who on earth is albert?!?!?!?

i've finished data entrying. wonderful. now there's nothing else to do except wait for lunch and then go out to CS to start answering phone calls.

my father was so touched to see the bday cake we bought for him yesterday! we meant to buy durian cake from Angie's the Choice for him, but it just so happened that the shop has closed down. aint it such a coincidence?! then, yi lun and i had to walk to TM's basement to see wat we could find there. well, we found bengawan solo, four leaves and breadtalk. by rights, we should have been spoilt for choice. in the end though, there wasn much of a choice. my father doesn like choc cake, though he still eats it (well, there is a lack of enthusiasm when we end up choosing choc cake....), tiramisu.... he doesn really like it, though the rest of the family likes it, but well... it's his bday after all =). Mango.... hmm... that was one of our choices, but we ended up buying absolutely mocha from breadtalk simply coz the design was nice and the description sounded good. well... guess we're suckers for packaging... =p

the planning to buy the cake was so disorganised! hee... well, i admit... it was a rather last minute thing... i had put it to the last possible moment, so it ended up that everyone had to have dinner late coz they were waiting for lun and me. =S

i was soooo sleepy last night! but i had to accompany my father to send my grandmother to the airport. she has to go back to australia to renew her passport or somthing. since evertone else in the family has to go to school the next day, and the flight was at 11:40 at night, i had to go with my father. haha... kept almost dozing off in the car and at the airport. wanted to go into all the shops, but i think it wouldn have been polite coz my auntie and uncle were there too... nevertheless, i went into "Perfumes and Cosmetics" to look at the perfumes. i was especally curious bout Britney Spears' "Curious" perfume. i wanted to see how bad it actually smelt, judging from all the bad reviews it got. hmm... it's not tt bad acty, it smells sweet, a little vanilla-ish, so i guess that wouldn have sat well with some ppl's tastes. i tested Lancome's "Miracle" (or something along tt line), and it's nice! it smells fresh, like flowers, and kinda makes the 'smeller' feel good. it's a little matured though... reminds me of a confident, independent career woman who knows wat she wants, and will get it. yep, it does! "Curious" on the other hand, smells younger, but it does bring to mind a young female who tries to have the best of both worlds- the innocence and sweetness of a young girl, yet still trying to attain the confidence and self-assurance of a more matured woman. kinda reminds me of Britney Spears' "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman". hmm... my favourites, though, are still D&G's "Light Blue", and Elizabeth Arden's "Lemon Tea". both have fresh yet natural scents. =)

haha, got no fate with serene lar. i thot i could go find her or something when i went to the airport last nite. alas! it was her off day! haven seen her and ee hui and huan ling and ying chao for such a loooooong time... hmm... hopefully we can meet up soon.... =)

cant wait for lunch. haha... food's all i think about these days, coz there's nth else to think about. in the past, there was hardly any time to think of food, wat with tests, assignments, hw etc. is there any surprise that i'm feeling heavier? seriously! i'm seriously not being paranoid here. i guess the fat doesn show on my body, but within it, is another story. feeling oily and fatty inside. eeew!! mebbe the fats are clogging inside my body, around my organs....!!! wait. did i get my facts rite? when fat doesn show on the body, there is a possibility that it's inside the body rite? tt's y skinny ppl can oso suffer from hypertension and high cholesterol? given all my bio knowledge back to my teachers... sheesh... cant really remember much... now when i help my sisters with their work, i find i have to read thru first b4 i acty teach them. wat an irony. i got such a shitty grade for Econs, and i'm teaching lun econs?!?!?!?!?!? it's kinda like the blind leading the blind... heh.. math... still ok, though i think i'll have to start revising integration soon after i teach von poisson. goodness... hope i dun have to re-do all my tutorials when i have to start teaching integration, though i think it's quite likely, coz i've forgotten bout 80% of watever i learnt liao. oh man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, think i've crapped enough. 35 min to lunch, and a new work envt. not really looking forward to it, coz of the lack of calls i'm sure to have, and a lack of entertainment. the only thing i'm looking forward to is meeting von after work to go shopping!!! hopefully i can bear to part with my pay... hahaha.... i always feel so tempted to buy things, but somehow, i feel so... bu she de when i acty have to go pay with the money... hahaha.... i sound so kiam rite? i guess that's wat my parents mean when they say "You will know the pinch when u start working" oh well. now i know. i'm still going shopping though. let's hope i do find some great bargains and buy nice stuff!!! so exciting! but one prob. where am i gonna have dinner?

damn... cant find the rubber band i always leave in the work room. my hair is getting in the way... its now in the not long not short stage, so it keeps tickling my neck, or gets kinda folded at my neck, between my jacket and my top. argh. i wonder where i put it... hmm....

anyway, its another early day for me (just took half day off yesterday), coz we finished our data entrying early again today. before lunch. hahaha yep =) we dun have to open letters anymore now, after the missing cash fiasco which is SOOOO totally not our fault. we have absolutely no use for AU$6000 cash. and anyway, how the hell would we be able to walk out of the company with so much money with 4 ppl in a room? there would hardly be time to take the money out of every envelope attached to every order form, and staple the envelope back perfectly, making it look untouched.

i forecast another boring day ahead of me tml. i will be doing my current job for the first half of the day, and then after lunch, i'll be going outside to do customer service. i dun mind doing it, i think it would be quite fun, but the thing is, there are v few phone calls for me to pick up, and there won't be anyone to tok to me!!! mui leng will be bz doing her own work, while yanting will be on leave. tt leaves me sooooo alone!!!!! and i'll be OUTSIDE! in the OPEN!! that means that however bored i am, i will not be able to surf the net like i'm doing now, or take out a book to read. oh yah, and tml's the first day the Customer Service (CS) director takes over. if wat i hear is true, he's v strict bout the staff being too free. yep, tt means no sms, no hp calls, no surfing of internet, no reading tml. oh wow. my heart's fluttering wildly at that prospect. -_-"

going to buy angie the choice's durian cake today! yay! it's my father's birthday today, and i'm gonna buy him a bday cake as a surprise!! hmm... i think he suspects it already too. haha, i told him i'm meeting a friend after work at tm... not as if he doesn know me well enough to know that i WILL go home punctually today no matter wat, coz its his bday. hehe... anyway, i'm gonna play dumb...

ok gonna go surfing again. yep, and try to put up my tagboard... hehe...

hi! heh, i know i haven been blogging for a loooooooooooong time... well, been pretty lazy to log onto blogger.com to blog, and part of the reason's coz the website is in CHINESE! goodness knows y my homepage is now in chinese, neopets is in chinese, and blogger is in chinese! OMG. i know... i can read it, but i dun feel like translating them in my mind and figuring out which thumbnail/link i should click on to get to where i wanna go. anyone has any ideas wat i can do to get rid of the chinese words?

why am i blogging now at this weird time and on such a weird day? well, the reason is simple: i'm in the office blogging.

why do i blog now? haha, good question. coz i've just finished keying in my order entries and there are no other things i can do until 6pm. so i've decided to surf the net. but there're only so many websites i can surf, so i decided to do something which i've been putting off for a long time- blog. SHHHHHHHHHHHH.... i'm not supposed to surf the net in the office acty... the IT dept will question us... something bout using the company's system to surf the net when we should be working.... hmm... tts true... but we've finished our work! crystal's playing book worms (i should get round to playing tt) now, jesmine's teaching shirley how to exercise at work, and shirley's bz laughing at jes' actions. haha... this is a crazy bunch of colleagues i tell u... but they add alot of entertainment into a boring working life. acty, i believe colleagues are the ones who help to brighten our otherwise boring working lives. i mean, can u imagine spending the whole day facing the silent and still computer keying orders without talking to anyone? oh man.... i think its utterly boring. but i guess tt's part of the job. well, i guess i'm lucky to be inside a separate room with my 3 other colleagues. haha... we're practically living in a world of our own. we just turn on the music and joke and laugh as we key data. its nice, but well, there is politics everywhere, even in a space taken up by 4 ppl. my supervisor was recently pulled out from the room, coz of strife btw her and 2 other colleagues. things got sore up to the pt where they werent talking to one another. just think: a few weeks ago they were all still going out together, and then, they weren talking to one another. the atmosphere in the room was so tense, one just had to get of the room often to get a breather. well, now that my supervisor's out of the room, the atmosphere is more relaxed.

acty, i think the supervisor is a nice lady, just given to taji-ing work to the others. as an individual, she's v v nice. however, as a co-worker.... well, that's another story entirely.

i'm kinda bored with data entry. there's only so much to fa hui.... i wanted to transfer to the customer service dept initially, coz i realised i should acty learn how to tok properly over the phone, and deal with ppl. this would also (hopefully) train me to think faster when facing problems. unfortunately, there's no vacancy. nvm, jay said she'll call me when they need me on my next hol. hmm... the words "next hol" are a huge assumption on my part, of course, assuming if i manage to get a place in the uni. i'm hoping to get into the psych faculty at ntu... haha... HOPEFULLY i can make it there.

since you are blogging now, shouldn u do something bout ur tagboard and ur blogskin? we've been staring at " bad id" for many months now.
err *sheepish smile*.... haha... i will get round to my tagboard. soon. i promise. but after so many mths of inactivity on my blog, i hope u all will still tok on my tagboard? pls? it'll be boring there if no one talks *looks beseechingly at you*.

As for blogskin... well.... can someone advise me on how i can design one of my own? i know the ones at blogskins are nice, but well... i feel like trying my hand at it. anyone can offer to give me some pointers? speaking of blogskins, i did find one v v cute one just now... it has babies as its theme... cute!!

ok.... i think i've blogged alot... i hope i'll continue blogging...... if i dun... well, u know wat's become of me. i've become to fat and lazy.... =)

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i just read the blog of the late grace chow,of whom perhaps some of u may have read about.... she was from rotterdam, netherlands, and she was suffering form a rare tumour at the base of her neck, called chordoma. her blog is about the last 9 days of her life, when she began blogging. the website is
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go read it when u have the time... her words are beautiful, and they make u think of life and death and at they bring in another way. it's sad that someone with so much spark and optimism in her in the face of death should have to die. why is it that ppl who have the enthusiasm for life should leave it earlier whilst those who just live their lives just because they have nth better to do should live long lives? i once read a theory in "Chicken Soup for the Soul", where a little boy's dog had passed away, yet he was not upset. when questioned why he was not sad, the boy simply said, " God sent (the dog) to us to bring us happiness. now that he has completed his job, God wants him to go back, because Heaven needs happiness too." so could it be that these ppl who pass away early have acty made a difference in the lives of ppl around them, whereas those who lead long lives still have not made a difference in anyone's lives? if so, does that mean that all of us were put on earth for a difference?

oh yes, to those enlisting on the 6 and 7 jan, goodbye and all the best for ur ns days! =)

i just went to irc to try to dl music, but unfortunately, the channels have shut down! how? does anyone know where i can download songs?

my comp is driving me crazy. everything is in chinese! i dunno wat is wrong with it. i checked the encoding as TC said, but everything is normal. wat else is wrong? can someone tell me? it wouldn be so bad if i could type in chinese words, but there is no way i can, coz i dun have the software! urgh.

i'm bored!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

not tt there is anything to be happy abt in the new year as far as i can see... heh.. there wasn a good start to 2005 as everyone around the world can see.... well yah, i'm talking bout the tsunami.... it's real sad isn it? thousands of innocent lives just lost like tt. there wasn even any reason for it! it was just unexpected and.... motiveless! overnight, ppl with families found themselves homeless and family-less, couples found themselves singles, children found themselves orphans.... goodness.... so many ppl had their dreams and hopes smashed just like tt... like ppl who had set up businesses by the seaside, or families which went but only one or 2 ppl went home...

but wat impresses me is the way singaporeans acty volunteered their services to help those in need. seriously! u know, we always think singaporeans are an apathetic lot, but acty, how true is it? (erm yah, i used to think so, and i think it's a rather widely held opinion). the moment news broke out bout the disaster, organisaitons, companies, and individuals stepped in to help. temples, and racial groups also chipped in. it was like showing a united front in times of disaster, which is quite heartening, even in such depressing circumstances.

yah, i know i'm probably sounding like propaganda, but well, i cant help but be impressed at the show of unity. i went to one of the temples tt offers help, and wow, the whole place was inundated with clothes, food, necessities, etc, and there was no lack of ppl dropping by helping out with the packing or donating stuff. even in rainy weather, ppl were still going to these places to help in any way they can. if this is not called charitable, and kindness and- well, i cant think of a word- then wat is this?

oh yes, mel, haha... my index finger decided to follow wat u did to ur hands last yr... haha... when i got out of the car to go to the temple, i closed the door on it. yes, i did, and i'm wondering how the heck i managed to do get out of the car and keep my finger- yah, only one finger- between the car and the door. it hurt like anything, and the whole finger turned numb. goodness... it was worse than when i sprained my ankle! luckily the bone wasnt broken, but the whole finger swelled like a sausage and there was internal bleeding in both the nail and the finger. sound disgusting rite? haha... well, it was at first, but it got better. thankfully. however, it still hurts like the devil, and there's no strength in it yet... cant even type with it, and now i'm typing with my third finger instead of my index. now i know how impt the index finger is to me. thank god its not broken.

let's all hope tt 2005 will be a better yr, with fewer terorist attacks, fewer disease outbreaks in both man and beast, and fewer natural disasters. happy new year everyone.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It has been quite a fun day today, quite full of activities acty. haha, in the morning, we watched Mars (well i bought the vcd with my first paycheck, and i dun think i feel guilty bout it... hee... ;) ), and i think zai zai is soooooo good-looking. hahaha =) do i sound like an airhead? heh, guess i do, but oh well... he IS! =p anyway, after that we went to have lunch, then came back and baked apple crumble. i baked it! haha, quite proud of myself acty, coz its the first time i acty get to bake something by myself from scratch, and it tastes good!!!!

i just got home from my neighbour's christmas party acty, and... well, let's just say that it was uneventful. we didn know anyone there, coz the guests are my neighbour's friends and relatives, and they seemed to know one another. it was only us who didn know anyone other than the hosts. nonetheless, my parents did a rather good job at socialising, which is more than wat i can say for myself... hee... i'm rather embarrassed to say tt i was too shy to approach anyone to tok. however, it wasn like there was any encouragement from the other parties as well, coz they did do their part in looking aloof and above it all... the children i mean. when i said "hi" to a pair of sisters, they looked at me like i had grown two heads. i mean, i was trying to be nice! hmm... oh well, mebbe coz we are still strangers to them, which explains their behaviour.... =)

oh man, i'm addicted to Mars... keep thinking bout the show. hehe... guess i better make a beeline for the tv before my parents come back. once again, merry christmas! =)

my job officially ended yesterday. acty, it ended the day before, but we still had to go back to the expo to clear up. do u know, the other promoters get paid for their efforts in clearing up, but liling and i didn? oh man... and we spent more time than the other promoeters in clearing up coz we went back to the boss' office to tear off the price tag. hai.... we had to go tothe office to await our paycheck, so they told us to help peel the tags to pass the time. tok bout free labour man, haha... =)

but frankly though, i was feeling a little sorry that the job had ended. i had a rather good time working there. my boss is acty quite nice. not as strict and rigid as other bosses, and much friendlier. just more stingy... ahha.. =)besides the job, i made friends with other promoters as well, and ahem, there was quite a bit of eye-candy, though, sad to say, they are younger than me, so... hands off for me! =) this auntie who was working there as a promoter took my number in case there are other jobs. true enough, i just got another call from her last nite. haha.... there's this opening at the industrial estate behind tampines safra, doing data entry-ing, and they are looking for A-Level students waiting for results. oh well, i might as well try out the job, only i cant get the person in charge. i wonder if that is a sign that i'm not destined for it? hmm.....
hopefully i get the job though, coz i do need money... hee =)

Last but not the least, Merry Christmas everybody! =)

ok i'm back after almost a month... haha... so many things have happened in just this one mth. i screwed up my As, found a job, went prom, and well, tts about it.

A levels... well, there isn much to say bout it. i think i pretty much summed it all up in the first para, so let's go on to the job.

i'm working at the expo now, selling classic pooh stuff tt's mostly for children. haha, business is NOT good. Uh-uh... its mostly standing around the counter for eleven hours then leaving, usually selling not more than 20 items... hai... its so quiet down there! the pay... well, at first it might seem rather much, coz its $50 a day, but once u hear tt its $50 for 11 hours, well, u might come to the same conclusion tt it's 50 hard-earned dollars. yep. oh well, experience i guess. i made many new friends, and... haha.... at least there's a certain amount of eye-candy.... hahaha.... nth to do mah.... =) i'm hoping for business to pick up, so life there won't be so boring... hahaa.. now i'm hoping to get another job... relief teaching perhaps, but i wqouldn mind working at the airport as some admin person either. i love the airport. =) hmm... any other jobs would be fine i guess... anyone has any lobang? if u do, pls tell me k? ;)

ok on to the prom. well.... i had fun there, and hmm, it was the first time i acty dressed up to the nines like tt. haha, jieting said she has nvr seen tt side of me before. oh well, jieting darling, i dun think u are likely to see tt side again... haha... =) tt was one rare opportunity that i got to dress like tt. frankly, as airheaded as it may sound, i rather liked it, just tt its rather troublesome. oh, i highlighted my hair as well. it's something i've been wanting to do, but didn have the opportunity to, coz it would be a waste of money to do it during the term- troublesome, too, to worry bout looking over my shoulder to see if edward chew is coming. hahah... .well, now i'm free! oh yes, thanks to mel and serene, for helping me to do my make-up! u two did a wonderful job! hahaa... i know, its a little late to say tt, but well.... i didn really find an urge to blog until today... i've been out practically everyday since the end of the As... not totally enjoying though.... i had to work... -_-" when i've posted up the pics for the prom then i'll mention it, k? now i cant, coz my DARLING digicam spoilt on me the night before the prom, so i had to use my father's ultra super large camera to take photos. mel , dun snigger. hahahah... it was so embarrassing to carry it, coz like everyone was dressed to the nines, and there i was, carrying this purse and struggling to carry the large camera. oh man... -_-"

oh yes! forgot to mention... we had a 4C class gathering! from wat i heard, the gathering this time was more successful than last yr's, when only 5 ppl turned up. well, this time, bout 12 ppl turned up (i think). we caught up with old times, and watched a movie. we watched "Look At Me", a French movie. it was rather nice acty, though i felt like slapping the father a few times. he's one of those big shot guys who's always thinking bout himself and totally insensitive bout others, though he often doesn mean for his words to come out mean. he doesn see anyone but himself. nonetheless, the movie was also quite funny in its own way with the father's insensitive jokes and the dialogue btw the characters. hmm, its a movie worth watching. really! hehe, there are subtitles. =)

i cant wait for christmas to come, but i kinda can at the same time, coz when christmas is here, it means the new year is coming, and with it, the sense tt i'm gonna have to face reality soon- the results. oh man....... i'm kinda like living in denial right now.... but some part of me is telling me to wake up. i cant, coz if i do, the next time u see me i'll be having dark circles around my eyes. y? coz i'm bz thinking bout the consequences of not doing well.....

ok. one more day to the big battle. expect lots of blood, tears and sweat... haha... well, let's all get ready for the ride! =S