TAP outing

Today went for our 1st TAP outing! met 3 of them at Raffles MRT then walked to the Boat Quay TCC... when we reached there... we saw 2 'suspicious characters'... so we used the magic password 'Lonza?' hahaha... and they said 'ya' haha... then the 6 of us went to tell the waitress tat someone in our group made a reservation for a table for 25 to 30 pple.. and she said 'ya.. they are all upstairs..' and when we went up... i was like 'wow... so many pple!' the turnout was pretty good... 20++ out of the 37 of us going US... more guys than us girls thought initially... hahaaha...

settled into the bean bags... at our long table... ordered drinks.. and had our rounds of introduction... tried to memorise everybody's names... matching those pple we talked to on msn to their faces... i managed to get most of their names... except maybe 2 guys who sat like pretty far away...

initially we just talked to whoever we are sitting near to... then we found tat we don get to talk to everyone.. so we started to change seats once in a while to get to know everyone.. they are ok.. talkable... nice pple...

at the end of the gathering i was asking myself 'so wat did we achieve from this gathering' seems like no conclusions were reached about the impt issues like accommodation... shipping stuff... bank account etc tat we set out as agenda initially.. haha... it was just a mass interaction time..

well.. at least pple were great from this 1st meet up... tat's good for starters...

-jiahua

Ugly pple

Went back to work today... after 3 days of MC plus 2 days of weekend... think it's the longest MC i ever took... but i'm still under the weather... -.- think everything just slowly build up and all explode at the same time... from high fever to slight fever to running nose to sore throat to cough to block nose... sigh.... today was so busy... so many orders to process... my colleague was like telling me... pls come tmrw... if not they'll be so busy.. haha..

Hmm... keep wondering one thing these days... ever since started going to work it just hit me... why pple always like to push so much? either push and squeeze along a crowded street (like wat they did during the pasar malam last week) or they like to fight to be the first up the bus (like the swarm of pple every morning) hmm... why can't they go with the flow until it's their turn? hmm... kiasu leh... wonder whether they just wanna get a seat or they are just afraid they won't be able to squeeze into the bus... in the streets also... either they like to squeeze... or they like to suddenly stop or change directions in crowded places right in front of u... or they like to walk super slow... like they are the only ones in the street.... and one thing tat always occur to me is... they like to walk into my face!! why see i am going in their direction.. they cannot just walk further away? they just have to walk into my face and expect me to give way to them... -.-

ok... don mean to grumble so much... just tat it just happen to me so many times recently tat i start wondering why are pple like tat... ugly leh... tsk tsk tsk...

-jiahua

Sick

sigh... have been sick these past 2 days.. so no work for me.. haha... one day u get hot flashes and the next cold flashes... temp rose to about 38.8 degrees yest... used 2 ice packs to try to bring down the temp... i think i'm feeling better today...

by the way.. i'm not confused ok... it's just tat life is contradicting at times... u do certain things not because u want to.. but because u have to... get it? well... sometimes i do wonder... if pple can not think about the need to get a good job (as in don need to worry about money) or also not be affected by wat others say (because at times the things u wanna do is pretty unorthodox) then wat would they have chosen to do? i haven really thought of something myself... so i guess we are still going with the flow or rather the push of society to move forward...

-jiahua

Long Weekend

fri went to grandma's house to celebrate mothers' day... as usual had our plenty of dishes lunch... and the 'gotta have' cake... told the whole family tat i would be going to US.. all thought it is gonna be a good experience... but wat grandma said really saddens me... she said... 'she's old... don know whether i'll still be able to see her when i come back' =( tat really weights heavily on me... i hope everything goes well for my family when i'm away...

got an email from US... providing more info... and i think they will not find accommodation for us... sianz... hate it when i need to do things myself... esp when i have no idea how to... well... US trainees have started conversing with each other.. adding each other on msn.. they even planned a gathering for next next sun... tat's enthu... but thru the msning with them.. got a feeling they are not really my kinda clique... but well... we'll see...

well... think i am a fussy person.. loner also... so don know whether can find the right place to stay... and will be able to get used to whoever i'll be living with not... sighz... and think the public transport there is like... almost non-existant can... so we need a car... who drive leh u tell me... *faints* we'll see when we get there... -.-

-jiahua

Start of long weekend

well... yest's entry was like random... tat's explains the title.. can't even think of a title for the randomness... haha... hope i won't have further entries entitled 'random 2' or 'random 3'... hahaha...

well... end of work today marks the start of long weekend... so thought it's something worth celebrating... and to have an entry to commemorate... no work for 3 days! woohoo.... -.-

was looking back at past entries... rem i did say i would try to finish the filings soon so i don have to do tat anymore... boy was i wrong! just within a day and a whole box of them appeared... out of nowhere! o.O so i guess it's never gonna stop... till the day i quit... well.. have been involved in other stuff too.. like orders assigning... etc... but i guess admin's really not the kinda thing for me... don wanna sit the whole day... ok shouldn't say tat... in case i get jinxed for my future job... hahaha...

the visa application is like taking quite a while... haven heard anything yet... when is my step 2 coming? haha... after the briefing... the only email i got was giving us the email add of the person to contact... obviously a lot of pple sent in enquiries... but i was like thinking... is there tat much things to ask about? hmm.... maybe they should forward the qns and ans to everyone... at least can get an idea of wat others are asking... or maybe they are just asking crap... for example.. during the briefing... someone asked 'do u think it is advisable to bring your spouse along?' -.- i was like thinking... tat's ur own business... why ask other's opinion... duhz... oh well...

-jiahua

Random

hmm.. this entry was supposed to be posted yest... but something wrong with the site i think... can only post now -.-
been raining a lot recently… and the aircon at work is like siao… always have sudden gushes of cold wind… makes us feel like we are working in the north pole… sigh… my body is giving me the aches lately… the cold office coupled with the slight lack of sleep… resulting in slight fatigue… -.-

oh ya.. made a cheesecake on sun… new recipe… pretty successful… taste and texture were right =D

and i managed to smack dead a fly with my bare hands… must be a rookie fly… haha… reaction so slow… trust it to have eyes tat enable them to see 360 degrees? hmm… well.. remind me of tat time when I was in Melbourne… the great ocean road trip… lots of flies… stand there and not move and all the flies will just land on u… and u'll have a pokka dot shirt... haha... i managed to kill quite a few (at least 5 i think..) of those tat followed us into the bus… proud indeed… kill of the day! Haha… the driver of the bus (maybe afraid tat we would dirty his bus or wat) told us tat if we kill one... more will come... -.- i was like thinking tat's even better... i can kill them all at one shot... hahaha... so don think u can scare me k... ok.. tat's crappy...

ventured to biopolis to meet qi and xin for lunch today... sigh... miss the 1st lunch shuttle... by like 20 seconds can?!!? nobody wanna go biopolis for lunch... so bus went off immediately... i was standing like just 5 metres away can... -.- got a shorter time to eat and talk cos gotta catch the bus back.. sianz... anyway decided to plan an outing for next fri... meant for our sec sch frens... will spread the news... whoever's interested can come... haha... wonder if pple we are not so close to will turn up... well... we'll see...

-jiahua

Step 1

before i start... the radio is playing zhang dong liang's 'zhi yin wei ni' now... and i think it's like the 3rd time i heard this song today... heard it once while passing by the cd stall at bugis village and once on radio while on bus home and then now... -.- ok maybe shouldn't give tat face la.. song's not bad la.. =p

ok.. about today... took another day's leave despite working for only half day on fri... =p well.. wat to do... gotta go submit the acceptance form wor (tat's the 1st step)... plus i'm very considerate ok... straight after submitting the form.. went straight to raffles hospital to do my body checkup le leh... (so no need to take another day's leave again... if not later pple give me weird looks for taking so many offs... -.-) ok... at the checkup today... as usual.. i got pricked (blood test) and zapped (x-ray) again.. ( to think the last time i did those was like just 1 year ago lor... last time was to apply study permit... now employment permit.. ) hai.. another sign of transitions in life... oh ya.. not forgetting the long waits... with loads of pple lounging around.. holding their piece of queue number... staring up at the board every time it goes 'ding dong'... funny leh.. like matching some kinda lottery or horse race results... hahaha...

managed to do a bit of shopping around today... bought 2 t-shirts... a roxy and a mickey mouse one... (don laugh ok... not the kiddish kind hor... is nice one can... haha)

and hor.. yest while i was looking out of the window... i notice somone trying to park la... then he was like super slow lor... very hesitant... like move a bit then brake a bit... so very jerky and slow... i was like thinking just normal parking lor... position car straight then just back all the way into the lot la.. why keep on in out in out like tat... if he parallel park how? behind sure jam ah... but there was a triangle on the window la.. so concluded tat he is probably not a good driver.. haha =p ok to the point... while on my way home... near the carpark... i saw wat i did yest.. front view this time.. not bird's eye view liao... but i could recognise it there and then... so purposely walk slower cos i wanna see who the driver is... hahaha... but as usual... he was inching in and out of his lot again.. very slow.. so even when the lift door open... he haven finish parking.. so no choice la.. gotta give up waiting.. but i think it's a middle age man... hahaha...

ok... don laugh at others liao... signing off.. sighh... work tmrw again... =(
-jiahua

tag board

the other day... small cousin was asking me to get a tag board... i was like thinking... hmm.. i don really know how to do so many fancy stuff to the blog leh.. >.> i'm a newbie leh (funny associating the word 'new' with someone my age... haha.. just like in 'freshmen'... am no longer 'fresh'.. haha) well.. i was like thinking... who on earth is gonna tag man? ok... other than u.. cousin.. -.- haha.. i mean really lor... don think pple visit my blog la.. nothing interesting mah.. just for me to record my everyday happenings (tat's the reason why i got this blog.. as a diary to record everyday happenings when i'm overseas... memory sake..) put also no one write... very sa la leh... but anyway.. just to explore the various features.. i have done tat... added one already... let's be amused by the usage or rather.. the under-usage... of the tag board... haha... frens my age are too busy to blog la (provided they even have 1 tat is.. -.-) so ya... i think there'll be only 1 person using it... hahaaha..

can't help noticing.. from the blogs.. u can tell straight away without looking at the profiles or entries whether it belongs to a teenager or a lao kok kok like me... (but still gotta give credit to pple who keep up with the times la... not everyone as lag as me la... haha.. -.-) teenagers' blogs are really fanciful... with fancy blogskins and many features... going further into reading the entries... u will realise the language usage... funny spellings... funny styles... oh ya.. and the lots of Fs and wat not vulgarities (not tat pple my age don spew those... haha.. there's always pple around whose language always raises ur eyebrow) i think for LKKs like me... our language is not so fanciful... maybe occasional short forms and stuff... i'm not a frequent user of short forms myself anyway.. (can't afford to be informal in ur writing when u r working) watever la.. just can't help noticing lor... and being a LKK... will also wonder whether tat has any effect on the way they write in sch... but anyway... can't be bothered la.. not my business anyway... hahaha...

ok... shall find out more about how to change other blog features.. hope to see more changes myself too... haha.. shows tat i have picked up something new again... hahaaha...

-jiahua