Went to Mrs Chua's

In the end there's visiting after all.

Before I go on, I would like to say that all of a sudden I realised that when I take a photo my head will be turned to the side. Oh my. What is becoming of me? Ha. Never mind.

Anyway, my mum went to a relative's place today by herself and she brought an army of relatives home and she didn't inform my brother and I. I wasn't done with my computer at that time so I continued working on it. And a specific relative was watching what I was doing from behind, I was chatting with Xin Hui, and blogging. And he kept asking me this and that. And he smokes! Argh. Hate this. And during dinner he always kpo at my food, said oh you want your satay to cook faster you put more butter! Please lo! I don't need it to be done fast! And adding butter is adding fat to me and the oil will spurt everywhere. Though I know he's trying to be helpful but whatever la. It's not as if I know him very well. When I left for Mrs Chua's, he was like, 'Wah! Go par-tor (dating) ah?!' Wah piang I'm not lo, and then other relatives began saying things like, 'Ya your age quite good to have boyfriend liao what' etc etc etc. Grrr.

Xin Hui asked me to go to Mrs Chua's place, in the end there was only XH, Cheng Huat, Hong Wei and me who went. Haha. Never mind la, a small group is fine. Nice chat with Mrs Chua, and she showed us some video recordings of the Japanese band competition. This elementary school one and the World Music Contest 2005.

I tell you, those kids don't play like an elementary school~! They were really awesome for their age, can say that even better than the secondary school bands here. One thing is I find that those girls don't sit properly. Why open your legs so wide when you're playing the horn? But anyway, it's music that is most important. Some players kept switching instruments throughout the piece, for example trombone players swapped to euphoniums during the piece. And trumpets to flugelhorn, to horn. The best part is the mouthpiece are also different, so it's like they have to adjust ultra fast! They also memorised their pieces. No scores.

And Mrs Chua showed us the top band, a Belgium band, for the World Music Contest last year. They were soooooooo good! Their transition very very nice. I hear liao very comfortable. Soo nice. And the band is very very big. However they played very precisely and you don't know that they're that huge! I think they have 40 clarinets as what Mr Chua told us. I don't know if he counted. And there are 4 oboes. They even have cellos. They sit in full six rows. You get the idea. They played Danceries, quite a nice piece.

Oh Wei Wen! The shoes gave me blisters! Like you were complaining about your shoes. Haha. I think the reason why I didn't have problem with it yesterday was because my father drove us around. I walked all the way to Simei to Mrs Chua's, it's about a 10-15 minutes walk though. On my way back the back part of my ankle, I forgot what it's called. Calf or sth? It bled! So pathetic hor. I must say the shoes not that comfortable if you gonna do a lot of walking. Can see that I won't be able to wear that shoes to go shopping. Yikes. Then what other use have I got for that pair? Haha.

And the pair of earrings I bought. I love them! In the end one side had to break. I merely shook my head and it came out. I think there was already a fault there but I didn't check la. Can see that the part broke before because you can see the signs of soldering. Sigh. So sad. $6.90 leh. And I hardly tend to like fancy earrings. It's always studs for me. Sighhh. So sad!

I'm so sian. Gotta work tomorrow. Sigh. Though it is $14 per hour... I just don't have the mood la. Have to pull myself to Compass Point tomorrow liao. I'll be slacking away anyway. ZZzz.

And I think my face is getting rounder. Haha. And and and.

And nothing else liao.

And I miss band! T_T

Financial planning, again

Hmmm. I just thought that I ought to do this. List of things I got to buy when I have enough to spare from my pay. And the fraction of whatsoever I gonna give my parents and savings and myself.

Taking my pay as a whole 100%:
Mum - 16.7%
Dad - 14.3%
Savings - 45.0%
Allowance - 24.0%
I seriously hope that the amount that I place aside for my allowance is enough leh. Eating out all the time is far too expensive. And of course hope that I'll still have some leftover from my allowance. Still going to depend on my dad for transport fares though, so going to give him more. Need to give mum more for groceries though I hardly will get to eat at home.

I need to buy

1. A tuba mouthpiece
   
2. An alarm clock, because the one I have now don't show the time, but some weird symbols. It doesn't give you alarm at all. Can't work.
3. Eye cream to make my eye rings lighter and reduce the wrinkles that are coming out, whether it'll work or not
4. Any hair treatment or something along that line to make my hair healthier, you people know how drastic it is
5. A new calculator if I can enter university and if I need it
   
6. Something for my mum
   
7. Something for my dad
8. Or both 6 and 7
9. Something for my brother
   
10. New clothes for myself, and more. Haha
    

And more money spending:

1. I wanna go watch West Side Story, a musical. Interested?
2. Recoup the losses to my savings due to the spending for prom. It's not a small sum, FYI
   

That should be it. That's a lot of money actually.

No visiting today

I'm not doing any visiting today! Hope people can come instead know, like give me more festive mood. And I've got to go back to work tomorrow already and I'm kind of dreading it! Just feel a bit awful to some information I 'retrieved' this morning and I need more cheering up. Wah really sian leh tomorrow gotta work. Argh.

I wanna watch I Not Stupid Too! Mum want to watch with me but I dunno when we can watch together. My off days you say? DuH. But she may need to work on those days. So I don't know liao lo...

Xin Hui gave me a website to go, it's the Hai Sing band alumni portal. Can see it's not working too well, because everything is so empty. Must wait for longer. Heh. Oh and all Hai Sing alumni if you're looking at this the website is this do register!

Chinese New Year visiting

Woke up at 9 plus in the morning today and was still tired. Chatted with my friends online and ironed my new year clothes and did my nails till near 4am. And in the end I woke up to find my nails ruined. Haha. They weren't exactly dry yet and I went to bed so you can see the impressions of my bedlinen on my nails. Never mind.

Made a trip down to the temple. I don't know where it was, but my family queued up to get blessings from this very famous reverend. And he gave us those sort of Buddhist bracelets that are made of beads..You know those sort la. I spotted a transparent bead one, it's very nice! So took it and wore it. Heh. I like.

Went to Yishun to my eldest maternal uncle's place, and after that we went to Telok Kurau to my cousin's place where my eldest paternal auntie lives. I thought of Felix so smsed him to tell him I was at Telok Kurau Road and asked where he was. He lives in Lorong K, which is just perpendicular to Telok Kurau Road. I suggested to meet, but then I won't want to go his place in case his parents think I'm some girlfriend. In the end I still went inside his house. His dog is...I dunno, annoying? Haha. 'Cos I was wearing quite nicely and I don't wanna spoil my clothes. Haha. I don't know the dog very well ma so I don't want to risk =Þ His dog kept crawling onto me and I just kept...well, squeaking. Or something along that line. Felt awfully stupid.

And so I went inside and greeted his mum and relatives. Stayed around only for a short while and when I wanted to leave by accident and my stupidity the dog escaped. And it ran all the way out and Felix and his sister had to chase him all the way to the junction which was quite far away. I just stood outside his house not knowing what to do. I'm so sorry Felix! Thank the guy up there that nothing happened to his dog. Uh, the thing is the dog belonged to his sister. Felt so bad! I keep getting others into trouble lo serious. First it's bring Yi Xin to the wrong direction, and now it's allowing Felix's dog to escape. Oh and the dog went to the junction to shit. Thanks. Though Felix said it wasn't my fault 'cos they cooped the hyperactive dog up for too long...I still feel very bad. It's a dog's life at stake!

Leaving Yishun
With my bro in my dad's cab
My pair of shoes! Looks like a pair of men's feet stuffed into ladies' shoes eh? Sad~!
Taking a photo of myself in the rear view mirror. The bracelet you see on my wrist is the one I got from the temple
Leaving Telok Kurau

And after that went home to another reunion dinner, with my sis and brother-in-law. Quite enjoyable la, more noise to make. And I got to suan my sister, that's the best part.

Looking spastic as usual
At home! Yi Xin said she wanted to see how I look like today, so here you go!
A closer look. Having big eyes ain't a problem for me, but big nose and big mouth, yes.
On the left, the first ever angbao my sis gave me. My bro-in-law works for Coffee Bean. On the right, the angbao I got from my parents. The angbao came from Yi Xin which she got from StarHub and I passed it to my parents. Sparky's on the cover!
Reunion dinner. Before...
And after! Just simple stuff la.

新年快乐！

Chinese New Year is here! Finally got a pair of shoes. Yea quite like that pair, though I must admit that my feet are huge and wide so when I wear those shoes I actually caused wrinkles to them. So heartbroken. It's a gold colour pair anyway. Got from Charles and Keith in Parkway Parade. Thanks to HOW YI XIN who nicely accompanied me there. Other than she suay suay got an awful drink, I made her go up the wrong bus! She was supposed to go the other direction and I didnt know. SORRY! Felt so bad.

Hiccuping now. So irritating.

Phone batt was flat, couldn't call home to tell them I'm going to be home soon and they waited like crazy and they couldn't contact me. I didn't pass by any pay phones so I didn't call back to inform them. Got scolded.

And I sms-ed Aaron to say Happy New Year and in the end I was told that the tuba choir that i've been looking soooooooooooooooo forward to may be reduced to only 10 players instead of 20. So it's like I won't get to play lo. Sigh.

Reunion dinner was alright la, quieter than the past years probably because my sister doesn't join us for it anymore. And when my sister and brother-in-law came to visit I got quite excited and began suan-ing my sister. She tried to snatch the box of Ferrero Rochers home though. I forced her to bring this gums that I didn't like home.

And then I watched TV just now, this uncle, a so-called fortune teller, said that for those born in the Year of the Rabbit will have 桃花运 this year, meaning they'll have more luck in love or something. Wah. Means those married will be having second affairs eh? Haha. CHOY! Well, we'll see if I'll have more luck, as well as the other Rabbits like me. Lucky months are the 2nd, 6th and 10th of the lunar calendar, and lucky number is 8 and 12. If I never take note of it wrongly. And the uncle said if I do things honestly, I'll have things going my way. From today onwards I'll try to promote i-mode as much as I can. Try. Boredom kills.

Oh and I didn't mention that Felix came down to the shop yesterday. To take the money I owed him. He said owe money past the new year not good ma. True. Thanks ah. And Jing Yi you still owe me $5!

Haven't prepared my clothes for tomorrow yet.. Gotta do it.

恭祝大家

新年快乐，万事如意，身体健康，事事顺利！
狗年旺旺！
过个大肥年～！！！

A funny email

Another email I got that I wanna share with you guys. About how tired you can ever be. Really, how tired you can get.

I really pity the kid. In a shoe! Oh my
A cat leaning on a radiator
This one really win liao. Play halfway can just Zzz there
So cute right? Look at her lashes!

My mum told me that I was like this girl above. I was this pathetic! She said I didn't like to take naps in the afternoon and will fall asleep during dinner time. Like eat halfway then sleep there. So paiseh! My mum so poor thing! And I didn't know that I can get this tired. I'm already complaining throughout school life and I've been like this since the beginning. At least things doesn't contradict.

Finally met some of the bosses

Today two of the bosses came down at different timings. One was super fierce and strict. The other still ok la. Haha. At least just when both came down I was working 'hard'. Because when customer flow is very few or zero I'll just sit at or behind the counter and stone.

Sian leh sometimes when I think of working. Haha. I think when Sam there then good, he got a sense of humour and can keep me entertained. Otherwise...OK lo. Not that the rest are not fun, but I enjoy Sam's company more. Got a bit of communication breakdown with the rest I guess. Must learn to know how I can talk to them better.

There were a lot of people at the shop today. There was a new full-timer, and Belinda, Sam and Jing Hong. So many people at the counter!

And I had dinner by myself. Chose a quieter place to go - KFC. And I brought my i-mode training manual along to accompany me if not I'd have died from fright. Ha. That's how lousy I am.

Yea. More or less for today. Sian right. Zzz.

My very first sale

FINALLY! Shall elaborate on it later.

Went to work in a down mood because I guessed that the customer flow into the shop will be as tragic as yesterday. Reached at 1050 and the shop wasn't open yet, so I roamed around B1 and when it opened I saw a guy and thought it was Sam. But it's a guy I've never seen before. And he doesn't talk a lot so I didn't really bother to talk to him too. Just brief intro-ed.

His name is Jing Fu, and Sam came later. When I returned from dinner Jing Fu's brother, Jing Hong came. JH is the blur blur type of guy. He damm cute one! He has a Motorola V3, like big deal right. It's a big deal when he's a guy and his mobile is pink. You know, that hot pink RAZR. He's friendlier than JF la, at least when I walked into the shop he still acknowledged me.

Sam was talking to this customer, a Malay couple, and the uncle wanted to get a good phone for his son. Sam then showed him the NEC N411i, promotion price at $48 and told him he could go onto the Internet with this phone and check traffic news etc. 'Traffic news', that's the keyword. The Malay uncle is a taxi-driver. Haha. Then he got so enthusiastic his wife couldn't be bothered and went to buy groceries. So I showed the uncle where and where to get to the site he liked it so much and I secured my first sale! At least is also Sam recommend first la, but he didn't tell alot. I did! Haha.

HAPPY. Finally. Today's my 4th day of work and I'm already considered slow. Compared to my other i-mode trainees, my sales still considered pathetic lo. Never mind. At least I know that I still got hope. Haha.

A thought

Actually starting from the end of last year I wanted to collect all my friend's addresses and make cards for them on their birthdays or when they are enlisting and wish them Happy Enlistment, or any other festivals or special occasions this year. I only did one so far this year. Another birthday is coming end of this month and I don't seem to have any inspiration on how to do the card. I just seem not to want to do cards anymore la.

Perhaps you also can put it as I find some people not worth it, that's why I can't be bothered to do the cards anymore. You can also say I regretted starting to make the first card I made this year, it's like friends can disappoint you badly too. Sometimes you just wonder if you can call some people friends and if they treat you as one lo. It's like... no matter how close or how 'unclose' you are from your friend you should treat them well lo. I also don't know how la. I also don't understand my situation well at all. Sometimes I can feel awfully lonely, like nothing can satisfy my thirst for more friends, more people for me to care about and more people who care for me. It's a give and take thing la. Sometimes I just think that I put in my effort for some friendships for nothing. I'm not strong enough to forget about things that so-called friends did to me but somehow I really need assurance that I have them, and not just say-say.

Am I a friend to them at all?

两个对的人 却在错的时候 爱了一回...

转身离开 有话说不出来

Seems like my contract will end very soon

Today's a damned day.

Really.

Not many people came into the shop during the day, and I mostly was sitting around doing nothing. Jenny who's posted to Toa Payoh came to visit me and told me her sales are good. ARGH. I've sold nothing today by myself. At least she need not worry that she will get her contract terminated ma. Sigh Sigh Sigh. Not that I don't really want to get to terminated la, but it's like if your contract is terminated it sounds as if you're sacked (though you really are). AIYA! At least if I sold a line or what not that bad ma. But seriously today very little people and I got very sian-ed even when people came in I didn't really have the mood liao. Sigh. What if one of them is the mystery shopper? Come and spot check on me while I was stoning there. Honestly, I only made a few presentations today. Like no chance ah. When there are families with children very hard to talk to the parents one. 'Cos the kids will be making a fuss or interrupt me by pulling the demo phone away from me. Cannot ok. Haha.

Sigh. I've been worrying about my sales and now I'm worrying even more.

T_T

Another shopping spree

Yi Xin accompanied me shopping today (as usual, thanks!) and so I bought a skirt from Mango at S$60 and a blouse from Forever 21 at $14.40, the latter is after the 20% coupon YX had and she gave it to me (thanks!). U.P. $18. Yea.

Saw Fiona when I was at Far East Plaza. She's also one of the trainees of my batch. Her shop is bigger than mine, but extremely empty. She told me that she got no sales, while her clique are selling like mad. OMG. I'm like selling nothing at all lo! Sigh. She also told me that her colleagues are like aunties and uncles to her. Honestly, I prefer this leh. Like they know how to look after you. Not that I don't like the younger people around me la, but then I feel like I'm not taken care of at my side. Haha. 算了啦。

A boring life if I don't do anything about it!

I think for the next 6 months my life will be very boring.

How?

No choice lo. May be intending to quit after 3 or 4 months and look for a proper office job. Those office hours kind. And hopefully not in town of course. Argh. I need my Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays in time to come.

There is a MJCband concert on May 19, I want to take part. There are practices on
February 4, 18
March 4, 18
April 1, 15,29
May 13 All these dates are Saturdays.

And there is a Tuba Choir by Philharmonic Winds that I wanna join too. On June 3. In order to play I need all my Sundays in May free.

Hai Sing has got a concert in late June, there may be an alumni band. Practices aren't confirmed yet.

Mus'art has got a concert in July I heard. Don't know how I am going to join. Practices are every Sunday.

And then there is a National Band Competition or something on July 15 and 16 and I wanna take part for Hai Sing or MJC or whatever. How to go for practices when my contracts end on June 31?

Work requires me to be around on Fridays, Saturdays and Fridays. How now brown cow?

I need band to spice up my life. Not really much of i-mode though.

Conclusion: Erina is bad (very bad) in time management.

First and second day of work at Star5

Work is fine la...but you can say it can get boring. I seriously don't know how I am going to repeat all the stuff again and again...

Day 1
Reached the shop at around 1045 and it wasn't opened yet. I was wearing the i-mode shirt and standing outside waiting. And I got my first customer who asked me how much she could get by trading in her Nokia 7650 for N70 I think. I had no idea. So told her it was my first day! And that I wasn't trained in stuff in that area.

Excuses? Nope. The other phones aren't really my business la. Haha. I could help too. But I know too little to poke my nose around. Time will help!

When the guy came to open the shop, customers swarmed in when he just only opened the shutters and not the supporting stuff. He haven't even sat on his seat yet. I told him I'm the i-mode promoter, he actually gave me a blank look. 45 minutes later, when the shop was empty again, then I finally managed to talk to him. In the meantime I was introducing i-mode to the customers from the file. Which isn't sufficient.

That colleague's name is Sam, and he wasn't informed of my arrival. Hmmph. How could this be? But he's a nice person la, nice to talk to and easy-going.

Around 12 plus this girl came. She's quite ah-lian actually, but she's quite funny! Like was trying to re-enact the story of this irritating customer who came the night before, and asked me to act as the customer. Haha funny girl. She's the in-charge actually. Her name's Belinda. AND she also wasn't informed that I'm supposed to come. See? Hazel (she was the one who interviewed us last time and briefed us about this job of ours) prepped a list for us during training to tell us where we are posted to, and told us that they should even provide me with all the demo phones! But I only got the NEC N411i as demo and the N412i as dummy. Anyway, how now brown cow? I seriously don't know what to do lo.

Passed today quite quickly la. But customers are still interested in Nokia or they can't be bothered about i-mode. Or they think it is too high-tech. It's hard to convince them la, because they don't use the internet and whatsoever. Heartlander adults ma. Majority of them just do whatever is the norm. i-mode is too high-tech! How? No sales how? Terminate my contract lo.

Anyway later in the day this other girl called Golden came to help out at the shop too. Didn't talk to her much la.

Day 2
Just so sian to go to work today. Quite dreading to repeat what I said yesterday. 没办法. Other than Belinda and Sam, this other lady called Angie came to help out. Golden didn't.

By the way I didn't mention that my name is a difficulty to them. Belinda called me 小妹 yesterday though I'm a much larger size than her. And she called me i-mode today. Golden called me i-mode. I don't know if Sam still remembers my name. Sigh. So hard ah.

Not too long after the shop opened today this mum with a toddler in her arms and a 9-year-old came in. And the boy actually asked me about i-mode! His mum was like, just tell him, he likes this sort of thing. Really very smart and adorable, that kid. I asked how he knew about i-mode and he was like, on TV, the advertisement. That never ending 'i like. i-mode' ad actually was etched in his memory and he came to ask out of curiousity. He was the one who pulled his mum in. Kids nowadays.

Met customers with BO today. Not that I really mind, I just need to be prepared.

Overall...working there is still ok la. I just dunno what I am going to do about my time-table. Called Hazel twice today and she didn't pick up. I also dunno what to do, supposed to go shopping with Yi Xin tomorrow. I'm not done with my CNY clothes yet. And shoes too. Sigh. 伤脑筋。

Fourth and last day of training at StarHub

Today is the last day I'll see those girls and a guy at training, everyone will be split up to all over the island to carry on with what we came to Haw Par for. To promote i-mode for StarHub.

After today's training, I find that it's really stressful to sell this service! So many things to remember, must be able to persuade the customer well and not offend and a lot more things to take note, waH! I'm going to start work tomorrow and I'm super unprepared! So scared!!!!!!!

Had Matthew to teach us how to sell the product. Hope I can get the hang of things faster, everyone seems to be getting it! I'm only at the gist, whereas others who showed what they could do during role-playing today and I was quite impressed! Sigh.

I screwed up my role-playing today and it really affected my morale, like how come when I was so confident of speech in secondary school I lost all my skills totally. It seems like it's so hard to por people with my words now. It was so easy when I was back at Cartel, perhaps it's food so it's easier. Now with all these product...if you say the wrong things, that's it! A sale gone! ARGHHHHHH.

Yi Xin SMS-ed me today and told me she got posted to Blk 503 Tampines Central 1, Ju Ling got posted to Paya Lebar. I'm just glad that I didn't get posted to Tampines Central, it's the place I'm dreading to go to now. However considering the transport fares at only $1.28 a day for me, I'd consider. I'm paying $3.08 a day, that's more than twice.

After training today took a lot of photos with the girls.

I look spastic in this photo, but nevertheless we still looked like we had special effects of light. It's just reflection of the box that we put the cameras on
Tsz Ching, me
Cindy Chen, me
Me and Tsz Ching trying to be...well, I look at myself and think I'm cranky
Me, Jessica
Geraldine, me
Feng Ni, me
Cheryl, me
Chariene, me
Fiona, me
Me, Yi Ting
Me, Cindy Phua

There are only 17 of us in the group photo, because the other 3 of them left for Centrepoint since they are sent to the shops, as in the main StarHub shops. The rest of us sent to the retailers.

Pray for me ok. Hope my day tomorrow will go smoothly, make me have a good start to this job.

Some animal personality test

Did another personality test, this time it's in Chinese. However I think my test results are so unreal though I answered as closely as possible.

It says I'm an antelope. Erina. Antelope. Come on la... I roar!

RAWRRRRRRR!!!



積極而友善是你最大的特色。在工作上你有著強烈的好奇心，而且積極地把握每個機會去學習及展現能力。你也是個友善的工作夥伴，是同事心中的模範teamplayer。在愛情方面，你勇於示愛，而且善體人意，是個不可多得的愛情EQ高手。

優點： 即使叢林的生活不時有些險惡，你仍不改心中那股生活熱情。面對周遭的人事物，你總是用正面而體諒的方式詮釋，因而你鮮少憤世嫉俗，更不易庸人自擾。你 的熱情活力感染了周圍的人，跟你在一起工作會是很愉快的經驗。同時，在愛情中，你很注意對方的情緒需求，也有著極佳的衝突處理能力，是個體貼而懂得尊重另 一半的好情人。

提醒：你對人總是心無防備，在你眼中，每個人都是好人，然而叢林中有時危機四伏，難免有人會不懷好意，提醒你在必要時也該發揮警覺心，嗅出異樣就該掉頭，用你優雅的羚羊跳躍，遠離叢林中的危險。

I'm like the total opposite of what it is saying. 差别好大！我个人觉得我根本都没有那么积极。<因而你鮮少憤世嫉俗，更不易庸人自擾> 好不对哦！！！

Here's the link! http://cola.sina.com.tw/

Saw Joan on TV

Joan told us some time ago that she'll be doing line dancing, sort of a calafare, on Ch 8's Love Concierge. That serial at 9pm on weekdays. I don't watch it, but was online when Yi Xin called and told me the line dance group appeared at that moment and I ran to the TV and I saw Joan! =D So amazed to be able to see a friend there, because it's either my neighbour or auntie whom I usually see as calafares. Joan so cute she just kept smiling while she was dancing hahaha.

Reply from MOE

I forgot to mention that I received a mail from the Ministry of Education telling me that I am registered with them in the Relief Teacher's list or something. Like now then reply. Haha. 'Cos I applied for this Relief Teacher position through the Internet in late December. I applied for Primary and Secondary School Mathematics. Quite happy that they'll at least put me in la, but I think when they need people and call me I won't be around for them haha because of work.

Third day of training at StarHub

Today's the best hands-on experience I had ever tried! We tried i-mode phones! So COOL! i like. i-mode.

Before I rant on about it, I need to tell you people that i-mode is exclusively for StarHub subscribers ONLY. StarHub got the rights to be the sole distributor but I guess soon the other telcos will also be able to provide the i-mode service.

We were given an i-mode phone each to try during training today. It's really convenient! It's just one press of the i-mode button on the keypad you'll be at i-mode! After you'd activated the phone to i-mode you get to do a lot of things, like email, iMMS, websites, blah blah blah. i-mode can support cHTML content only, so there are sites that cannot be accessed properly because they are HTML.

But still, you can download videos, ringtones, pictures etc from i-mode, and surf around! Subscribe to the Straits Times at only $3/mth, and a lot more things you can do. Very hard to tell about this la, if I were to say more I'd be like working now. Haha. Enjoyed today though. Just can't get enough. I mean, soon I will la, but it's so new and I got to try it (usually I'm the last few to try out new technology in Singapore). I will definitely get an i-mode phone, but not now I guess, because the phones out aren't really my cup of tea and there should be functions that will become better and good for everyone to use. Of course there are disadvantages about it, but don't worry, costs aren't really a big problem if you use it well.

But anyway... Last day of training tomorrow, it's on sales! Scared leh. Haha. Like how to sell the i-mode service... Never mind la. I'll get the hang of it.

Second day of training at StarHub

Today's training session is more fun, it's more hands on to the StarHub services available like Gee! and 3G. Started off about the Gee! part, we went online to explore. We were also given phones to try out and Miguel taught us how to configure our phones for Gee! services online. Heh. Used the Sony Ericsson Z800i or something, it's a 3G phone. Shared with Jenny.

After break or something we were given phones again to try out (by the way the phones and their SIM cards belong to StarHub so the bills don't go to us) and we are allowed to download games and pictures and tones into the phone we were holding on to. I was holding on to this other Sony Ericsson phone, can't remember the model but it is some old models. Shared with Geraldine. Then because my Nokia 6220 phone can only hold polyphonic ring tones, I can only download those type of tones and perhaps send through infra-red into my phone. But due to complications I didn't get those Narnia tones that I wanted. Never mind... So I used the StarHub phone to send pictures to my phone. Heh. Sent 4 pictures.

We also tried Video Streaming, which is you get to watch channels like CNN and some fashion shows etc online! I saw the CNN news through the Sony Ericsson 3G phone which was clearer than the Motorola phone. Miguel also let us experience how it is like to video conference. After the call was connected and you can see each other through the camera we could see each other through the phones when they passed the phone around! Very fun! This 3G technology has not taken off though, due to the cost that we have to pay.

Had the 'Proof of Learning' today. It was fine la, open book one, and I think I got a few questions wrong though I don't know where because we didn't get our papers back. So I passed. And everyone else passed. OK la, no one ever failed before in so many batches.

Met Yi Xin, Joan and Jing Yi for dinner after which JY went home and the remaining three of us went for a haircut. My hairdresser doesn't seem to let me have a new hairdo leh. I mean, the problem is i want to change my fringe some way or the other, but then it is like I still want to tie my hair so that I'll look neater. Sigh. Never mind lo. But I have to think of new hairstyles asap if not I'll just be wasting my money for her haircut.

Shopped a bit, tried on a shirt, but still not quite satisfied though I quite like it. Yi Xin told me about it, she saw it. I'll keep that in mind first, then go shop again with her on Friday. Ya I'm very fussy and I hardly get sizes that fit because I'm too big. So I always take a very long time to find appropriate clothes that I like.

That's it for today, I'm super tired and I really need the energy for tomorrow. It's i-mode training tomorrow, which is very crucial to my job. Hope I can listen properly so I won't be wasting my time!

First day of training at StarHub

I'm so beat. My eyes are so red now. Haha. Very shagged after today's long training. It's not hard, it is just like a lecture... Except that the room only has 20 people plus the trainer 21.

I woke up at around 0630hrs and left the house about an hour later. Saw the bus at the previous stop and ran while holding my egg mayonnaise sandwich (I made it myself!) and a packet of HL milk. Bear in mind it's the 1L packet ya. Because just left a bit of milk left so I intended to finish the rest. When I reached the bus stop I was horrified. I hardly reach the bus stop at such a time, and I was taken aback by the many people there. When I reached the train, even more people there! Practically like squeezing. Some office workers were even sleeping while standing and holding on to nothing.

I reached the Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station at about 0820, and walked towards Haw Par Centre, where the training was to be held. It was 0830 and I was soooo alone. After that I saw this other girl wearing the same Giordano polo top as me and I reckoned she's going for the training too. Talked to Yi Xin, and a while later this other girl told me we could enter already.

Training started almost promptly at 9am, this RJC girl, Cindy, was sitting on my left and Jenny from VJC was on my right. Made friends with both of them. After a while I got to know Cheryl from TPJC. And many many others too, just that I don't know them as well. There are 20 trainees in my batch (we're so-called the 1st batch) and all of us are girls waiting for our A level results except for the only guy there who just came back from Perth and waiting for enlistment. Poor guy, so lonely.

Before training started the lady who interviewed us, Hazel, came in and gave us a piece of paper each printed with where we were posted to and the address. I saw the name of the company of the shop and it says Star5 for the outlet I'm supposed to go. I felt a bit sian because it felt like I'm going to some normal handphone retail shop instead of the StarHub outlet. I went back to the Compass Point website when I got home and saw the same address belonging to StarHub. So is that shop a neighbourhood-like handphone shop or is it really a StarHub outlet? I hope for the latter, but if it turns out to be the former, it's ok also la. I remember seeing a StarHub outlet there though.

Our trainer's name is Miguel. He's a real funny guy somehow la. Made the whole talk entertaining and not boring at all, because the sudden inflow of information about Starhub's international services etc can be very taxing. And there is supposed to be this 'Proof of Learning', in simplified terms a test, to be held tomorrow to test us on what we learnt during these two days. Miguel said it is going to be easy, just some MCQs and it is an open-book test. We're required to score 85%, if not, I don't know what will happen. I just do not want to spend too much time on flipping the book they gave us la. The book can't be accompanying me to work from Saturday onwards. Hope I can scrape through lo.

Throughout the training today I learnt of StarHub services (I'm a StarHub user) that I can fully make use of in the future. It is easier for me to understand too. Like those international services, now I know them better when they were like alien to me. Still, I am quite afraid of what will happen to me if I don't make it for tomorrow's test. Haha.

Anyway, when we ended I shopped alone at Plaza Singapura for my Chinese New Year clothes. Haven't got them yet, I have these few days left. If not when work starts I'll be dead meat. Wear old clothes to new year. Went to The Body Shop to look for Grace who has been working there with Yanni. Talked to Grace for quite long. After that I made my way back and chatted with YX over the phone during the journey home.

A second line interrupted, a call from home. My brother said my father wanted to try the Chicken Fantastic from McDonald's, though I'm already so tired I just went along and buy. Well, I wasn't expecting to wait. I joined the shortest queue and saw the manager using a calculator to calculate stuff on a receipt for this woman. The latter spoke English, and she seemed to be having a problem with money matters pertaining to the purchase. They took awfully long. The manager was like 'Ya you ordered this Chicken Fantastic meal, then you upsized it, ... ...' blah blah blah. Wah that woman damm kiam siap. Like that have to print the receipt out for her to check!

Finally it was my turn (I was jumping from queue to queue depending on which seemed to be the fastest), and I had to wait even longer because the burger wasn't ready. While waiting the woman came back with a packet of large fries and asked the guy who was serving me if the one she was holding is upsized. He took an empty regular fries container and large fries container and compared to her. In the end? She was like, 'How come so little?' when I thought the packet is satisfyingly full. She spoke fluent English for a middle-aged woman, and she behaved like she was so... I dunno, uneducated?

Anyway... I gotta go do some research on the StarHub website. And I need to sleep early. Seriously don't know when then I can settle down and read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince properly. Sigh. Ok. Hope I'll have the energy to blog again tomorrow!