new years eve….

It’s new years eve…. 2006 is almost over, thank goodness…. i just hope 2007 will be great.

Da got into ITE F&B…. so happy for her… I went to check her results for her a day before they were suppose to come out… haha… ITE has a habit of doing things a day earlier… that’s why I love them so much… well, da’s very happy and now she has something to look forward to that she loves alot.

Went to the zoo on Friday… it was kind of a last minute thing… started off not very fun but within an hour things were better.Took loads of pics and stuff…

Been thinking too much…. my imagination has been wondering…. I guess after what had happened, it isn’t as easy for me to forget and think that it can never happen again…. even though da’s promised me it wouldn’t. I’ve been exra sensitive over the last couple of months…. I sometimes just feel like she’s selfish and doesn’t care about me… especially when there’s something she wants… she has to get it and I feel so helpless. I don’t want to pamper her cause then she’ll relay on me all the time but think that’s a little too late… I love her so much that it scares me… cause you never know what’s going to happen… *sigh*…

After Christmas

Ok so today we were suppose to go to the zoo… again… but it started raining and i wasn’t in the mood… the 3 of us went to the bank and didn’t get out till like 1pm… over 1 hour… we then went to Vivo… had sushi tei… *sigh*…. sushi just doesn’t fill me up like it use to… da and i quarrelled again… but you know what… we just have to quarrel like once a week or something… haha… we also gave da her gift…. hope she liked it…

then we went to walk around… Rip Curl and Page One… I love Page One!! Another beloved bookshop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We wanted to go watch a movie but the Q was a killer… so we went to PictureHouse at Dhoby Ghaut… wanted to watch A Night at The Museum… but it was sold out so we settled for Eragon… which wasn’t too bad…it was ok i guess…

Tmr is another day and a start for me to begin my studying… *sigh*

Xmas Eve & Christmas

Christmas is just over…

Lets see… went out to do some last minute shopping on Sunday… had to go get the family’s gifts… soooo out of cash this year…. I got Lisajie Forever 21 voucher… she’s not very easy to get for… then Lindajie I wanted to get a voucher too but I found this set of huge ass cups in taka that I’d a feeling she’d like… everytime she watched The Gilmore Girls and she saw the actress drinking from those soup cups, she said she’s wanted one…. so thankfully they weren’t as expensive as I thought. cause usually, if you went to Mananza, they’d be really X…. I’ll take a pic of them soon… they’re really cute. Lindajie and I got Tom Borders $30 Voucher. Then da and I got Cally a $20 TopShop Voucher. We went to the condom shop where da bought bu this test tube with a cig in it… it read ‘Break for Emergencey’… really cute… We kept having to go to MarketPlace cause dad and mum called seperately to ask me to buy stuff… and then lastly we went to Crumpler at Raffles to buy Da’s bro his present which i shared… haha…. why not… right?? At least he got her something she loved and he took the trouble to find out what she likes… LEGO!! He got her the spongebob and batman magnet… so finally she’ll stop begging to buy it… lol… And da bought this pendant from Citigems for her mum… she shared it with her bro of course…

Sunday was so crowded… we were suppose to go to the zoo but the last minute shopping took up the whole day… and we all had to be home at like 7pm….

The family had dinner from the Market Place… yummy!! Then we went for mass…

First Day Of Gifts…
From Lindajie ($50)
From Lisajie

And Tom got me the Alice In Wonderland R3 DVD!!! Haha… another one down… more to go!
Christmas!! Cally and I met early to do some last minute shopping… we went to Kino and bought da 2 Disney books… yes, she loves her disney and animal books… cally went to TopShop to use her $50 voucher and she got me a set of loop earrings… hee… and also she got me a bracelet from Kino… one of those BEADS OF WISDOM bracelets… love it… thanks!! Was suppose to meet da but some last minute incident prevented us from meeting and her getting her gift… her grandpa ended up in the hospital after a fall… so we couldn’t meet…

went to aunty saylee’s place and played Pictionary… haha… so fun!! then took pics of Bandit… hee… the cutie… and we got one more gift… well ok at least I had 2 of them… Uncle Cheng came up to me and ask if i was still studying and where then pulled out this really cool external thumbdrive from his pocket and gave it to me… hee… it looks like a wheel and has the USB cord in it… 8G… wow… hee… then aunty saylee and my cousin wenyin made gifts for all the girls… a pouch and earrings…

FROM CALLY

FROM MY AUNT AND COUSIN….

Introducing Bandit!!!! My cousin’s dog… isn’t he cute…

Chalet Dec 06

Arrived home yesterday morning…

The holiday is over!!!

Ok, we checked in Wednesday morning… da and i were a little early cause we had to drop by Tamp Mall to get the NTUC card… so anyway we ended up waiting at the lobby for like an hour before we got our room…. when we went in… it was soo big!!! Ok, it was bigger than the normal rooms… u could probably fit like another 2 mattress in there…. think next time we’ll just take the same room… haha.. then we found out that the first level of Block A & B are company rooms and they have a microwave oven!! Wahaha…. we prefer the first level so next time it’ll be Block C level 1… hee…

anyway after unpacking da and i went to NUTC to get some supplies and she went for a pedicure… Cally was working so we had like the whole day to ourselves… around 7 da and i went to Serangoon to help Cally pack and then her mum dropped us back at the Chalet. Once we got back we all got changed… going to MOS… meeting Sa, liling, daniel at like 10pm+ and then Bu at like 12…. we got there at like 11pm… pretty cool… don’t really like to be there so early… cause da has a habit to go right for the drinks… *sigh*… brought sa and all to walk around first before finding a seat. Ok lets see what we had… 1 lychee martini, 1 margarita, 1 vodka shot and 2 Bacardi Breezer and we had cotton candy… after all those drinks da got drunk and it wasn’t even 12 yet!!! Plus Bu hadn’t arrived… *sigh*… wanted to chuck her in the car with kang… oh and i saw Rudith too!! AArrgghh…. and rudith had to see da like that… it was so…. *sigh*…. Da couldn’t walk properly and all… so when bu came we went McDonalds where she got sobber… then we went back in. Was having a good time in Smoove…. even met Bu’s bro, Adam… but half way Da didn’t feel well and Cally accompanied her… Cally barely drank anything…  think it wasn’t as fun for her as it was for me… nvm… we’ll go another time and next time less drinking…

Cally had to work the next day and Da wasn’t feel well so we had to go at like 3+…. *sigh*… so crap… Cally was suppose to get the 3 days off but the company didn’t want to give it to her… anyway i was a little disappointed but hey, there’s always next time…

  
Cally had to leave like 2 hours after we fell asleep… she had to go to work and then come back again… she told us she’d reach at around 3… then we could have gone to wild wild wet and then back for BBQ… bu came at like 2.30 then we went to have some fun but didn’t stay long cause we were hungry!!!!! So we left for the BBQ and then at around 4 to 5, Cally came….

Ate till like 10pm+…. played a little Monopoly… then went to bed…

When I got home I was so tired…. went to sleep…

2 days to christmas and I haven’t gotten anyone anything… Reason…. I’m flat broke… I bought Da her gift ages ago and last night I found out it’s missing one piece…. what luck. This year has been terrible… I lost so many things that mean so much to me… Went broke… it’s fustrating… I almost want to give up… then also realising that I can’t depend on her… can’t relay on anyone to take care of me… I have to do it myself… the secure feeling, the safe feeling is slowly fading away… Humans just keep wanting more and more… even though they say they don’t, they do… deep down… their greed grows and grows… been trying so hard to break that habit of hers but it just won’t stop… i just want to give up… I wonder whether love is enough… sa always said that it wasn’t but i didn’t believe it… maybe she’s right… it’s not enough… What will it take… for someone to see life differently and learn to cherish and be content with what he/she has in front of him/her??

2006 was terrible…

My gosh…. 2006 is one of the worst years for me… absolutely…. I mean ok the only great thing that happened was that I got into Poly… or maybe it’s just a disaster in disguise….

First of all it’s like I went through a break-up…. amongst everything else… then yesterday it was like I just wanted to scream… first when i went to work, I didn’t realise that I didn’t bring my shoes!!!!! Freaking hell…. I had to start work at 8am instead of 7am… i had to leave baby alone for an hour… anyway, luckily mum was nice enough to come drop by and give me my shoes… hee…

then at work, baby had an accident… she had hot tea poured onto her… she was doing her rounds then when a guest moved, the chair hit her and split coffee…. she got scald on her tummy… a tiny patch of her skin came out too…. The work place is such shit… I went to the toilet to take a look at it… when we went back to work we asked for a first aid kit… and told some of the ppl da got burnt, they were just like ‘oh’… what the fuck are these people?!?! It was only when I went to look for Alex (he’s suppose to be the assistant manager or something) and ask him for the First Aid Kit telling what happened, did anyone give 2 cents worth of concern.

That’s not all the shit that happened yesterday…. when da and I took a bus 174 from the hotel to the Heerens, after dinner I realised I dropped my wallet…. so fucking screwed up! The only good thing was that mum had just given me a pouch that morning that I carried around with me the whole day on my wrist… my IC, ezlink, handphone and money was in it. My wallet had no money in it and my ezlink card had no money in it as well. The only thing my wallet contained that had any meaning was my Student Card, TopShop, Kalm’s, BodyShop, Surf’s Up, HangTen, Perlini’s and all the other Member Discount Cards I have… and I have to pay like an average of $10 each to replace them all… the only one I managed to get back was my CitiGems card… it was the only one that I did not have to pay to replace.

Can my 2006 is fucking shit, not to mention I’m like broke in 2006!! I can’t wait for 2007… hoping it’ll be better… I mean my 2005 was good… in fact it was one of the best…

Chalet is tmr… but it’s been raining the pass few weeks… kinda afraid till rain when we do our BBQ. Oh well, we’ll just have to see.

Daddy’s going to China on Thursday… I won’t be able to see him off… *sigh*….

I hope Christmas would be good… I just want my wallet back and the last few weeks to be safe and calm.

Fullerton VS Orchard

I was once told that it did not matter if the taste of food in a hotel was not as good as it did in a hawker center. Or if the price was 4 times higer…. it was the service that customer receives that costs…

I never understood why service was so important…. when i went out to eat i never took notice of service… except when i was starving… but now?? I take notice of every little service gesture….

ok so u guys know that I’ve been working at Orchard Hotel… or at least I have started…

I have gone for my first day of work and it was…. enlightening…. the cafe staff should get a reality check and trained…

The staff spends
40% of their time gossiping,
20% complaining about their job,
10% using their handphones,
10% eating and drinking behind the station and
10% walking around to avoid giving a 110% in their and the last
10% actually doing their work.

They also speak to one another in dialect in front of guys… on the floor…. how ignorant can you be??? Should you have just one language spoken when you are working..?? I mean hey, if u wan to speak spanish or tamil after work who cares!?! But at work, shouldn’t you only speak 1 language….??

The staff cares their work on their shoulders… so I’m surprised they can get any work done at all… Whatever happens at work should stay at work… if you don’t like the way someone works or if they don’t seem to be doing anything right… then tell them!! Don’t go around complaining like a parrot… and don’t yell at them cause it’s not telling them what they do wrong… No one is asking you to be friends with your colleage… no one is asking you to be nice… but no one is telling you to be two faced asshole… whatever happens at work should stay at work… whatever mistakes are done is done… don’t have to carry over to the next few weeks/months.

You know it’s like… you make a mistake… you get scolded for it… but after that you guys can laugh about it… know like, not carrying it on your shoulders….

Guests have to
leave their seat to ask for a waiter to take their order….
put their dirty plates on order tables because no one clears them…
walk from 1 station to another to ask for coffee/tea
leave their seat to ask waiters/waitress to clear their table….

Can you imagine?? It’s a wonder they even got 1 star…. ok maybe it’s because the rest of the hotel but come on!!!

Then…. they only have 1 person doing coffee/tea… while that person does coffee/tea behind the station, other people come in and regurgitate the list of orders from guests… geez!! do u think anyone can remember a christmas list of orders???!!! Use your brain!!! Of course if u have any…. I realise they had a whiteboard at the station…. why can’t they write down the order with the table number and then leave it on the white board??? Then the right number of coffee and teas can get to the right table…..

It’s like the place is a town for brainless lazy selfish gossiping roaches….

Yeah… i can gather that much from 1 day of work… and i don’t want to go back…. haha… and i won’t after the chalet… I refuse to subject myself to an environment with such minimal work ethic…

last week of school!

Last week of school….

Celebrated Lindajie’s bday on Saturday… went to Tony Roma’s…. been going there like every year for someone’s birthday…. one of the reasons why I ask for my bday to be celebrated at home… STEAMBOAT!! Yummy…

Anyway, we finally ordered something new… not the Family Feast…. cause this time the kids did the ordering before our parents came…. haha….

I gave Lindajie her bday present a week early… that was because I kinda destroyed the wrapper… Lisajie n Tom gave her another game… “FACT OR CRAP”…. they got it from Bloomberg… they’ve got some pretty cool stuff…

    
Sunday… went to meet Zeteng in the afternoon to pass her some money…. then like stood there for 15mins talking to her… haven’t seen that woman in like ages!! Almost 1 year… ok after that I went to woodlands to meet Da… we went to Bu’s… missed her and tasuki… plus i went to take some cothes…. was so happy to see them!! Was suppose to go out for dinner with her but Dad was alone at home and I needed to be home early to accompany him so we went home instead…

Monday…. wenta town to meet da n bu… shopping!! Haha… walked around and round… we ended up going to almost all the Flash&Splash/RipCurl shops in town… haha… couldn’t find the one I wanted… I wanted to use my vouchers… in the end… wahaha…. we still didn’t use them… Bu bought a present for Kang… I got my jacket and a shirt… bloody hell… after all that I still didn’t get to use the voucher…. Crap…. anyway ok… we went to Chicago’s Steakhouse for lunch at Cini… wasn’t that good…. Bu’s treat to me… haha… Bu and Da both had 1 steakset each…. i had a Mix Grill… in the end, they charged us for only 1 steak set…. Missed bu so much…. hmm… it’s been a loong time since we both went out alone… think we shld one day go out alone… but gotta wait till she comes home from her trip….

Yesterday, da, cally and I went to have dinner at Orchard Cafe… ok, i wasn’t too thrilled about her spending all the money but… the food was good… the only thing that wasn’t that great was the seafood… but other then that it was good… the asian food was yummy… Cally was a little late but didn’t matter… then we got to see her sis in action… haha… i didn’t realise how close I was watching the causal labour work… haha… anyway it was great… the superiors were great… friendly and all…. a little less ‘yaya’ than the ones in Fullerton… I can’t say they ain’t ‘yaya’ cause everyone is to a certain extent… anyway what was fantastic was that they gave one of us FOC…. and charged one person as child and one adult…. Woho!!!!! So it ended up like 20+ each!!! After that we walked PS TOPSHOP cause Cally needed to changed one of her blouses… and da went to go buy some undies… they were sooo cute… thought of using my $10 voucher but they were already on discount!!! AArrgghh…. another unsuccessful attempt… nvm… another time!!

 pics of the yummy food will be posted later… they’re with da…
Haha… my classmate Ricky started asking everyone to frown and smile at the same time… lol… looks so funny!!!!

  our free drinks from starbucks on sunday… was it sunday??? yeah think it was…