~One Red Paper Not Enough~

hah. whats that all about? very simple...
incase some of you have not read/heard wad came out in papers today.
Cathay announce its gonna increase normal charges of tickets by 50cents.
Every yr 20 or so movies defined as "block buster" by them will be more expensive by 1 dollar. WOW. Prolly things like "spiderman 4" or harry potter or maybe even the L movie will be considered block buster. hai...

so current charges on weekends - 9.50
add "block buster" charge - 10.50

WTH man. now i pay with one 10 dollar note aso not enough liao ah. wtf?!

luckily the other operators in the movie industry did not/have not followed in their footsteps. hopefully they wont. grrr stupid cathay.
haha. too bad for some of you who LOVE to watch at cathay though. lol.

~Nice Song~

k this song has been around for VERY Long already. haha. in fact can consider "oldie" but i tink its quite timeless. sappy, a lil boy-bandish but still, NICE. so here you go.(side note, cos of the way my layout is made, its difficult to click on embedded objects like Youtube, Or this song for instance. just keep trying. lol. this one's worth it)


Maybe can listen to it while u read the post below. lol. sad thing is i never did figure out which one of em was michael. haha.

~Photobombardment~

Brace your photo-receptors my dear friends. For this post will bombard you with a huge amount of graphical information. ready? Deep breaths ppl. Here we go...

Going in chronological order.
Some photos from last yr's pre-christmas class gathering at timbre. Found the pics in camera and i remembered i actually took the pictures for a purpose. lol.




Ben showing off his pizza. ash on left, ros on right. That big glass over there is their house pour.(quite nice)





Some triple sausage dish there. not bad.





shot of pizza we had





same pizza. 2nd shot. i must say the pizzas at timbre are really quite good. MUST TRY if u go to timbre or if u happen to be a pizza fanatic. haha.

Next is the office potluck we had back at tong building. Brought a cam that day. Got some shots.




ikea meatballs which i woke up early to cook. haha. and it was quite popular considering the vast amount of food we had piled that day. like potluck for 20+ ppl... so everyone prepare food for abit less than 20. so its like 20x20 portions food. lol.





the spread





candid shot of my boss, le ying and my collegue tina. le ying is left, tina is right






random shot i took in lift. jeremy tried to siam, which made him look like an idiot.lol.

Got this penguin from qi hui for christmas. haha. surprised me with it when i went to meet her to collect my movie tickets. she owe me a penguin since very long time ago. haha. i looked at it and i immediately decided:"This is a surfer penguin!"

















So heres my penguin, with his homemade, instant surfboard. lol. the sharper of you guys out there may notice the cool "soft" decal on his coral-purple surf board. Take note that it has no relations whatsoever with tissue paper boxes.

Mom's bday. as i mentioned before. got her a cake. we celebrated at home.








Pictures of the cake








Mom with the cake

Side note. When i was getting the cake that day for my mom, the sales girl over the counter asked me a question which i found weird but couldn put a finger on it on that instant. she asked: "Isit for happy birthday?"
After i paid and carried my cake away, i walking happily towards the busstop when i realised. why she ask "Isit for happy birthday?" i mean, sure its a slip of the tongue but its quite a funny one. cos "isit for birthday?" would suffice. Imagine if i had answered. "ohhh no no no. Its for SAD birthday" =p (I KNOW. VERY BO LIAO. HAHA. SORRY LA)

Mei's bday celebration, which happened on 27th Jan(although past her bday liao but she was having exams that week)



Writing on the card
















Food pictures. Ohh. we ate at Bakerzinn at Millenia walk. Food was ok ok for its price.




Mei's present(before wrapping)




Mei's present(after wrapping)




I made a gif image to show the process i went through to wrap the gift. lol. quite proud of it cos it kinda turned out in the way i pictured in my head.

Sis's bday celebration. which was JUST, just now. haha.

just took pix of the cake la. heh. i did give her a set of mini hello kitty figurines but i didn take a pic of those. tink aso too many pics liao. i skipped the pics of the cakes and talking in bakerzinn for mei's bday too.







Its an oreo cheesecake. Mom just asked me to get a cake since i worked in town and it was easy to get cakes and all. hah. funny. i just thought that cake wud be nice so i bought it. when i went home then i realised last yr my sis got me a cheese cake for bday aso. haha. but that was baked by her la =)

but if i were to compare i tink the chocolate cake i got for mom was the best out of 3 cakes i ate this month. 2nd wud be... the oreo one. sadly the baker's inn one ranked last.(the texture kinda made it taste like brownies. if only we had pre-ordered their strawberry shortcake... haha)

so thats all for today. haha. how was it? lotsa pics right. must be quite nice for a change since im usually too lazy to upload my pics and resize then post online. lol. summore i still made gif file this time. wah. break record liao. lol.

k la better go to slp le. tml still got work. and its work for shitty boss. sian. lol...

bye!

~ Mom's Bday. 3rd day of Work ~

Today is my mom's bday! haha. happy bday mom. celebrated at home this evening with the family. ermm.. ordered kfc over the fone. lol. although like i can eat kfc anytime outside, this is one of the rare times we actually eat kfc tgt at home. or any other form of fastfood delivery. hmmmm. and ofcourse there was cake. waha. bought from this shop in taka de. forgot wads the name liao. it was opposite the brownies place and bakerz inn de. took over the space haaigen daz used to occupy.

the cake was quite nice leh. had a sort of biscuity center which gave the whole cake a very nice chewable feel. the texture of the chocolate was very nice too. not too thick and heavy, but sweet enough. hehehe. actually i took photos but im too lazy to upload...... lol.

now on to the 2nd part of the title. haha.

3rd day of work??? tot work for so long liao. lol. actually i already finished my time at tong building liao. i asked not to stay for too long from the start cos i wanted to try out diff jobs in diff environments so that i can gain more exposure and get a broader perspective of life.

WOW. im making myself sound so chim. haha. if u wanna say it the nasty way, i just cant stay committed la. haha. so earlier this monday was my first day on my 2nd job. only a weekend kiap in between to buffer. hah. im only doing this job till CNY.

well i really wanted to have change of environment buden... end up i still wake up arnd the same time, take the same bus 14 to arnd the same place. i go to work my co-workers' name all start with the same letter. (used to be jeremy, julie and jeslyn. Now is julien, jordon and jith) best of all, the thumbdrive which my boss uses is the same spidermanIII thumbdrive which was given as freebie when the movie was screened. it even has the same bent look(the original bent look occured due to a minor accident on my part. haha) Heres the icing on the cake, my old frens back from tong are all gonna move by this friday to the building i am in now cos its basically the building where they consolidate all the departments... so... WOW. im gonna start seeing the same ppl too. haha.

well i just listed all the similarities between my current work environment and the previous one, there are ofcourse differences.

it mainly concerns the boss im currently under. now this guy, he is very knowledgeable and he knows a ton of stuff about the corporate world, the media, and well basically things that revolve arnd the health and financial sectors. ohhh i forgot to mention. im actually under the corporate communications department of the company i work for. used to be in admin.

so my boss extended to me an invitation to work full time in the department much like a fully paid internship where i will be doing a project in 4 months. sounds reeaaally promising eh. but im gonna pass.

firstly, like i said before i wanted to experience the different sides of life and broaden my perspectives. so i dun wanna stay too long on the same job NOW regardless of the prospectives it may hold.

secondly, that guy. well, lets just say he is quite the angry person. to his staff at least. although i dun come under direct fire, the 3 Js in the office get screwed EVERYDAY. and the way he scolds, minimal vulgarities are used but his words are very degrading to the person's self confidence. cos when he scolds, and when he is really mad. the words are not targeted at the problem(FOR EXAMPLE:this problem is really frustrating. its a stupid mistake), rather they are targeted at the person(EXAMPLE: YOU are really making me mad. Are you stupid or smth?)

To quote a real scene which happened. Jordon (he seems to be the one who comes under fire the most), boo-boo-ed again and he was getting screwed so this question was posted to him by the boss:

"you tell me la jordon, are you reliable anot?"

By asking this sort of question, you give your target 2 options.

1:agree with this rhetorical question and degrade oneself by saying out "no. i am not reliable"

2:disagree and risk angering you more.

jordan chose to keep quiet. a wise choice, if used on most poeple. but not THIS GUY. he will go as far as to

"eh. dun just keep quiet. you are keeping quiet becos u disagree with me right??"
and it goes on...

the thing abt the boss is that, it takes VERY little to actually blow his fuse. small small things like putting the fan on his table so that it has more leverage to circulate the air and everyone gets some wind. he feels that by putting the fan on his table, ppl are not respecting him. wow.

so the tension in office as you can imagine is pretty darn high. its like you dunoe what little/trivial thing you do next will actually set of a whole row of explosives.(much like working in a fireworks factory)

i mean i understand that in the sector we work in, where information come and go at extreme speeds, errors definitely significant. however, this huge task also means that errors have higher chances of occurring no? and if u were to put ppl under such stress and constant value degradation, wouldn Murphy just appear more frequently?
(not eddie murphy, but rather murphy from Murphy's Law)

the thing is, so far i have not been the target of any scolding. maybe cos im just new and theres some "noob protection scheme" much like those of popular online RPG games. but when you work in an environment like this... you cant help but wonder... "shit. when is it gonna be my turn"

for those of you still abit clueless as to how bad the situation is.

wow players: imagine ur work is to play world of warcraft.(pretty darn good job eh) but jeremy's ur boss. hahaha

tv addicts: watch hell's kitchen.

wow. i actually spent so much time writing crap on my workplace in contrast to my mom's bday. wth man. sorry mom. as u can see... its really quite a stressful place to be in. i tink the guys are driven to the ends of their tether every single day. i finally figured out why they all wear ties in that place. [IN CASE OF EMERGENCY] *shakes head* sigh. heng im going off in 2 weeks time. although i know there is much i can learn from this job... 2 weeks cant come fast enough.. hope the rest of them find better prospectives soon... haha.

~ WAHHH ~

haha. i just realised its really been quite long since i updated. :S nth much to update i guess. haha. ohhh i went for my first jap lesson le! haha. quite interesting. but WTH la my sensei teach finish the WHOLE hiragana in first lesson. can memorise until puke one lor. haha. lucky i got this!



LOL. very nice book! bought it at kino the "hobby" section. haha. theres this memory section that teaches a few memory techniques(not developed by derren brown, but he explains them very thoroughly). They really came in handy when i trying to memorise my hiragana. lol. very interesting book man. i recommend everyone to read. lol.

i haven applied to laselle yet... but im going to very soon. once i acquire enough pieces to submit. haha. yea la i AM actually adding things la ok. lol. just not everyday. heh heh.

i wanna learn how to cook too! find one weekend im gonna try making some lamb. hmmm.. yum. haha. with rosemary and lemon zest. wahahaha!

went to job awhile the other day. WAHHH. my stamina dropped like siao! omg la. haha. no suprise there but still, wahhh, quite bad... lol. running shud be in my to do list too. haha.

ending my current job this friday. its been quite a wonderful time. the ppl were all nice but alas i want to try diff things. so... i dunoe. MAY be picking up this other job(my boss ask me want anot de) basically like help ppl pack stuff cos they moving. till CNY so... might take it since its so short term. allows me more freedom to find stuff later. heh.

but back to the current one. i tink i learnt quite abit of office stuff from this job. at least excel doesn feel as alien as before. i learnt to operate all sorts of office machines too! haha. shredder, copier(includes scanning and printing too), binder(yea i noe how to bind things and operate the binding machine!). haha. hmmmm. manage to meet quite a bit of ppl as well. most of them really friendly and sincere. my boss also very nice person whose style of work resembles mine. in fact if i ever have an office next time it will be quite similar. messy and full of ALL SORTS OF THINGS. seen abit of corporate life and a little side of politics... in future i hope to work in an environment with minimal politics... haha. learnt that reading newspaper infront of the big boss is a definite NO NO.

k thats about it for now. haha. will try to update more. lol.

~ Talk about fanatic ~

read this... this

thats a report on a murder case in belgium. Apparently the murderer left body parts arnd 2 places and wrote notes for each. both saying 'WATASHI WA KIRA DESS'. like wth la. got ppl go to such extents.

and apparently alot of forumites in those manga forums and stuff all laughing about this. cos he spelt dess instead of desu. -_- wahhhh. im quite surprised this news didn spread like siao. =S then again it might have been what the killer wanted.

wth is this world coming to man...

~ Happy new yr!! ~

happy new yr my frens!! its 2008! hah. wow. another yr has passed. its like just so recent when i was still stuck in outfield complaining bout my life. in the blink of an eye 2007 is already over. wow. well, 1 yr is enough for many many things to happen and just like the previous yrs its all filled with ups and downs. but all in all i'd still say its a good yr. theres ALWAYS room for improvement but we'll see. haha. hopefully 2008 will be smooth sailing and fun. haha. isit like a trend nowadays to be anti new yr resolution. haha. well i didn manage to fufil my 2007 one as well. i tink its a bit of a long stretch but, im gonna try for the same thing this yr too. lol. (lose my tu*cough*mmy)

erhh... went out last night to watch AVP2, it SUCKED. i tink it was worse than the first and yea, as u noe the first sucked too. remember how the first one ended? heres a lil refresher. Aliens all die liao(or so it seemed) and predators satisfied so they fly home in the nice spaceship. in orbit just above earth a baby alien suddenly pop out of the dead predator's body! OMFG!!! haha.

guess how the 2nd movie started. the alien wreaked havoc on the spaceship and it crashed in some forested area in america. WOW. it didn even begin like 5 yrs later. is like 2 hrs later.

the action scenes were almost always rainy and dark all the time. and the alien and predator also almost always BLACK. except for when the predator use his armour to become invisible. Which is even worse. so if u do the math. basically cant see anything during the fight scenes except for green blood and the screaming face(when the do a close up)

after movie, went to jeremy's place to play mahjong. me, danny, alvin and seno. daniel watched awhile then slpt. jeremy just play wow. WOW. bob went home. =S

haha. its been awhile since i played mahjong. the little refresher was nice. haha. we even had to decipher out the way to count how the tiles are distributed. lol.

hah. dats abt all from me for new yr. hah. hmmmm. enjoy the holidays ppl. work hard in the coming yr! and please, take care of yourselves.