I would not hide, neither will i forget how bad/sad/emo this week was, as you can see from my facebook wall post about the 14 day thingy. Shadow of the day will paint the world in grey... The sun goes down, i feel the light betray me... I remember black skies, the lighting all around me...

It was really devastating for me, to think that i've done relatively not bad, filling 2 perms on top of the usual temps and the thought of happily extending my contract till july, but the 2 week's notice to buck up just smashed that thought of extension, totally. And there i was just a day ago and still telling everybody who thinks i'm crazy that i love my job...

Over the extended weekend on the trip to bintan, i really let go of everything. I left everything: all my worries, thoughts and burdens behind and man i felt lighter. Sitting down by the white sandy beach watching the sun rise with the accompaniment of the waves. Trying to catch crabs, looking for sea shells... Other than the stupid incident which we missed our ferry on the way there, our trip was a very enjoyable one. Traveling around the whole island in the day on a private tour which brings us to places with amazing scenery (while traveling along the coastline), to places which showed the day to day life of the locals (passing by their harbour, houses, shopping centres and even their 8-ball pool shops)

I was also to learn that there are 2 zones with in Bintan itself, 1 for the locals, the other housed the resorts for the visitors which is out of bounds to the locals. The difference between the 2 zones can be compared to heaven and earth. The local zone generally have roads with no street lamps, no government supplied water & electricity while the tourist zone have roads which are nicely paved, specially planted trees, hired locals who take care of security and cleanliness, golf courses... Which i must admit comes at a much higher premium.

The food at the resorts are way too expensive even by singapore's standards, the international buffet which was 50 plus per person after taxes wasn't worth its value. Rental and usage of the sea sports facilities and all terrain vehicles are no where near cheap with rates averaging around 50 bucks per hour. The hotel facilities are great, with very spacious rooms and even beach chairs at the balcony!

Came back to my homeland in the afternoon and was immediately greeted with a call. Of all questions, my good buddy joseph have to ask "You working tomorrow?" I swear at that point in time i feel like throwing my pair of newly bought slippers at him! Still i ended up meet weiji and him for dinner at a korean restaurant and ice-cream before heading over to play pool at our usual hangout.


Every day once the clock strike 5.30pm! The office POT LUCK begins! You'll see containers and bags of food appearing out of no where being passed around! And this week i shared the fish crackers i bought from malaysia to everybody's delight. It is also this week which i came to know of a new bakery which sells mouth watering rasin and cheese buns.

Helped aaron found a job at Ernst & Young, located at shenton way. Once again the 3 old buddies are reunited both at work and at home... Hahaha, and he's a super lucky guy, monday to wednesday work at state bank of india then thursday onwards at EY! And also i realised this week that of the 14 people i've match a job to, 9 of which are my friends! I'm such a friend FAJ-er...

Also this week we witness the departure of yet another temporary staff, Yvoone, who happens to be the lady who introduced this job to me. All the best.

Friday is a super shagged day for me as my mentor isn't around and i have to juggle between my already super busy work and her correspondences with her clients. Through that i've got to learn another important problem solving skill! (Especially when i'm contacting both the client and the candidate) Dinner after that was at marina square manhattan fish market with linton and aaron. They forgot and left out my reservation! But a quick rectification by their manager spared us the long queue. Following was arcade and billard and arcade yet again before hoping on the last bus home.

Saturday was spent at home for practically the whole day and helped out in the preparation of dinner. As night falls, the owl in me awoken and i left home to meet up with joseph and weiji at our usual hangout for a game of pool till the wee hours of the night. Managed to win a bet and got a lift home by weiji! Haha, thanks 'doggie' luck =)

Sunday was family day yet again and this time its to the cemetery for Qing Ming Jie. Ate at tamah jurong before another game of pool and also met up with my cousin's girlfriend. Ended it with my bottle of beer stuck in my fridge ever since chinese new year!


What a week, its april fool's week this week, and i'm such a huge huge slacker. Work 3 days rest 4 days! Didn't managed to pull off any interesting stuns this april fool's day, except appearing back in camp!

Well my 3 days of work as fun as usual. Just that i was in the suspense as to when i'll be required to shift to a new table, and melody was like joking with me by implying that i wasn't performing and kicking me away to another table! And i almost didn't fill a 0.5 this week! My mentor saved the day ( and my ass! Literally! from my big boss ) ! by helping me close a case on thursday! The day which i wasn't in camp! She tot i was joking when i told her i want to take off on april fool's day! Haha, well apparently not!

Thursday i was back in camp to the surprise of many people, settled some important stuffs and also to go back to see hows life for those trapped souls! Haha. Managed to got on the bus before the pouring rain, and there goes my chance of going back to work... Slept the whole afternoon! WHOO! haven't had that kind of sleep since i started work, then at night its prata with joseph followed by pool with joseph and weiji. I'm super super lucky that night, which left both of them speechless! Only lost 2 games which i potted the black ball in! Sigh... Then its dota after that as andrew joined us till about 3am! Man some games are just too owning!

Friday supposed to go sentosa but was cancelled last minute as nigel cannot make it, so in the end i stayed at home and NUA till about evening before we head to our family barber for a trim. Dinner was awesome! Seafood restaurant at bottle tree park! Was quite amazed that after all we ordered, black pepper crabs, prawns, scallops, yam... it amounted to about hundred odd.

Sat went back to school to play volleyball in the morning. Which we complained about the hot sun and before we know it, the rain has forced us to stop our game. And its a very lazy afternoon with the rain while i spent the whole afternoon till night being a potato on the couch, talking to a friend of mine.

Sunday, MALAYSIA! Whooo, drove there early in the morning and stayed there till 5 plus 6pm. =) WORK Tmr, its a fresh new week!




Its pass 12.40am now and slightly more than 9 hours more to go to my flight, i'd should be sleeping by now but apparently i'm still trying to finish up some last minute things which needed to be done.

Once again i'm on my beanbag leaning against the glass wall overlooking bukit panjang... Somehow or rather it has become a norm for me to take a very long and good look at the night sky the night before my flight/overseas trip. Catching up with several people whom i want to talk to before i leave this place, though there's 2 of which i haven't been able to contact as of now.

Its a short trip, hopefully it will turn out to be eventful and an eye opening trip for me. And yes, if time permits, i'll be going on a shopping spree, just got my pay and got a few things which i wanted to buy for quite some time already.

Till then... Bye Singapore...


Booked out very late this week, it was well past the time we set ourselves to finish by. Supposed to finish by sat morning, ends up we only booked out on sat night. Everybody's morale is super super low, some are grumbling and stuffs, everybody damn sian already, just don't understand why some people who keep saying sian sian sian until everybody also start to give up. Low morale then just shut up suck thumb and continue, say sian sian then do things slowly laggi worse right then still go tell everybody sian la, damn demoralising. F***ing A**holes i swear.

Met joseph for a drink at coffee bean that night as he is going to ORD this coming week. 3 months more to my turn. I can't wait!

Slept my most of my sunday away as i was damned tired, with bad cough and flu and headache. Except for lunch where i dunno where i went but at this food court which sells 10 dollar prawn mee! The part which amaze me most is that the prawn mee was sold out just before i can place my order! SOLD OUT! Wow, singaporeans are quite price blind when it comes to food. Haha.

Went to the 24hr doctor near my house at about 12.30 as i was so sick that i can't even sleep. MC 2 days. Man for like years i haven't slept so much. Slept more than 15 hours each day!

Nxt week got course! E prep! ORD's coming...


Long time before my birthday i have this dream/wish that i'll have brithday off, but ends up i was scheduled to go for exercise for this whole week! That was what i thought until the monday of this week when i was told that due to constrains i'm only required to go outfield on wednesday! After that when i'm back in camp was to wash it up and then prepare for audit soon. I was so busy that honestly i forgot that it was my birthday on friday, i was only thinking book out, book out, then just go chill. Due to some stupid reasons i had to argue with my parents regarding the overseas trip to taiwan which left me quite down on that day. They brought me to bugis for dessert that night and after that i went out with linton and aaron to our usual hangout to chill and lim kopi... Uneventful yet simple way to add 1 to my number of years on earth

Drove to malaysia yesterday, my first time driving up north and well i've gained a whole lot more driving skills from just that 1 trip. Seriously, the drivers in malaysia are crazy sometimes. To make matters worse, it was pouring cats and dogs when i'm driving back to singapore which almost got me into an accident.

Last few hours before booking in i spent some time at cck walking around aimlessly and desperately soaking in the sights and sounds of civilization. I ended up buying a korean movie by the name The Art of Seduction. Its an interesting show about seducer vs seductress, about how they try to tear each other tactics apart...

Oh i forgot i had another movie mania this week. Watched The Proposal, 早熟 ( 2 young ) and another show on channel 62 which i forgot the name.

Finally, thanks for all the birthday wishes =)


Well the COC parade have its pros and cons. Cons is that by the end of the first day of training, i'm already tanned. By the third, i start to peel already. Pros is that well, we get to stay out on wed and thursday. Oh not forgetting thursday afternoon and friday morning off!

Thurday after book out went to watch inglorious bastards with tsu ern, marcus and calvin. They are damn joke and calvin kenna conned by some prudential girl to ask him to sign up for some savings plan. Still dunno what trial 1 month... The movie well was very random, and sometimes its even too random for me! But some part damn funny yet sadistic.. but well according to tsu ern its a full of crap and a total waste of money

The parade went well on friday and after that everybody was in a hurry to go home and then also somethings happen which was quite funny. It was kind of a complicated process where we have to go to hq to draw office key, then office key inside must go find the keypress key and stuffs but yeah, this lcp at the hq was very annoyed when jia he and i asked him which keys are we required to draw for the office key and say he dunno, we should know, that kind of stuffs. Then when we finally found out the correct key to draw and jia he wrote his name and rank down the guy got a shock and he suddenly change expression and tone! he became more courteous and gave us the key nicely. Then after that its my turn to return the key, but well the pen got some problem then he said in a very annoyed toned like why you cannot write properly and stuffs, then once again when he saw my rank he stunned and then talk nicely and ask if we are new here... WTH, though we went out of the room laughing like mad, but i still feel that guy is quite screwed up, i know its a friday and you very sian you got duty till nxt morning but this is no way to talk to any person be it same rank or not when he didn't even offend you la...

Anyway after that we went out with grayson to amk hub for dinner. and after dinner was when shit happens to grayson and me. Kenna tricked by a ruse used by the prudential promoters to catch out attention then they try to hard sell us the savings plan; the same one sold to calvin just the day before. They held us there for more than 1 hour and mind you they are really persistent and they try to brainwash you.

Sat! Finally a class outing since ages ago. Quite surprised with the turnout as theres even a rare appearance by Tim, Shu Ming and Joel! The rest all quite usual like pq, brian, mh, lyn, don, boss, weiji and xt. Had a change of location this time, instead of all the usual swensons, fish and co and stuffs we ate at paragon DING TAI FENG! Supper was at keppel bay where by in the process of getting there lynette lost her way and ended up near nus! Thats what happens when a lady is at the wheel =)

Sunday, dim sum for lunch, thats 2 times in a row! Dammit, i'm starting to get sick of all the dim sums already...