Banana house

Shocked by the view I saw when I reached home today.

Banana delivery to your door!

Craaaaaazy! Shocked the hell out of me. Haha. And no one was at home, so I called my family up and my mum thinks that it's from my neighbour. Ya should be la. She always give us bananas.

Felix didn't come over to Compass Point today so had to eat alone but never mind la he gotta study anyway...so freaking scary la! The whole food court was packed then I'm like some poor thing sitting alone T_T hate that feeling.

Going for lunch with Sam this Thursday. Hope I did enough security measures =P

Anyway, sometimes you just thought that the friends around you are your everything...but the circumstances seem to tell you that, no, you're wrong. Worries come in, tears drop, and the swearing began. Those circumstances made you do oaths that you will not bother about so and so and so and so, but then again, friends are friends! Eventually, dawn arrives. =D

Sometimes people can just be so...uH...虚伪...I dunno what you call that in English. Just can't get the word in. Something to do with having a fake personality. Like sometimes when you do good stuff for others, you do not have to go on to publicise what a great person you've been. I don't need that. Like how good can you get when you announce what good deeds you've done?

Awwwww

I was eating alone at the food court reading my novel and going to finish my food when someone suddenly sat at my table at his own accord. Looked up to see Felix smiling widely at me. Shocked the hell out of me hahaa...so nice of him lo!! Like want to surprise me (but I got shocked anyway, it's around the same line)...he went to my shop and saw that I wasn't around so presumed i'll be at the food court and ta-daaa! Company for dinner. =D Felix is very very nice to me! Sometimes the way he treats me I know that he really care though in 24 hours, he'll be spending 23 hours and 59 minutes suaning me.

By the way, I read the news some time ago and saw this article talking about US teens showing signs of hearing loss. Caused by them listening to earphones for too long. So friends, beware ok. Don't want you all to go partially deaf because of your love for music. Not that it's not worth it, but if you look after yourself, you can enjoy your music more. Try not to listen to those headphones or earphones whatsoever for more than 30 minutes a day. Will spoil your ear drums, and this is irreversible! Really!

Just found out today that the Power of Josh Groban, a piece that the Hai Sing alumni was trying, didn't get chosen. What an impact on me lo... very sad. Sigh. I love Josh Groban nevertheless.

Got very frustrated by the applications for university. Nothing goes right at the moment, so going to apply next week. By next week I'll surely apply one la...hope I get into Mathematical Sciences at NTU though. I'm quite interested.

Age gap of 12 years...not a good sign though..never mind. Won't even think about it.

I wanna quit my job!

Oh went for MJ alumni pract today...was quite enjoyable. Then wondered if I should ask Kai Yan to play with me since Mrs Lau is not very fond of the idea...discussed with Benny, I think I should be left alone (so poor thing!) haha but I guess I should be fine, however the long notes part I'm just worried la. Or I get lost during the concert. Oh no. Haha. Benny said I must show all my might! Yes, almighty Erina! (Whatever la, Erina) Haha.

Photos

Photos!!! Me and Yi Xin during our hang outs.



All done by a 1.3 megapixel camera.

Fine day

Today was OK. Though the bosses of the shop came by and stayed for quite some time which was scary because I'm afraid that they'll talk to me. However Yi Jun (a junior from MJCSB) dropped by by accident, she just wanted to shop and didn't know I was working there. So chatted a bit. Then after that Darius (a senior from Hai Sing) came into the shop unknowingly too. And chatted to him a bit too. And Felix came to join me for dinner! Heh. Happy. He was at the airport before he came, and guess what? He bought me Willy Wonka's Whipple Scrumptious Caramel Delight! It's a chocolate, one of my favourites! You can only get the chocolate from the airport as far as I know. =D Felix is so nice and he accompanied me walk walk at Cold Storage. Heh. So was more lively today. Slightly more only. Felt bad because Felix was tired and just had band practice and went airport for lunch and had to accompany me for dinner. But thanks so much!

I'm seriously broke! But I'm still tempted by this wine - Jacob Creek's Sparkling Rosé. Felix says that it's nice, he drank it before. Even more tempted haha.



Anyway, tomorrow's my off day! Going to think about my university courses and tidy up my room and bake cookies! Oatmeal Raisin and Cinnamon cookies. Hope they turn out to be crispy instead of chewy.

So happy. Finally an off day to stay at home. But of course going out in the morning to get ingredients for my cookies. With mum! Can spend time with her already.

Today I was more at ease at the shop I guess, except the part where the bosses came in. Yep.

Slightly happier today

Yep today when I thought it'll be a stupid day again a good colleague of mine, Phyllicia, came to the shop! So today there was at least someone I can relate to at the shop lo. Went for break with Phyllicia =) Had company for dinner, so rare! Haha.

Felix came to visit too! Going to have dinner with him tomorrow, he's coming over! So happy. Company for dinner tomorrow!

Felix also told me about this incident in school lo. Guess what. A 'staring' incident. Stupid right? I thought this will only happen to those do-nothing-ers outside. This guy went up to Felix and touted him for a fight. Why? Because he accused Felix of staring at him. Please lo Felix never even see him around in school before! So childish right? I feel ashamed to have graduated from that school with such brainless and too-free people. Take the time to study la if people stare at you stare back at them! Why start a fight? Very childish! So dumb! So stupid!

Oh my brother finally upgraded my PC for me. Now I got WindowsXP. Yeay. Actually I don't feel much difference la...probably is because I've used this version before on my brother's laptop. Heh. Whatever la.

A birthday

Happy 19th Birthday Aaron!

So pissed

Just learnt from Sam about what my permanent colleagues at the shop thought of me..and now I'm extremely pissed.

OK, so I'm supposed to refer the customers to them when customers want to know the trade-in values for their phones. So even when there're a lot of people at the shop I let the customers queue up just to know the trade-in values. OK lo, I got nothing to say also. This isn't my responsibility anyway.

In addition, they also complained to Sam that I always like to see and ask what they're doing. One thing is, I never asked what they are doing. And when I seem to look at what they're doing, I've been dreaming actually! Moreover I also dunno why I can't see what they're doing. What's wrong? Other customers also look at the processes of others and busybody themselves.

I got all mad and asked Sam am I that busybody, he said I'm not the problem, they are. Because they're too fussy. He told me that the other promoters that he knew from the other shops help out at their locations too. Then why am I so unlucky?! And I think they're really bad people lo, very fake...one of the colleagues who complained about me still talk to me as if I like him like that. Like as in I wanna be his friend. No lo, whatever he said I always get pissed. Too high an ego and always think that he's right. So irritated.

Anyway, my blisters dried up..they're better now but left ugly and awful-looking scars on my left foot. My right foot can be considered quite flawless. I have around 6 scars on my left foot and somehow none on my right foot. Sigh.

Blisters

Awful. Had serious blisters on my left foot due to stupid but nice looking shoes. One at the ankle and one at the joint part of the big toe. Ouch. And because I'm forever clumsy and don't concentrate on where I'm walking, I kept knocking onto chairs and corners of tables or desks or walls or doors and those accidents happen right on my blister. T_T

The blister at the big toe was actually a small case when I noticed it yesterday. It began to swell throughout today while I was at work. Super afraid that someone will run to me and step on my toe. I'd die. But of course I wasn't that unlucky.

And due to save money, I didn't get any plasters even though I went plaster-shopping during my break today. And the shop owes me $4 as the cashier doesn't have spare change. So pathetic, always like that one. But saw plasters that were cheap but I'm still unwilling to fork out money. Thus I'll be going to work tomorrow without the plaster and fret that bacteria will enter my wound. T_T Somebody save me.

A birthday

Happy 49th Birthday Dad!

Open House

Went to the open house of NTU and NUS today...NTU made its open house great, whereas for NUS things were quite disappointing. I guess it was the whole organisation of the open house...though it was easier to get around for NTU and things were more lively there, NUS' exhibits were much nicer and more spacious. Information wise, I guess NTU's la, for the genre that I'm interested in.

If I enter NTU, I'm going to apply for the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences to do Mathematical Sciences. NUS, it'll be School of Science to do Applied Mathematics. Career prospects wise I haven't really thought of it, but at least I'm rather interested in this area. Compared to asking me to do business or arts. Yep, going to apply for things this way. But of course going to apply for more courses...In case.

After the open house went for dinner with my family for my dad's birthday. At Loyang Lane.

一年前的快乐

It was a year ago at 7pm plus...do you remember?

He's going into army tomorrow...I threw the sketchbook away but still, I cannot forget today. Hope he knows that I care, even though he didn't reply to any of the SMSes I sent...Perhaps I'm nothing big, that's why, but hope he got my messages...I'm so down, didn't get to see him at all...I miss him.

Argh.

Sob.

Work

I'm sick and tired of this job.

Hate to see the customers demanding this and that when common sense and reading and DIY will do.

There was this customer who is a student of one of the universities in Singapore taking brochures of three models of mobile phones and placing and spreading them ON TOP of the phones display and then asked me to explain to her and her brother (or boyfriend) the differences between the three models. Can't you read? She was very snobbish also. Hyper attitude problem! Hate this sort of customers who throw their weight around.

And then there was this customer who wanted to check if he had any outstanding bills. OK, my shop doesn't have the system to help him check and I explained to him and asked him to call the customer service hotline. And after wait for only about a minute plus (it doesn't seem to be a long wait with his "gorgeous" girlfriend) he was like, 'Are there any other ways that I can get to the customer service officer directly without waiting? They're taking awfully long to answer!' I saw the time meter on the phone it was showing 01:26, or a minute and 26 seconds. How long was it? You think the officers standby for you only? Moreover you were calling at peak hour! Wah piang. So I replied 'Calling the hotline is the only and most direct line you can call.' Think he got priority that he can get to the officers ah? Go knock at their doors lo! So irritated! And so I called for him la! Waited as long also what. Just wait a while longer why so impatient? Not as if you're in a rush. Then the girlfriend was like, 'They (i.e. the people at the shop) cannot check for us meh?' She spoke in Mandarin so I told her that we don't have the system to find out for them. And it's like, 'Oh I thought you were Malay!' I just gave an obliging smile. Really obliging. Too tired of them to heed her. It's like when the guy first asked I already told the BOTH of them that we can't check. What was she thinking when I said those? Traumatised by the way I look? Ya I am too gorgeous (note without the inverted commas haha). OK la OK la shall stop crapping.

Hey. It's been loooooooong since I crapped like crazy. Miss those days. I no longer get to crap in the shop lo. Don't even have a friendly relationship with the people at my shop. My supervisor can't be bothered about me, and this other colleague just follow what she does when she's around and get big headed when she's not around, thinking that he's in-charge. Anyway, it's those colleagues who got sent here once in a while that I'm closer to and can just chat and have dinner with them. Those permanently at the shop treats me like a screen protector. So clear and you don't even know that it's there on the LCD of your phone. Costs $10 if you get it with a mobile phone and $12 if you just buy ala carte. I blend well with the surroundings that I fit in TOO well. But at least I know that the colleagues who come in once in a while can see me.

Really loathe this job. Handed in my resignation only to be told that I can only stop working by end of April. About two more months to suffer.

Hong Wei and Yu Han came to visit today. Thank you!

Listening to Josh Groban. He makes me feel better. A lot of emotions into his singing, really. But I am very irritated by the speaker. It's making grumbling noises as JG sings.

Shopping again

Reflection
My off days so far have never been spent at home. I think ever since I started work I've never been home for the whole day, perhaps only for one or two days. If not my off days are spent out shopping mostly. Feel bad la, never stay at home to spend more time with my parents, already not spending quality time with them liao. Sighh. Even if I'm out shopping always very hard to make it in time back for dinner..shopping ma.

Spendthrift behaviour getting into me
But nevertheless...spent a total of $103.15 on myself. Like a lot of money on nothing! $25.20 on my hair. $49 on this bag. Now it occurred to me whether I spent too much on the bag..though it's imported but then...dunno la. $13.95 on Josh Groban's Josh Groban, his first album...and $15 on this screen protector that I got the wrong size for my camera. I can't really see where the money went to.

The Pyramid Game
三 角恋 or the love triangle. Thank the guy up there that this triangle no longer exist around me (Erina is exclusive, don't have to open your eyes this wide also). Hard for you all to guess what happened, so don't guess lo.

It's really hard when such things happen to best friends. I was racking my brain cells for some solutions, but problems can solve by themselves so...one side of the triangle dissolved. Yeay.

Lions in the movies!

There are more and more lions featured in the movies these days.

Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia...

Alex in Madagascar...

Simba in The Lion King...

And more to come. There's this movie coming up also on a group of animals (a lion included) going to New York or something like that. What's the movie again, anyone knows? And SCARLY I will be one of the lions in the movies in the future! You know, something like Erina's Life Story (Ref: Nick's life story or something, it's the advertisement for the BE SOMEBODY asking you to sign on to the army if I'm not wrong) and everyone falls asleep at the theatre. If there are people who bother to watch. Haha. Kidding la. I don't like publicity.

A birthday

Happy 19th Birthday Maisarah!

I miss you!

MmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuacKs! =*

又呆又傻又愚蠢

就是我。

去了不该去的地方，毁了自己。

好难过... ...

很抱歉那些为我担心和掉泪的朋友。我知道我太令人失望...

唉。

我必须更清醒，时时刻刻都要保护自己。

Title-less

Jing Yi called to tell me about an interview.

Good for you girl!

Terrible

I just don't know why I'm so stupid la. But I don't deny that I missed that someone. But I also didn't want such things to happen to me. What a terrible and terrifying morning.

Recovered from what I got for my results, though still will sulk about it. Haha.

And went to work.

It is the first time I met such a customer, so demanding and kept accusing and challenging us.

This customer is deaf and mute, implied that he had financial problems, which I think probably is true. One thing I want to make clear is that, I am sensitive to the disabled, but I am just amazed as to why there are people (abled or disabled) who can't think logically! Dear people, when you all want to sign up for StarHub MaxOnline (i.e. BroadBand) you have to tell the frontline sales staff if you can see the StarHub Cable preview channel, which is crucial, so that we can help you activate your TV point so you can enjoy Digital Cable as well as MaxOnline!

And so the customer told us that he could see the preview. So activation is not needed. In the end he came back and said that he cannot see, so must call 1633 to ask for a technician to activate. The customer insisted that he wants the technician to come down on a specific date and not any other time. But as you people know such schedules cannot change by your own will one what! And I spent over an hour trying to convey what the customer wanted on 1633! And was like telling the officer that things aren't his fault, it's the customer who can't really think well. The latter kept challenging the officer and kept telling me to tell the officer that he'll complain to 'his big boss' about him, lousy service. Whatever lo. I find that it's not the officer's fault, really. When you can't get a slot then there's nothing you can do, I find that the officer and his supervisor already trying means and ways to help him get the slot he wants. When told that there are no available slots on Saturday he was like, he don't believe because StarHub employs a lot of people. I had to take a really deep breath before I scribbled down the officer's reply. I can't possibly flare up since I'm only a middleman. The customer kept saying things like he can't wait till when and when to subscribe, or he won't want to take leave from his company. Because he finds that it is a waste of time for him to stay at home the whole day on Monday (there are empty slots on that day) and he wants to work to earn money. And if he takes leave on that day and his manager gets unhappy he's doomed. That's really what he wrote down. I seriously have nothing to say.

Other than the timeslot thing, he also insisted on having the activation fees waived off. I heard that he already wanted some other fees to be waived off, my colleague got so mad that he had to tell the customer that this is not a charity organisation. And I agree.

So unreasonable.

It's not that I'm not sensitive to their needs, but there are limitations! It's not as if there can be priority for them for every single thing! I know this is very bad to be talking like this, but no matter how you are born as, whether rich or poor, good-looking or ugly, healthy or weak, abled or disabled, blah blah or blah blah, you must still be reasonable! This gives me a thought. Do the disabled get pampered because people tend to be too sensitive to their needs and they always get what they want and hence always want to get what they want? Beats me. It's time for me to do some reflection. And you too, if you like.

Disappointment

Sigh. Ok, my results were worse than my dream. Bloody.

I got a D on my slip. For Econs. Never had liked that subject nor put in effort for it, so this is what I get. And then I got A for Math and B for Chemistry. Happy with my Chem results and so satisfied for Math. But ya. GP I got a C6. Sigh... ... So can say I was quite disappointed with my overall performance la. I thought at least perhaps C for Econs then things won't look that bad ma. Or a better grade for GP. Just so disappointed la. Dunno leh. 'Cos during the exams people were telling me they die in this die in that and in the end they still can do better than me lo. T_T Greatest regret in JC is to take Econs lo. Really.

A lot of the people around me are disappointed with their results, no gathering at all. So went out with Yi Xin and Joan after I left school. Went walk walk and ate at Pastamania. There's this new dish, it's called Prawn and Fish Roe Pasta, it's good! Enjoyed eating it. Yi Xin praised the pasta sauce too.

Xue Li got straight As! Congrats girl!

Currently thinking of going into NUS School of Science to major in Mathematics... I don't know whether eventually I'll love my choice or not, because can get rather boring... Like nothing interests me there anyway. And maybe I won't even be able to get in. Also looking at other choices and what majoring in Math can bring me except for being a teacher. But I only have got C Math, don't have F Math and you know, competition in school...I'll really be at a disadvantage...

I still gotta work tomorrow...Going to meet Sam before that. I don't feel like working la... Loathe the job. The place as well. Waste of time, I could've sat down and thought hard about my future.

I need to write a resignation letter asap.

Results, finally

The A level results are going to be out TOMORROW!!! I'm getting a bit cranky now...scary leh. T_T How how how?

I even dreamt of my results. Not good! GP - C5, this is not ok; Econs - C, I''ll be overjoyed with a C for this subject; Math - B, what the hell! I'm pinning on this favourite subject for an A oh please please please....; and this other subject which I forgot but it's not Chemistry. I got A for that. Like what the hell. I don't want my grades to be placed this way, though I'm a poor student. Perhaps things can be worse huh? Oh no oh no oh no...Going to get my results liao!!!!!!!!! Cedric and Daniel msged me good luck. The former said that I better go sleep first and think more tomorrow. Ok. I'm going to sleep soon I guess. Provided I can fall asleep. T_T Die la die la so scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sob.

I'm shaking!