workplace rants
like what i told leexinyi the other day, i tasted the REAL cruelty of life. working 11 hrs a day is no joke. suddenly fatigue is given a whole new meaning. the past few days were basically a madrush from the kindergarten (3hrs of housekeeping matters) to my dad's shop (8hrs of sales/admin/entertaining/learning etc). eye-opener indeed. met all sorts of people - peranakan tai-tais, MP's families,
ang mohs with cute accents, HOT ydrs, impatient bastards (with stupid fake accents), ny and hc juniors, unabashed vainpots, adorable kids who find me extremely amusing, old friends of dad's who think im too skinny (HAH). the list goes on. tmr's my last day! heh. ive yet to decide how im gona spend new year's day. too tired to think now. another pretty painful holiday i suppose, after Christmas =/
Merry Christmas!
all i want for Christmas is YOUUUU!
primary schoooool!
our failed attempt to say "CO" in unison haha!
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ive never been happier to see sunshine.
anyway, got to know that my job officially begins on 8 jan cos the K1s only go back to sch on that day, but i need to start work on 3 jan nonetheless to familiarise myself with the sch setting and lessons first. "staff meeting" on 27 dec. heh prospects seem to be good, for now at least. wonder what my colleagues will be like, esp my namesake!
fallen
met up with adoraaaa today! (: her cam's spoilt and sent for servicing (haha first time i heard this word being used on cameras) so pity we cant cam-whore! urm so sorry i was more than 30min late =/ to top it off, i made a pretty grand entrance when i tripped on the escalator at cine, tumbled and fell. hard. i dont know what the hell i did. it happened so fast. i only rmb sliding down the sharp-edged steps and gripping onto the handle for my dear life. ended up with a sprained thumb and fresh new bruises on my right shin ('fresh' becos i just fell into some drain 2 wks back and the wounds have yet to heal completely). but somehow it didnt hurt alot while i was walking arnd, perhaps i REALLY tried, successfully, to ignore the agony. watched the Holiday and we both agreed JUDE LAW IS HOTTT STUFF! :D the numerous times he flashed his dazzling grin were SO deliberate but i must admit they work. heheheh. adu said the situation that the characters were in (basically the lovebirds live half a globe away from each other) resembled mine and my boy's, and she was wondering if i would cry or smth haha. well, at least in the end they got to spend christmas and new year together, UNLIKE US. ack. oh that was such a spoiler haha but anyway the movie is, in adu's words, another of those feel-good movies, typical of the Christmas season. hmm, i still prefer Love Actually (: well, HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY to aduuuu in advance!
ugly scene when i got home. mom got raving mad at me for injuring myself for the umpteenth time. and i really mean MAD. i know she's worred for me, but the approach was so wrong. dont wish to elaborate further. but to all the aspiring mamas/dadas out there, screaming your head off at your child for hurting himself to show that you care simply does NOT work. i dont know how else to put this. sometimes my folks make me feel like 8 rather than 18. nonetheless, thank God for my sista. she stood up for me the whole time. she KNEW exactly how i was feeling. i guess thats the difference between a 5-year and 28-year age gap. i aint exactly in the mood to talk to mom again. ohwell.
ever met a guy who'd listen to his girlfriend sob and yell and make a complete fool of herself over a long-distance call?yea thats my baby (:
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this f-ing rain never stops.
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i never knew how it feels like when your employer-to-be calls you and tells you that YOU GOT THE JOB.
well now i do (:
but mixed feelings sank in thereafter. 3 jan is the day when my boy will finally get his ass back to this little island after travelling around half the globe. he's most likely arriving at night, perhaps 9 or 10pm, and ive made up my mind to go fetch him, but i'd have to get up really early the next day to go to work again. what if i get home late and get slammed by my folks? what if i cant wake up on time the next morning? definitely not a pleasant thing for a noob worker bee. urghh. oh dearr i can only hope for two things now. 1) he gets back no later than 9pm. 2) my folks will be EXTREMELY accommodating that day.
nonetheless, im excited about my job. when the interviers asked me about my expected salary i was stumped. and the cpf questions etc baffle me no less. however all the reminders about working with young kids are not new to me, thanks to prior experience at CEC (woots!). i cant just imagine how tiring it's gona be. but then again, it's a challenge im all ready to take up.
out there
ive a job interview on monday (: i think the person at the other line could hear my loud gasp when she told me the name of the kindergarten is "S'pore Montessori". the pure coincidence is astounding. my pw group racked our brains an entire yr on the merits of the Montessori system, and i never knew i'd encounter it again. haha i guess some things are just meant to be. spent the past few days scouring the classified ads for teaching jobs (yea i took ms heng's suggestion very seriously). im so glad the montessori kindergarten didnt ask for a resume, like some of the other childcare centes that i called up. i mean, the only proper job that i ever took up was the admin work at some pri sch textbooks distributor (cant even the name) as part of 2-wk work experience prog in sec3! and then the volunteer work at CEC, which cant be considered a job anyway. what kind of resume will that make up?! anyway i really hope i get the temp assistant teaching job. i dont wana waste half a yr and letting my brain rot. the other day i was writing xmas cards and it felt SO weird just holding a pen =/
oh and the only way i can keep in contact with my boy now is via email (which he can only check once every day, or sometimes every other day), cos that silly poops lost his sim card. raaaahhhhh. btw, visited jooooooooooan yesterday haha she got obsessed with the omg-you-look-so-much-like-nina stuff again. i missed her so! okayy gotta call kais now before she falls aslp!
girlies!
your company and friendship mean more than one can ever imagine (:
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wish i was there with you at st paul's.
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i forgot how it feels like to have nothing to do.
ohwell someone tell me when i should start sending Christmas cards (:
prom
just uploaded prom photos onto my webshots. heh prom was fine. not exactly superb but fine. the 9-course dinner was a total waste of money cos most of us were snapping photos the whole time. the programme was very much predictable too. i guess the only interesting award was the Bottomless Pit one haha i was almost sabotaged by kenneth and alison! :p THANK GOODNESS i didnt participate; i could imagine myself throwing up after all that bread greenbeans soft drinks (with ice!) and watermelon. anyway everyone looked great! although the guys formed a sea of black and it was almost impossible to distinguish one from another. proms seem to be meant for us girlies (: i kinda regretted not doing much to my hair but i must really thank lindis and her friends who helped with my make-up! (: xinyi couldnt even recognise me haha she stared right past me though i was just in front of her. but then again i myself couldnt recognise shermeen when she came to my table haha. well, didnt really feel like going post-prom party so instead i hung out with babyboy kais josh. besides my boy was to leave for doha/london/beijing the next day and im so glad he came over (:
barely slept 3 hrs before i rushed home, unpacked everything, and went over to swissotel. bummed around with my boy (in his DASHING white blazer picked by yours truly) before bidding him goodbye heh it would be almost another month before i'd see him again. raahhs. haha he told me over the phone at the airport that jonfoo said he wanted to hug him but thought it was "damn gay". pretty sweet of jon foo to call anyway, i must say (:
ive just been slacking around ever since. i feel like such a.. SLUG. oh yes i dyed my hair red (: impulsive decision i admit, but i guess im just sick of my jet-black hair.
