Went to pay respects to my ah gong at the columbarium ytd with my parents. And it was my first time there. The moment i stepped out of dad's car onto the columbarium grounds, my heart felt heavy as though it weighed a hundred tons. Forgot how long it was since i saw ah gong's picture. And once in a while my aunts would tell me how much he used to like carrying me on his shoulders around. And yeah, i actualli do have an impression of that. =)) Supposedly there was a picture of ah gong carrying me on his shoulders when we went to the zoo. But no one knows where that picture went to after we moved house. It was only then did i realize how much that picture means to me. When time fades, all u're left with is a picture which holds the fond memories. And yet i don't have any of those pictures.
I guess it must be the smoke that made me rolled a tear down my cheeks. And while i was exploring the place, i saw pictures of very very young children. Some were just less than 4 years old and there was one who was only almost a year old. It made me wondered how heart wrenching was it for their family. I mean, they were only children. I was seriously getting too emotional that i had to move away from my parents and try to control myself from bursting into tears. And it didn't help much when a lady from another family, who was also paying their respects, started to cry and sniff loudly.
On a lighter note, i discovered my origins. I am a true blue
. My ah gong was from Canton, China. It just that we speak Teochew. Teochew is actualli a language, i.e. dialect. That means im not a Teochew, but i speak Teochew. Okay if u still don't get wad i trying to say here, it's okay, cos i took 21 years to realize that. And i guess it's high time for me to pick up Cantonese from my mum? Cos she speaks super fluent Cantonese. How cool is that? Ha.
Neway, did anyone watch or read the news recently about the little baby girl who survived the horrific accident that killed the rest of her family? Her doctor-in-charge actualli speculated that an adult protected her during that accident and it minimized that impact on the baby girl. So i guess it's either her mum or grandma. The papers said it was heart breaking to lose all 4 family members in just one night. I totally agree with that. But come to think of it, her mum/grandma had actualli exchanged their lives to protect the baby girl. Sacrificing your life for the one u love dearly, isn't it the greatest love of all? That's why i strongly feel that baby girl should live her life to her fullest when she grows up, cos it would make their sacrifices a meaningful one.
Yet again, it's just a thin line between life and death. As u grow older, your life expectancy just keeps getting shorter and shorter. And it seems that im wasting my life away cos im still going round in circles. No point looking back at the footsteps which i'd left behind cos it doesn't help at all. Time to seriously get alive and move on. Crying over spilled milk never helps. Just go get a freaking mop and clean up lah, DUH. But somehow im getting more and more depressed as i grow older. Haix.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
UPDATES!!
MY LITTLE PRICK'S POP FROM BMT, PULAU TEKONG (11/3/07)The ground was already wet when we arrived at Pulau Tekong. Thanks to the on and off 'tap' from the sky above.
Right markers taking their positions.
Whoot. Marching into the parade square.
And then it started raining, again. Damn big rain pls.
Rain. Rain. Rain. U cun run off after u've entered the parade square. Poor boys.
Oooooh. I love march pass-es.
Eh. My little prick is inside there. Go figure out.
They jogged all the way back later on.
Say HI to my little prick after the 'putting-on-the-cap' gesture by my mum. He's like all soaked lah.
WEE. The cap throwing ceremony.
He has a funny face like me, dun u think so?
Me and my little prick. Our arms look like the same eh? HA.
I guess my family has a habit of not opening their eyes when taking pics? Oops.
Blur pic of little prick and his signature grin.
Im so proud of him! =))
Oh well. After his POP, little prick got 2-weeks off and rotted at home and made lots of noise and watched his animae and hung out with his pig frens and slept like a log bla bla bla. He's right now 'held in captivity' somewhere in the Boon Lay area. Go figure out his unit posting if u can. HA.
'SUPER RAINY' SENTOSA TRIP (19/3/07)
My first EMO pic of the day - The raindrops that didn't fall onto my shoulders.
Uh. This angle gives a more emo-ier feel, i guess.
Uh oh. Tofu caught me in action. Oops.
This is how big the rain was.
Read 'EMO', thank you.
Im realli not a pervert, serious pls.
Candid shot - When boredom strikes.
Yap i know. Boredom drives us crazy sometimes.
K lah, here's a decent pic yeah.
And so it continued to rain like it hasn't rained for years. So me and Tofu decided to pose for each other to take emo pics. Uh, we were trying to act emo lah. Cos it was so damn funny doing it while the rest stared at us like siao ppl. Ha.
Tofu: 'Oh man. When is the stupid rain gonna stop uh???'
Me: 'HUR HUR HUR. I hope it'll rained somemore so i dun have to strip.'
Oh god. Guess wad i saw?
A 'shu nu' looking Tofu!! HAHAHA!!
Tofu likes to take half of my face everytime. HA! Check out yapmin and shirl in the background.
Okay here's a decent pic of me and Tofu after several attempts.
Sorry my arm's damn extra over here.
The blackies at random.
When the boredom takes u down.
Me ain't bored. U didn't know how happy i was playing with this ball. (this grabbing action went on for the entire day till we went home)
Nobody stops me from playing ball! Ha.
Oh great. Did the sentosa ppl ask me to stop fooling around with the ball in public?
So that's for the pre-getting into the waters pics.
Sorry didn't take anymore cos was busy trying to:
decide whether to play in the rain while hiding under the pathetic shelter
debate whether to dirty my ground sheet or not
watch someone gobble a burger down in 5 mins' time (HA!)
run out in the rain into the waters
learn swimming like siao
ask Tofu to stop swimming infront of me
ask Jenny to stop kicking me while she tries to float
scream like a girl when i stepped onto the hairy hairy stuff underwaters
try to float with help of the volleyball
play volleyball inexchange for blueblacks
run and pick up volleyballs that went somewhere else other than the designated area
run back into the waters again
ask Jenny to spare me from the sand-throwing craze
stare at Tofu and Sinee's frens
sit on the rock and emo
SEE? Was very busy okay? HAHA. Then we rolled back to vivo, jaywalked and went on a bus ride to Suntec. Walked hungrily into Carrefour and picked up tons of sushi but thank god Tofu stopped us from mass-buying sushi. So we headed to the foodcourt instead. Woo~ Saw a SUPER GORGEOUS ANG MOH and continued to stare and drool at him till he left. He's HOT-er than my that fat ang moh boss pls. Oh well. Then we walked around aimlessly as usual before heading to Raffles City to get doughnuts. After that walked further down to Mac to eat and drink and nua on the table.
Here's the pic!
Okay that's me nua-ing.
Then we walked back to an area outside Raffles City to sit and chat. Yeah. Continuation of the NAME game, i'll call it. HA. Cun believe the all sorts of answers we actualli came up with. It was good entertainment though!
Talking about work, i spend my days trying to:
keep myself awake by snacking all the way. Mum's gotta stock up more food of hers soon i guess. OOPS.
cross my fingers that ppl will stop coming over to my desk and piling lots of work on it.
pray so hard for the freaking copier to breakdown soon.
listen to boss's sexy British accent. It's became a pleasure each day lah.
Alright, better go to bed now. *YAWNS*
p.s. i miss u. =))
Ron finished grumbling at
1:48 AM
Saturday, March 15, 2008
MY FIRST WEEK
Wheet. Im back ppl. HA. I guessed i've sort of settled down in my new job. It's a German company which sells building materials. And the boss's BRITISH! Uh, stop drooling pls. He's like those ugly angmohs with a freaking big pot belly (mine's smaller pls). The only sexy thing would be his British accent? HAHA. The design of the office is rather old and the toilet (all the way at the back) feels haunted. Not much staff working in the office and that's like a good thing eh? Less ppl working in office spells minimal office politics. The office ppl are mostly all married with kids and all i see are Blanglas plus China workers everywhere. There's seriously no eye candies pls so yeah, i can like fully concentrate on my job ya?
Let me intro the office staff:
We have a secretary who looks very kiam pa and her laughter sounds like some witch. But she's damn funny pls. Ytd she was talking in Hokkien to my mum and then when she answered the phone call, her accent became so freaking British pls. I was like WAH SEH. Then there's this M'sian woman who mumbles to herself when she's so stressed out and has a irritating habit of knocking her fingers on my cubicle while she's on the phone. I personally feel she's as cartoon as E*I*Y lah. Oh ya, she actualli dashed out of the office the other day when it was 6pm sharp. Seriously chiong out one okay. And a Malay woman who's realli nice and takes realli good care of me. For once im not racist anymore yeah? HA. Then there's the two uncles who deals with sales and coordination of orders and a xiao bai lian looking guy who went for reservist the 2nd day i went to work. And i made frens with this Filippino woman who's a QC & QA officer. Relax Jenny, she's a nice Filippino lah. Haha.
Did i mention that the angmoh boss works as when he likes? Some days he oni appears in the morning then after lunch we didn't see him anymore. Guess he went home for afternoon nap or something and didn't return. And he didn't come in for work ytd as well. Good life uh boss? Duh. Neway there's a bung working in my mum's office
can u believe it? I almost tore the purchase orders which i was filing when i saw her walking into the office. She's doing sales and apparently she's rather on very good terms with my mum. The office staff actualli asked my mum to sit on the bung's laps just this thur while we were eating KFC. I almost choked on my chicken upon hearing that.
Talking abt workload, i've been working hard okay. Sleep like not more than 5 hours everyday. Got no time to slack lah. Sian. Not go there shake leg and be mummy's girl. Have been doing tons of filling, printing and doing the products catalogue for the whole of this week. Haven touch accounting yet lah. Start from the very basic ppl, the basic. Though i hope the copier will be on smoke and spoil ASAP, cos i hate that UltraSupply photocopy smell rmb?
Okay enough of me grumbling abt work, i finally met up with my clique ppl! HA.
Monday i took half day and we went down to NUH to pass up our MP report. Su-su was very happy with our report i would say and she went on promoting dietetics to us when she heard that we wun be going into that line. Scary pls. And it kept me thinking about my choice of study the entire day. And we finally had steamboat together! Ate till we wna burst where i had 2 bowls of rice and steamboat stuff, me forcing Tofu to eat more rice by scooping a freaking big 2nd helping of rice for her, Jenny asking me not to irritate her as she felt like puking alr, me watching Sin Ee as she swallowed the entire bowl of sticky looking mee sua, Yapmin doing the cooking of the perfect egg and kiapping lots of food for Shirl. And lastly, watching Shirl putting whatever that was on her plate into her mouth.
It was raining as we had steamboat. Nice right? HA. After dinner we went in search of the ice cream man but he ran home cos of the rain i guess. I was grumbling abt his absence all the way. We then headed to Bedok library where me and Jenny nua-ed on the sofa while the rest went to look at books. After that we walked to Watsons as Tofu wanted to buy her stuff. Stood outside Cheers and tried to decide if we wanted ice cream from there till the shop assistant stared at us. In the end, we ended up in Mac. Oh ya, thanks to Yapmin for your muffins! I finished everythg okay. It was a fun-filled day and Sentosa + Suntec soon ppl!! Yeah. =))
Tuesday was my brother's POP so me and my mum took half day and went all the way from Tuas to Pulau Tekong. It rained throughout the journey pls. Duh. Pictures are with my mum so i'll do another post for it when i get those pics like next week?
Neway, is it me or the weather at Tuas weird? I mean other than the rain and stop and rain and stop thingy? Ytd noon when we went out to buy lunch i swear it was like sorching HOT till i had to squint my eyes while crossing the roads. Then in the late afternoon it started raining as if it hasn't rained for weeks. I felt like im in two different countries seriously. U noe wad i think of such extremities in weather means?
END OF THE WORLD IS COMING. HURRY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES PPL!!! Okok im just trying to be funny. Oops. Shall add in one more thing to my list of things to do before i die: Go visit the polar bears before they go extinct. Heh.
RESULTS WERE OUT! This sem was my best cos all my grades were B+s, Bs but a freaking C for ND. Gim Gim u killed us all with that horrible 40% paper eh? Though my GPA still was as low, i guess i did work super hard for this sem. Thanks to
you who motivated me to mug so hard. I wun forget how u kept on repeating the FSM formulas and made sure they went into my head while i wanted to doze off. And the attempts to study tog which didn't work out that well. HA. =))
Btw, did anyone watch Hell's Kitchen last night? WOO~ Heather won! Haha. But Virgina's still hot lah. Oh well. And im like freaking tempted to go visit Gordon Ramsay's first restaurant in London. Add that into my list of things to do before i die oso pls.
Check out his website here:
http://www.gordonramsay.com/Before i forget, my HongKong trip is postponed! Stupid flu virus. Maybe someone should like add some disinfectant into the dark clouds hovering over HongKong and shower them with blessings BIG TIME. Haix. Till next time~
p.s. Sorry if my post didn't seem quite connnected. Too long never blog alr lah that's why wna cramp everythg tog. Oops.
Ron finished grumbling at
7:02 PM
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
IM SO DAMN LUCKY
Yeah. I just had my talk with my mum. And guess wad??! I'll be working at her workplace starting this fri!!!!!!!!!! Uh, am not gonna start tml cos i had to go market with aunt to help carry stuffs. But heng lah, cos im not mentally prepared yet. The pay is quite low though, $4.50/hr. But OTs for sure cos my mum works OT like every single day and she said i must be there to pei her. Oh ya, there will be free transport to and fro, free meals which mum said she'll provide for me and a hopefully wonderful experience and eye-opener to see wad accounting is like, before i fall head over heels into it this July. Sounds good eh? *YEAH BABY*
And i cun believe how freaking lucky i am considering my TOOT-ed job interview today. Shld have talked to my mum earlier right? HAHA. But she didn't noe i was looking for a job lah. Bleah. And if im even luckier enough, hope my mum can get tix for us to go Hong Kong for the short trip. Yes, just me and my mum. Exploring Hong Kong on our way. Free and Easy. My brother cun escape out of this country which he's currently serving and dad doesn't have tons of leave to take. So ya. It's just gonna be me and my mum. If she can get the tix i'll be away during the 17th March week ba. If not, i'll be doing OT Mon-Fri.
AHHHHHHHHHH. Im so freaking lucky and excited lah. 4D or TOTO anyone?
Oh btw dad didn't say much abt my job interview crap except tt i shld slowly find a job and he doesn't noe abt the skirt thingy cos my ah mah was busy watching tv. But the one thing tt still haunts me was tt my ah mah called like practically everyone and announced to them abt the skirt thingy during my job interview. Like wad the TOOT. And she still laughed until i cun see her eyes while describing the entire incident lah. DUHHHH. But it's been a while since i've seen her LOL-ing this way. Ah, to hell with my pride lah. =\
Ron finished grumbling at
11:47 PM
THE JOB INTERVIEW
Woke up this morning with a headache. Guess im alr not used to waking up in the mornings. HA. Had a few so not connected dreams. Which explains my worries for the kind of job/life i'll have in the future.
Dream scene No. 1: The marathon cum alot of ppl running in a race.Location: Some school i think.
Ppl involved: My clique ppl, those ppl running whom i din see their faces clearly and myself.
Scenario: I dreamt tt i saw alot of ppl running and they wore number tags. They were running in a school scenario. I was walking then halfway i decided to join in to run too (yeah right this kind of thing doesn't happen to me in real life lah, im such a pig). So yeah i just kept running and running, until i U-turned and continue to run like siao. Funny thing was at tt U-turn, my clique ppl were sitting on a wooden bench. And Jenny said somethg to me like 'Eh run faster leh, we're all waiting for u.' HAHA. But seriously, in my sleep i could feel the 'run-till-im-breathless' sensation. Hmmmm...tt's not a very good sign eh?
Dream scene No. 2: Going to a job interview for SAFLocation: An officer's office
Ppl involved: An indian female officer and myself
Scenario: I entered this office, sat down and got ready for the job interview. Then, i looked up to see who's the interviewer in army uniform. AND GUESS WAD? I read her nametag and OMG, she was my sec sch fren who dropped out of sch in sec 2. I rmb i was very close to her and her mama knows me too. And yes, i still do rmb her name, Jassica R.J. HA. We ended up catching up with each other and i cun rmb if i got the job or not.
Dream scene No. 3: Me and XXX walking around a neighbourhood.Location: Some neighbourhood.
Ppl involved: Me and XXX.
Scenario: I guess me and XXX got together somehow and we were walking around in the neighbourhood. And she was hugging me by my waist while we walked and she kept smiling at me whenever i turned over to look at her. Erm, cun rmb how we managed to continue walking with her in tt pose. But come on, it's so damn funny to dream of me and XXX together. Cos ppl got bf alr pls. HAHA. I guess she smiled too much to me during the time in sch alr. Btw, if u're guessing who this XXX is, HA, she's not in our caregroup lah. Dun think too much okay ppl. -.-
So, are there any takers who cares to explain to me wth all those dreams were abt? DUH.
Okay back to reality, so i woke up early to go for this job interview at YYY company. The day didn't started well alr since i had a headache. And it didn't help much when the roti prata man sold me cao ta roti pratas for brunch. TOOT u lah u roti prata man. And while i was making my hair in the toilet it started to rain. WTH seriously. The rain became a POUR. There u go, my mood went right down into the drain. It's all a bad sign. BLEURGH.
This isn't the end yet. I wanted to wear my belt and couldn't find it. Searched the cupboard up and down, and in and out. Then i realized most probably my GONG GONG brother took it with him to camp cos he was gonna have this recruits night and had to be in home clothes bla bla bla. Shit lah. So i grabbed his another belt, took a few breaths in and buckled the freaking belt. Yes, my tummy is still as big lah. Like duh.
So i got out of the house feeling like sai and headed to YYY company. It's not very far from my hse though. Good thing was i reached early and bumped into a few pretty girls in uniform. Then they referred me to my interviewer, who's an aunt. HA. I hit the jackpot pls. Im good at seducing aunts. Bleah, just kidding lah. She asked me to fill in this form first and bla bla bla. Okay i'll fast forward to the interviewing part. It felt like a normal conversation until she popped the CSAS question: 'Sharon, pls tell me wad are ur strengths and weaknesses?' I stoned for a while and scenes of Ms Sng's face just flashed across my mind. Scary sia. But tt was manageable lah. Like the. Aren't we all trained and drilled well for job interviews? Thank u Ms Sng! Hur hur.
Okay, i didn't try to seduce the interviewer unless u count the times i made her laugh cos i made funny expressions or sounded silly when i related my past job experiences to her. It was until she asked me if i had any questions to ask her, so i popped the question if i had to wear tt ugly uniform. Alright i didn't have the guts to include the word 'ugly' in it lah. And she said temp staff no need to wear uniform, but just be in formal wear. Then, she asked if im always in pants and if i do wear skirts to school. Like pls read tis aloud
'WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD'. I was tt freaking close to saying something like 'I believe tt my sexual orientation does not affect my work abilities'. So basically im screwed for it lah, she was sort of questionning my sexual orientation uh. The interview ended with her saying tt she cun commit to me now cos there's still other applicants for this brainless job. So if she doesn't call me back in 2 week's time like wad she said, i think this job's a goner. See how nice isz to feel ostracized when u dun conform to how the society wants u to be? BUT WATEVER. This isn't gonna bring me down. Realli.
Neway, if u wna rub salt into my wounds, u shld have came and see how my ah mah reacted when i told her abt the skirt thingy during my job interview. She laugh till i couldn't see her eyes at all. And then she said 'See lah, she asked u tt to test if u're a girl or boy.' Like HELLO? Excuse me lah, tt woman addressed me as 'Sharon', of cos she'd have known tt im a freaking girl right? And my aunt poured a bucket of cold water on me with my wound still burning from the salt treatment when she said 'See lah, ask u to wear skirt u dun wan. Ppl want to employ pretty pretty girly girls wad.' HAIX. A big thanks to the ppl at home pls.
But before i went for the interview, dad was nice enough to tell me things like 'Go try lah, if the job is very complicating then dun wan it. Find somethg tt u're familiar with to work, it'll be easier for u. And job can slowly find, no need to rush.' Awww man. He's the only guy on earth who cares abt me. Eh..like the, cos he's my dad afterall wad. HAHA. Btw, im not gg China with him alr, he's gg alone cos tt's his miao hui event. But he asked if i wanted to take a short break and go somewhere else instead. Muahhahah. I guess my dad's the greatest lah. Alright, i shall make an exception to turn straight if i ever find a guy who's just like my dad. OKAY, IM JUST KIDDING PPL!! Did i make ur eyes popped out? HAHAHA!! But then again, i duno wad he's gonna say after he hears of the job interview crap. AH. I hope he'll just laugh it off instead of brainwashing me to wear skirts. Pui. Neway hope tt my mum has plans for me when i call her tonight. *crosses fingers*
And i think i'll have to continue finding other jobs alr. This is life, i guess.
p.s. If i ever woke up to find tt im a guy, i'll promise to call u up first.WAKE ME UP SOMEBODY.
Ron finished grumbling at
3:50 PM
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
JIA WEI'S 23RD BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Yeah photos were finally here so let's do some blogging:
We had a crazy idea to cook a dinner and make a cake for Mr TAN JIA WEI aka liang ge ren/brother bear/si jia wei. Uh okay, just kidding abt the last nickname there. HA. So yeah, we realli went ahead with our crazy idea after much discussion and bla bla bla.
The celebration.TA DANG! The feast~~
It was realli a spread. And we wanted to finish up all the spaghetti so we ate till we wna puke.
The soup was warm and creamy. WOO~
Nah here's a spoon for u.
JJ and Angeline. The happy 'couple'. Ha. Monica u better hurry come back okay.
Joseph's a good boy who eats all his vege.
See tt HALO above his head? He's a saint for stuffing himself with all the available vege. HA.
The Tiramisu cake made by S.H.E. Erm, it doesn't look tt nice but taste good okay.
Angeline, birthday boy and JJ.
Me: 'Stop patting on my shoulder if not i'll BOX u uh!!'
Er. I duno why they ended up on the bed. OOPS.
Angeline: 'YAY! JJ's finally mine!' Hahahhaah.
Cowie and birthday boy.
Pote: 'When r we gg downstairs to play bball??' *yawns*
Yeah. So at the end of dinner and cooping in Kai Wei's room, we went downstairs to play violent bball and frisbee. Oh ya, we also witnessed how Yan Ning went around carrying ppl up. HA. He's realli strong lah. Better dun make him angry if not i'll end up stuffed in some nearby rubbish bin pls.
Here's a bonus:
Behind the scenes of making the Tiramisu cake.The second wasted mixture tt we had. Check out the clumps eh.
Yay. The third try was a success!
With Cowie, the power manual hand mixer.
Tt's me after a few hours of slp the night before.
See how happy we were to insist on taking pics with the successful mixture.
There u go, with everythg in place.
Soak the biscuits in kopi first and line them up nicely.
Prepare to spread the first layer.
This is how u spread it.
Then add in the fruits. Sorry we used canned fruits cos we budget lah, dinner alr costed a bomb.
Let me do the final spreading.
I couldn't stop spreading till they grabbed the spatula away from me. HA just kidding lah.
Final touch was to sprinkle with cocoa powder.
It's all good. Yeah.
It's realli all good. I love my dimple btw. OOPS.
Cowie's hair almost went into the finished product. HAHA.
Sorry tt we din take any pics of the entire cooking process though. Cos everyone went nuts in the kitchen upon hearing the birthday boy coming up to knock on the door. Ha.
Till next time~
Ron finished grumbling at
11:26 PM
