Sunday, March 21, 2010
Time to do some updates before I either forget or have too much to type...
14 Mar
Met dear at Anchorpoint, we walked around and went to Queensway shopping centre. I got a new pair of shorts haha. Regretted not looking at the pants at G2000 cos I want to get new working pants for the future yeah. We wasted no time and went taking bus to Tiong Bahru for our late lunch... just nice before it started to rain heavily. Cos you know we had no umbrella and there's not shelter from Queensway shopping centre to the bus stop.
We shared double sliced fish soup with rice... cheap and healthy :) After that we walked around Popular cos I wanted to get some supplies but dear didn't want me to buy on impulse haha so I had to sneak back to cck to buy. Spent close to an hour in LotOne's Popular cos I couldn't seem to find the things I wanted. But I did get some of the things I needed to make some cards... yeah continuing with my cardmaking =p
15 Mar
Nothing else. It's the March holidays for the school-going kids. No tuition at night cos tutee had plans. Job searching online and sending resumes the whole day...
17 Mar
Went for an interview at Smith Street, Chinatown - Sales & Marketing Management Trainee. Ok, to be frank I was skeptical about doing sales but yet I think it is fun do be in marketing. So I went ahead... turned out that the managing director who interviewed us(group interview of 3 of us cos scheduling problem) cleared my doubts in that area. However, I have to admit I was not pleasantly surprised to know that their client for one of their projects is National Cancer Centre. I had recently read about NCC outsourcing their "sales & marketing" which is actually acquiring fixed giro donors. So this is what it was all about...
Of the 3 candidates, I was the only degree holder (holding an unrelated degree). One was a fresh graduate from Temasek poly from Tourism & Hospitality and the other had graduated from MDIS whom had a lot of F&B experience.
The journey back home was with the poly grad (I've forgotten her name) cos she stayed in Yew Tee with her brother. She's 21 years old and was a foreign student from Myanmar who had been invited to obtain a PR and so she could stayed on to look for jobs. Her brother had graduated from NUS and is now doing programming. She is of mixed blood, about 4 types. So her features are very prominent. We had tons to talk about on the mrt... it was refreshing for me :)
She told me she will only work for 2 years after which she hopes to further her studies in the US. We ended up talking about work & travel which is really horizon-widening in a short span of time cos I've course mates who worked at theme parks at New Jersey. Nice lor... I told her I would want to take up courses like BA or Acct in future when I had a stable income to upgrade myself.
We both agreed we didn't like the job cos it felt we would be obligated to stay on after the training although the director said there is no contract. Anyway I was offered but I rejected it cos I certainly don't wish to do hard-selling for NCC... I don't know about her but I think she would most likely be offered a job in either IR cos she's holding a very related diploma from the industry.
19 Mar
My 3 lovely cousins came over from Pasir Ris and reached my house at 2pm. We were supposed to have a 2D1N camp but you see, we didn't plan itinerary earlier so we spent the 2 hours rotting at home. Jia Hui was trying to do her JC maths tutorial and Qing Ying was playing maple with Marcus while Jing Hui surfed the net with me.
When we finally decided to go Farmart, it was already about 4.45pm and we chop chop prepared to go out cos the next shuttle was 5.30pm at cck. We managed to board the shuttle bus and reached the place, but sad to say we spent only 20mins and finished walking cos most shops were not opened at that time (already) and it was starting to drizzle so we hopped onto the same shuttle bus back to cck. Spent $1 per person on the shuttle so about $5 went down to the drain haha...
We were hungry by then and had economic bee hoon and mee at Fei Siong. A warm and filing meal cos of the cold weather... we then went up to the Arcade to watch people play. We chanced upon the photo-hunting machine and got a free play leh... must be someone hit twice with the card be. Many new machines since the last time I've been to an arcade myself. Sigh... gone were the days - I could still remember Bong, Kt and Wx competing on the drum machine. And maybe I do miss challenging each other on the Daytona. Oh and playing photo-hunting with Jing Xi etc and the Bp gang too.
We went home around 7pm... very fast right haha. My mum already prepared fried rice during lunch and it was in the rice cooker all day. My dad came home not long after and we all took turns to bathe and then had dinner together. Then we slacked around playing cards etc. Then we watched Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief on the laptop (connected to the big TV screen) in the living room. All of us were spread on the floor much like chalet or sorts...
Movie ended around 12.30am and we went to bed. The 3 girls had my bedroom while I slept in the study room. Cos I didn't want to squeeze and I'm not used to sleeping in air con, especially on an already cooling night.
20 Mar
Sheryl(friend I've made during last SIA interview) smsed me the night before asking if I would be going today for the interview. She wasn't so sure yet... and I told her I'm not going already. Turned out she smsed me in the morning she didn't go as well le. Sigh, all of us wannabes-no-more.
Anyway, cos it was already decided we would be going to the zoo today so we went ahead already the weather didn't seem fine. Should have listened to my plan of heeding the weather forecast - Plan A (no rain): Zoo, Plan B (rain) : Science Centre & Snow City.
Geez, at least now we know next time heed the weather forecast!
This was my visit to the zoo within 2 months...haha so I'm only uploading pics showing people. Serene & Leon joined us for the zoo trip as well. Apparently my cousins were either not used to taking pictures or didn't like taking pictures. Most of the pics I took were candid shots. Thus, hardly any pics with me - me being the photographer =p
Labels: Dear, Family, Interviews, Zoo
It was a love story @ 16:47
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
My dear friends of nine years, and this year is the tenth year. We went to the zoo yesterday as a gathering, a birthday celebration and a farewell outing. I enjoyed hanging out with the gang like this because we seem to travel back to sec sch days where we play all day. Took lotsa pictures but I only appear in a small fraction of them. And haha I only uploaded those with me in them on this entry lol.
I think this was the only group-minus-ty photo we took that day =p
Taken at the White Tiger enclosure with the girls. How come sg zoo doesn't have the normal orange tigers ah? Haha. Then soon after we went to the Splash Safari animal show and sat on the steps cos it was packed already at 1040 which started at 11am.
Taken on the tram with Yixian and Ah Meng. We were on our way to the next animal show - Elephants of Asia. Yixian rarely smile till so wide one leh... but the Ah Meng really like to act cool. This pic odd lehhaha...cos I'm smiling happily but he's so cool =|
After the show, we decided to finish walking around the Wild Africa area, Cat Country there
before heading to Kidzworld for our lunch. Bong and I were enjoying the air con blowing onto our faces at the lion glass viewing gallery? Forgot where liao la...
We took this beside the real giant tortoise with the fake giant tortoise haha. After Reptile Garden and Fragile Forest, we headed to Kidzworld KFC for lunch. I think this must be the most profitting KFC outlet on the island cos total monopoly in the zoo leh.
Not forgetting to take pictures around the kiddy stuffs -- tootootrain and the animal merry-go-where. I cannot take full body photos on my side view la, see my spare tyre... is not 3-layer meat lor is like 5-layer meat la!
Kangtai left for his dragonboat and the rest of us went to the dock a 3-mins walk from the Kidzworld. The boat guide helped every group to take photo and I shall applaude him for his initiative haha... we got his help again to take a photo of us on the dock.
We sent Yixian to the entrance after that cos she had to go give tuition. The rest of us accompanied me back to Kidzworld to see the giant rabbit...and we wasted a lot of time while Tusen Yung waiting poor-thingly at Causeway Point for us. Cos the tram wentone two big rounds at 20km/h and we made a detour to the souvenir shop to get a keepsake cum farewell gift for Bong. Somemore we stupidly waited for taxi at the taxi drop-off stand =.=" oops!
We finally made our way to Causeway Point and dear metme us :) there just nice when we arrived haha. Good timing. We Gelare for desserts and chat chat to decide what to do next... But cos they couldn't make up their mind, dear and I decided to split and meet up with them later. So Fu and I went to walk around shop shop...and we i mean he bought a red long sleeve shirt at John Little. It's good cos 20% storewide discount and he looks good in it too ^^
Yixian and Kangtai (yes they did) came back to find us leh and the bunch of us had dinner at Crystal Jade kitchen. Yummy, pig liver + sliced fish congee~ but I think next time don't order those set A set B cos I think not worth ba. Total spent about $52 in total the whole day.
PS: Ah Bong will be taking tonight flight for his exchange. We promise to take a group photo when Bong returned in half a year's time cos we didn't manage to take it with Tsuen Yung. Remember to being back pressies for us from Europe ah geez.
We took this beside the real giant tortoise with the fake giant tortoise haha. After Reptile Garden and Fragile Forest, we headed to Kidzworld KFC for lunch. I think this must be the most profitting KFC outlet on the island cos total monopoly in the zoo leh.
Not forgetting to take pictures around the kiddy stuffs -- tootootrain and the animal merry-go-where. I cannot take full body photos on my side view la, see my spare tyre... is not 3-layer meat lor is like 5-layer meat la!
Kangtai left for his dragonboat and the rest of us went to the dock a 3-mins walk from the Kidzworld. The boat guide helped every group to take photo and I shall applaude him for his initiative haha... we got his help again to take a photo of us on the dock.
We sent Yixian to the entrance after that cos she had to go give tuition. The rest of us accompanied me back to Kidzworld to see the giant rabbit...and we wasted a lot of time while Tusen Yung waiting poor-thingly at Causeway Point for us. Cos the tram went
We finally made our way to Causeway Point and dear met
Yixian and Kangtai (yes they did) came back to find us leh and the bunch of us had dinner at Crystal Jade kitchen. Yummy, pig liver + sliced fish congee~ but I think next time don't order those set A set B cos I think not worth ba. Total spent about $52 in total the whole day.
PS: Ah Bong will be taking tonight flight for his exchange. We promise to take a group photo when Bong returned in half a year's time cos we didn't manage to take it with Tsuen Yung. Remember to being back pressies for us from Europe ah geez.
Labels: BPgang, My birthdays, Zoo
It was a love story @ 10:31
baby,just say yes.
baby,just say yes.
