farewell dudes.. till we meet again...

i am too tired (and lazy) to be putting up the pictures we took the past 2 days for sam's and alfonso's farewell-outings-cum-photo-whoring-sessions. all i can say is i had lotsa fun!!! it is amazing how you can grow to really love the people you meet whilst hubbing..


today (29may05): at cafe cartel, ps.
left to right: dorkie, me, xiang, yiyi, jason, ian, alfonso, sam.



glad i met you guys. each and everyone of you..


love, min

hub = sleeps.

the situation doesn't change. what can be controlled is the perspective you choose to view the situation.




i kept replaying this thot in my mind today. had enough of sianified days. moodiness. depression. and i do feel very much happier today. *smile* life isn't that bad after all. i should quit being a whiny brat.


the 3g promoters, alfonso and sam, are on their last day and last second day (respectively) with us. boo~ how sad. the temps at cuppage are really nice bunch of ppl. shall snap many many pics tmr and upload them soon!! (yay! all four of us are working tmr!!)


looking forward to sunday's shopping trip with collin (if my pay is in by then) and next wed's zoo trip with collin and xiang+bf (if daniel allows the swap of off days)!!!


hub hub hub. z z z z.

smile. smile. BIG SMILE.

i have been getting rather moody of late.
perhaps it's the pms or maybe i'm just being a whiny self-centered bitch.
my apologies.


i gather that i shall pick up my life from now on.
strive to make my life a better one despite the current situation.
the situation doesn't change only the perspective from which you view it.
count my blessings and stop gloating over my lack of it.


earn my moolahs to feed my consumeristic behaviour.
parents will be parents - so watever nvm.
collin loves me alot, i know that.


i shall, i MUST sort out my life.


and be the smiling optimistic qimin again.

whats the worst that can happen? =)

sometimes i dun understand them. oh.. i never did.

i have reached, or am possibly beyond, my tolerance level towards my parents and their dinosaur age thinkings.


i am female.


therefore i shall _____(fill in the blank)________.
*suggested answers:
help out with house work, stay in singapore cos it is dangerous out there, be neat and tidy, get home early, prevent staying overnight anywhere, go to collin's house once in a blue moon and only when he fetches me there huh!?, listen to them all the time, refuse to go on a short holiday with collin and his family cos i am female and it is not right for a female to do so cos it is "mei ming mei fen" (literally translated: no name no status) and because i am female it is not right.


i am female.


therefore i shall not _____(fill in the blank)________.
*suggested answers:
be letting my brother do the house work cos he is MALE, travel anywhere beyond sentosa without their supervision company, be more messy than my brother cos he is MALE, stay out late cos i will "xue huai" (learn bad stuff?), spend my night elsewhere other than my own home, visit collin's house unnecessary, argue reason with them, be going on holiday with anyone's family except my own.


worse, i am female and the youngest in the family.


therefore, i shall live a sheltered life till the day i get married cos only then i will no longer their direct liability and it is only then, the world stops becoming a dangerous place, late nights suddenly seems safe and it is perfectly fine to go overseas with my husband's family and doubly fine to go to my husband's place cos that will aso be my place.


now i know!! i am the key factor to WORLD PEACE. irrelevant.




ancient parents with ancient thinkings. nothing snaps them out of their dinosaur era.


i feel so helpless. i have said all i could, done all i can. nudge them a little, they inch forward a little less. at the end of the day, nothing changes.


i am so tired of all this. really tired.


sometimes i dun understand them. oh.. maybe i never did.

i am shallow i think.

suddenly i m very unsatisfied with my life.


i want to get out. i need to get away. i wanna see more of this world.


y do i feel so sheltered and cramped up in this place i used to hold so dear?


i just need everything and everyone to get off my back.


e v e r y t h i n g.

is consumeristic a negative trait?


is it shallow to openly admit you want to be rich?


is it bad to ask for more?


if not, y am i feeling i m regressing into a materialistic biatch.


oh man.. money woes.

sometimes i hope i ain't so aware of my feelings.

many updates.

caught STARWARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH on monday night (took MC from work! *grinz* but also cos i am sick hokay.) and it was so so good. i love Yoda.. funny character he is.

train yourself to let go of the things you are afraid to lose. - Master Yoda

and collin finally got his ipod mini - online, after much disagreement between my faith in online shopping and his mistrust in it. pfftt.. now he is a happy boy.


until he had to dabble with itunes aka computer stuffs which got him so pek chek (naturally).. he made me go to his house one day after work to teach him itunes and ares. (disclaimer: ok.. he fetched me from work to his house and paid for my cab home.)

the much more chic ipod belongs to yours truly
and the itsy-bitsy-cutsy ipod mini collin's.

we celebrated our 5th anniversary one day later. *throws confetti* nothing too fanciful on this special day. we are so boring - not really, 'fessed up. we are just taking each other for granted. and because of that, we believe we will make it up - someday.

no confetti. only a cake. presents pending.

starhub cuppage has been unreasonably warm nowadays cos the aircon broke down but dorkie the babe thinks it is warm because we are TOO HOT!!! wahahaha.. xiang not in pic cos she ain't working that day. but this saturday will be the day where the four of us will be on duty for the 1ST time!! erm.. if u dun wanna get melted, pls stay away cos i tink cuppage will be burning. (urps..)

my cammie apparently cant take our "HOTness" too cos outta of 6 shots we took, none are clear. the below 2 are the best outta the lot.



looking forward to pay day!! whee~ 5 more days.. gonna shop shop shop..

updates.

Every new day is another chapter on our book of life,
an opportunity to walk a new path, for better or for worse.
- anonymous

had a weird dream last night. seems so realistic.. i was sad but i was also considering. i guess it pretty much reflect an alternative situation. what would have happen? i guess i'll never know. experience the feeling of plummeting from great heights, unscathed. not once but twice. twice.


sorry i hadn't been updating alot recently. been busy working.. which takes time from LIFE itself. for the moolahs. for my mango and guess and levis and adidas and zara and nike and laptop loan. pfft.. i m sucha a slave of this consumeristic world. *shakes head in disapproval*


anyways.. work has been fun. though major pissing sometimes. some colleagues extremely on the right frequency, while some should just get a life and leave us alone. then again the latter is a great source for our endless bitching sessions.


it's a love hate relationship. i love hubbing but hate it so much too at the same time.




dun fool me. what right do i have to say this?

happy five years.

din have any form of proper celebration today. no prezzies (cos we all had no time to buy each other prezzies, and me rather broke). and i really wanted a nice dinner at the highest storey of some hotel, rotating if possible. of cos that din happen. just a simple dinner at kenny rogers and we din even cut the cake i bought. boo~


partly cos collin booked out at 6 plus and he was feeling damn tired from his 4 days field camp. and me, not feeling too well either. my cough seems to have taken a turn for the worse today. am feeling unnecessary cold all the time.. shall take MC if i still don't recover by tmr night. i am wasting my off days by falling sick. i dun wanna be sick. =(


collin kept apologising, maybe cos i was clearly disappointed how the day was going. but its ok, we'll make it up. completed with prezzies and a nice dinner.


HAPPY FIVE YEARS TO YOU, DEAR!

five years. omg.. five. happy five years.

today,


19th may 2005,


is


my


five years anniversary.








five freaking years.
omg.. *smile*

are you happy today?

everything is getting so tiring.






i am tired.
i need a break.






don't wanna think.


just leave me aloneee.






i wonder who is happy today...

happy birthday to sissy. and to AH BI!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISSY BIRD!!!
to make up for calling you so late, here's a BIG WET KISS!!
muuuuaaaakkkkkkxxxxxxxx.... *slurpp!!!
hope you enjoyed urself at ur 'birthday celebration'.
love ya lots lots lots!!!

wookay.. now, photos of stef's birthday gathering as promised.
went fisherman to talk, drink and bitch/fool around with my darling childhood cuzzies, stef's bf (melvin) and shujuan.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEF!!!
(or i rather AH BI~!!!)

the hip kindergarten teacher who drinks and clubs and smokes.


the birthday girl and the boyfriend, melvin.



the birthday girl with the girls!!

top (left to right): janis [zhen], me, shujuan
bottom (left to right): stef [bi], winnie [mei]

after the cake from angie the choice, which claims to be cookies-something but tasted no hint of anything near that, severe photo whoring follows:

me and birthday girl, bi!



mei and me!



me and zhen!



me and juan!



more pics:


trying to give the shanghai tang look.

and i failed. i obviously don't smoke..
no one holds a cigarette like that (hold the middle portion). =(





1st we played this game where we try to form 21.
the one who successfully formed it causes the next person to drink.


then the vicious couple blackjacked zhen and she had to down the whole mug. tsk..

we got bored, partly aso becos we don't wanna keep drinking..
so we started to play truth or dare:

we started with kissing tables (which smells).



then move on to kissing trees.



then this guy serving our table got disturbed by our dares many times.

we got zhen to ask for his number, juan to ask for his name and mei to hold his hands.
(we din get his number btw and his name is daniel. by this time, mei is so high you can ask her to do anything. anything at all.)


this is the reaction when bi asked mei to french kiss juan as a dare.



winnie is like so damn on i tell ya. she is drunk i swear. haha.



what goes around comes around.
bi got unlucky and was dared into kissing me and zhen, by mei of cos.


outta 110 shots we took that day, only one shot is corrupted and it had to be the one of me and bi kissing. haha.. i have a intelligent camera - self censoring. -_-"
this is the best i can do. a shot of my cammie using my "frisbee" nokia VGA.


the quartet. my childhood cuzzies. muak muak muak.



we wanna kiss her but bi finds it too ticklish.



finally.. muuuaaaaakkxxxxxx!!!!!


I LOVE THESE BABES!!

i am falling sick. =(

it'a been a long time since i'm caught in the rain, or rather a heavy downpour. 1st, it was a nagging throat discomfort. after the rain, i can feel my immune system breaking apart at an accelerated pace. *feeling feverish*


bah! still gotta work tmr. i am so going to die.


ain't feeling too well.. shall blog about ytd's birthday celebration at fisherman when i am feeling better and when i have more time on my hand. boo~ working is taking me away from my lappie/blog/msn/etc.


off to pop a panadol.. i dun wanna fall sick!!!


oh.. on a final note, i love working.. much more than studying.
love to meet different people. love bitching. love packing the cabinets. love clearing queues (most of the time). love slacking at recept. love the novelty of everything. love my bitches.


love hubbing. (i think.)

pte sale. new clothes. new cammie.

it has been eons since i reached home so darn exhausted to even raise a finger.


enter the house. call collin. threw my SALE BUYS on my bed. threw myself on bed. zZzZzZz.


yesh. with make-up, starhub tee, jeans and all. so gross you may say, but i am really wear out. it's a wonder how i can even make it through the later part of the day.


anyway, ISETAN PRIVATE SALE was grreat!! if only xiang and i din have to report to work at 10 am, we would have shopped right into the night. (ok.. exaggeration.) we ain't the 1st in queue but well, are pretty much ahead. hee. grabbed myself 4 items: a skirt, 2 tops and 1 half-jacket.


before we know it, its time to leave for work. the same dread feeling: I WANNA SHOP MORE! knowing we need the moolahs to finance our consumeristic behaviour.. bah! reached the shop right on time, looking rather dishevelled.


[fast forward]


sebastian (ex-colleague from tampines) came and wanted to go to the sale to buy his square cut jeans. so he waited for us till 9pm when we are finally done with our work. (Manager D is in a super good mood ytd.) so another long walk from cuppage to isetan scotts (that's lido)... pfft.


met winnie (or i rather, mei) on the way, whom reminded me its stef's (bi) birthday tmr. to think i clean forgotten. tsk.. will be going to celebrate her birthday later at night at pasir ris. been such a long time since i met up with these gals..


anyway, back to the sale, we reached half an hour before closing time. squarecuts ain't on sale.. poor sebastian. but at least he got himself 4 pairs of socks.. urps.. hee. and i got myself a camera this time round!! whee~ can indulge in narcissism again!

my new CASIO S100. i noe i noe. the specs are horrible. luff at me for all i care. hmph. but the sleek design and added features as compared to my old CASIO Z3 is enough to compensate for it. not too ex also. (can't afford sony t7. boo..) RRP: $599. SALE: $376.20.


some photos, using my S100 (yay~):

my all time shopping/sale-mate.



sebastian in the middle.



but he complains he got double chin. so we did the cammie at the top pose.

spend lotsa moolahs in just one day. now.. i'm gonna sell my soul to starhub.




i am sorry.

daily journal 11.05.05

2nd day of work and i m doing processing already. the new computerised system, named Ideal, *chucks manual forms* isn't as difficult as i thought. in fact the perm, Lin Lee who was suppose to babysit me today left me to do my own sales for the rest of the day. (Lin Lee is this very nice perm who is sadly transferring out by the end of this month.)


bah! i was really panicking doing my 1st sales ALONE. fortunately it is the familiar uncle-ish kind of customer i often meet in gd ol' tampines days. *wonder how ma tampines mates are doing?* since they streamline the manual forms, i constantly have this feeling i am not filling in enough forms or am forgetting to photocopy stuffs. but less is always good.. less forms less errors, righty.


and this day could only go so well also cos xiang and yiyi were there with me!! they are the ones who taught me Ideal btw. i love my bitches. yiyi made me realised that for this week at least, there is no one day where me, her, xiang and dorkie will work together. boo~ i can see they are trying their best to separate us. but we stick together no matter what, come what may. hee.


my BONUS today: RUTHIE BABY come to visit me!! with this yummilicious chocs snack from aussie. my my.. looking good gal. tighter tighter. less cloth less cloth. not scandalously clad but at least trash all your baggy tees! time to show ur curves man! *and sorry i am ignorant. but tsk.. wild thing you.*


the 1st fren to be visiting me at such ulu-padang location. you made me so happy!! thanks!!! we shall meet up for coffee soon hokay?


manager D was pms-ing earlier today but became super duper nice at the end of the day.. omg.. girls with PMS? ok. guys with PMS? omg omg.. he chased me and xiang home earlier today, at 615 pm since there aint much crowd and we, being newbies, are super disaposable at this moment. any other days.. i prolly be depressed since less work means less moolahs.. but today! might as well.. since we are intending to do pre-sale shopping at isetan after work.


lucky us decided to talk to the supervisor and oops.. not supposed to say. but he is a nice nice guy. thanks for the favour!! you can prolly go check out this other guy who have been standing at the fitting room area the last 2 times i visited (helping take the clothes off the hangers and back).. pretty cute (erm.. alright la) but the main thing is he is super duper chatty and frenly. isetan scotts that is. *he looks familiar but i dunno where i must have met him.*


gotta sleep earlier now. waking up at 645 tmr for DA SALE!! meeting xiang at a ridiculously early time so as to be the 1st to queue. breakfast outside isetan scotts again i suppose. wahahahaa. less than an hour to shop, so many things to see, grab and buy..


i love SALES! we all love SALES, dun we?

updates: work. isetan private sale.

a few updates:

9 may

1st day of work went off super duper fine.

• people are nice - i still miss tampines though.. all the familiar faces. *sad*
• environment is pretty good - much more ventilated and cosier compared to tampines. i miss tampines' pantry though.
  
• less crowd - whee.. being receptionist is slack slack slack. did recept with this sweet girl called cheryl. *smile*
  
• xiang and dorkie were there. jonas was ard there. yiyi, to be there soon. - happy! working with (some of) my babes again!
  
• i am picking things up rather fine but just don't ask me about specifications. i know nuts 'bout it. - which is precisely what the last customer of the day had to do. pffft.

SHE was surprisingly nice, or prolly fake. but i decided to be nice (or fake) as well to make life better there. saw my ex-colleague from tampines, Eugene and the 1st thing he had to say was "u're (me) getting more and more fat." pfft.. i need to exercise.

10 may

went shopping with xiang since we shared the same off day. we were planning our shopping strategy for Isetan Private Sale cos we only have less than an hour to shop before work on thursday. boo~

spent quite some time (2 hrs?) talking over lunch - yummilicious fried fish beehoon from lucky plaza - thus din have much time to shop before our respective bfs came to pick us up. (it'll be even nicer if they came to pick the tab.. hee. no.. shall be an independent new age woman!) thanks xiang for listening.. love you babe! really appreciate it.. *muak


items checked for buying:
- green frilly skirt from topshop
- brown halter from topshop
- orange butterfly top from topshop
- green spag from topshop
- blue lacey spag from mango (blue powder.. hee.)
- white sling bag from mango
- pink chiffon-like spag from mango

still contemplating whether to buy the levis squarecut jeans and the casio Z55 cammie. tmr after work, we shall launch our 2nd round of pre-sale (window) shopping hokay?


some things ain't going too fine lately. things not meant for public eye so shan't comment too much about it. prolly if i like you enough, i'll tell you if you would listen to my grandma tale. i am bothered when i shouldn't. my refusal to act leads to me being acted upon. this is so screwed.. =(

back to hub hub hub.

i am starting work tmr..
with darling xiang, dorkie and yiyi! yay~


starhub. cuppage. 1st level. so come visit me, won't ya!?


pfftt.. *panicks* hope i pick up the new stuffs fast.


3g. 2g. different sim cards. new handphone models. new mol package. new promos. digital tv. blackberry. pushmail. pdas. os. business lines. s-pass. eligibility. specifications. flexisurf. imail. surf for free. gprs. wap. wifi. mms. idd. overseas call back. dhl. falcon. vantive. etc.


bah! so many so many.
but i suppose i'll get the hang of things in no time.
*confidence* =)


thanks adrian!! (though ya prolly not see this..)
and gals, we will work and not play hokay. (erm.. play a lil? wahahaha.)




ok.. i think i better do some hw before i sleep.
i dunno wanna look like a ignorant fool (read: retard) tmr.


green is a politically correct colour.
(and i love green!!!)


whee~
i am back HUBBING!!!!!!

26/02 gathering at sentosa/cartel/wheelock.

the girls and guys of 26/02 finally met after a long long while. the turn up rate ain't that bad though i was hoping it'll be better. it's good to be seeing everyone again!

whee.. sentosa could only mean one thing - photo taking session!! photos courtesy of huiling and sindy since my Casio Z3 has neither been revived nor replaced.

be warned: severe photo whoring follows.

the gals. *sweet



the guys (or boys)

*don't have a group photo of the guys so make do with this k.


GPJ. how good fortune. heh.
our dearest jae chia surrounded by many gals.



group pic!



the bikini babes versus the clothed hotties.



sissy bird and billabong poh.



what did ur elders say?
hoon (choon) kee is addictive!

hoon kee is bad for you!!
but because he drove us around, we love hoon kee for today.
*puff puff* *cough~*


most of the time we spent trying to squeeze into every other shot. whee.



in commemoration of tzechia's habitual half bend pose.



footy delight.



glam girls. glorious azure.



and this is so so so so so so nice!!



the boys show how touch frisbee is played.
(and i mean BOYS!!)



oOoOoOo~ sindy calls me - OIMIN!!



a final group pic. totally cool.



more snaps while waiting for choonkee to pick us up to go cineleisure's cartel for dinner (major THANK YOU!! u've been kind.):


the green ladies.
(huiling's fcuk tee is supposedly pale green)



think i always only show the nice pics? not true.


here's sindy and i in an attempt to give a pouty lookbut turn out looking like ah mengs from the leafy forestation behind.



at cine's cartel, zeke and jas joined us for dinner.



no picture of jas. boo!
but that girl, she is looking darn good as usual with a freaking nice guitar-shaped sling. did quite some catching up with my tan lady. hope i was there for you more. pls rmbr, i am HERE. right here hokay!!!

totally enjoyed the gathering. despite the (usual) permanent segregation between the sexes, i love this class of mine!!! i dunno when's the next time we guys will meet again but it is as good as it lasts. i am just glad our paths ever crossed..

if i've mentioned, i am saying it again
- you guys are the ones who keep life in AJC going.