Friendship

In friendship, you have this thing called 义气, or something to do with a loyalty and faith for your friend and you are willing to give up things for him or her, while hoping that he or she is appreciative of what you sacrificed. That's what friends are for. But alas, sometimes things just don't turn out to be the way that you wished for and you get disappointed.

Of course, you wouldn't want some unappreciative person to be around you... I don't know, just felt angry for the victim, and at the same time, don't know how to go about things because of 义气. Sigh.

Hope things turn out for the better quick.

Bought bedsheets!

Just thought that I ought to rely on myself for my needs and I went to buy two sets of bedsheets and a pillow. I'm actually hoping to find somewhere for a set with tuba prints. If you got any idea where I can get them do tell me!

The price tag indicated usual price is $38, promotion is at $17, further 20% discount, $13.60
U.P. $39.90, promo price $20
U.P. $40, promo price $28. Further discount, $22.40

Spent a total of $56 when I was supposed to chalk up $117.90. That's around 47.5% off. Not bad already. Heh. And I used my own lifelong savings. Ouch.

Continued

Oh back from the wedding already. It was at this Chinese restaurant at Yishun Safra Country Club. And you know what, the food was horrible. The cold dish had stale overcooked prawns. The sharks' fin was gluey, to the extent that there were lumps of yet-dispersed starch in the soup. Roasted pork wasn't crispy. Overall was the worse banquet I had ever tasted in my entire life. Best is at Grand Copthorne Hotel.

But anyway, because we were at Yishun Safra quite early, my dad decided to bring me to the fruit machine room (a.k.a. jackpot) to let me have an experience. Started out with $20. And guess what? Left the room with about 15 times of that so balance up. Heh. I won most of the money. And I didn't get a single cent of the winnings. T_T But you guys must really be careful when you go gambling. Can get very addictive.

I look like a giant beside the bride. I like her gown though
The petals that I was supposed to throw as the bride and groom marches to the stage
Me, my brother
Mine and dad's glasses. Added the cherries and pineapples from the cold dish
Shared a table with this cute cousin

Nothing much la, can't really voice out my opinions about the groom openly here anyway. Doesn't matter la haha.

Tired

Ever since I started work I've never had a real good sleep. Off days are usually spent outside, today too. A cousin of mine is getting wedded today, so had to wake up quite early and trot down to Yishun.

While the bride is away at her in-law's it was so boring at her place. Zzz. So I read my novel and entertained their dog. And this little cousin entertained me for a while.

AAhhhh------! The newly weds serving my dad tea

Tea ceremony's over, now I'm back at home waiting for time to pass before I go prepare for the dinner tonight. So tired.

At least there was a Mercedes Benz to drive me home.

Woah
It's a white one
With an extra thing on the roof. That's my dad

Yea, a Mercedes Taxi, that is.

Some photos

This is the brownie Jie Ying gave me for Valentine's
The yusheng my family and I had. From Sakae also. L size.

Gasp!

Went to work rather late today, reached at around 1115 when I'm supposed to reach fifteen minutes earlier. But usually I'll be late by 5 minutes plus. But usually no one cares about my punctuality la.

However, today, I'm so unlucky.

Reached the shop to see the boss there. With two other men, suspected to be contractors. Scary! My supervisor came to me and hinted. Hinted what...well, not that convenient to publish. But anyway, the boss came and asked me what time I was supposed to reach, I said 11 or 1130, quite flexible as long as I work at least 8.5 hours a day. =P Told him I went back to my old school to return instrument.（信不信由你） Then he asked me whether I have anywhere to sign in and out, told him I have a timesheet that my supervisor takes charge of. And he was like, OK.

Phew.

=D

Gotta wake up early tomorrow, a cousin is getting married. There goes my off-day.

Just FYI

Bet many of you know about the Motorola RAZR phone. The hot pink model is pretty hot. Saw this other pink one available in the USA if I'm not wrong.


There it's this pink, not as dark or hot as the Singapore version.

Also don't know why I mentioned this. Just FYI lo. Ha.

Today

Went to work as usual. What else? Sigh. More and more that I am sick and tired of this job. And got to know that my feelings are being toyed with again. Bloody hell.

This auntie came into the shop and spoke in Hokkien. I can understand her but my speech is not fluent at all. Talked like a rat and a mouse communicating. She said that her phone was dropped into the rubbish bin, I think that's her line of job la. Then she was telling me that she didn't switch off her phone, but when she called she couldn't get through. So the first thought that came to me was someone took her phone and switched it off, however she said that it was dropped into the rubbish bin. Ok lo. I called her number and heard 'The Singtel mobile customer blah blah'. I asked her when she lost her phone. It was like, before the Chinese New Year. So if the phone is still 'on', the battery would have died by then. Never mind la hor the lady is not young. And she asked if the value in her prepaid card can be recovered. I told her to go to the hello! shop at the other end to consult the officers there I don't have a single clue to Singtel's prepaid hotline or whatsoever. Finally convinced the auntie that I really cannot help her in any way. Don't want to anyhow say things later the auntie go there and anyhow talk. You know how people can exaggerate.

I seriously wants to switch jobs.


Sometimes if there are people who are not quite bothered about your presence...then learn not to bother about them! They're not worth it, even if they said they are your friends. This is my fate...no choices that I can choose from.


When I start to put pictures from sites like the ST I wonder if I'll get sued for infringing copyrights. Any idea?

iPods - to the servicing centres!

Bet many of you here know how fragile iPods are, no matter Nano or not. I didn't get an MP3 player for myself, not so much of a earpiece listener. Quite paranoid about the harmful effects to my ears haha.

Saw in The Straits Times that the company iPodResQ, a company in New York, receives 1,200 iPods for repairs every week. See, like that how are you going to take real good care of your gadget? Tsk tsk.

And with the article I got these photos, very cute. Haha. Credits to ST.

Poor things!

Bird flu

How long have this Bird flu thing been going on? It seems that almost everyday in the news there will be information about bird flu and where some bird was caught dead whatsoever. Watching the whole bird flu episode (which seems to be far from ending) is more agonising than SARS. It is taking sooooooooooo long I am irritated!! How I wish I can do something to eliminate this avian virus forever. What's the name of the virus again? H5N1? Haha somewhere along that line. Oh and I think there's a mutation of this virus or something. Then can spread between human beans.

Authorities are always highlighting the fact that the flu can cause a worldwide epidemic. It is pretty scary, but hope that it just luckily won't come to Singapore!

Aaaaa---choo! Bless you

A divide deepened II

Ah..this is what I'm looking for. Peaceful protests! At least!

Good one

But still, I read that the Danish newspaper which first started printing the cartoon of Prophet Mohammed made a big apology on the front page of their newspapers, however, they were more focusing on the turmoil that erupted after the publication rather than apologising for printing the cartoon openly. Hmmph.

Free speech or not, when you are going to publicise about something, especially offending issues, be prepared to account for the consequences, even if you are 'speaking freely'. Don't let 'free speech' be an excuse to your offensive actions. It is a poor excuse. And even though I'm for free speech, I'm for democracy, it is only right that the press apologise more for the publication of the cartoon and be less stubborn. They started the cartoon first, they're wrong. Even if you say that Muslims sparked hatred between themselves and the West first, you can choose not to let the spark become an even greater and invincible fire.

It is heartening, however, to see that there are Muslims who are able to control themselves and make peaceful protests instead =) , instead of resorting to violence which is almost rife now.

MJ alumni band practice

Another MJ alumni band pract today. Ju Ling is so nice, bought pizza as a treat for some of us! Ha let's not talk about the food.

Band pract was fine la, though I keep making mistakes. Mononoke was ok, Anastasia I'm still very blur, and the Sing Sing Sing is crazy. It's a very very nice song I like it, however the tempo is 208. Crazy. Haha. A swing piece. My sight reading is horrible anyway...

Had dinner with Hong Wei, and told him some of my problems while he updated me with things going on in MJ main band. Sigh. Some people really problematic. I dunno what to comment lo. Not in the position to comment anyway.

Looking forward to Hai Sing band practice this coming Saturday!

See you soon...

MaxOnline

Using the MaxOnline that my brother newly subscribed to. I previously was using Pacific Internet. My brother told me that the MaxOnline connection will be faster than the PacNet one. I think otherwise. Everything's taking so long to load! Hope this is only the beginning and the modem needs to warm up. Haha.

那就是答案！ － 评语（二）

读着读着，觉得这本书还蛮有性格的。不错。

Bill sorrows

Bill sorrows
I have never had this huge bill coming my way. Usually my phone bill is around $30-$40+. Sometimes exceed also not that bad. Received a bill today. It's $76+. Can someone kill me?

DIE! 1229 smses. I got 900 free. Not enough! Haha. Die.

At work
Crazy lo. Things went fairly well until near closing. You see, this very middle-aged couple came in and was looking for the Samsung SGH X640C. So I told them I was promoting those i-mode series of phones, I can't help much and they have to check with the counter. Nevertheless I continued talking about i-mode to them la, and they looked at the promotions, not bad. I dunno why, but as I speak they get more interested but the auntie forgot to bring her IC. Sad they had to go.

They came back! And when my colleague told them no more $200 Takashimaya voucher, they went mad. The uncle flared up and accused my colleague of cheating them. Please lo, my colleague haven't start the paperwork yet if really bluffing we confirm finish everything then tell you right? Wah. I was serving a customer and didn't notice them raising their voices. Then the uncle told his wife to leave then they started to argue outside the shop. The uncle was telling my colleague why didn't I tell them beforehand. I've never in my life seen the voucher in the shop and it slipped off my mind! I have never talked about the voucher to any customers lo. I didn't dare leave the shop for quite a while.

Home
Had a tiff with my dad and sister this morning before I went to work. Won't say why, but I remembered myself being very kiddy and cried like whatever! My mum even had to 'orh la orh la' to me and wipe my tears off. But really la the stupid call woke me up early in the morning of course I'd be unhappy. Haha. So pampered! However it's been an awfully long time since I remembered myself being this disgusting. But I was very angry!

Contract ending soon
I can upgrade my phone soon! I think I want a not too small or too slim phone. A candy bar phone with 3G functions. Wanted the N70 in ivory/auburn but I heard complains about the model and also a lot of people have it. Eyeing other brands other than Nokia. But I've come to like N80 and 6280 white.

Sony Ericsson...the 3G phone W900i (if I didn't get the model wrong) is too expensive and I don't need those walkman sort of functions. Don't wanna harm my ears. Not many other phones that I fancy, so this is it.

Samsung...almost all the phones are clamshells if not the phone will be black in colour. Not for me.

LG...I don't know LG well. Star5 don't carry too much of its models I heard.

Motorola...I seriously don't fancy slim phones.

So why is it Nokia again? Can I have other choices? Don't say NEC to me, they're clamshells.

Girlfriend.

I'm for Josh Groban

Some of you should know that Josh Groban sang 'You Raise Me Up' ...you can hear from here. Just click play on the top right corner and make sure it is showing 'You Raise Me Up'. It's a really beautiful song! Mesmerised. Haha. And you can go on listening to his other songs ya. Haha.

And then I heard the Westlife version of the song. Well...maybe it's a biased viewpoint but I find JG's nicer! The instrumentation and the arrangement is superb, whereas WL's is like quite empty and not as full and not as climatique. Did I use the vocabulary correctly?

But anyway, Josh Groban is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo charming!

为何我有一种绝望的感觉？

WAH Hiao really hiao hiao liao! *hints*

I'm really afraid to hurt and lose this friend. What if I say the wrong things?

那就是答案！ － 评语（一）

在下在盛港图书馆借了几本华文与英文小说，尤其是这几本“日本电视小说系列” or JAPAN TV NOVEL SERIES.

《那就是答案！》是１９９７年在日本富士电视台播映的一个连续剧。其实我还没读完啦，只是想要说说而已。

内 容简介：鸣濑望从小即拥有过人的音乐天赋，在热爱音乐的父亲廉太郎悉心的栽培下，成为一位世界知名的指挥家。但在一次正式演出中，乐团团员联合抵制他， 中断演奏，他因而遭到解聘，黯然退居山村。鸣濑失去了舞台，却意外地成为国中的音乐老师。他在与学生的互动中，慢慢引发出内在的阵性情，为自己的人生找到 答案！

一 开始读的时候，在下看见几句想要和大家，尤其是在band“混”的朋友分享，是鸣濑望的感想，就是：“解释音乐是指挥家的职责，而演奏家或歌唱家则只需忠 实地将它表现出来即可。正因为在整个乐团之中，指挥对于乐曲有最深的理解力，对音乐的所有构成要素也有最佳的平衡感，所以演奏家不该对其心存怀疑。否则， 曲调将会因此而瓦解。至于不同的乐器之间虽然难免有所对立，但是经有指挥家的指示，这些对立不再只是音律的冲突，其所衍生的紧张感反而能为听众带来感动。 演奏家只需拼命地跟上指挥就行了。因为指挥家的感觉是绝对的，所以才叫指挥家。如果不喜欢被指挥，就干脆辞去乐团，自弹自娱算了。再不然，去当指挥家也 行。跟不上指挥家的构想的人，绝对无法深入理解整首乐曲。”

在下是在巴士车程的时候读到的。就觉得，望说得蛮正确。因为象我们这些演奏家，真的要跟着指挥。你说呢？

洁莹请不要criticise我的华语。哈哈。都不知道有没有把你的名字拼对。嘿。

Case closed

Called the in-charge this morning, she was very nice. She contacted the management of Star5 and so settled the whole episode. 大结局！OK la. Still a bit traumatised though. And I'm surely black marked by the management! So scary... Don't really want them to know me though. Haha. I'm fine with my colleagues at the shop.

Thanks for your love, everyone~! =D

First time I got into such a trouble

I'm so sad. And so bothered by today! T_T Got into trouble just now, with a customer. Almost wanted to cry lo, like why am I so stupid.

The customer was the family who bought the phone on Sunday. What I know is that the i-mode phones have got Bluetooth, and MP3s for ringtones. The downside is, I don't know that the Bluetooth part means the headset device only, and not the Bluetooth data sharing; and that the ringtones are actually True Tones, so even if you put MP3 into the phone you can't put it as ringtones. I didn't know all along.

So the problem (a rather big problem actually) is that the customer wants a clamshell phone with Bluetooth data sharing and MP3s for ringtones. And I happily recommended her the phones but in the end I am soooooooooooooooooo wrong. Then she came down to the shop today, I don't know if she did complain, but then I was sooo scared. First time such a thing happened to me I find it quite hard to handle..

I checked the phone and realised that I was wrong lo. A colleague at the shop also told me before the customer came in about the Bluetooth thing. So in deep shit now. Called my trainer from StarHub and I think I somewhat got a scolding from him lo. Still say it should be covered in product training. In the end I found out later that he also didn't know about it well lo. I don't remember being told about such features of the phones during training. Called Tsz Ching and she told me that she only knew about these after she called NEC Customer Service. See? Now like everything's my fault. The trainer said that I should call the in-charge of us i-mode 'ambassadors' aka i-mode promoters to apologise to her and tell her the situation and see how the customer can be compensated. Now things will get super complicated because I'm situated at a dealer and the customer bought her phone from here. So how compensation can be made I don't know. Tried calling the in-charge but she didn't answer. Will try again next morning. So the management of Star5 the dealer will get to know about this stupid i-mode promoter causing a mess and they may be on the losing end. How? T_T I don't really want them to know me. I'm like blacklisted by them now lo. Bloody hell. How to find jobs next time? Ya though I quite want to get out of this job but I don't want them to terminate me instead I terminate myself.

I'm rather worried about this whole episode. Have to get back to the customer by tomorrow night. Won't be able to sleep properly liao lo. What if the in-charge gonna ignore me for the whole of tomorrow? T_T

At first I thought last year's Valentine's Day was already horrible because I had to spend it studying for a Chemistry test the next day. This year's the worse ever that I'd encountered. Really leh. I'm super stressed up now and I feel as if I will just break down anytime. What a hard sale to close. Never mind la. 谁叫我又呆又傻又愚蠢。Like who can really help me tide over this?

I need a boyfriend now. Need a big shouldered guy to cry to. Just need for this moment actually. Forget it.

Can someone tell me what will happen to poor me tomorrow? I'm like spending everyday pitying myself. 唉，谁叫我那么白痴。I won't want to cry in front of my colleagues tomorrow lo. ARGH!!!

Shopped

Yi Xin wanted to look for jeans so we went to Bugis on a jeans search. Nothing much really pleased her. She went back with tops instead. I went back with blisters T_T poor me. Haha. It's the shoes la.

It's 1am plus now...It's Valentine's Day. A day of the celebration of love. Why don't I be happier about it. Yeay. It's Valentine's. Yeay. Yeay.

Sigh.

So sad. Still gotta work (since I got no one to occupy my time with). And I think all those I'm working with later at the shop are all married and living in bliss already! T_T Haha. Erina's at it again. So lonely. Haha. What a poor thing I am!

Never mind la. Think I'm going to live through some more VDays alone. Siggghhhhh. Just moaning to myself la. Actually you all can just ignore this post, you know. =P