's not part of their job. They're not the traffic police.
I opened shop today. Business was poor.
At 12pm, Shi Yng came in. Uh-oh. I thought there was gonna be a cold war for the rest of the day. But no, Shi Yng behaved like nothing had happened. She's still so happy and cheerful.
Shi Yng and I talked very lil' today. Mostly about business. I had originally wanted to come to work at 4pm tomorrow, but i later changed to the 11am-4.30pm shift because i plan to do some stuff tomorrow
Fizah's working only till this Friday. She had called Pei Fang to tell her she didn't want to continue working anymore.
Later, Shi Yng asked me what was happening to me today. (I didn't speak much.) I replied by saying i was tired. Yes, i was indeed, That's part of the reason.
She was telling me how pissed off she was when Jason scolded her that Monday night. I didn't want to come back to work; she didn't want Suet Ling to come to the outlet; i didn't take the keys. She was calling Jason, asking him what she should do, cause i didn't take go over to take the keys and shw was off the next day. Jason scolded her and asked her to settle it herself. Her boyfriend purpoesely shouted "Don't work already lah!"
Then, later, i asked Shi Yng why wasn't she angry that I didn't show up that night. She said she had forgotten about it and only remembered on the bus when her boyfriend asked her if she was off the next day.
So I see.
I told her I was doing something grave with my friend.
Oh yes. Shi Yng put on blue eyeshadow today. Finally. She's always seen with pink eyeshadow. Guess she took my comment.
Then i went to snip off the leaves of the 'tree' inside the shop. They were getting long and brown. Shi Yng said the bosses always come to look at this tree because it is beautiful and lasts the longest, compared to other outlets. They last only a while at other outlets.
So I climbed on the ladder and cut off the brown parts. It was like doing handicraft. I cut the leaves such that their ends are sharp and pointed.
After the tree-cutting ceremony, i went to wash up. Oh, the scissors smell. I felt like puking when i took a sniff. And i got a cut on my arm. Itchy.
So i guess everything's back to normal.
Why do i have to go through this? It's okay.
Thirty-one more days to freedom.
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Fucker, Sucker and What-ever.
Yay! Off day! I had a blast today although there were some hiccups.
I met Tiffany at Hougang Mall this morning. As usual, she is late. HAHAHA. After that we walked over to Hougang Plaza and booked a room at KBox. Aiya. Wasted. We were 5 minutes late. Then I started to select the songs. All Jay Chou. There wasn't enough space to select all his songs(the max is 30). I realised he is so handsome. That JJ wanna copycat and have a bad-boy, man-man image. Dream on lah. He is obviously those kinda boy-next-door image artiste. Hahahahaha.
By the way, Kbox is holding music/musical instrument courses. Guitar too! I shall join the Absolut Guitar CCA at TP. Haha.
So we sang. It was fun. Wonderful. Yay! We had a fish bento set each(KLunch mah). Not bad lah. I ordered Sprite and Tiffany ordered ice lemon tea. Then I started to burp into the microphone(purposely). It was hilarious. Yeah, gross, you say.
We struggled with 'Shan Hu Hai'. We ALWAYS do. Haha. We always end up stealing each other's lines or trying to catch up with the tempo. We chit-chatted while singing. Then we started to stand up on the couch. It was better that way. Easier to sing out loud. Halfway through my phone rang. It read 'TM Dano'. Oh shucks. The Death Call. I hate to see 'TM Dano' on the caller ID. I get jitters every now and then when the phone rings since Dano times. Ah well. So i answered it. It was Shi Yng.
Shi Yng: Hello. Eh Ka Sia, you come and work now.
I was like, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO flabberghasted.
Me: HUH? I am outside now leh. Rohana never come ah?
SY: Yah. Where are you now? I'm all alone in the shop now. Come quickly.
Me: I'm at Kbox. I can't leave now.
SY: You don't sing for so long lah. (What?! Waste money! You compensate ah?)
Me: Can't. I can't leave now. I have stuff to do.
SY: Didn't we agree on it yesterday?
(She had told me that I could go out if i didn't receive her call after 1pm, cause it would mean Rohana has arrived.)
Me: I don't know. I'm not free now.
SY: Huh...? They say they will ask Suet Ling(her nemesis) over if you don't come leh. Tomorrow i off she will also come.
Me: Then let her come lah. SInce Rohana don't wanna work anymore, sooner or later someone has to come.
SY: Huh...? But I don't want to see her. Aiya I don't know lah. I'm very frustrated.
Me: I don't know...
SY: You come lah... Or I ask Jason(OM) to call you lor.
Me: OK lor.
So I hung up. What a dampener.
Call lah. Scared ah?
Tiffany saying was cursing "Wah lao" while I was cursing "Wah lao, fuck". Argh.
Minutes later, Pei Fang, someone from the HR department at the HQ, called.
PF: Hello Ka Sia ah?
Me: Yah.
PF: Can you go to work now?
Me: No, I can't. I'm outside now and I have stuff to do.
PF: Oh, but now Shi Yng's the only person left at the shop.
Me: Isn't Suet Ling going over to help?
PF: It's not confirmed yet...
PF: Hmm... Until when will you be busy?
Me: Until the night.
PF: OK, never mind.
Tiffany commented that the people at the HQ are more kind and understanding. Yah. Haha.
Yeah, so I'm freed. Good. But there's more to come.
One staff came in and asked if we wanted to extend our session by 1 hour, with one more drink each. No, obviously not.
Around 1.50pm another staff came in(at the climax of our song) to tell us that this would be the last song. Haha. Dream on, baby. Last 5th song, maybe. SO we continued to stay in the room, picking out all the songs we MUST sing today. Tiffany picked out three songs, one from Angela and two others from Fahrenheit(eew, gross).
And the F-I-N-A-L-E. Ba Wo Hui Lai Le, Jay's song. My fave. Someone came in halfway and asked us if we had wanted to extend the session. I guess that's a more polite way of asking us to "GET OUT!" Hahaha. So I finished my song(I still can't rap the second part fluently) and we left. How thick-skinned we are! Whatever. Make full use of the charges ok?
After that we went to walk around in HG Mall. We ate the Gelare ice-cream. I had Cookies & Cream(always my fave!) and Tiff had somewhat a Strawberry... Explosion?
We were chased out of Ice Lemon Tee because of the super-long-cone ice-cream. We went to try in at Watsons and The Bluez. Nobody gave a damn about us at Watsons but we were once again, chased out at the latter. We walked around, finished up the ice-cream, and went into the arcade. I played one round of Time Crisis 4. Wah. Died very quickly today. Haha.
Then we went into The Bluez and ILT again. I got a black satin tie at ILT. There wasn't a price tag, so i just told the shop assistant i want it. She told me I have to tie the knot myself and got a new one for me. The other shop assistant performed a demo and i somehow learnt how to tie it. If not i could just ask the guys at home.
I thought it would be $4.95, or, at the most, $8.95. But guess what. Just when I was wondering what's the price of the tie, I turned around to the counter and saw this: 'Accesory $12.95'. I assumed it was for the previous purchase of some other customer. But, no. The shop assistant told me this was the price. Oh. My. Gosh. So expensive. I'm duped. It's a SCAM! So I had to Nets it. @_@ And I got another sleevelss jacket at $19.95. Love it.
After that my lil' bro called me. Actually he had called me a lot of time before this, pestering me to bring him to LAN shop. But my mom would never ever let him take the bus on his own. Maybe he persuaded her or something, but my mom decided to fetch him here.
So we picked him up and went off to Hougang Plaza again. Along the way we gossiped about one of our ex-classmates. (Tiffany! Look at this! Haha.)
So we went into the LAN shop. The computers are still the old, fat ones. Doesn't matter. So we logged on and played DOTA while Tiff stood beside and watched. There were some laugh-out-loud quotes in the process of the game. WAHAHA.
Ok, here goes. My phone rang AGAIN. Yeah. It's her again.
SY: Hello Ka Sia ah? Tomorrow it's your turn to open shop.
FLABBERGHASTED oNcE mOrE.
Me: Huh? (My fave word)
SY: Tomorrow you open shop. Office say one. (Oh my god. I was so fucking angry when I heard this. So what? I'm so not afraid of the office or whoever. Not even the boss. Why must she do that?) So you have to come and take the keys.
~Silence~
SY: So what time you coming?
Me: Dunno.
SY: You come at night. Cos now there's only one key.(Rohana took the other one along with her escapade.) So you come at 9.30pm lah. Cause I also need the key to lock the shutters.
Me: Orh.
"End Call". Oh my god. What the fuck?
I'm not trying to cast myself in a postive light or whatsoever, but this is so damn fucking me up. Will it kill her if she open the shop tomorrow? Yeah, maybe its her off day or whatsoever. I've also been through phases where I've to open shop consecutively for four or five days, and I was tired, but I did my job. Would it fucking kill her? There was once I helped her to open shop. That day, Friday night i think, she called the outlet and said she forgot to take her key. She was whining "How? How? How?" I sacrificed myself by suggesting that I help her open shop. Fuck. Another time, she was coming to work and called me again(I did opening that day.) She mentioned something about the bus not getting there and that she would be late, and asked if Suet Ling was there. And yes she was. "How? How? How?" Again. SHE suggested i helped to do the clock-in stuff for her. So i did, but it was too late anyway. Suet Ling was there when the clock hit 12.30pm. So I only managed to key in her staff code at 12.34pm. Suet Ling told me not to do it again.
Tiffany and I was swearing there. And I scolded "TOOT" right in front of my younger brother. Not a very good sister, huh?
Halfway through, Tiffany left because her sister needed the house keys or something. I thought she was bored watching us play.
Anyway, my bro and i went off after one round. He won. $3.40 in total. Worth it.
Then we went to walk around, saw the funfair, and bought stuff to eat. I was supposed to takeaway food for my elder bro, but in the end, my mother, father and bro all came to hg mall. Haha. So they ate there and I scooted off to meet Michelle. I was late by 10 mins. I thought my mom was gonna fetch me?! I took bus 27, unsure if it really goes back to Seng Kang. Thank goodness it did.
So I met Michelle and we did our stuff. It was our first time doing... Shh! It's a secret. But it's not what you think it is. Haha. Perhaps Tiff knows. Took a neoprint too, at $6.
Sigh. What a day. In and out. Good and bad. Happy and upset.
Just when I thought Shi Yng and I would be able to maintain this good-colleague relationship forever...
Whatever.
She's always portrayed(or she always portrays herself) as the weak and vulnerable one.
Argh. Fucked up.
I don't beat about the bush. Let's settle this straight.
I think she's gonna hate me forever.
Gonna get my temporary This Fashion card back from her. Anyway it doesn't matter if i don't get it. I will get the real one in a month's time.
I think there's gonna be a cold, chilly war at the shop.
Yeah, Michelle's right. Nobody's good in this world.
I'm not a fool to be bullied around, okay?
Do you think that the polite, obedient girl that first stepped into this shop was the real me?
Do you think I'm scared of the law? You ain't gonna be able to guess what i did today.
Do you think i would be threatened and supressed by empty threats?
In the end I didn't go to get the keys. She didn't call me anyway. I think she expected it. I might have gone to pick up the keys if she hadn't spoke in such a mean way.
But isn't it supposed to be her off day tomorrow?
Whatever.
I've long wanted to get out of this sucking job. The bosses are so stingy; the staff are so ungrateful. That's why no one stays at Dano for long. That's why most of the staff are Malaysians. Scam.
Please just be glad that I haven't gone on MC the way Rohana does it.
Originally I had already planned to escape from work everyday till the contract ends. I'm always enacting the scenario in my head:
(I hope that HQ call me. This will be what I want to say:)
HQ: Why didn't you go for work yesterday?
Me: Why? You want to sack me ah? SACK LAH, you fucker!
HQ: What? Ok, I shall fire you this moment!"
Me: Great! Thank you!
Yeah, I've had it all rehearsed in my head. Got some inspiration from Rohana. Hees.
Take my pay for this month or whatever. Just get me out of this job.
My elder brother was asking me yesterday what i would do if i get sued in court for not going to work. I guess the boss won't spend his money on a tiny mini worker.
Anyway, none of these is going to happen.
I'm just gonna keep holding on till my contract ends. That's when i shall sever all ties with Dano and its staff.
I'm not gonna enter the shop again once I leave.
Bye fuckers!
Bye suckers!
Bye assholes!
What a twist. Twist of fate. Love it.
**Some of you will feel offended, but i'm free to speak my mind. So are you. If you don't like what you're reading, just get off this site.
I met Tiffany at Hougang Mall this morning. As usual, she is late. HAHAHA. After that we walked over to Hougang Plaza and booked a room at KBox. Aiya. Wasted. We were 5 minutes late. Then I started to select the songs. All Jay Chou. There wasn't enough space to select all his songs(the max is 30). I realised he is so handsome. That JJ wanna copycat and have a bad-boy, man-man image. Dream on lah. He is obviously those kinda boy-next-door image artiste. Hahahahaha.
By the way, Kbox is holding music/musical instrument courses. Guitar too! I shall join the Absolut Guitar CCA at TP. Haha.
So we sang. It was fun. Wonderful. Yay! We had a fish bento set each(KLunch mah). Not bad lah. I ordered Sprite and Tiffany ordered ice lemon tea. Then I started to burp into the microphone(purposely). It was hilarious. Yeah, gross, you say.
We struggled with 'Shan Hu Hai'. We ALWAYS do. Haha. We always end up stealing each other's lines or trying to catch up with the tempo. We chit-chatted while singing. Then we started to stand up on the couch. It was better that way. Easier to sing out loud. Halfway through my phone rang. It read 'TM Dano'. Oh shucks. The Death Call. I hate to see 'TM Dano' on the caller ID. I get jitters every now and then when the phone rings since Dano times. Ah well. So i answered it. It was Shi Yng.
Shi Yng: Hello. Eh Ka Sia, you come and work now.
I was like, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO flabberghasted.
Me: HUH? I am outside now leh. Rohana never come ah?
SY: Yah. Where are you now? I'm all alone in the shop now. Come quickly.
Me: I'm at Kbox. I can't leave now.
SY: You don't sing for so long lah. (What?! Waste money! You compensate ah?)
Me: Can't. I can't leave now. I have stuff to do.
SY: Didn't we agree on it yesterday?
(She had told me that I could go out if i didn't receive her call after 1pm, cause it would mean Rohana has arrived.)
Me: I don't know. I'm not free now.
SY: Huh...? They say they will ask Suet Ling(her nemesis) over if you don't come leh. Tomorrow i off she will also come.
Me: Then let her come lah. SInce Rohana don't wanna work anymore, sooner or later someone has to come.
SY: Huh...? But I don't want to see her. Aiya I don't know lah. I'm very frustrated.
Me: I don't know...
SY: You come lah... Or I ask Jason(OM) to call you lor.
Me: OK lor.
So I hung up. What a dampener.
Call lah. Scared ah?
Tiffany saying was cursing "Wah lao" while I was cursing "Wah lao, fuck". Argh.
Minutes later, Pei Fang, someone from the HR department at the HQ, called.
PF: Hello Ka Sia ah?
Me: Yah.
PF: Can you go to work now?
Me: No, I can't. I'm outside now and I have stuff to do.
PF: Oh, but now Shi Yng's the only person left at the shop.
Me: Isn't Suet Ling going over to help?
PF: It's not confirmed yet...
PF: Hmm... Until when will you be busy?
Me: Until the night.
PF: OK, never mind.
Tiffany commented that the people at the HQ are more kind and understanding. Yah. Haha.
Yeah, so I'm freed. Good. But there's more to come.
One staff came in and asked if we wanted to extend our session by 1 hour, with one more drink each. No, obviously not.
Around 1.50pm another staff came in(at the climax of our song) to tell us that this would be the last song. Haha. Dream on, baby. Last 5th song, maybe. SO we continued to stay in the room, picking out all the songs we MUST sing today. Tiffany picked out three songs, one from Angela and two others from Fahrenheit(eew, gross).
And the F-I-N-A-L-E. Ba Wo Hui Lai Le, Jay's song. My fave. Someone came in halfway and asked us if we had wanted to extend the session. I guess that's a more polite way of asking us to "GET OUT!" Hahaha. So I finished my song(I still can't rap the second part fluently) and we left. How thick-skinned we are! Whatever. Make full use of the charges ok?
After that we went to walk around in HG Mall. We ate the Gelare ice-cream. I had Cookies & Cream(always my fave!) and Tiff had somewhat a Strawberry... Explosion?
We were chased out of Ice Lemon Tee because of the super-long-cone ice-cream. We went to try in at Watsons and The Bluez. Nobody gave a damn about us at Watsons but we were once again, chased out at the latter. We walked around, finished up the ice-cream, and went into the arcade. I played one round of Time Crisis 4. Wah. Died very quickly today. Haha.
Then we went into The Bluez and ILT again. I got a black satin tie at ILT. There wasn't a price tag, so i just told the shop assistant i want it. She told me I have to tie the knot myself and got a new one for me. The other shop assistant performed a demo and i somehow learnt how to tie it. If not i could just ask the guys at home.
I thought it would be $4.95, or, at the most, $8.95. But guess what. Just when I was wondering what's the price of the tie, I turned around to the counter and saw this: 'Accesory $12.95'. I assumed it was for the previous purchase of some other customer. But, no. The shop assistant told me this was the price. Oh. My. Gosh. So expensive. I'm duped. It's a SCAM! So I had to Nets it. @_@ And I got another sleevelss jacket at $19.95. Love it.
After that my lil' bro called me. Actually he had called me a lot of time before this, pestering me to bring him to LAN shop. But my mom would never ever let him take the bus on his own. Maybe he persuaded her or something, but my mom decided to fetch him here.
So we picked him up and went off to Hougang Plaza again. Along the way we gossiped about one of our ex-classmates. (Tiffany! Look at this! Haha.)
So we went into the LAN shop. The computers are still the old, fat ones. Doesn't matter. So we logged on and played DOTA while Tiff stood beside and watched. There were some laugh-out-loud quotes in the process of the game. WAHAHA.
Ok, here goes. My phone rang AGAIN. Yeah. It's her again.
SY: Hello Ka Sia ah? Tomorrow it's your turn to open shop.
FLABBERGHASTED oNcE mOrE.
Me: Huh? (My fave word)
SY: Tomorrow you open shop. Office say one. (Oh my god. I was so fucking angry when I heard this. So what? I'm so not afraid of the office or whoever. Not even the boss. Why must she do that?) So you have to come and take the keys.
~Silence~
SY: So what time you coming?
Me: Dunno.
SY: You come at night. Cos now there's only one key.(Rohana took the other one along with her escapade.) So you come at 9.30pm lah. Cause I also need the key to lock the shutters.
Me: Orh.
"End Call". Oh my god. What the fuck?
I'm not trying to cast myself in a postive light or whatsoever, but this is so damn fucking me up. Will it kill her if she open the shop tomorrow? Yeah, maybe its her off day or whatsoever. I've also been through phases where I've to open shop consecutively for four or five days, and I was tired, but I did my job. Would it fucking kill her? There was once I helped her to open shop. That day, Friday night i think, she called the outlet and said she forgot to take her key. She was whining "How? How? How?" I sacrificed myself by suggesting that I help her open shop. Fuck. Another time, she was coming to work and called me again(I did opening that day.) She mentioned something about the bus not getting there and that she would be late, and asked if Suet Ling was there. And yes she was. "How? How? How?" Again. SHE suggested i helped to do the clock-in stuff for her. So i did, but it was too late anyway. Suet Ling was there when the clock hit 12.30pm. So I only managed to key in her staff code at 12.34pm. Suet Ling told me not to do it again.
Tiffany and I was swearing there. And I scolded "TOOT" right in front of my younger brother. Not a very good sister, huh?
Halfway through, Tiffany left because her sister needed the house keys or something. I thought she was bored watching us play.
Anyway, my bro and i went off after one round. He won. $3.40 in total. Worth it.
Then we went to walk around, saw the funfair, and bought stuff to eat. I was supposed to takeaway food for my elder bro, but in the end, my mother, father and bro all came to hg mall. Haha. So they ate there and I scooted off to meet Michelle. I was late by 10 mins. I thought my mom was gonna fetch me?! I took bus 27, unsure if it really goes back to Seng Kang. Thank goodness it did.
So I met Michelle and we did our stuff. It was our first time doing... Shh! It's a secret. But it's not what you think it is. Haha. Perhaps Tiff knows. Took a neoprint too, at $6.
Sigh. What a day. In and out. Good and bad. Happy and upset.
Just when I thought Shi Yng and I would be able to maintain this good-colleague relationship forever...
Whatever.
She's always portrayed(or she always portrays herself) as the weak and vulnerable one.
Argh. Fucked up.
I don't beat about the bush. Let's settle this straight.
I think she's gonna hate me forever.
Gonna get my temporary This Fashion card back from her. Anyway it doesn't matter if i don't get it. I will get the real one in a month's time.
I think there's gonna be a cold, chilly war at the shop.
Yeah, Michelle's right. Nobody's good in this world.
I'm not a fool to be bullied around, okay?
Do you think that the polite, obedient girl that first stepped into this shop was the real me?
Do you think I'm scared of the law? You ain't gonna be able to guess what i did today.
Do you think i would be threatened and supressed by empty threats?
In the end I didn't go to get the keys. She didn't call me anyway. I think she expected it. I might have gone to pick up the keys if she hadn't spoke in such a mean way.
But isn't it supposed to be her off day tomorrow?
Whatever.
I've long wanted to get out of this sucking job. The bosses are so stingy; the staff are so ungrateful. That's why no one stays at Dano for long. That's why most of the staff are Malaysians. Scam.
Please just be glad that I haven't gone on MC the way Rohana does it.
Originally I had already planned to escape from work everyday till the contract ends. I'm always enacting the scenario in my head:
(I hope that HQ call me. This will be what I want to say:)
HQ: Why didn't you go for work yesterday?
Me: Why? You want to sack me ah? SACK LAH, you fucker!
HQ: What? Ok, I shall fire you this moment!"
Me: Great! Thank you!
Yeah, I've had it all rehearsed in my head. Got some inspiration from Rohana. Hees.
Take my pay for this month or whatever. Just get me out of this job.
My elder brother was asking me yesterday what i would do if i get sued in court for not going to work. I guess the boss won't spend his money on a tiny mini worker.
Anyway, none of these is going to happen.
I'm just gonna keep holding on till my contract ends. That's when i shall sever all ties with Dano and its staff.
I'm not gonna enter the shop again once I leave.
Bye fuckers!
Bye suckers!
Bye assholes!
What a twist. Twist of fate. Love it.
**Some of you will feel offended, but i'm free to speak my mind. So are you. If you don't like what you're reading, just get off this site.
Monday, 12 March 2007
XXX
Guess what. I went for work after all. My mother was threatening and forcing me to go. So I went.
Shi Yng said she had called me 3 to 4 times this morning because Rohana didn't report to work and she was toilet-urgent. I received a missed call and hung up on another. So she called Jason for help and he sent this staff from J8 over to help. She left when i came at 4.30pm.
Originally there was a lot of customers. But after I punched in my staff code everyone disappeared. Hmm... Haha. And I bought everything I had reserved at Dano. Yes.
Shi Yng told me to be on standby tomorrow, cause nobody knows if Rohana would be going to work. She wasn't in when I called her house today. Sorry, but i'm gonna enjoy myself tomorrow. Happy happy once in a while.
Wow. Time passes real quickly when you work for only half a day. Soon it was time to pack up. Yay!
Shi Yng said she had called me 3 to 4 times this morning because Rohana didn't report to work and she was toilet-urgent. I received a missed call and hung up on another. So she called Jason for help and he sent this staff from J8 over to help. She left when i came at 4.30pm.
Originally there was a lot of customers. But after I punched in my staff code everyone disappeared. Hmm... Haha. And I bought everything I had reserved at Dano. Yes.
Shi Yng told me to be on standby tomorrow, cause nobody knows if Rohana would be going to work. She wasn't in when I called her house today. Sorry, but i'm gonna enjoy myself tomorrow. Happy happy once in a while.
Wow. Time passes real quickly when you work for only half a day. Soon it was time to pack up. Yay!
Sunday, 11 March 2007
Wasted
We went to the IT Fair. It was a disaster.
There was a congestion on the way up to Suntec City. There were arguments between my mother and elder brother. I don't understand why my mother is so sceptical about stuff. Why can't she believe in what we say? Why can't she believe that the offers in these fairs/exhibitons are real? I simply can't understand why.
First we went to the Singtel booth to ask about the Mio plan. We had wanted to sign up for it long ago(my brother works as a temp staff at Singtel) but somehow, because of my mother don't-want-broadband-cause-it-will-harm-the-kids attitude, we didn't get it. After several rounds of persuasion I finally suceeded into getting her to sign up for the plan. But, Alas! The queue was so damn long. And the offers aren't very attractive too. So might as well just go to any Hello! Shop and do the stuff.
The laptop i wanted from Vaio was out of stock. What the fuck. So I asked around a bit. But seriously i am only interested in that particular model. Then we had to squeeze through the crowd to get my mom, who went off to park the car. What the hell. So troublesome. Can't see her anywhere at all. After screaming into the phone we finally saw her.
I'm so disappointed. Why aren't there any more stock? So we went to the Lenovo booth, HP, blah blah, but we didn't really look at the laptops. Just merely walked around. My mother was whinning about something that i shouldn't buy a laptop here cause it's not safe or it may be a scam. And blah blah blah about the throngs of people. It's so infuriating. I was so damn pissed off.
I actually wanted to go back to the Vaio booth to ask about the model i was interested in, to see if it fits what i want, so that i could get it at other Vaio outlets. But the crowd and my mother's nagging was so pissing me off that i went out of the exhibition hall.
Going down the escalator I told my mother to stop being sceptical and that going out with her is a chore. My mother said that it was me who didn't want to go and ask about the model i wanted. I replied by saying that she is so annoying saying all those crap. I really was too irritated to go back to the booth.
Down at the atrium my brother asked me what was next. I complained that I haven't got anything at all. No laptop, whatsoever. Then I forgot what happened, but i remember i mentioned something about my mother nagging me not to buy laptop from the IT fair. My mother asked me to go up and take a look but I was too angry and fed up to go up to the 4th floor again.
So we got off and didn't get anything done at all. No laptop, no signing up for mio plan. What a waste of time and energy.
I am feeling so frustrated and upset right now. Not going to work later. MC, what the bloody hell. I sacrificed my time such that I must work from 9am-10pm on the 16th(stock take: taking "attendance" of all the goods in the shop) and now i get this.
I intend to quit. Without breaking my contract. Maybe I'll go on MC everday. This job sucks.
There was a congestion on the way up to Suntec City. There were arguments between my mother and elder brother. I don't understand why my mother is so sceptical about stuff. Why can't she believe in what we say? Why can't she believe that the offers in these fairs/exhibitons are real? I simply can't understand why.
First we went to the Singtel booth to ask about the Mio plan. We had wanted to sign up for it long ago(my brother works as a temp staff at Singtel) but somehow, because of my mother don't-want-broadband-cause-it-will-harm-the-kids attitude, we didn't get it. After several rounds of persuasion I finally suceeded into getting her to sign up for the plan. But, Alas! The queue was so damn long. And the offers aren't very attractive too. So might as well just go to any Hello! Shop and do the stuff.
The laptop i wanted from Vaio was out of stock. What the fuck. So I asked around a bit. But seriously i am only interested in that particular model. Then we had to squeeze through the crowd to get my mom, who went off to park the car. What the hell. So troublesome. Can't see her anywhere at all. After screaming into the phone we finally saw her.
I'm so disappointed. Why aren't there any more stock? So we went to the Lenovo booth, HP, blah blah, but we didn't really look at the laptops. Just merely walked around. My mother was whinning about something that i shouldn't buy a laptop here cause it's not safe or it may be a scam. And blah blah blah about the throngs of people. It's so infuriating. I was so damn pissed off.
I actually wanted to go back to the Vaio booth to ask about the model i was interested in, to see if it fits what i want, so that i could get it at other Vaio outlets. But the crowd and my mother's nagging was so pissing me off that i went out of the exhibition hall.
Going down the escalator I told my mother to stop being sceptical and that going out with her is a chore. My mother said that it was me who didn't want to go and ask about the model i wanted. I replied by saying that she is so annoying saying all those crap. I really was too irritated to go back to the booth.
Down at the atrium my brother asked me what was next. I complained that I haven't got anything at all. No laptop, whatsoever. Then I forgot what happened, but i remember i mentioned something about my mother nagging me not to buy laptop from the IT fair. My mother asked me to go up and take a look but I was too angry and fed up to go up to the 4th floor again.
So we got off and didn't get anything done at all. No laptop, no signing up for mio plan. What a waste of time and energy.
I am feeling so frustrated and upset right now. Not going to work later. MC, what the bloody hell. I sacrificed my time such that I must work from 9am-10pm on the 16th(stock take: taking "attendance" of all the goods in the shop) and now i get this.
I intend to quit. Without breaking my contract. Maybe I'll go on MC everday. This job sucks.
Veil
Today Rohana didn't come to work. So when i reached the shop at 11.20++am, I found the shop empty and the shutters down. OH MY GOD. Shop was supposed to open at 11am. What the hell. So i did opening today.
Shi Yng was serving a customer who wanted to but a blouse for her friend I guess her friend is about my size, cause Shi Yng asked me to try it on for the customer. I shook my head, walked away and stuck out my tongue. No way, man.
I was a lil' pissed off by Shi Yng today. Sometimes she just takes things too hard. I just can't seem to get along with anybody nowadays.
But we had a great time today. There's this Caucasian man who talked very loudly and this Singapore auntie who talked very loudly. Hahaha.
Today I bought some stuff from Dano.
I went to buy stuff from Fairprice atrium sale again. Total amount: $10.80. On biscuits! Haha. Meiji stuff is nice, but costly.
And I got the necklace from Perlini's Silver! It's the last piece! I'm so happy I got it. The chain's too long, though.
Gonna wear it everyday. =)
No, I'm not gonna take MC tomorrow. I will report to work at 4.30pm. I have to go to work at 9am on 16th March, so i deducted the 4 hours overtime from tomorrow. Yay!
Shi Yng was serving a customer who wanted to but a blouse for her friend I guess her friend is about my size, cause Shi Yng asked me to try it on for the customer. I shook my head, walked away and stuck out my tongue. No way, man.
I was a lil' pissed off by Shi Yng today. Sometimes she just takes things too hard. I just can't seem to get along with anybody nowadays.
But we had a great time today. There's this Caucasian man who talked very loudly and this Singapore auntie who talked very loudly. Hahaha.
Today I bought some stuff from Dano.
I went to buy stuff from Fairprice atrium sale again. Total amount: $10.80. On biscuits! Haha. Meiji stuff is nice, but costly.
And I got the necklace from Perlini's Silver! It's the last piece! I'm so happy I got it. The chain's too long, though.
Gonna wear it everyday. =)
No, I'm not gonna take MC tomorrow. I will report to work at 4.30pm. I have to go to work at 9am on 16th March, so i deducted the 4 hours overtime from tomorrow. Yay!
Friday, 9 March 2007
Why?
1. Why do humans even exist?
2. Why are there so many different races, religions and beliefs?
3. Why is it that I think so much?
I'm all alone.
Are you with me?
I can't take it anymore.
I need to escape.
I need a way out.
I don't wanna accept reality.
Please.
Help me, please.
I'm just down.
I love the feeling of the wind blowing against my face.
I love the deep blue sea.
2. Why are there so many different races, religions and beliefs?
3. Why is it that I think so much?
I'm all alone.
Are you with me?
I can't take it anymore.
I need to escape.
I need a way out.
I don't wanna accept reality.
Please.
Help me, please.
I'm just down.
I love the feeling of the wind blowing against my face.
I love the deep blue sea.
Avril Lavigne
What is Avril Lavigne turning into?
First, she trades her straight brown hair for blonde curls. She dumps her tees, tank tops, pants and sneakers for miniskirts and heels.
Her songs used to mean to her very much. Now she says that she wrote two of the songs in The Best Damn Thing when she was drunk, and that this album was "fun". Now it doesn't matter if the songs aren't written with real feelings.
Look at her Girlfriend MV; she looks like a Pussycat Doll. And oh my god. She dances. What the fucking hell is happening? She's so blonde and so bitchy in it. The music is so damn pop. There's also something different about her face.
Where has the old Avril Lavigne gone? Purely rock, attitude and totally different from other pop stars. Guitar-smashing, jumping on the stage, creating excellent music. I don't see it anymore.
Yeah, she's 22 and married. But why the hell does she have to turn into this? Yeah, she's past her teen angst. I hope it hadn't happened, because her songs were so much real then. I could relate to them all.
I wish that people don't have to grow up.
First, she trades her straight brown hair for blonde curls. She dumps her tees, tank tops, pants and sneakers for miniskirts and heels.
Her songs used to mean to her very much. Now she says that she wrote two of the songs in The Best Damn Thing when she was drunk, and that this album was "fun". Now it doesn't matter if the songs aren't written with real feelings.
Look at her Girlfriend MV; she looks like a Pussycat Doll. And oh my god. She dances. What the fucking hell is happening? She's so blonde and so bitchy in it. The music is so damn pop. There's also something different about her face.
Where has the old Avril Lavigne gone? Purely rock, attitude and totally different from other pop stars. Guitar-smashing, jumping on the stage, creating excellent music. I don't see it anymore.
Yeah, she's 22 and married. But why the hell does she have to turn into this? Yeah, she's past her teen angst. I hope it hadn't happened, because her songs were so much real then. I could relate to them all.
I wish that people don't have to grow up.
Thoughts and talks
I'm gonna write all that comes to mind for this entry.
I have a special feeling for old things. No, it has got nothing to do with vintage or retro. Yellow-ed walls, old buildings, big empty spaces in empty buildings; they give me a feeling i can't describe. It's something like nolstagia, but it's not.
Who will I be if I'm not ME? I seriously don't know. Why is it that I am decreed a Singaporean? An Asian? Yellow-skinned? Not that I mind, but are all these things fated to be the way they are? How will I be like if I live in another country? I would really want to get a taste of life and culture in other countries, say the States. Would I be different? Would I look different?
Why is life like this? Why can't I fathom life? I don't understand.
Why are we born into this world? For what reason?
I can't figure out what i want in life.
I've wasted so much time in the past, not knowing how to cherish memories and people. I've hurt people. I hate it.
Are we going to stay the same forever? What will I do if i meet someone who one had an acquaintance with me? Why do people change?
Will we keep our promise of keeping in touch with one another?
I don't want to forget all the good old memories we had together. I wish I could have taken down every second of my life in video.
It's so complicating.
I have a special feeling for old things. No, it has got nothing to do with vintage or retro. Yellow-ed walls, old buildings, big empty spaces in empty buildings; they give me a feeling i can't describe. It's something like nolstagia, but it's not.
Who will I be if I'm not ME? I seriously don't know. Why is it that I am decreed a Singaporean? An Asian? Yellow-skinned? Not that I mind, but are all these things fated to be the way they are? How will I be like if I live in another country? I would really want to get a taste of life and culture in other countries, say the States. Would I be different? Would I look different?
Why is life like this? Why can't I fathom life? I don't understand.
Why are we born into this world? For what reason?
I can't figure out what i want in life.
I've wasted so much time in the past, not knowing how to cherish memories and people. I've hurt people. I hate it.
Are we going to stay the same forever? What will I do if i meet someone who one had an acquaintance with me? Why do people change?
Will we keep our promise of keeping in touch with one another?
I don't want to forget all the good old memories we had together. I wish I could have taken down every second of my life in video.
It's so complicating.
U
Today, this very naggy customer came to our shop. I guessed she has been to Dano before, cause i found her familiar. At first Shi Yng served her, but i took over when Shi Yng went for her break. She was taking a long time to try, scrutinising at herself at every angle. Later she came over and chatted with me. We chatted-er, no-she told me stuff about herself, the past, clothes and stuff. She said she thought I was Eurasian because of my hair colour. Then she was saying something about poly first-year students going to school only in June in the past. Then she was asking me if Shi Yng or me was younger. Ouch. I'm so hurt. Haha. Her ending quote was something related to supporting the idea of students working, saying that they will learn how to serve customers, TOLERATE customers, blah blah blah. Yeah. Tolerating Y-O-U is a wisdom.
I'm going to take MC on Sunday cause I doubt i'll be able to change my off day to Sunday. I'm going to the IT Fair! Get a laptop. Yes. And I shall fabricate an MC. All rightey!
Rohana went off around 4 in the afternoon today because-from what i heard from her-her grandfather is in hospital, and going to pass away soon. She just went for her lunch break with her twin sister and now this happened. Seriously suspicious.
The day i quit, i am going to right a complain letter to the Dano management. Dano SUCKS! I can't take it anymore.
I'm going to take MC on Sunday cause I doubt i'll be able to change my off day to Sunday. I'm going to the IT Fair! Get a laptop. Yes. And I shall fabricate an MC. All rightey!
Rohana went off around 4 in the afternoon today because-from what i heard from her-her grandfather is in hospital, and going to pass away soon. She just went for her lunch break with her twin sister and now this happened. Seriously suspicious.
The day i quit, i am going to right a complain letter to the Dano management. Dano SUCKS! I can't take it anymore.
Wednesday, 7 March 2007
Toot [NC16 for Crude Language]
When I was walking to the bus interchange this morning, another guy from the SAME booth came to me again. Again! This is infuriating. He was calling out to me, and asked me if i am still studying. I said I am waiting for entry into poly. He said he needed my help, and asked me to take one of the plastic figurines on his hand. I took a snowflake-shaped one(he asked me why i took it, because it was a consolation prize) and followed him to the booth. Then I was telling him that someone asked me yesterday and that I thought only people above 17 can take the survey. He was slightly appalled to know that I'm 16. I returned him the snowflake and walked away. He apologised and said i look a bit mature. It's the clothes, duh! Damn black office pants. And please STOP bothering me again!
It was boring today. Shi Yng was off. Rohana went to the bank.
Something happened. I hurt my middle finger when I closed the cashier box. Ouch.
When Rohana went for her break, three girls came to ask for job vacancies. I was in the store room, and they were shouting "Excuse me!" They are 15 years old. I doubt they will be hired, but i gave them the office number anyway.
Then the driver came. No new goods. I got my cheque. So little! What the fuck. Rohana, after learning about how lil my pay is, was so damn angry. (She'll get hers on Friday because she hadn't give HQ a photocopied copy of her IC.) She was complaining about how insufficient it is to feed her family. So we stood there and talked behind the bosses' backs. Hahaha. Complain and complain. We calculated, and the company would make a minimum income of 2 million per month, deducting the staff's salary and electricity bills. Wah lao eh. The bosses must be fucking rich. Yet they are so stingy! just give us another one hundred will die ah? Neow! They must be laughing mad at home and sleep smiling. Fuck. We work so long hours, one off day per week, and what the hell... You try standing in the shop all day long. Rohana said even Bangladesh workers get better treatment than this. She wanna complain to Jason and make him angry so that Dano will fire her. So we spent the rest of the day drafting up ideas of getting it done. Haha. I've done the thinking before, so i wasn't too difficult. =>
Then one mother with her two daughters. They were looking for a knitwear with collar. The daughter tried on some, but they couldn't fit. They came upon this piece, and asked me if there were any larger sizes. I said yes, and guess what. The mother told her daughter that 'jie jie'(referring to me) will get it for her. Mind you, I am like, only one or two years her elder.
Where are the paper bags? Plastic ones suck.
Oh yes. I spent eight dollars on buying snacks at the NTUC Fairprice atrium sale.
And I bought a 50% off pants from Dano.
Dano sucks ass! DO NOT work for them bloody assholes. I repeat, do not! The boss and ladyboss keep all the money to themselves! SCAM. It's a scam through and through. Gimme my money! Liar. Sucker. Fucker. Asshole.
The bus, tonight, is operated by a Crazy Driver. He just likes stepping on the brakes continuously. Previously there was also a driver like this. A girl almost fell down because of the abrupt brakes. She was almost touching the ground. I guess this is the same one. What a reckless driver.
Sigh. My wallet is left with a whole wad of receipts, with just two purple notes in between.
It was boring today. Shi Yng was off. Rohana went to the bank.
Something happened. I hurt my middle finger when I closed the cashier box. Ouch.
When Rohana went for her break, three girls came to ask for job vacancies. I was in the store room, and they were shouting "Excuse me!" They are 15 years old. I doubt they will be hired, but i gave them the office number anyway.
Then the driver came. No new goods. I got my cheque. So little! What the fuck. Rohana, after learning about how lil my pay is, was so damn angry. (She'll get hers on Friday because she hadn't give HQ a photocopied copy of her IC.) She was complaining about how insufficient it is to feed her family. So we stood there and talked behind the bosses' backs. Hahaha. Complain and complain. We calculated, and the company would make a minimum income of 2 million per month, deducting the staff's salary and electricity bills. Wah lao eh. The bosses must be fucking rich. Yet they are so stingy! just give us another one hundred will die ah? Neow! They must be laughing mad at home and sleep smiling. Fuck. We work so long hours, one off day per week, and what the hell... You try standing in the shop all day long. Rohana said even Bangladesh workers get better treatment than this. She wanna complain to Jason and make him angry so that Dano will fire her. So we spent the rest of the day drafting up ideas of getting it done. Haha. I've done the thinking before, so i wasn't too difficult. =>
Then one mother with her two daughters. They were looking for a knitwear with collar. The daughter tried on some, but they couldn't fit. They came upon this piece, and asked me if there were any larger sizes. I said yes, and guess what. The mother told her daughter that 'jie jie'(referring to me) will get it for her. Mind you, I am like, only one or two years her elder.
Where are the paper bags? Plastic ones suck.
Oh yes. I spent eight dollars on buying snacks at the NTUC Fairprice atrium sale.
And I bought a 50% off pants from Dano.
Dano sucks ass! DO NOT work for them bloody assholes. I repeat, do not! The boss and ladyboss keep all the money to themselves! SCAM. It's a scam through and through. Gimme my money! Liar. Sucker. Fucker. Asshole.
The bus, tonight, is operated by a Crazy Driver. He just likes stepping on the brakes continuously. Previously there was also a driver like this. A girl almost fell down because of the abrupt brakes. She was almost touching the ground. I guess this is the same one. What a reckless driver.
Sigh. My wallet is left with a whole wad of receipts, with just two purple notes in between.
Sing, Sang, Sung
Before work, I went to withdraw $20 from my bank account. I tell myself this is gonna last me one week, or better stilll, two. I guess my savings had already hit the negative mark, ie. I had spent more money than my last month's pay could cover. Haha. But the balance is certainly not nEgAtIvE.
Wow. We had a blast today. There's was a lot of singing, conducting(a la band conductor) and laughing. Rohana is off today. No much difference, as long as there is ME! Oops! I did it again. HAHA. We listened to the new CD I brought there this morning.
During break time, I went to look around in Alano and This Fashion. I bought a striped tee at This Fashion and signed up for the membership card there. The temporary 'card' is just a stupid slip of paper. (Hope I don't process it as rubbish and throw it away. =>)
I changed it back to the previous CD. There were simply too many S.H.E. songs(i put in to fill up the memory) in the second one. I couldn't sing-along! All the e-s-s-e-n-c-e is in the first one. Yeah. So... Shi Yng and I played Bingo and hangman. Too bored. =)
We served a few Caucasians today. It was my first time. Shi Yng said she had already done it a lot of times. Wah. So brave. Haha. It was fun.
After work, while walking to the bus stop, this guy, from some temporary set up booth, came up to me. Before that we were already looking at each other, and Uh-Oh, I knew he would come talk to me. He queried,"Do you work at McDonald's?"(I've got to explain this. I was munching on fries. Hee. Late-night supper. And what kind of opening speech is this?!) I said no, and he asked me if I am waiting for my results and seventeen this year, or had turned seventeen. I couldn't understand at first, so I said,"Yah" He asked "Yah as in what?" I replied "Yes"(I thought he was asking me what "Yah" means.) He was actually asking me what I was agreeing on. Seventeen, or turning seventeen. What a blooper. Haha. Then I said I am turning seventeen this year, and asked him "Why?" Then he told me he couldn't ask me(what?) if I'm not above 17 years old. I guess its a survey kinda thing. Maybe he asked me if i was working at McD because staff at McD have to be of a certain age. So I said,"OK, bye", walking away, and he said,"Bye bye".
Alighting at my stop, I realised my fare has decreased to $0.45. It's the student fare, far from the adult's fare of $1.18. To think I've been using the adult's fare for so long. It had only changed back to the student's price when I had gone to top up money recently atthe MRT station. What the hell! It's a SCAM! S.C.A.M. S-C-A-M! It's a super-duper scam! I even went to top up $50 at a 7-11 outlet with a surcharge of $0.30! Had I known, I'd have gone to a MRT station to do it. I could have saved lots of money. DAMNATION!
YAY! I'll get my pay cheque tomorrow! I swear not to spend money unnecessarily again. Serious.
Wow. We had a blast today. There's was a lot of singing, conducting(a la band conductor) and laughing. Rohana is off today. No much difference, as long as there is ME! Oops! I did it again. HAHA. We listened to the new CD I brought there this morning.
During break time, I went to look around in Alano and This Fashion. I bought a striped tee at This Fashion and signed up for the membership card there. The temporary 'card' is just a stupid slip of paper. (Hope I don't process it as rubbish and throw it away. =>)
I changed it back to the previous CD. There were simply too many S.H.E. songs(i put in to fill up the memory) in the second one. I couldn't sing-along! All the e-s-s-e-n-c-e is in the first one. Yeah. So... Shi Yng and I played Bingo and hangman. Too bored. =)
We served a few Caucasians today. It was my first time. Shi Yng said she had already done it a lot of times. Wah. So brave. Haha. It was fun.
After work, while walking to the bus stop, this guy, from some temporary set up booth, came up to me. Before that we were already looking at each other, and Uh-Oh, I knew he would come talk to me. He queried,"Do you work at McDonald's?"(I've got to explain this. I was munching on fries. Hee. Late-night supper. And what kind of opening speech is this?!) I said no, and he asked me if I am waiting for my results and seventeen this year, or had turned seventeen. I couldn't understand at first, so I said,"Yah" He asked "Yah as in what?" I replied "Yes"(I thought he was asking me what "Yah" means.) He was actually asking me what I was agreeing on. Seventeen, or turning seventeen. What a blooper. Haha. Then I said I am turning seventeen this year, and asked him "Why?" Then he told me he couldn't ask me(what?) if I'm not above 17 years old. I guess its a survey kinda thing. Maybe he asked me if i was working at McD because staff at McD have to be of a certain age. So I said,"OK, bye", walking away, and he said,"Bye bye".
Alighting at my stop, I realised my fare has decreased to $0.45. It's the student fare, far from the adult's fare of $1.18. To think I've been using the adult's fare for so long. It had only changed back to the student's price when I had gone to top up money recently atthe MRT station. What the hell! It's a SCAM! S.C.A.M. S-C-A-M! It's a super-duper scam! I even went to top up $50 at a 7-11 outlet with a surcharge of $0.30! Had I known, I'd have gone to a MRT station to do it. I could have saved lots of money. DAMNATION!
YAY! I'll get my pay cheque tomorrow! I swear not to spend money unnecessarily again. Serious.
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Results!
Pitter-patter. Today's the day. Announcemant of the posting results. The results were officially released this morning at eight, but since i ain't that hardworking,...
I switched on the computer that moment I woke up at 11am. While going through my daily routine, I went to the MOE JAE website. Getting nervous and nervous-er by the second. Luckily my modem speed isn't too slow, or i would die of anxiety. HAHA.
Ta-dah! YAY! WOO! Yipee yah yah yipee yah! Hahahaha... I got into my 1st choice. My desired polytechnic(TP); my desired course(Apparel Design & Merchandising). Yay yay yay yay yay...
Got to go to work now or i'll risk getting late.
Till tonight.
I switched on the computer that moment I woke up at 11am. While going through my daily routine, I went to the MOE JAE website. Getting nervous and nervous-er by the second. Luckily my modem speed isn't too slow, or i would die of anxiety. HAHA.
Ta-dah! YAY! WOO! Yipee yah yah yipee yah! Hahahaha... I got into my 1st choice. My desired polytechnic(TP); my desired course(Apparel Design & Merchandising). Yay yay yay yay yay...
Got to go to work now or i'll risk getting late.
Till tonight.
Monday, 5 March 2007
Quality time
My day didn't end just like this. There's more to come. So here's part 2.
My little brother(he's 12 this year) and I went to meet up with my elder brother(he's 21 this year) at Compass Point, around 6.45pm. Our motive: to look at laptops. I actually wanted to get it today, but my mother insisted that I get it only when I know the results of the posting. Whatever. Tomorrow is the day. D-day. Haha. Hope i get into the course of my choice.
Anyaway, we went to Courts. After looking through the display boards describing the functions of each laptop/desktop, we decided on a Acer one. My brother said it was the best amongst them all. I don't know nothing about technology and stuff, so i left it to him.
After that we went to the arcade. After one round of Daytona for each one of us, two rounds of Motorcross for my lil bro, one each for me and my big bro, there's only $0.60 left in the card which originally had $8++. My lil bro got a mashed potato+gulp combo from 7-11; i got a waffle from Prima Deli, and we went to KFC. I helped my brother to get the Zinger Student's Meal. Scam! Imposter! Haha. He's Over The Age.
We went up to Popular to pre-order the 7th instalment of the Harry Potter series. We also got one Chupa-Chups each. One five-dollar note and the rest were all coins(dug out from my wallet). We were so damn broke. Haha. We went to Minitoons to test something-that if the staff would greet us "Welcome to Minitoons!" The first time we went in, they didn't. I guess they didn't notice us. Then we went to Kiddy Palace to look at toys.
We went back to Minitoons again. And one of the staff greeted us. YAY! Haha. We suceeded. Then my little brother found this turtle soft toy keychain whereby its shell can be removed. It's so cute! Creative! We got one each, not before something funny happened. My little brother started to 'exchange' the shells of the turtle. He mentioned something about strings coming out of the toy. We were laughing like mad there. Then my big bro also started to change their bodies, because the keychain strap attached to the shell looked like it was gonna split up any time soon. So he did the exchange. I couldn't take it. It was H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S! I was laughing my guts out. We almost Rolled On the Floor Laughing. So the boys got the green ones, and i got a pink one. Nice.
Home Sweet Home. Cleaned the cages. Great. I love my little babies. Hahaha.
Why is it that i just can't get to sleep early? Haha. Ok. I'll end here. Bye. 11.37pm, out.
My little brother(he's 12 this year) and I went to meet up with my elder brother(he's 21 this year) at Compass Point, around 6.45pm. Our motive: to look at laptops. I actually wanted to get it today, but my mother insisted that I get it only when I know the results of the posting. Whatever. Tomorrow is the day. D-day. Haha. Hope i get into the course of my choice.
Anyaway, we went to Courts. After looking through the display boards describing the functions of each laptop/desktop, we decided on a Acer one. My brother said it was the best amongst them all. I don't know nothing about technology and stuff, so i left it to him.
After that we went to the arcade. After one round of Daytona for each one of us, two rounds of Motorcross for my lil bro, one each for me and my big bro, there's only $0.60 left in the card which originally had $8++. My lil bro got a mashed potato+gulp combo from 7-11; i got a waffle from Prima Deli, and we went to KFC. I helped my brother to get the Zinger Student's Meal. Scam! Imposter! Haha. He's Over The Age.
We went up to Popular to pre-order the 7th instalment of the Harry Potter series. We also got one Chupa-Chups each. One five-dollar note and the rest were all coins(dug out from my wallet). We were so damn broke. Haha. We went to Minitoons to test something-that if the staff would greet us "Welcome to Minitoons!" The first time we went in, they didn't. I guess they didn't notice us. Then we went to Kiddy Palace to look at toys.
We went back to Minitoons again. And one of the staff greeted us. YAY! Haha. We suceeded. Then my little brother found this turtle soft toy keychain whereby its shell can be removed. It's so cute! Creative! We got one each, not before something funny happened. My little brother started to 'exchange' the shells of the turtle. He mentioned something about strings coming out of the toy. We were laughing like mad there. Then my big bro also started to change their bodies, because the keychain strap attached to the shell looked like it was gonna split up any time soon. So he did the exchange. I couldn't take it. It was H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S! I was laughing my guts out. We almost Rolled On the Floor Laughing. So the boys got the green ones, and i got a pink one. Nice.
Home Sweet Home. Cleaned the cages. Great. I love my little babies. Hahaha.
Why is it that i just can't get to sleep early? Haha. Ok. I'll end here. Bye. 11.37pm, out.
Precision
OFF DAY! My favourite day is Monday, because Monday=off day. Haha. I guess my fave day's gonna change if my work shift is changed. Hahaha. But I should be on Shift A till the day I quit, because nobody wants it. Only me, the high and mighty ME, wants it.
Once again, I embarked on my one-day tour of Singapore. I brought my new bag and wore my new shoes today.(It's stilll Chinese New Year.) Around 11++, I set off from CP MRT to Harbourfront. I wanted to go to Meters Bonwe to check out this jacket that i've been eyeing since last October at the Natas Fair. Also, to check out Pull & Bear.
On reacing Vivo City, I went to walk around in the shops. Went into super-duper big outlet of MNG(the clothes rock!), Esprit, Ebase(i hate this brand), walked by Principles, Aldo and other high-end shops. There were so many Caucasians. I went to Page One, a HUGE bookshop. In the end, i bought this W magazine at $9.81 simply because it features two pages of Avri Lavigne. I'm a hardcore fan. Haha. I saw a biography of Johnny Depp. $55. Crazy. Borrowing books from the library is at zero cost.
At Meters Bonwe, before I even started to look for the jacket, this guy was coming head-on to me from afar. I quickly pretended I didn't see him and walked away. Haha. I walked around some more and went to the rooftop. Nice. I like it. This is like, my third time going there. I like it. I like the water, the greens on Sentosa, the Merlion. Cool. Then I checked out the arcade. E-Zone. Oh. I had a foreboding that it sucks. Yes. It sure sucked. Lousy arcade. The E-zone at TM uses coins. I thought everyone had upgraded to cards? =>
Next stop: Simei. Simply because I wanted to check out the jacket without anyone interfering. Please stop asking me what I'm looking for. Please. Haha. So I took the MRT without any idea of the correct route. I vaguely remember that that the Simei station is in the green line(EW), and with my geographical analysis, I figured that EW should be where Eastpoint Mall is. So I took that train to Outram Park and then to Simei. Luckily I got it correct. Haha. Stroke of luck+genius. =)
As I was finding the entrance of Eastpoint Mall, this Malay woman came up from behind me, calling out,"Excuse me!" I turned around and she was asking me if I knew where the taxi stand is. I know no nothing(do i look like a SImei native?), so I said,"I'm not sure" What the hell. I guess I look friendly. And yeah, I'm a pro in my orientaion. I would never get lost. =)
I walked around in "The Link", a section in the mall which sells female stuff-apparel, accessories, shoes... I got a pair of ecstasy-lookalike earrings. I proceeded to walk around in This Fashion. Nothing much. Then I found Meters, found the jacket, but it seemed a lil' different. If I remembered correctly, there were no white stripes on its collar. So I apologised and went off. To think I loved it so much. And guess what. I forgot to check out Pull & Bear. What the hell. Waste of train fare.
Since Tampines was just one stop away from Simei, I decided to visit my colleagues. Haha. Shi Yng said she was just pinning about me when I entered the shop. I'm well-loved. It was supposed to be Rohana's break time, but Shi Yng went off first because I wanted to let her see the necklace. But before that, we sneaked off to Double Index and Shi Yng tried an article. I tried one for fun too. At Perlini's, I expected that she would say the pendant's too big, and she did. I didn't get it. Again. Still need further consideration. Just gimme a lil' bit more time. I tend to contradict myself. Only when I really decide on something, nobody, not even myself, can stop me from doing it. UNSTOPPABLE. Haha.
I went off to Sembawang, Century Square(the CD shop lah!). I still couldn't find Avril's CDs, the original version. They were all China imports. What the hell. So I went home. At the traffic junction a China woman asked me where Tampines Ave 5 was. Wow. I guess look real friendly. Haha. I had no idea, so I replied the same way as I did above.
Wow. I didn't spend much today. Well done.
Yeah, maybe i'll get that jacket. And that necklace too. Some time soon.
Once again, I embarked on my one-day tour of Singapore. I brought my new bag and wore my new shoes today.(It's stilll Chinese New Year.) Around 11++, I set off from CP MRT to Harbourfront. I wanted to go to Meters Bonwe to check out this jacket that i've been eyeing since last October at the Natas Fair. Also, to check out Pull & Bear.
On reacing Vivo City, I went to walk around in the shops. Went into super-duper big outlet of MNG(the clothes rock!), Esprit, Ebase(i hate this brand), walked by Principles, Aldo and other high-end shops. There were so many Caucasians. I went to Page One, a HUGE bookshop. In the end, i bought this W magazine at $9.81 simply because it features two pages of Avri Lavigne. I'm a hardcore fan. Haha. I saw a biography of Johnny Depp. $55. Crazy. Borrowing books from the library is at zero cost.
At Meters Bonwe, before I even started to look for the jacket, this guy was coming head-on to me from afar. I quickly pretended I didn't see him and walked away. Haha. I walked around some more and went to the rooftop. Nice. I like it. This is like, my third time going there. I like it. I like the water, the greens on Sentosa, the Merlion. Cool. Then I checked out the arcade. E-Zone. Oh. I had a foreboding that it sucks. Yes. It sure sucked. Lousy arcade. The E-zone at TM uses coins. I thought everyone had upgraded to cards? =>
Next stop: Simei. Simply because I wanted to check out the jacket without anyone interfering. Please stop asking me what I'm looking for. Please. Haha. So I took the MRT without any idea of the correct route. I vaguely remember that that the Simei station is in the green line(EW), and with my geographical analysis, I figured that EW should be where Eastpoint Mall is. So I took that train to Outram Park and then to Simei. Luckily I got it correct. Haha. Stroke of luck+genius. =)
As I was finding the entrance of Eastpoint Mall, this Malay woman came up from behind me, calling out,"Excuse me!" I turned around and she was asking me if I knew where the taxi stand is. I know no nothing(do i look like a SImei native?), so I said,"I'm not sure" What the hell. I guess I look friendly. And yeah, I'm a pro in my orientaion. I would never get lost. =)
I walked around in "The Link", a section in the mall which sells female stuff-apparel, accessories, shoes... I got a pair of ecstasy-lookalike earrings. I proceeded to walk around in This Fashion. Nothing much. Then I found Meters, found the jacket, but it seemed a lil' different. If I remembered correctly, there were no white stripes on its collar. So I apologised and went off. To think I loved it so much. And guess what. I forgot to check out Pull & Bear. What the hell. Waste of train fare.
Since Tampines was just one stop away from Simei, I decided to visit my colleagues. Haha. Shi Yng said she was just pinning about me when I entered the shop. I'm well-loved. It was supposed to be Rohana's break time, but Shi Yng went off first because I wanted to let her see the necklace. But before that, we sneaked off to Double Index and Shi Yng tried an article. I tried one for fun too. At Perlini's, I expected that she would say the pendant's too big, and she did. I didn't get it. Again. Still need further consideration. Just gimme a lil' bit more time. I tend to contradict myself. Only when I really decide on something, nobody, not even myself, can stop me from doing it. UNSTOPPABLE. Haha.
I went off to Sembawang, Century Square(the CD shop lah!). I still couldn't find Avril's CDs, the original version. They were all China imports. What the hell. So I went home. At the traffic junction a China woman asked me where Tampines Ave 5 was. Wow. I guess look real friendly. Haha. I had no idea, so I replied the same way as I did above.
Wow. I didn't spend much today. Well done.
Yeah, maybe i'll get that jacket. And that necklace too. Some time soon.
Sunday, 4 March 2007
Ooh-lah-lah
To my fans out there, I apologise for not blogging yesterday. There wasn't anything interesting to talk about and i was so damn tired last night.
Oh yes. Something happened. During break time, I went to Eastlink Food Court to takeaway food for us three. Shi Yng wanted mixed vegetable rice. So I went to the stall and looked at the dishes available. I thought, if there were any dishes for my type, I would have a packet as well. But there is this SM-turned-hawker uncle spouting nonsense there.
Sorry to those who can't read Chinese. I just like it to be as real as possible:
SM Uncle: 来，小妹。
Me: 等一下。(I wanted to see the dishes available.)
SM Uncle: 等什么？
Me: 一包。(Nothing to my liking.)
SM Uncle: 要什么？他要不要？(He was pointing to another guy in the stall.)
Me: 不要。
Then I picked out one veg, one meat, as Shi Yng had asked for.
SM Uncle: 还有吗？
Me: 没有。
SM Uncle: 吃得饱吗？我要不要？(He was using his index finger to point down...)
Me: 不是我吃的。
SM Uncle: 谁吃的？给你男朋友啊？
Me: 不是，给我同事。
Then I handed him $2.30, like what Shi Yng had told me would be.
SM Uncle: 答对了。
What the hell. I was SO turned off. The last time i went there wasn't this uncle. I didn't know why i even bothered to talk to him. Fuck. Gross. Disgusting. Bloody asshole. Sucker. (Underage individuals, do not try this at home.)
Later Shi Yng told me she don't like going there, cause that uncle is always asking her things. Wah lao eh, then she ask me to go... Hahaha.
Ok. Back to today.
This morning I arrived early and went to walk around TM. Went to Perlini's Silver, and saw this necklace with a pendant I really like. The pendant's shaped like a snake, and it makes out to look like a cross. It's $115, with a 50% discount. Oh my god. I really, really like it. What to do? $57.50 after discount.
An auntie was purchasing something at the counter, and she told me my hair colour is nice. She said it fits my face, but... BUT it looks like a Christmas tree, because it is too glitzy. Hahaha.
I was steaming the clothes when someone familiar entered the shop. Short black hair, black olden-age glasses... Miss Ng Cher Fah, from NCHS! The bloody damned Chemistry teacher of 3J'05 who only took interest in flirting with the guys, especially Shawn Goh. Woah. You couldn't imagine how speedy I was. The moment I established her identity, i flew to the storeroom and pulled on the curtains. Haha. What the hell. I heard her speaking Mandarin through the curtian. Weird. Haha. After that Rohana, my informant, told me she had left. Thereafter then I dared to venture out again.
During break time i went to look at the necklace again. I really really like it. But the cost... One part of me says it is too expensive; another part of me says it is really worth it for a silver necklace. Somemore it is only ten dollars more than my bag purchased at Zinc. I guess the "Buy It! Buy It!" part of me won, but i haven't got the necklace yet. Librans tend to procrastinate. Right, Joniece?) Haha.
Tomorrow's off day! Can't wait. =)
Oh yes. Something happened. During break time, I went to Eastlink Food Court to takeaway food for us three. Shi Yng wanted mixed vegetable rice. So I went to the stall and looked at the dishes available. I thought, if there were any dishes for my type, I would have a packet as well. But there is this SM-turned-hawker uncle spouting nonsense there.
Sorry to those who can't read Chinese. I just like it to be as real as possible:
SM Uncle: 来，小妹。
Me: 等一下。(I wanted to see the dishes available.)
SM Uncle: 等什么？
Me: 一包。(Nothing to my liking.)
SM Uncle: 要什么？他要不要？(He was pointing to another guy in the stall.)
Me: 不要。
Then I picked out one veg, one meat, as Shi Yng had asked for.
SM Uncle: 还有吗？
Me: 没有。
SM Uncle: 吃得饱吗？我要不要？(He was using his index finger to point down...)
Me: 不是我吃的。
SM Uncle: 谁吃的？给你男朋友啊？
Me: 不是，给我同事。
Then I handed him $2.30, like what Shi Yng had told me would be.
SM Uncle: 答对了。
What the hell. I was SO turned off. The last time i went there wasn't this uncle. I didn't know why i even bothered to talk to him. Fuck. Gross. Disgusting. Bloody asshole. Sucker. (Underage individuals, do not try this at home.)
Later Shi Yng told me she don't like going there, cause that uncle is always asking her things. Wah lao eh, then she ask me to go... Hahaha.
Ok. Back to today.
This morning I arrived early and went to walk around TM. Went to Perlini's Silver, and saw this necklace with a pendant I really like. The pendant's shaped like a snake, and it makes out to look like a cross. It's $115, with a 50% discount. Oh my god. I really, really like it. What to do? $57.50 after discount.
An auntie was purchasing something at the counter, and she told me my hair colour is nice. She said it fits my face, but... BUT it looks like a Christmas tree, because it is too glitzy. Hahaha.
I was steaming the clothes when someone familiar entered the shop. Short black hair, black olden-age glasses... Miss Ng Cher Fah, from NCHS! The bloody damned Chemistry teacher of 3J'05 who only took interest in flirting with the guys, especially Shawn Goh. Woah. You couldn't imagine how speedy I was. The moment I established her identity, i flew to the storeroom and pulled on the curtains. Haha. What the hell. I heard her speaking Mandarin through the curtian. Weird. Haha. After that Rohana, my informant, told me she had left. Thereafter then I dared to venture out again.
During break time i went to look at the necklace again. I really really like it. But the cost... One part of me says it is too expensive; another part of me says it is really worth it for a silver necklace. Somemore it is only ten dollars more than my bag purchased at Zinc. I guess the "Buy It! Buy It!" part of me won, but i haven't got the necklace yet. Librans tend to procrastinate. Right, Joniece?) Haha.
Tomorrow's off day! Can't wait. =)
Friday, 2 March 2007
Notebook
Woah. So many things happened today. Ok, one by one...
I walked around Century Square before reporting for work. My handphone rang when I was about to enter Dano. Shi Yng lah. She was worried I would be late.
In between we went o Popular. Shi Yng wanted to get a nice notebook for writing down the Sales stuff. So we got a nice notebook, plain white small stickers, a packet of blue pens, her cola 'can' of sweets, and my Warheads liquid candy.(She paid, but I returned her the money for my liquid candy.) The container is divided into two sections for storing two different flavours. I had watermelon and blue raspberry. Quite sour, but not as nice as the sweet. Now Shi Yng's pondering over the issue of keeping the notebook for herself or using it at the shop. Haha.
There were a lot of customers today. Then, in the afternoon, around 4++pm, Gladys(HQ person), a middle-aged woman, and a middle-aged man walked into the shop. I knew Gladys; she was here before. The other two I figured they were from the HQ too.
The woman was like, strict. Rohana was wearing her jeans and slippers because her black pants were wet, and she couldn't wear her jeans with her black shoes because it would look funny. So the woman called her over and questioned her why she isn't in proper uniform. So Rohana went to change.
After that she helped to serve customers. She and the man 'commented' on some areas of the shop, like all HQ staff do. Then she was complaining about us hanging the belts on the tags on some of the clothes, saying this would block out the brand label. I pleaded guilty for it was my idea to do so.(But hey! I got the idea from someone else!)
The man, meanwhile, told Shi Yng not to put the ladder, steam iron and pail near the fitting rooms(they were at the back of the shop), for fear of the customers knocking them over. ~_~" He pushed them all out to the front, right in front of the potted 'tree'. It was such an e-y-e-s-o-r-e.
Meanwhile we were pasting stickers. I seriously don't know who came up with this stupid ideas of using stickers to label the discount rate of the articles. Yellow are for those on 20% discount, green for 30%, and orange for 50%. So we had to search for the tags, compare them with the tables on the memo, and paste the according sticker. Wow. I was giddy by the time I finished the racks on the left. The man still asked me if know where to paste the stickers. Whose damn idea was it? Somemore it isn't foolproof. So risky. But this means every single piece of blouse/pants/skirt/jacket/t-shirt and some bags are on sale. Come to Dano now, quickly! No wonder Jason told me to wait for one or two more days on the phone. =)
Afterwards they left, with the woman asking when they would be able to leave. Bye bye.
Later I found out that the man was the boss. BIG BOSS, the highest position. And the woman is his wife-LADY BIG BOSS. Hahaha. To think I didn't give a hoot about them. I didn't think they would be so free to visit every outlet.
So the shop underwent a major revamp. Now it's so messy and unorganised. Shi Yng said we gonna pack up the place again.
Break time! Why am I always the one running errands? Haha. I went to McDonald's for my grilled chicken foldover EVM, with free wedges(cause i had the coupon). Coincidentally I was served by a newcomer. There's a red dot sticker on his name tag, and i guess that is their way of telling us he's new at this job. So I ordered, and somehow he thought that i wanted to change my fries to wedges. He took a large serving of wedges for me when it was supposed to be medium. Then I guess he kind of figured that out and took it away to change. Then I was like, "Where are my fries?" He asked another auntie employee for help. Luckily I'm not a fussy customer. Hahaha. I'm considerate. So i sat there and ate, getting colder and colder as I continued. Guess it was because of the air-con vents. Thereafter I got stuff from OCK and Sweetalk for Shi Yng.(She wanted me to get a free McChicken for her but i refused.) I went back to McD to get a McChicken for Rohana. There were a lot of people. Obviously I didn't go back to that new guy. I went to another teenage guy. There was one customer before me, and he had to reach out to the other side to take the straw from the straw dispensing machine. The employee turned to dispenser around to make it easier for the customers, but dropped the empty "McCafe" styrofoam cup on display along the way. I was looking at the cup, the guy, and to the cup again. So i took my order, and while he went off the get the burger, I picked up the cup from the floor. I think he saw it, and he thanked me.(See, I told ya I am a considerate person. Haha.)
After I went back to the shop I realised i had forgotten Rohana's hot water. So I went back to McD, back to the 2nd guy, to ask him for it. They were busy, so he asked me to wait. After two or three customers, the manager walked by and asked me what i wanted. I said "hot water" and the guy was like, "Shit". So he took over the cup from the manger to give me the hot water himself. Poor guy. Haha. I apologised for the trouble and thanked him.
Wow. So much could happen within a 45 mins break time.
Nothing much happened after that. I was folding knitwear at the front. Two tall girls came to look at them, then one took up one or two to see the pattern. She took one to tried, not before flipping up another one. I bear with it. Fold. Fold. Fold. Later she came back to flip up the piece she had flipped up earlier. Bitch.
After that two aunties started messing up my stuff again.(And they just walked away.) I walked to the counter to scold something and returned to complete my task. This job is definitely not suitable for the faint-hearted, the pregnant, and those with cardiovascular diseases. You will explode with rage. Can't people be more considerate? Please, please, PLEASE, for the hundredth time, there's a display stand over there for you to view the samples. Sigh. I hate it even more when people change out of the knitwear with them reversed. Gross. Yuck. And they throw them back to the display table. Sucker. Sigh. Don't buy anything, somemore.
That's all for today. Work starts at 11.30am tomorrow.
I walked around Century Square before reporting for work. My handphone rang when I was about to enter Dano. Shi Yng lah. She was worried I would be late.
In between we went o Popular. Shi Yng wanted to get a nice notebook for writing down the Sales stuff. So we got a nice notebook, plain white small stickers, a packet of blue pens, her cola 'can' of sweets, and my Warheads liquid candy.(She paid, but I returned her the money for my liquid candy.) The container is divided into two sections for storing two different flavours. I had watermelon and blue raspberry. Quite sour, but not as nice as the sweet. Now Shi Yng's pondering over the issue of keeping the notebook for herself or using it at the shop. Haha.
There were a lot of customers today. Then, in the afternoon, around 4++pm, Gladys(HQ person), a middle-aged woman, and a middle-aged man walked into the shop. I knew Gladys; she was here before. The other two I figured they were from the HQ too.
The woman was like, strict. Rohana was wearing her jeans and slippers because her black pants were wet, and she couldn't wear her jeans with her black shoes because it would look funny. So the woman called her over and questioned her why she isn't in proper uniform. So Rohana went to change.
After that she helped to serve customers. She and the man 'commented' on some areas of the shop, like all HQ staff do. Then she was complaining about us hanging the belts on the tags on some of the clothes, saying this would block out the brand label. I pleaded guilty for it was my idea to do so.(But hey! I got the idea from someone else!)
The man, meanwhile, told Shi Yng not to put the ladder, steam iron and pail near the fitting rooms(they were at the back of the shop), for fear of the customers knocking them over. ~_~" He pushed them all out to the front, right in front of the potted 'tree'. It was such an e-y-e-s-o-r-e.
Meanwhile we were pasting stickers. I seriously don't know who came up with this stupid ideas of using stickers to label the discount rate of the articles. Yellow are for those on 20% discount, green for 30%, and orange for 50%. So we had to search for the tags, compare them with the tables on the memo, and paste the according sticker. Wow. I was giddy by the time I finished the racks on the left. The man still asked me if know where to paste the stickers. Whose damn idea was it? Somemore it isn't foolproof. So risky. But this means every single piece of blouse/pants/skirt/jacket/t-shirt and some bags are on sale. Come to Dano now, quickly! No wonder Jason told me to wait for one or two more days on the phone. =)
Afterwards they left, with the woman asking when they would be able to leave. Bye bye.
Later I found out that the man was the boss. BIG BOSS, the highest position. And the woman is his wife-LADY BIG BOSS. Hahaha. To think I didn't give a hoot about them. I didn't think they would be so free to visit every outlet.
So the shop underwent a major revamp. Now it's so messy and unorganised. Shi Yng said we gonna pack up the place again.
Break time! Why am I always the one running errands? Haha. I went to McDonald's for my grilled chicken foldover EVM, with free wedges(cause i had the coupon). Coincidentally I was served by a newcomer. There's a red dot sticker on his name tag, and i guess that is their way of telling us he's new at this job. So I ordered, and somehow he thought that i wanted to change my fries to wedges. He took a large serving of wedges for me when it was supposed to be medium. Then I guess he kind of figured that out and took it away to change. Then I was like, "Where are my fries?" He asked another auntie employee for help. Luckily I'm not a fussy customer. Hahaha. I'm considerate. So i sat there and ate, getting colder and colder as I continued. Guess it was because of the air-con vents. Thereafter I got stuff from OCK and Sweetalk for Shi Yng.(She wanted me to get a free McChicken for her but i refused.) I went back to McD to get a McChicken for Rohana. There were a lot of people. Obviously I didn't go back to that new guy. I went to another teenage guy. There was one customer before me, and he had to reach out to the other side to take the straw from the straw dispensing machine. The employee turned to dispenser around to make it easier for the customers, but dropped the empty "McCafe" styrofoam cup on display along the way. I was looking at the cup, the guy, and to the cup again. So i took my order, and while he went off the get the burger, I picked up the cup from the floor. I think he saw it, and he thanked me.(See, I told ya I am a considerate person. Haha.)
After I went back to the shop I realised i had forgotten Rohana's hot water. So I went back to McD, back to the 2nd guy, to ask him for it. They were busy, so he asked me to wait. After two or three customers, the manager walked by and asked me what i wanted. I said "hot water" and the guy was like, "Shit". So he took over the cup from the manger to give me the hot water himself. Poor guy. Haha. I apologised for the trouble and thanked him.
Wow. So much could happen within a 45 mins break time.
Nothing much happened after that. I was folding knitwear at the front. Two tall girls came to look at them, then one took up one or two to see the pattern. She took one to tried, not before flipping up another one. I bear with it. Fold. Fold. Fold. Later she came back to flip up the piece she had flipped up earlier. Bitch.
After that two aunties started messing up my stuff again.(And they just walked away.) I walked to the counter to scold something and returned to complete my task. This job is definitely not suitable for the faint-hearted, the pregnant, and those with cardiovascular diseases. You will explode with rage. Can't people be more considerate? Please, please, PLEASE, for the hundredth time, there's a display stand over there for you to view the samples. Sigh. I hate it even more when people change out of the knitwear with them reversed. Gross. Yuck. And they throw them back to the display table. Sucker. Sigh. Don't buy anything, somemore.
That's all for today. Work starts at 11.30am tomorrow.
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Mojojojo(Look at this, Joniece!)
Hey.
Today, it was very peaceful at the shop(ie.low sales). I arrived for work. Rohana was already there(of course lah, she opened the shop). She was knocking off at 4.30pm today. Shi Yng was coming at 4pm. So today I ruled for half of the day. Haha.
(By the way there'll be a special character in this entry. =>)
We had to transfer out some stock. Rohana said someone called in the morning to tell her to out some stuff. So I told her to go ahead. I thought that Shi Yng had taught her the procedure so I let her do it on her own. Besides, if she weren't sure of anything she can ask me, right? So I did my own stuff and she did hers. After that she went to pack the stocks(for replenish) that came yesterday. By the way she also took out some stock to be "out-ted'- put on display(you will know later why i am crapping so much about this). She had already done this yesterday, taking out some stock to 'out', and asking me if they were already on display. Since she were asking me these stuff about putting the new stock on display, I assumed she knew how to check for which stock that had to be displayed. FYI, for a particular design, every size available must be displayed. If there is more than one colour, the sizes can be 'shared' by the different colours. For example, if there are two colours, red and black available for a particular design, the display pieces will be Red-Small size, Black-Medium size, Red-Large size, so on and so forth. Ok... fast forward.
When Shi Yng came in, she was on the edge of committing suicide. Waiting for her were 3 voided transactions, tons of work, and a lot of patchings-up. When Rohana transferred out the stock, she didn't take those on display to be transferred out. So Shi Yng had to go find the display pieces and do the computation again. When Rohana was picking out stocks to be displayed from the newly-arrived goods, she didn't take what she was supposed to take. For example, she only took out the Small and Medium size for a blouse. And there were lots more trouble. Piles of articles were all around the floor, and nobody knew they were new stock or stuff that Rohana was packing back. So, after Shi Yng's numerous rants of "气死我了！", all was finally settled.
I felt I was partly responsible. I shouldn't have assumed that Rohana knows everything. Sigh.
After that I went to play my CD in the DVD player. It has over 100 tracks(mp3 format). Wah, shiok. I was having sing-along sessions for the whole day long. Avril, Jay, JJ, Jojo. All my favourite songs. I didn't play it in the morning because there were too many Chinese songs in it and I doubt Rohana would understand.
Shi Yng and I decided to rearrange the formal clothes. Jacket suits, pants, skirts. I guess Suet Ling would be fuming mad if she sees what we've done. HAHAHA.
I suggested putting the blue group at the entrance(it was red before this). After that we wrecked our brians to figure out how to arrange the rest. We permutated and experimented with different combinations to make the display racks as beautiful as they could.
Then came this Indian guy(with real Indian roots. his accent. so bolly bolly). I reckoned that he came from Karnataka cause he look so nerd and IT. Glasses and laptop case. Shi Yng was complaining to me that this Indian guy wanted to buy a cheap pair of pants for another woman, who, as he described, is very skinny. He wanted it cheap, but those that are on 50% off weren't to his liking. This wasn't the exact problem. The problem is that we don't get what hi was talking about. His accent lah. In the end he got a pair of beige pants on 50% discount. There's this cotton kinda belt for it. Then he was asking,"Can this be used as a bEaUt(yep, there's no such word in the dictionary)?" We asked him to repeat himself a few times, before I asked him to spell it out. B-E-L-T. He seemed as frustrated as we were. He found the belt too thin and the thicker ala carte ones too expensive. So, he went off, not before his mother messed up the $20/$23 cardigans. Sucker. Wait. He is not the special character i'm talking about.
So many brain cells-of me and Shi Yng-died after the manual work, finding the best way possible to arrange the clothes. We were so damn tired after that.
---Welcome to the entry Finale---
I was folding the cardigans at the front when this (quite) hot guy came in. He asked me,"Excuse me, do you have sleeveless white turtlenecks?" Cool. I love guys that are fluent in English. So I led the way to the turtleneck section. Turned out the there were no white ones anymore. So I told him there's another design, but it comes with cap sleeves. He preferred sleeveless ones, though. So I asked Shi Yng for help. The guy said that he needs around 14 pieces, and latest by Monday, cause he needs it on Tuesday. After numerous phone calls and stuff, Shi Yng found out that there was a total of 21 pieces available outlet-wide. So I got his name and contact number(for official use, duh) for future reference. Name: Glen. Cool. Contact no.: 9*******. Cool. Ear piercings and a lil' spiked hair. Cool. Haha. After confirming everything, Shi Yng told him the "he"(HQ people) will call him tonight. As the above dialogue is in Mandarin(Cool, he knows Mandarin too), the guy was maybe mistaken or something, and he asked,"Huh? For a date ar?" HAHAHA. Crazy. He must have too much self-ego. Anyway, he went off after that. (Yes, he's the man you guys have been waiting for.)
Shi Yng and I were left there discussing stuff about him, saying what those clothes must be meant for a dance troupe, and that he needed it on Tuesday because there is a performance or competition on that day. Shi Yng told me she loves dance. She said that I mustn't take off on Monday so that I could see the guy again, and also ask him about the requirements for joining his dance club etc. Hahaha. Day-dreamers.
---End of Finale---
Later that night I called Jason(Operations Manger) to ask him about the Staff's Discount Voucher. (Shi Yng was forcing me to buy my stuff cos the sales was damn poor.) He said that there'll be a 10% discount for offer items and bags. Yay! Good. Very good.
The sales was only $300++ at 8pm. Plain insanity. Luckily, the day was saved by two women- one buying a $79 jacket suit and the other purchasing items at $101++ in a single receipt. Phew.
Shi Yng. her boyfriend and I went to S&K/IP Zone after work. Not together, of course. We walked separate ways. I had told her there was a storewide 60% discount earlier and that i was going there after work. She's copying me, ok? Then she said I was following them. There's this pole with a TV in it and i made a roundabout when she and her boyfriend were coming around the corner. They didn't see me, and I ended up behind them when before that I was in front. Heehee.
It's a scam! Only the tops are applicable for 60% discount. The rest are on 40% discount. SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! In the end we ended up going home empty ended. Hahaha. =>
What a day. =)
Today, it was very peaceful at the shop(ie.low sales). I arrived for work. Rohana was already there(of course lah, she opened the shop). She was knocking off at 4.30pm today. Shi Yng was coming at 4pm. So today I ruled for half of the day. Haha.
(By the way there'll be a special character in this entry. =>)
We had to transfer out some stock. Rohana said someone called in the morning to tell her to out some stuff. So I told her to go ahead. I thought that Shi Yng had taught her the procedure so I let her do it on her own. Besides, if she weren't sure of anything she can ask me, right? So I did my own stuff and she did hers. After that she went to pack the stocks(for replenish) that came yesterday. By the way she also took out some stock to be "out-ted'- put on display(you will know later why i am crapping so much about this). She had already done this yesterday, taking out some stock to 'out', and asking me if they were already on display. Since she were asking me these stuff about putting the new stock on display, I assumed she knew how to check for which stock that had to be displayed. FYI, for a particular design, every size available must be displayed. If there is more than one colour, the sizes can be 'shared' by the different colours. For example, if there are two colours, red and black available for a particular design, the display pieces will be Red-Small size, Black-Medium size, Red-Large size, so on and so forth. Ok... fast forward.
When Shi Yng came in, she was on the edge of committing suicide. Waiting for her were 3 voided transactions, tons of work, and a lot of patchings-up. When Rohana transferred out the stock, she didn't take those on display to be transferred out. So Shi Yng had to go find the display pieces and do the computation again. When Rohana was picking out stocks to be displayed from the newly-arrived goods, she didn't take what she was supposed to take. For example, she only took out the Small and Medium size for a blouse. And there were lots more trouble. Piles of articles were all around the floor, and nobody knew they were new stock or stuff that Rohana was packing back. So, after Shi Yng's numerous rants of "气死我了！", all was finally settled.
I felt I was partly responsible. I shouldn't have assumed that Rohana knows everything. Sigh.
After that I went to play my CD in the DVD player. It has over 100 tracks(mp3 format). Wah, shiok. I was having sing-along sessions for the whole day long. Avril, Jay, JJ, Jojo. All my favourite songs. I didn't play it in the morning because there were too many Chinese songs in it and I doubt Rohana would understand.
Shi Yng and I decided to rearrange the formal clothes. Jacket suits, pants, skirts. I guess Suet Ling would be fuming mad if she sees what we've done. HAHAHA.
I suggested putting the blue group at the entrance(it was red before this). After that we wrecked our brians to figure out how to arrange the rest. We permutated and experimented with different combinations to make the display racks as beautiful as they could.
Then came this Indian guy(with real Indian roots. his accent. so bolly bolly). I reckoned that he came from Karnataka cause he look so nerd and IT. Glasses and laptop case. Shi Yng was complaining to me that this Indian guy wanted to buy a cheap pair of pants for another woman, who, as he described, is very skinny. He wanted it cheap, but those that are on 50% off weren't to his liking. This wasn't the exact problem. The problem is that we don't get what hi was talking about. His accent lah. In the end he got a pair of beige pants on 50% discount. There's this cotton kinda belt for it. Then he was asking,"Can this be used as a bEaUt(yep, there's no such word in the dictionary)?" We asked him to repeat himself a few times, before I asked him to spell it out. B-E-L-T. He seemed as frustrated as we were. He found the belt too thin and the thicker ala carte ones too expensive. So, he went off, not before his mother messed up the $20/$23 cardigans. Sucker. Wait. He is not the special character i'm talking about.
So many brain cells-of me and Shi Yng-died after the manual work, finding the best way possible to arrange the clothes. We were so damn tired after that.
---Welcome to the entry Finale---
I was folding the cardigans at the front when this (quite) hot guy came in. He asked me,"Excuse me, do you have sleeveless white turtlenecks?" Cool. I love guys that are fluent in English. So I led the way to the turtleneck section. Turned out the there were no white ones anymore. So I told him there's another design, but it comes with cap sleeves. He preferred sleeveless ones, though. So I asked Shi Yng for help. The guy said that he needs around 14 pieces, and latest by Monday, cause he needs it on Tuesday. After numerous phone calls and stuff, Shi Yng found out that there was a total of 21 pieces available outlet-wide. So I got his name and contact number(for official use, duh) for future reference. Name: Glen. Cool. Contact no.: 9*******. Cool. Ear piercings and a lil' spiked hair. Cool. Haha. After confirming everything, Shi Yng told him the "he"(HQ people) will call him tonight. As the above dialogue is in Mandarin(Cool, he knows Mandarin too), the guy was maybe mistaken or something, and he asked,"Huh? For a date ar?" HAHAHA. Crazy. He must have too much self-ego. Anyway, he went off after that. (Yes, he's the man you guys have been waiting for.)
Shi Yng and I were left there discussing stuff about him, saying what those clothes must be meant for a dance troupe, and that he needed it on Tuesday because there is a performance or competition on that day. Shi Yng told me she loves dance. She said that I mustn't take off on Monday so that I could see the guy again, and also ask him about the requirements for joining his dance club etc. Hahaha. Day-dreamers.
---End of Finale---
Later that night I called Jason(Operations Manger) to ask him about the Staff's Discount Voucher. (Shi Yng was forcing me to buy my stuff cos the sales was damn poor.) He said that there'll be a 10% discount for offer items and bags. Yay! Good. Very good.
The sales was only $300++ at 8pm. Plain insanity. Luckily, the day was saved by two women- one buying a $79 jacket suit and the other purchasing items at $101++ in a single receipt. Phew.
Shi Yng. her boyfriend and I went to S&K/IP Zone after work. Not together, of course. We walked separate ways. I had told her there was a storewide 60% discount earlier and that i was going there after work. She's copying me, ok? Then she said I was following them. There's this pole with a TV in it and i made a roundabout when she and her boyfriend were coming around the corner. They didn't see me, and I ended up behind them when before that I was in front. Heehee.
It's a scam! Only the tops are applicable for 60% discount. The rest are on 40% discount. SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! In the end we ended up going home empty ended. Hahaha. =>
What a day. =)
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