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claire
20 yrs old 9th dec cps.nygh.njcian.nus life sci drama fan outdoor gal beginner chef looking for a goal in life things i wanna do
steamboat go for a spin ride the singapore flyer a night stay in a local hotel dress up my hamsters wardrobe makeover Tagboard
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graceshuning oac07-08 waikit ben hong mervyn jessie terence kaiting shangfei xiuwen ailin xiangjun kah han hsiangwei rachel nicole bernice jia yin doris yini archives
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i finally have time to put the photos into a collage :) photos of my nepal trip last dec. ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME!  City (kathmandu) covered with smog....  Buy and sell...in Nepal. Everyone seems to be selling stuff. Whos buying them then? I definitely dont dare to eat the street food.. :X  Tourist attraction in the city: Dubar square (tourist need to pay money to step into the square)  Another tourist attraction: Monkey temple  The start of the mountain adventure. YaY!!! worthwhile experience.  Things we do when we are slacking in the teahouses. Playing UNO cards is our favourite pastime in Nepal. Family bonding session.  Beautiful sceneries as we trek for 7 days along a part of the Himalayan range. (We didnt bathe for 7 days. Eew..)  Family photos taken along the way.  游山玩水(you2 shan1 wan2 shui3)  The event for the last day in the city outskirts. River rafting. I LOVE IT! Picnic lunch by the river. yum yum :P That kindof sums up my adventure in Nepal. Totally fabulous. Anyone interested to go there? -posted @ 3.54pm i think i bruised 'math teacher' 's ego this morning. lol + i taught two colleagues about excel today. i feel proud of myself :) + 'math teacher' not in office this afternoon+ today is friday= GOOD DAY -posted @ 4.03pm Recent events. Overdue photos.   We wrapped all these flowers till 11pm...  Proud of our own master pieces :) i have wonderful colleagues.... - posted @ 11.18pm i feel good. :) because i finish my work. yays:) i think i have learn much from my current job. thats a good sign= change for the better :) i hope things goes on smoothly so that work wont be stressful...anyway last saturday, i met up with xj and gang. we went party world ktv!!!! yay.. haven sang for a long time.. the company was great too.. i love being around with the gang :) the money was definitely well spent. we celebrated xiuwen's birthday too. i hope she was really surprised by the birthday surprise. i wanna go kboxing again!!!! anyone interested? - posted @ 9.15am I am so damn pissed and irritated with myself. i feel uber stupid and helpless now. RARARA!!!! i stayed up late to finish my work. my boss told me to edit. i took a whole morning to edit the thing. but i still cant finish it because i dont know how to do it. RA!!!!!! and i have no one to ask..... except my boss... but he is constantly busy talking to others. my initial intention of finishing my work before the weekends will be ruined. i hate leaving things half done. Urgh!!!!! this sucs big time. - feeling pissed, posted @ 3.48pm brain dead. haha.. i slept at 5am this morning. worked from 10pm last night... i feel great though.. it must be due to the coffee that i drank, and the usual adrenaline rush that comes with the lack of sleep. i bet i'm going to zonk out later. i still have to attend a 2hr meeting later.. crap i am looking forward to the pizza dinner tonight but not the cleaning of the house. :) - posted @ 9.13pm Weird. all i can say about today is that awkward silence is just totally weird. i dont like it at all. i think i mentioned that before. i am excited about the upcoming party ktv activity :) i hope they have new updates. that would be great. i think i have potential to be a workaholic. i am feeling the stress from work. and i cant believe i had to bring work home today. i would probably have to stay up to finish them tonight. i hope i can finish them real soon. wish me luck.. -posted @ 9.33pm right now, i am typing and eating honey stars at the same time. yum yum. finally a change in breakfast menu. have been making myself follow the cereal and oats breakfst everyday. got quite sick of it. i'm not sure if this is gonna make me lose weight. i certainly hope so. pat's leaving this sat, so the house will be vacant for 2 weeks at least. i will be returning to my house to become a princess again..haha(i love the feeling of being served, who doesnt?) i cant wait to go home, to spend more time with my comfy bed and my family. lol:D i realise that i have been ranting a lot about my new job or 'math teacher'. just to clear things up: i really dont hate him. he's a nice teacher, always willing to impart his knowledge. and i dont hate my job. in fact i think i'm quite blessed to be able to get a job that teaches me new things in the time of recession. the rantings are just my way of destressing. Things arent as negative as they seem.. anyway, there are a few things i aim to achieve this holiday: 1) teach pat chinese. 2) learn a language.(i think i'm gonna enrol in a jap course at a cc with pat when she returns.we can practise speaking jap to each other.) 3) exercise (lose weight!!!!!!) 4) read more books 5) settle the uni application stuff (read up on it) 6) try to stop worrying over every single thing (i swear that that's gonna drive me mad someday. wont be surprised if i end up in IMH one day..) sounds like a great list..but i wonder how many of them will be fulfilled..haha(thats the thing about resolutions isnt it, no one actually fulfills them right?) back to work.. -posted @8.35am My valentine's day was spent with my best buddies:) i started my v-day morning by spending it at macritchie reservoir with char, learning about the interesting flora and fauna. we were lucky to be able to spot several pretty birds. it was a great trip. i love the nature. :) and then later in the afternoon..... i met up with carrot, ailin, and shuning for a cooking session at my house. but i think i was a little too harsh when i was telling ailin and carrot how to cook. oops, sorry. i really didnt mean it. the food was good though. and i manage to learn a new potato dish from shuning. simple yet delicious. i received many things for this valentine's day too, thanks to the nice colleagues i have in office now. i feel loved. thanks everyone for making my v-day a special one :)  - posted @ 5.49pm
Overdue photos    a lot of things has happened over these two days. some are pleasant, while others allow me to look at things in another perspective. yesterday i spent most of my day outside. 'math teacher' asked me to join them in the receeing of venues for some upcoming event. the first stop was changi airport hotel: crowne plaza. it was really beautiful. amazing. it seems that everyone was convinced to have the event at the hotel. but we still had to visit the other venues, just to make sure that was the best choice. asian civilization museum was one of the choices too, and that reminded me of my guiding days(when we had to plan amazing races, the recees) in fact we've used it as one of the amazing race stations(shuning, do u rmb that?)... we didnt visit all the venues as planned because 'math teacher' had already decided on crowne plaza in the first place. so i felt like i wasted my time visiting other venues. the recee was enjoyable because there was colleague 'F' around to talk to. i always feel comfortable talking to her. she's really nice and the best part of it is that we do not have generation gap because she's 22 years old:) i hope that the westerners will feel that the hotel is worth the travelling time... the easteners will be really glad though.. later in the day, we went to buy flowers for valentine's day. it was for a fundraising event. we also had to pick up 100 boxes of cookies. thank goodness colleague 'L' gave us a lift back to office. he's a da hao ren too :) it was rather late when we returned to the office. we had to wrap many bouquets of flowers for the fundraising event today. having no experience in wrapping flowers, it was really difficult at the start. but practice makes progress, so we got better and better at it. and i had lots of fun working with my colleagues. the four of us worked till 11pm. we were starving, luckily 'math teacher' gave us money to order pizza. ha a treat from him. but i just had pizza for lunch.. i enjoyed the flower wrapping session a lot, even though it was a rather stressful period( we had to make our bouquet look like it's worth the money. it's very expensive. but it's for charity:)) would you pay $70 for a bouquet of 6 roses? someone just did. $70 is probably peanuts to him though. when i reached home, i went to bed immediately after bathing. i was too tired to eat. and this morning, i was busy with the preparation for the fundraising event. so i didnt have time to eat at all. lunch was a muffin. and hot milo. i had two scoops of icecream and a box of cookies too. too much sweet things. yucks. i think i got quite q lot of presents this valentine's day. i truly appreciate the things i receive. i am feeling rather happy right now, so i shant spoil my mood by blogging about the stuff that irritated me this morning. all i can say is that ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. i shall post the photo of my presents next time :) i feel loved. happy advance valentine's day to everyone. :) <3 conclusion: yesterday was the best day in office (at least till now) -posted @ 5.21pm i know CNY ended already, but i really love this photo:) (try guessing why i like this photo so much. lol)  i love my cousins :)
Outing with sec4 classmates :)  i am exploited. right now. not by my boss but by a satellite dish. i am not even in her department, no relation at all. ra.. and the worse part of this is that she claims the credit while i do the work. i think i'm too kind hearted. oh by the way, breaking dawn wasnt worth my beauty sleep. i think my expectations were too high. i was too imaginative. sleeping at 2am because of the book is not worth it. not at all. - posted @ 3.20pm 'In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.' - Shunryu Suzuki i deserve a pat on my back. i finished two books on presentations. right now i have to think of how to incorporate the stuff that i just learnt into my 'math teacher' slides. 2 books down, 1 more to go.. and 1 more book on excel coming soon.... i think i am enjoying this. yays. i truly mean it :) paid to read, not a bad thing right? - blogging in office @ 2.54pm i haven't been blogging lately because i am busy at work. it's a transitional period. from a brainless job to one that requires my brain to work. i just finished the readings that my 'math teacher' emailed to me. its about the company's background. not bad. still digestible. (there's more coming soon though) :X and then he passed me 3 books to read. they are about presentation skills, eg. how to make your powerpoint presentations more engaging and interesting. it is quite useful, so i dont mind reading it. hopefully it will help me in my future presentations. the bad thing about this is that he wants me to improve on his already improved slides. so right now, i need a lot of creative juices. i think this is going to turn out better and more interesting than i expected. (assuming that i have creativity) please let my life change for the better:) i hope i have time to read eclipse and breaking dawn. i love edward cullen. but i dont have time to think about him :( p.s. : today is the last day of chinese new year. i'm sure this year will pass soon, before you know it, it will be chinese new year again. i wonder how my future will be changed by the events that happen this year. i am feeling hopeful :) [for a start, i am reading more books now.] - busy reading, blogging in office @ 3.20pm i am beat. dead beat. the aircon in the office really makes me feel like sleeping. zzz. i need a good night sleep, free from dreams, nightmares, fire engine siren's, mrt tracks sound, most importantly my alarm clock. i dont think i am making sense already. currently, i am practising typing properly. i mean following the correct way of typing, putting my 10 fingers to use. and i need to increase my typing speed too. bored to tears T_T posted @ 4.20pm i am not sure if this is a piece of good or bad news. to me, it's just scary news. yesterday, the hr manager talked to me regarding the extension of my temp contract for another two months. she told me that currently, she pays the job agent $10 dollars an hour, and the agent pays me $6.50 an hour. so it would be a win-win situation if she pays me directly instead. tell me, should i be happy to know that the agent is earning easy money? i was quite pleased with the extension of the contract though... until... ....i saw the email from my new boss.(wait a sec, did i mention before that my new boss looks like mr lum(oh and i heard mr lum left nj already), happens to be 35 yrs old this year and is a friendly person but kou3 hua1 hua1.) the hr manager showed it to me and i was like OMG. the list of my new duties look like greek to me. definitely not what i expected, and absolutely no brainless work to be done at all. there were some parts of the email that i dont really understand, so the hr manager told me that my new boss will speak to me later.... so i went back to my seat, having a bad feeling about the coming two months. and then my new boss came and asked me to go to his office. (lets label him as 'math teacher') first thing i discovered through my conversation with him was that he was an ex-NJcian, who studied in the old campus,where NYGH is currently located at. as he explained my jobscope in detail, i totally freaked out.T__T i realised that there is no one in the office who has exactly the same job scope as me. there is no one to ask other than him. and i will be working with him most of the time. ................... if that's not scary enough, there's more... he said that he will guide me along. eg. some report or research papers thing... he said "don't worry, after you finish, i will check through it and go through it with you. you can offer suggestions and opinions too." (at this point in time, i thought he sounded like my father, going through my homework with me :X) he ended the conversation with this.." it should not be a problem for NJcian. btw do you want me to send you some documents to read so that you have some background knowledge?" could i say no to that? of course i had to look interested and say "yes, sure, why not". i thought this was the end. i left his office. returned to my seat. continued with my brainless work. and then he came to look for me again. this time, he had two books with him. the books looked really boring, especially to claire(who totally dislikes reading books, average number of books she reads a year is 3?) he said "you can read through these two books too. i think they are quite useful. you can pick out some useful tools from the book and share them with me." could i reject his offer? obviously not. but i dont know why he didnt leave the books on my table though. maybe my facial expressions betrayed me. right after he returned to his office, i immediately packed my belongings and headed for home. no way am i staying in the office for another 1 minute. i dont want him to give me anymore things to read. the whole story took place between 5.00 to 6.00pm. That must be the worse hour of my working life. a nightmare. He is really a true red NJcian. no doubts about that man. a workaholic, a mugger in the past i presume. i hope my work wouldnt be as scary as it looks. the main problem is that his expectations of me( an NJcian) are too high and i have too little confidence in myself. should i look forward to whatever that lies ahead? i hope so. i hope i can live up to his expectations.. :X i am going to enjoy my last few days of brainless work. -spooked out, blogging in office @ 1.53pm this is bad. i dont feel well at all. :X the horrible thing is that i am not seriously ill enough to go see a doctor and get a MC to excuse myself from work. neither am i well enough to work all day..and sadly bosses do not accept parent's letter(unlike school) :( what am i going to do? why am i stuck in this dilemma? grr.. i think i can scare off everyone with my scary, dreadful look now. >< no wonder no one seems to need my help today. haha.. i feel horrible.. - trying to keep myself alive, posted @ 2.07pm oh my goodness, i just realised i forgot to blog about something really stupid that happened to me. ok make that two stupid things that happened to me. no. 1 during oac dinner, as i was walking to the table to get some raw food, i tripped. luckily i didnt fall. however, something even worse happened. my slipper DIED on me. the strap came off. what a GREAT timing. i had to limp back to my table and pretend to look alright. even though i was damn pissed off by my wonderful pair of slippers. RA! those who knew were really amused and sue ann kept on laughing at my 'GOOD LUCK'... luckily, my night was saved thanks to the GIANT supermarket that was just next door. so i managed to buy a pair of decent looking slippers. come to think of it, it seems that my footwear always spoil when i am out with the oacians. dreads :X no.2 ever since i received my first pay, i kept wondering why the amount deposited into my account was more than what i calculated. eventually, i convinced myself that the company was being nice, so they decided to give me more money. and then a few minutes ago, i cracked the case. the case of the 'extra money'. i realised i miscalculated the total number of hours and then i copied blindly onto the other timesheets so everything was wrong. omg. and so the mystery is solved, thanks to Claire.. -.- -blogging in office @ 11.08am last night's dinner was good. the food was ok, not really fantastic. i dont think everyone was really full and i'm sure we didnt eat till it was worth $20 dollars. many of us got sick of cooking and ended up talking most of the time. most of the food had similar taste(buttery flavour) because of the amount of butter we smeared on the pan to prevent the aluminium foil from turning black. it was kind of awkward at the start. kah han, grace and i were chatting. and then two unknown seniors walked towards us, asking for shu wei. since shu wei went to pick the rest up, they sat down and tried striking a conversation with us instead. one of them was 24 years old, and the other was 31 years old. i think there is a generation gap, so in between there were some awkward silences. just as we expected, many people were late. as time passed, there were more and more strangers joining us. there was a bunch from 03-04 batch i guess. and then greg's batch was there too. although there was a self introduction at the start of the dinner, i didnt manage to remember the names at all. there were 27 of us in total and everyone was in his or her own clique, so we didnt really mixed around with the seniors. after the dinner, we(kah han, grace, me, meiyan, the sweet couple, sue ann) went to shu wei's house. her parents were really hospitable and her house is spotless. we talked and played cards. it was fun. i think that that was the best part of yesterday's dinner event. the second thing i liked most about the dinner was that kevin was not emoing. haha he was sharing with us gossips. i am really surprised that he knows that much about the people in school. it was kind of weird not seeing kevin together with mervyn though... on the whole, the dinner was not bad. :) ps: to any oacians that happen to see this: lets have a potluck session at someone's house. we can play cards, chat and hopefully play mahjong. haha posted @ 6.16 pm |