Went for a teambuilding exercise organized by my new company last night. The afternoon I sprained my ankle(again!) during basketball, so I was abit apprehensive about what we were about to do to teambuild. Considering that we were told to wear berms and shoes I was prepared for an amazing-race kind of exercise.
Well I took a cab to Sentosa ferry terminal where we were supposed to meet. When we met I was quite surprised to find out that there were alot of people from my old company, like almost 7 of us, though not all were persoanl bankers. I was also surprised that there were more girls than I thought. Also, out of my interview group during the group round(the assessment centre), only one other guy made it though besides myself. We also got to meet our future managers and even the vice president of the company(he's Dane, along with a few other ang mohs) who would join us for the exercise.
It turned out that we would end up playing a game of mobile lasertag. Quite interesting, really, and probably costly, whereby it was like paintball except alot cleaner with laser guns and sensory belts very much like the army when fighting ATAC. Army boys will know. The weapons were quite realistic and the simulation and aim was good(not like you anyhow-shoot-sure-will-hit type). However unlike the one previously at Marina Square, we played over an open park area near the ferry terminal where there's alot of freedom to roam and natural obstacles(more realistic mah). Now playing in the hot and humid night in the Sentosa jungle sure made us sweat like pigs, but essentially it did help to teambuild alright. In fact, the exercise was so effective that by dinnertime we were all hanging out like a buncha old school reunion classmates catching up with each other's lives. Such was its effectiveness. But sweating like dog and not bringing a change of attire made me smell real bad. But then so did alot of the rest I think, especially the girls who probably didn't expect to sweat so much.
Dinner was at this old steamboat-turned restaurant also close to the ferry terminal. I forgot the name. Food wasn't very good but I shared the table with the VP(his name was Eric) and we had quite a good chat. Really humble guy and all, even though he was such a big fuck. He was already in his 50s and he still joined us for lasertag. Wow.
By the end of dinner we even wanted to go back to the mainland for some drinks together but after some careful thought, it was called off. But that was a preview of things to come I guess. All in all it was a good preview of my future colleagues and everyone seems really nice to work with, so I guess work will be something to look forward to come Oct 2nd.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
My Final Days Here
Monday's my last day.
Can't help but feel a tinge of sadness all week long. Haven't been able to sleep too well, bad dreams, though I can't remember what they're about. But I assume its cuz I'm leaving.
Here and there will feel nostalgic about my days here. Even though I haven't been here for too long(approx. 1 year and 2 months) but I've had alot of fond memories here. The last few weeks somehow whenever we go for our dinners we'd be talking about the 'good ol'days' - albeit only about days gone several months back. Its also partly because alot of policies are changing, alot of new things we're just getting used to with the management's change of direction. So everyone's in a nostalgic mood. Which makes me sad sometimes cuz I also want to be a part of their current transition.
When I first came in it was Robert's first month as branch manager. Maybe thats why he's got a softspot for me, me being his first 'student'. There was only Steven and Simon. Then came Led, then Evelyn, then Ah Huat, then Sam, now Paul. So many people now when back then at our lowest headcount we had like Steven and I running for hte month of November while Simon was on leave. Or Simon, Led and myself cheonging for the month of February. It was tough then, but those are what memories were made of.
There're still alot of things to do, alot of rubbish to clear around the branch, alot of personal items to giveaway before Monday. There's gonna be a branch farewell tonight, and then a PB gathering on Monday too. So touched.
More updates while I waste away in Shenton Way.
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On an absolutely separate note, I'm glad Man U got off to a good start by beating Celtic 3-2 at Old Trafford on Tuesday. Good start, good ending. Hopefully this season they'll win something more than the League Cup.
Go Man Yoo!!!!!!
Can't help but feel a tinge of sadness all week long. Haven't been able to sleep too well, bad dreams, though I can't remember what they're about. But I assume its cuz I'm leaving.
Here and there will feel nostalgic about my days here. Even though I haven't been here for too long(approx. 1 year and 2 months) but I've had alot of fond memories here. The last few weeks somehow whenever we go for our dinners we'd be talking about the 'good ol'days' - albeit only about days gone several months back. Its also partly because alot of policies are changing, alot of new things we're just getting used to with the management's change of direction. So everyone's in a nostalgic mood. Which makes me sad sometimes cuz I also want to be a part of their current transition.
When I first came in it was Robert's first month as branch manager. Maybe thats why he's got a softspot for me, me being his first 'student'. There was only Steven and Simon. Then came Led, then Evelyn, then Ah Huat, then Sam, now Paul. So many people now when back then at our lowest headcount we had like Steven and I running for hte month of November while Simon was on leave. Or Simon, Led and myself cheonging for the month of February. It was tough then, but those are what memories were made of.
There're still alot of things to do, alot of rubbish to clear around the branch, alot of personal items to giveaway before Monday. There's gonna be a branch farewell tonight, and then a PB gathering on Monday too. So touched.
More updates while I waste away in Shenton Way.
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On an absolutely separate note, I'm glad Man U got off to a good start by beating Celtic 3-2 at Old Trafford on Tuesday. Good start, good ending. Hopefully this season they'll win something more than the League Cup.
Go Man Yoo!!!!!!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Weirdest Taxi Driver Ever
Today I came off at Kembangan MRT and took my regular taxi ride home.
"Siglap?" were his first words to me. I was thinking how the hell this guy knows where I'm heading, but just brushed it off as if he just got lucky.
The whole ride he was yakking and yakking away about the IMF blah blah blah non-stop and had the laughter of an old man who need to catch his breath in the middle of a laugh.
Then at the entrance of Mandarin Gardens after he turned in, he said, "Block 3?". I was totally shocked that he seemed to know where to go. It was totally weirding me out. Then I asked him if he'd fetched me before but he said no. So I asked him how he knew?
Then the taxi driver said, "When uncle was born into this world, uncle asked my God to give me six million dollars. But God refused and instead gave me six cents(sense)! Muahahahaha". Argh. I was like, roll eyes. Buay tahan uncle can even gimme this kinda of corny jokes.
Once he reached my block I quickly paid up and got out liaoz. Really wonder how he knew where I was heading.
Weird.
"Siglap?" were his first words to me. I was thinking how the hell this guy knows where I'm heading, but just brushed it off as if he just got lucky.
The whole ride he was yakking and yakking away about the IMF blah blah blah non-stop and had the laughter of an old man who need to catch his breath in the middle of a laugh.
Then at the entrance of Mandarin Gardens after he turned in, he said, "Block 3?". I was totally shocked that he seemed to know where to go. It was totally weirding me out. Then I asked him if he'd fetched me before but he said no. So I asked him how he knew?
Then the taxi driver said, "When uncle was born into this world, uncle asked my God to give me six million dollars. But God refused and instead gave me six cents(sense)! Muahahahaha". Argh. I was like, roll eyes. Buay tahan uncle can even gimme this kinda of corny jokes.
Once he reached my block I quickly paid up and got out liaoz. Really wonder how he knew where I was heading.
Weird.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Worst Showflat Agent Ever
We were at The Trumps showflat in Kembangan yesterday. Really nice place, but the showflat agent was terrible! Somehow we weren't really pissed with his gaffs, but were laughing at him most of the time more like.
For starters his breath smelled as though he had eaten skunk. Wah lao go eat a mint for goodness sakes lah, macham like he rinsed his mouth in shit just before we came into the showflat lidat. So throughout the ordeal we both tried not to get too close to him.
The buffoon proceeded to blurt out loud, upon me writing 'Siglap Road' on the signing-in book,
"Wah you live in Siglap ah? That's where the rich people stay!".
Roll eyes.
Good Showflat Agent Rule #482: NEVER IRRITATE POTENTIAL CLIENTS AS ABOVE.
We just kept quiet and wandered away from him towards the condo model as fast as we could.
Then he started his introduction of the condo with damn lousy English(more on that). Plus he said that the condo "had the FULL range of facilities" and then proceeded to inform us that FULL means swimming pool, children's playground, bbq pit and indoor gym. Wow. What an array to justify the high maintenance fees of $250/mth.
He then mouthed off the biggest boo-boo of our meeting, while introducing the full range of facilities, he accidentally said swimming 'pee' instead of 'pool'. Geez, wonder if he was trying to irritate us. The dear and I almost burst out laughing. I dunno about her but I had to look down, bite my tongue and think lousy thoughts just to prevent myself from bursting out in laughter. Damn funny.
We took a lift up to see some of the showrooms thereafter, and didn't really bother him enough for him to make more of a fool of himself, but a couple of times I'd ask him something and then he'd reply something totally unrelated. So random. Like when I asked if it gets noisy around the area, he quickly replied "1430 sq feet!". Like damn proud that he know the answer lidat.
WTF.
Shortly after when we were about to leave the first showroom, we stumbled upon his 2nd biggest boo-boo. As I left the flat to put on my slippers, there I found exactly on top of my slippers were his freakin' leather shoes! Win liao lor. BOTH SHOES on BOTH SLIPPERS. Win liao. Maybe he was poking fun at us. I think he got embarrassed and quickly kicked his shoes off my slippers. And there on my slippers were his leather shoe dusty shoemarks, which I suppose would only come about if he had STEPPED ON THE SLIPPERS TO REMOVE HIS SHOES! Argh.
Finally, his last boo-boo occured in the 2nd showroom. I think he ran out of things to say liaoz, so to make conversation he said that just to inform us that IF we were under 18, our parents had to come down to purchase the unit.
!@#$#@^%@%&$&$^*&^$*&^
Argh.
Like think he must have thought we were shotgun newlyweds or something. I shot him an insulted look, then he said like no offence but you guys really look really young blah blah blah, need your parents' consent blah blah blah. That idiot couldn't even believe that I was 27. Sheesh. Like wah lao, then we bochup him and carried on with exploring the flat in our own happy little world. Haha.
At least we went back to the office to get a quotation of the units from him, and still had to tahan his shit breath for a good 10 minutes before we could leave. Geez, that poor sod must've thought we were serious buyers.
But still somehow he looked like he wasn't the malicious sort and more like the clumsy clown type, so I guess we didn't really fault him or felt really insulted. In fact I think we were just dying to go back to the car to have a good laugh about him. Geez, this guy must've lost alot of customers with his antics man.
The Trumps is a nice condo in Kembangan which I like!
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In another episode earlier, we visited One Amber at Tanjong Katong and pretended to be really interested buyers. Hell that place is damn expensive siah. Sell backside also may not be able to afford!
For starters his breath smelled as though he had eaten skunk. Wah lao go eat a mint for goodness sakes lah, macham like he rinsed his mouth in shit just before we came into the showflat lidat. So throughout the ordeal we both tried not to get too close to him.
The buffoon proceeded to blurt out loud, upon me writing 'Siglap Road' on the signing-in book,
"Wah you live in Siglap ah? That's where the rich people stay!".
Roll eyes.
Good Showflat Agent Rule #482: NEVER IRRITATE POTENTIAL CLIENTS AS ABOVE.
We just kept quiet and wandered away from him towards the condo model as fast as we could.
Then he started his introduction of the condo with damn lousy English(more on that). Plus he said that the condo "had the FULL range of facilities" and then proceeded to inform us that FULL means swimming pool, children's playground, bbq pit and indoor gym. Wow. What an array to justify the high maintenance fees of $250/mth.
He then mouthed off the biggest boo-boo of our meeting, while introducing the full range of facilities, he accidentally said swimming 'pee' instead of 'pool'. Geez, wonder if he was trying to irritate us. The dear and I almost burst out laughing. I dunno about her but I had to look down, bite my tongue and think lousy thoughts just to prevent myself from bursting out in laughter. Damn funny.
We took a lift up to see some of the showrooms thereafter, and didn't really bother him enough for him to make more of a fool of himself, but a couple of times I'd ask him something and then he'd reply something totally unrelated. So random. Like when I asked if it gets noisy around the area, he quickly replied "1430 sq feet!". Like damn proud that he know the answer lidat.
WTF.
Shortly after when we were about to leave the first showroom, we stumbled upon his 2nd biggest boo-boo. As I left the flat to put on my slippers, there I found exactly on top of my slippers were his freakin' leather shoes! Win liao lor. BOTH SHOES on BOTH SLIPPERS. Win liao. Maybe he was poking fun at us. I think he got embarrassed and quickly kicked his shoes off my slippers. And there on my slippers were his leather shoe dusty shoemarks, which I suppose would only come about if he had STEPPED ON THE SLIPPERS TO REMOVE HIS SHOES! Argh.
Finally, his last boo-boo occured in the 2nd showroom. I think he ran out of things to say liaoz, so to make conversation he said that just to inform us that IF we were under 18, our parents had to come down to purchase the unit.
!@#$#@^%@%&$&$^*&^$*&^
Argh.
Like think he must have thought we were shotgun newlyweds or something. I shot him an insulted look, then he said like no offence but you guys really look really young blah blah blah, need your parents' consent blah blah blah. That idiot couldn't even believe that I was 27. Sheesh. Like wah lao, then we bochup him and carried on with exploring the flat in our own happy little world. Haha.
At least we went back to the office to get a quotation of the units from him, and still had to tahan his shit breath for a good 10 minutes before we could leave. Geez, that poor sod must've thought we were serious buyers.
But still somehow he looked like he wasn't the malicious sort and more like the clumsy clown type, so I guess we didn't really fault him or felt really insulted. In fact I think we were just dying to go back to the car to have a good laugh about him. Geez, this guy must've lost alot of customers with his antics man.
The Trumps is a nice condo in Kembangan which I like!
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In another episode earlier, we visited One Amber at Tanjong Katong and pretended to be really interested buyers. Hell that place is damn expensive siah. Sell backside also may not be able to afford!
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Suay Bong
Warning: This is really a boring rant.
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Tonight was damn suay bong.
Was tasked to lock up the branch since the boss wasn't gonna be around. Now I've never encountered any problems the previous couple of times that I've locked it up. Just arm the branch, lock the doors and thats it.
This time was somewhat different. At 9pm the remaining trio of us, Eve, Huat and I, were about to leave the branch and I was setting up the alarm system. After arming the system, we noticed that the aircon wasn't switched off.
Shit.
So I had to disarm the whole alarm system and go back in to shut down the aircon. Then armed the system again. As we left the branch I called Cisco to inform them that we were leaving as we always do. Cisco, however, spotted some problems. Apparently, their system showed that the branch wasn't armed yet.
Shit. Shit.
So I went back in and repeated the whole arming process once more, then called them back, but AGAIN they still said it wasn't armed yet. So I asked them to check on their system maybe its faulty because obviously the alarm system displayed that the branch was armed. So they asked me to speak to their technician to see if there was any fault but there wasn't. The technician couldn't help at all and tried to smoke me here and there. Pffft. Finally, after running up more airtime on my handphone checking with Simon, they called back to say that one of the vaults was not armed, thats why they are unable to see the full arming in their system.
Shit. Shit. Shit.
Like the vaults are so not my pasar lor. Knn. Xianz. Eve then called Hui who said that maybe one of the operations staff leaving didn't arm it. Wtf. So the technician taught me how to arm the vault(it wasn't hard but he took like forever to teach me how). In the end I armed it successfully and we went out.
This time I verified with the Cisco personnel that everything was in order. So hooray! Me and Huat went to take the MRT. Heng got Eve and Huat to pei me through this ordeal, helping me contact so many different people. But then stupid Cisco people had other ideas up their sleeves. They waited till I was all alone in Kallang MRT then called me to say that one of the doors still hadn't been locked and that I didn't lock it properly or something to that effect.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
What?! And you want me to go all the way back to lock one stupid door?!?!
The Cisco officer still had the cheek to retort back unless I was willing to take full responsibility if anything happened. Like hell!
Argh. So I took the train all the way back to branch. Cost me an extra half hour just to go back there. Argh.
Then on the MRT ride the dear called. As I pulled on my doggie handphone chain, it snapped. Fuck. My beloved doggie. Xianz.
Aiyah damn suay bong lah all in all. Enough ranting. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
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Tonight was damn suay bong.
Was tasked to lock up the branch since the boss wasn't gonna be around. Now I've never encountered any problems the previous couple of times that I've locked it up. Just arm the branch, lock the doors and thats it.
This time was somewhat different. At 9pm the remaining trio of us, Eve, Huat and I, were about to leave the branch and I was setting up the alarm system. After arming the system, we noticed that the aircon wasn't switched off.
Shit.
So I had to disarm the whole alarm system and go back in to shut down the aircon. Then armed the system again. As we left the branch I called Cisco to inform them that we were leaving as we always do. Cisco, however, spotted some problems. Apparently, their system showed that the branch wasn't armed yet.
Shit. Shit.
So I went back in and repeated the whole arming process once more, then called them back, but AGAIN they still said it wasn't armed yet. So I asked them to check on their system maybe its faulty because obviously the alarm system displayed that the branch was armed. So they asked me to speak to their technician to see if there was any fault but there wasn't. The technician couldn't help at all and tried to smoke me here and there. Pffft. Finally, after running up more airtime on my handphone checking with Simon, they called back to say that one of the vaults was not armed, thats why they are unable to see the full arming in their system.
Shit. Shit. Shit.
Like the vaults are so not my pasar lor. Knn. Xianz. Eve then called Hui who said that maybe one of the operations staff leaving didn't arm it. Wtf. So the technician taught me how to arm the vault(it wasn't hard but he took like forever to teach me how). In the end I armed it successfully and we went out.
This time I verified with the Cisco personnel that everything was in order. So hooray! Me and Huat went to take the MRT. Heng got Eve and Huat to pei me through this ordeal, helping me contact so many different people. But then stupid Cisco people had other ideas up their sleeves. They waited till I was all alone in Kallang MRT then called me to say that one of the doors still hadn't been locked and that I didn't lock it properly or something to that effect.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
What?! And you want me to go all the way back to lock one stupid door?!?!
The Cisco officer still had the cheek to retort back unless I was willing to take full responsibility if anything happened. Like hell!
Argh. So I took the train all the way back to branch. Cost me an extra half hour just to go back there. Argh.
Then on the MRT ride the dear called. As I pulled on my doggie handphone chain, it snapped. Fuck. My beloved doggie. Xianz.
Aiyah damn suay bong lah all in all. Enough ranting. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Two More Weeks
Only two more weeks to go.
Today whole day in Shenton Way slacking and surfing my life away. Hardly had anything to do or care about except sell our structured deposit to a walk-in rabbit. I must say the current strutured deposit is really not bad though, so it kinda sells itself.
Its abit weird to while away my final days here this way. Especially since I still have two more weeks, it feels like an awfully long time. Already I'm thinking about the emails I'm gonna be writing to my Tanjong Pagar mates, and how I'm gonna spend my last day which is next next Monday. Otherwise I'd be daydreaming and surfing the web for stock update and other non-work related stuff(no porno though).
Even during teleconsulting I didn't make a single call. More like I spent it doing housekeeping and tidying my work area. Haha. Then claim OT somemore.
Geez.
Today whole day in Shenton Way slacking and surfing my life away. Hardly had anything to do or care about except sell our structured deposit to a walk-in rabbit. I must say the current strutured deposit is really not bad though, so it kinda sells itself.
Its abit weird to while away my final days here this way. Especially since I still have two more weeks, it feels like an awfully long time. Already I'm thinking about the emails I'm gonna be writing to my Tanjong Pagar mates, and how I'm gonna spend my last day which is next next Monday. Otherwise I'd be daydreaming and surfing the web for stock update and other non-work related stuff(no porno though).
Even during teleconsulting I didn't make a single call. More like I spent it doing housekeeping and tidying my work area. Haha. Then claim OT somemore.
Geez.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Le Birthday
T'was the girlfriend's birthday yesterday.
Didn't really do anything spectacularly romantic and you can read most of the details with pictures(really good stuff!) in her blog. We had our dinner at the Top of the M @ Meritus Mandarin. Those of you who're like me, hardly-dined-in-such-top-end-restaurants-before types will wow with such suahku-ness at the 5-course dinner that took almost 2 and a half hours.
The gist is that the place is a revolving restaurant with a splendid view of the city(lucky the rain stopped) serving french cuisine. So we had for dinner in the following order in layman english(bloody French everything also pattern pattern):
Escargo(you spell it like that?). Snails lah wtf.
Mushroom Soup
Salmon Salad(with caviar ok, dun pray pray)
Fish OR Lamb(medium rare)
Pudding(creme brulee?)
How the meal actually took 2 and a half hours don't ask me but time flew quite quickly which was a good thing and before you know it we'd revolved one round around the restaurant liaoz. Amazing.
Oh then we were also serenaded by a trio of really talented musicians(one of them with cello even) whom we didn't tip because they didn't know the song I wanted ("Welcome to My World" - Jim Reeves?) but they made it up with a really good rendition of "Only You". Oh well. Muahahaha...
Very very recommended for those who want to celebrate a special occasion with that special someone of yours, like 5 stars out of 5. Hehe. Will set you back about 100+++/pax though. And make a reservation prior hor.
Catch the rest in the her blog.
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Just 2 and a half more weeks to go before I call it a day in my workplace. Quite xianz of running for sales lately since I'll be hardly earning anything and the boss's pms-sy attitude isn't helping much. Hope I can ride out the rest of my days more carefreely.
Those of you wondering where I'm headed or haven't heard of the place when I told you the name, check out their official website here.
No negative connotations please.
Totally looking forward to starting work.
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Was out with Uncle Alfred and KW for lunch yesterday. I always enjoy meeting up with them since there's always lots to catch up with and alot to discuss regarding economic issues and current market trends.
Its amazing that we each represent a different generation(me being from the youngest generation) and yet we get along so well. So when KW and Uncle Alfred talk about events from way back when(even as recent as the UOB-OUB takeover, all I can do is sit quietly and absorb their immense discussion and experience and remind myself to google for more information when I get home). Haha.
Sometimes I wonder what I really contribute at our gatherings. My expertise in the current market trends? My knowledge of the current process and system? My general opinion of the global outlook? Not alot compared to what they care to share with me. I am indeed lucky to have made such friends.
Looking forward to our next meeting.
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Just went to Comex'06. We each bought a portable 160GB harddisk at $125! Killer prices! I must be becoming a geek.
Almost bought a Sony PSP too. We thronged Comex but couldn't find any good PSP deals, then went all the way to Century Square and almost bought the PSP there. Original set + 2GB memory stick + data cable + protector screen @ $440!!! Cheap!
But alas, it was not to be. The shop didn't have anymore original sets! So its a sign that I can get it cheaper somewhere else! Haha.
This Sunday I will part with my money for a PSP.
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I cannot take it anymore.
SINGAPORE IDOL IS A TOTAL JOKE
Much as I try to hide the fact that I keep myself posted on who gets voted out each week, I really cannot take it anymore. Almost everyone in SI2006 cannot make it!!! I thought only John, Mathilda and Hady still were somewhat decent, everyone else...geez.
But JOAKIM(thank God he FINALLY got voted out tonight - the misery is over!) is seriously such a joke that I have finally started to pity him. You can totally see it from his face that he was just dying to get voted out. I mean...let the man leave the stage pronto with his dignity intact lah please. Dunno where all his fans get all the money to vote from siah.
I still maintain that SI cannot adopt the same voting system as AI because our small plus giam siap(I am guilty too) population makes it just too easy for some rich organization(think Jerry last season) or deraged fans to vote in their fav idol-wannabe. No matter how sucky he/she is.
They should actually release the audited(independent) vote tally each week man. Maybe total votes cast is actually less than 1,000. Haha.
They should let the judges influence a larger percentage of the votes lah.
Viewers 50%
Judges(ex Ken Lim, ex Ja) 10%
Ja 0%
Ken Lim 40%
I mean it is Ken Lim's company that'll be doing the hiring anyway right?
Just my two cents.
Didn't really do anything spectacularly romantic and you can read most of the details with pictures(really good stuff!) in her blog. We had our dinner at the Top of the M @ Meritus Mandarin. Those of you who're like me, hardly-dined-in-such-top-end-restaurants-before types will wow with such suahku-ness at the 5-course dinner that took almost 2 and a half hours.
The gist is that the place is a revolving restaurant with a splendid view of the city(lucky the rain stopped) serving french cuisine. So we had for dinner in the following order in layman english(bloody French everything also pattern pattern):
Escargo(you spell it like that?). Snails lah wtf.
Mushroom Soup
Salmon Salad(with caviar ok, dun pray pray)
Fish OR Lamb(medium rare)
Pudding(creme brulee?)
How the meal actually took 2 and a half hours don't ask me but time flew quite quickly which was a good thing and before you know it we'd revolved one round around the restaurant liaoz. Amazing.
Oh then we were also serenaded by a trio of really talented musicians(one of them with cello even) whom we didn't tip because they didn't know the song I wanted ("Welcome to My World" - Jim Reeves?) but they made it up with a really good rendition of "Only You". Oh well. Muahahaha...
Very very recommended for those who want to celebrate a special occasion with that special someone of yours, like 5 stars out of 5. Hehe. Will set you back about 100+++/pax though. And make a reservation prior hor.
Catch the rest in the her blog.
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Just 2 and a half more weeks to go before I call it a day in my workplace. Quite xianz of running for sales lately since I'll be hardly earning anything and the boss's pms-sy attitude isn't helping much. Hope I can ride out the rest of my days more carefreely.
Those of you wondering where I'm headed or haven't heard of the place when I told you the name, check out their official website here.
No negative connotations please.
Totally looking forward to starting work.
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Was out with Uncle Alfred and KW for lunch yesterday. I always enjoy meeting up with them since there's always lots to catch up with and alot to discuss regarding economic issues and current market trends.
Its amazing that we each represent a different generation(me being from the youngest generation) and yet we get along so well. So when KW and Uncle Alfred talk about events from way back when(even as recent as the UOB-OUB takeover, all I can do is sit quietly and absorb their immense discussion and experience and remind myself to google for more information when I get home). Haha.
Sometimes I wonder what I really contribute at our gatherings. My expertise in the current market trends? My knowledge of the current process and system? My general opinion of the global outlook? Not alot compared to what they care to share with me. I am indeed lucky to have made such friends.
Looking forward to our next meeting.
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Just went to Comex'06. We each bought a portable 160GB harddisk at $125! Killer prices! I must be becoming a geek.
Almost bought a Sony PSP too. We thronged Comex but couldn't find any good PSP deals, then went all the way to Century Square and almost bought the PSP there. Original set + 2GB memory stick + data cable + protector screen @ $440!!! Cheap!
But alas, it was not to be. The shop didn't have anymore original sets! So its a sign that I can get it cheaper somewhere else! Haha.
This Sunday I will part with my money for a PSP.
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I cannot take it anymore.
SINGAPORE IDOL IS A TOTAL JOKE
Much as I try to hide the fact that I keep myself posted on who gets voted out each week, I really cannot take it anymore. Almost everyone in SI2006 cannot make it!!! I thought only John, Mathilda and Hady still were somewhat decent, everyone else...geez.
But JOAKIM(thank God he FINALLY got voted out tonight - the misery is over!) is seriously such a joke that I have finally started to pity him. You can totally see it from his face that he was just dying to get voted out. I mean...let the man leave the stage pronto with his dignity intact lah please. Dunno where all his fans get all the money to vote from siah.
I still maintain that SI cannot adopt the same voting system as AI because our small plus giam siap(I am guilty too) population makes it just too easy for some rich organization(think Jerry last season) or deraged fans to vote in their fav idol-wannabe. No matter how sucky he/she is.
They should actually release the audited(independent) vote tally each week man. Maybe total votes cast is actually less than 1,000. Haha.
They should let the judges influence a larger percentage of the votes lah.
Viewers 50%
Judges(ex Ken Lim, ex Ja) 10%
Ja 0%
Ken Lim 40%
I mean it is Ken Lim's company that'll be doing the hiring anyway right?
Just my two cents.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Saturday, August 19, 2006
First Day Back
Back at work today. Felt abit weird but when I got to office Boss wasn't around. So I left the letter on his table.
Boss came in around 10am(heard he's been acting weird, probably wants to quit too), saw the letter and just asked me if that's really what I want. Told him it was, then he said he'll talk to me about it on Monday. Hehe, means I get to slack tomorrow(no roadhow!)
The rest of the morning went by quite peacefully, everyone was trying to update me on what's been happening over the last coupla weeks. Not that much big news except that Mag.L actually quit. Was quite surprised because she just got promoted to that important post only. Probably too stressed lah. Quite a few people entertaining thoughts about quitting too. Seems like quitting season is here again.
Things were so normal I even had sales but I was nice enough to pass the sales on to them. Had to put up with alot of teasing though and the "so good you don't have to piah anymore" rants, but in all its great to be back. We all did lunch together at Wisma Atria. So onz.
Monday will be another challenging day, but once I get past the morning and get released to Shenton Way then I'm gonna be free! Whoo!
Boss came in around 10am(heard he's been acting weird, probably wants to quit too), saw the letter and just asked me if that's really what I want. Told him it was, then he said he'll talk to me about it on Monday. Hehe, means I get to slack tomorrow(no roadhow!)
The rest of the morning went by quite peacefully, everyone was trying to update me on what's been happening over the last coupla weeks. Not that much big news except that Mag.L actually quit. Was quite surprised because she just got promoted to that important post only. Probably too stressed lah. Quite a few people entertaining thoughts about quitting too. Seems like quitting season is here again.
Things were so normal I even had sales but I was nice enough to pass the sales on to them. Had to put up with alot of teasing though and the "so good you don't have to piah anymore" rants, but in all its great to be back. We all did lunch together at Wisma Atria. So onz.
Monday will be another challenging day, but once I get past the morning and get released to Shenton Way then I'm gonna be free! Whoo!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Can I visit the Shire please?
At last, the fight is over. After a rigorous 4-round interview process, I've finally been accepted. It wasn't easy, but I sure hope its worth it. Will be tendering my resignation this coming Saturday and moving on to a better place.
The contract is so European, comes with clauses like:
If the EMPLOYEE believes that he/she has been discriminated against or suffered harassment, bullying or vicitimisation he/she should follow the Grievance Procedure which is available on request from the COMPANY’s administrative staff.
Right.
They must be getting sued left right and centre from all this silly-dillys. Must watch my back(side) next time I drop stationary on the floor.
Hope it works out well. This is, afterall my 3rd job in as many years so sooner or later I'll need to settle down somewhere, and that somewhere might well be here.
Just right here.
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Reservist has been really fun and relaxing. There's nothing better than a good high-key, non-cheong-suah, aircon-environment reservist to brighten up that few weeks of the year that you don't have to run for your numbers.
And I've made a great bunch of friends here. Just a week and a half and suddenly its as though we've known each other for a coupla years. Add to that the fact that assuming none of us defer we'd be stuck with each other for the rest of our NS cycle, I'm really in for a swell time! Whoo!
If all goes well, next year we might even get to go to New Zealand together! So cool! I imagine we'd be going in the winter and we'll probably be shuffling around in thick jackets and woolen pants, threading in ankle-deep snow. As we talk we will be able to see our breaths. So cool!! And cold. Haha.
And if we're REALLY lucky we will be trekking the mountains of New Zealand a la Lord of the Rings lidat(cue Breaking of the Fellowship orchestral piece).
Can I visit the Shire please?
The contract is so European, comes with clauses like:
If the EMPLOYEE believes that he/she has been discriminated against or suffered harassment, bullying or vicitimisation he/she should follow the Grievance Procedure which is available on request from the COMPANY’s administrative staff.
Right.
They must be getting sued left right and centre from all this silly-dillys. Must watch my back(side) next time I drop stationary on the floor.
Hope it works out well. This is, afterall my 3rd job in as many years so sooner or later I'll need to settle down somewhere, and that somewhere might well be here.
Just right here.
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Reservist has been really fun and relaxing. There's nothing better than a good high-key, non-cheong-suah, aircon-environment reservist to brighten up that few weeks of the year that you don't have to run for your numbers.
And I've made a great bunch of friends here. Just a week and a half and suddenly its as though we've known each other for a coupla years. Add to that the fact that assuming none of us defer we'd be stuck with each other for the rest of our NS cycle, I'm really in for a swell time! Whoo!
If all goes well, next year we might even get to go to New Zealand together! So cool! I imagine we'd be going in the winter and we'll probably be shuffling around in thick jackets and woolen pants, threading in ankle-deep snow. As we talk we will be able to see our breaths. So cool!! And cold. Haha.
And if we're REALLY lucky we will be trekking the mountains of New Zealand a la Lord of the Rings lidat(cue Breaking of the Fellowship orchestral piece).
Can I visit the Shire please?
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