idiocyncracy

hm... been getting a few requests from employers to see my complete resume.. they have intentions to hire me for positions in finance and retail.. however i doubt these as stable proper jobs. There was one company who was interested in meeting me and perhaps offer me the position of a financial planner.. I was of course, taken aback. i mean i have not gotten my degree yet, i hardly excelled academically in these past few years, and i am gonna manage peoples' wealth? if i were a powerful investor, i would think twice before i entrust my mass wealth to a firm like you. A short visit to their website confirms my suspicions. It was an unprofessional-looking website. My english is not A grade either. However, impression counts and the webby of the firm was cannot make it lah! Their english was laughable and the prizes they were awarded were numerable but vaguely described. Im sorry but i shall not waste my precious youth and bright future on you guys. HOHO.


eurgh.. i was just thinking about my life. Im uncontented the way ive managed it.. i have many dreams i wanna pursue.. however given my constraints.. i may take twice as long as many other people to reach them. its hurts lah sometimes..

but now.. i believe that whatever you do, you have to be patient and be extremely determined so as to achieve a pre-set outcome. It takes ultimate sacrifices along the way and i hope i have the courage to do that.



some of my goals include:

studying overseas a period of time in my life. of course it will be great if it is new york university or london school of economics. im not happy with just getting couped up in singapore and not being challenged academically. Im not trully learning in the environment im in. i just utterly want to make up for the lack thereof academic pursuits in my mid schling life.

besides.. i wud love to taste another type of life and culture..

im tired of the myopic-ness of singaporeans.


what we have of the general population is the strong preoccupation with looks, money and status.
a shallow, rude, self-centered bunch who do not much appreciate the arts.
if you look deeper into these people, its just all hollow inside.

i dun wanna waste like that *shudders*

of course im not saying that in overseas, a better life we have there. but the fact is, down here, we have nothing to call our own?
if you tink deeply, what is there in this place to call our own?
we are so interfused with influences from other countries, the idea of us being creative from now is just laughable. we are so busy copying others we forgot the creation that we make is not wholly us. just take a look at channel 5 and 8. i hardly watch tv but the few times i watched i thought its all silly. the local programes somehow always manage to mimic foriegn top shows its a pain in the ass to watch. whats worse, it was a blatant copy so much so that you cringe just to watch it.

i give up on our local culture.


i want to taste the various riches and the rich histories of other countries many times before the end of my life. :)



to learn foreign language..


to learn drums and start on go karting.

to be able to work in an investment bank someday....

well..
yesterday met up with xian.. and we were like gluttons!

we both had 1 plate stingray, 1 plate hokkien mee, 1 plate char kuay teow, 1 mug sugar cane each, and 20 sticks of satay at chomp chomp! yummy!it wasn't a complete feast though.. we lacked carrot cake and orjian! grr..

haha.. i love food. who doesnt anyway?


lotsa work today..
its awful manning the hotline like that.. its such a monotonous job.. im lucky its only for 2 months... any time more than that i tink im prepared to enter woodbridge in my early thirties...

theres hardly any time to socialize given the nature of the job...

are all jobs like that? if so.. i should think its frightening.. i mean.. its a great way to waste and rot ur life away here..

lol.

sleepy sleepy..this must be the shortest entry in my blog...
im feeling grumpy too..

goodnite all. *wink*

oh yes... pretty long week i had.. i wunder if i have all the finger strength to blog this entry. nevertheless i shall try.. i shant bother about my grammer here..do pardon my english. lol

well i promised u all il blog some abt my job.. here goes..

i had 4 days of training and its been three days of being on the floor now... my superiors are pleasant and my colleagues are nice.. but rather cunning.. and the office is awfully gorgeously decorated...with world cup theme in mind.. its a very cheerful looking office...the clients i serve mostly don't give trouble and so far.. so good lol.

but.
its getting monotonous.. and its only one week?
lol

so if ure in raffles place please give poor bored sharon a lil visit and she will repay u with kindness, generousity and endless entertainment.


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23th


i met up with naz a couple of times recently.. its good catching up after so many months... i din realise how much in common we really had.. the deepest secrets we have and how similar our secrets are..

we had a nice malay dinner at one of those tiny malay coffeeshops near my workplace at raffles place... spicy yum yum..while choosing the dishes to go with our rice.. the waiter kept going ''wanna try our famous chicken wanna try our famous chicken'' in a sing song voice. so we had the ''famous'' chicken.. the chicken wasnt exactly superstar quality though..
the beef tasted better.. it has the makings of a celebrity...
we walked amongst those shophouses.. and passed by Desire.. my fren told me that the girls do bar top dancing there...
there another club there that night that was flooded with ang mo expatriates.. horrible bellied ruddy faced ang mos.. mostly looking rich and busy picking up asian girls... i wunder what singaporean girls see in them.. saw a waitress who looked like she's 14.. thats like underaged.. poor kid.. either shes looking for some cheap thrills or she's truly broke...

we sat alongside the river and had a long deep talk..

stupid bunch of kids were skae boarding abt...and i was trying not to note how close they are to my feet while they whizzed pass us.. we had half the mind to push them into the river..

its a lovely breezy place to have a talk..

and we saw this old couple taking a walk together..still holding hands...
i thought thats sweet and very, very rare..
and i remember a much older fren of my use to illustrate verbally the picture of the typical heartland singaporean couple..

the mom would go like, ''ah boy ah! come back! dun anyhow run here run there!''
the mom wud wear loose tshirts and have a lousy figure
and the dad would wear singlet and slippers
*shudder*

how unromantic, mundane and unglam. lol

we stayed there for sometime..

the next day, went swimming..
ya kun with naz again..
the silkyz barley they sell was interesting..they had like strips of beancurd in barley..note that its in strips ...

loitered ard toa payoh b4 i met up with mu and bought part of the pressie for dith

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the next day work again..was feeling rather drained.. had to handle lotsa calls..

it just wasnt my day.. luckily it had a beautiful ending lol

well..for starts, it was a sunday and all the kopitiam eateries were closed and i had to spend lunch at a fast food restaurant..

i hate fast food.. fast food is so bland.
and i hate the concept of it -fast food..cuz its fast and that seems to imply it was not well prepared..i like my food slower and better done up by veterans.

after work at 730.. i rushed off to diths bday party..
went down to bedok by mrt train..reached bedok by 825

the fucking bus service to east coast ends at 800 and i got on to a fucking taxi whereby the fucking taxi driver duno where the fucking hell is vjc..and dropped me off at a fucking isolated corner near vjc and my frens had to locate me.. seriously.. lousy taxi driver..
and my heels were cutting.. i had blisters and they bled...awful awful.. later on when i showered...wooooo..

lol

at the party...

all the marinated food was like yum! wine cake yum! we gave dith our glam presents haha

barcardi...

cam whore ard...

played the sparklers.. love it..

cosy gathering...

went home in taxi and confuse the taxi uncle...we had four destinations..


weiling came.. so rare that i see her..


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content...

yesterday, went out with dith

i miraculously squeeze in 2 shoe boxes and a small bag into my snake bag.. woohoo!

oh and many funny things happened

u wanna con someone to letting u ahead of the queue in the ladies...just keep smiling at them and talk to them in a foreign language and keep poking them in their backs.. cuz thats what happen to me.. shat.


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and some tourist tried to ask us directions... it was a cute korean.. and we shunned away from him cuz we thought he was a pamplet distributor...and when it dawned upon me that he looked more like a tourist.. i turned for a backward glance.. turns out that he, indeed, a tourist and he had a stunned expression on his face.. .its was an awesome, classic look..he was horrified with our rudeness i guess... but it was unintentional lol


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today i started work...

its a cheery nice place...

more updates soon
*wink*

alrighty im gg back to my world cup.

oh yes went out just now..

went to check out my workplace... and scanned ard for special eateries..hm.. its at raffles place..noe of any nice eateries there? i saw o briens.. but im hesitant.. i dun wanna spent half my money on expensive eateries!

satisfied my craving with cheesecake from big o. irish baileys creme cheesecake with vanilla choc chip ice cream.. hm.. i always feel high with desserts.. anyone who noe i gorgeous dessert places do tell me.. yummy yummy... plus we had calamari rings from chippys... best one ive tasted so far.. its fantastically looooong, lengthy and skinny .. its crispy too! lightly battered and freshly fried.. ooooh my tastebuds were pampered! pampered! *licks lips*


then we were ard marina's.. i got a bag from warehouse with my voucher.. and i reserved a pair of working shoes from U.R.S.. well.. my latest crave is shoeeeeeeeees!

wee..


laugh lots with dith and pei after wards.. lotsa funny craps.. to lame to repeat here haha! oh i suddenly miss clubbbing and im gonna start work soon...Mango called to ask me to go but i was already on my way home and im having a splitting headache...


somehow i still preferred solid gold cheesecake from nydc.. its rich!

ah.. i missed tien's live band performance! i must attend the 30 th one!

it occurred to me that if i added some blue and some stars to my dress.. and i wear it.. il be draping an american flag around me. SHAT.


oh darn.. now i want the dolce and gabbana gold phone. moto moto i love u!


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hm...
what have i been up to this week..

The 10th, saturday saw me gg to aloha to attend ah baos birthday party.. met up with px and louis and pc.. very lively affair.. as birthdays always are.. its always very noisy and bustling with activity.. and i always noticed the host would be very very busy and frantic .. going ard in the mad rush to entertain everyone. Its all very funny and happy really. haha

our class settled at a table.. and initially, it was rather awkward.. someone would make a comment then another commented on the comment and then.. silence..pause.. then another boliao comment pops up.. and the cycle goes on.. lol so the time came, when everyone ran out of boliao comments we watched baoling and her family havoc.. its funny.. and someone bought a snake.. not bad, not bad.. entertaining sia

there are 5 baolings at the party.. i noticed they all looked alike... now which one is the one having her 21st?
lol

then more ppl from our class arrived.. more comments made.. this time there was more chemistry.. now thats more like it..
I noticed how much we have changed.. probably its coz i dun meet some very often.. some of us has mellowed... all of us grew up much..

2 groups we are divided when we left.. i was kinda quiet in the car though..tireed

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i missed pearlyn's bday party... cudn make it :(
i missed anne's too :(

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the 11th saw me gg for shamu's photoshoot..

we went for breakfast at mos burger.. as usual i had the spicy cheese mos.. ever since pei recommended it.. lol well, its one of the nicest fast food burger around.. macs and burger king ..tsk tsk.. their burgers are either dry or small or shrivelled..or a combination of all. Now, spicy cheese mos is unbelievably juicy, deliciously cheesy with the mysterious sause.. seductive burger.. always siren- calling me to eat it..

then we settled down somewhere in arab street, i tink, angie did my make-up...

many curious passer-bys...some aunty invaded our personal space and stared at me like I'm some museum exhibit.. how rude. At least, say something lah.. so I don't feel like a museum exhibit and not capable of speaking..

it rained.. and we cudn take much photos.. im not disappointed though..
then we went ard the area...i eat some at a coffeeshop.. I love those quirky old shophouses....old, jaded, scarred with use, colourful.. its all so charming.. and such a refreshing change from the usual sterile high-rise buildings with zilch personality..

i see the buzzing activity around the various shops..and i thought, if, all these are captured on film..it will be fantastic.. its the simple one glimpse, a rare flash of insight, a moment captured of another person's life. Its beautiful. I'm a dreamer.

Oh and how sweet of them to come down to celebrate me birthday.. i din noe and it was a pleasant surprise.. nice presents..

then we temporarily retired from photography and set off to bugis.. eat some dessert.. talked some..funny how well we gel together ... after long periods of absence.. :)

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and my little sis is asking me now what am im blogging abt.. issit abt her? then i said who cares abt you. ouch.. lol strong sisterhood...nah.. it isn't mean.. we both know each other too well to know i din mean it.. I love my lil sis.

my mom asked me to join newpaper face.. i looked at her, aghast. its like asking ronaldinho to join miss universe.


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been job hunting job hunting job hunting


so sick of sitting in front of the pc almost every morning and using one of my gmail accounts for job hunting..and sending out resumes... even though its a cut and paste process... its tedious and energy-draining.. and i had to entertain milllions of phone calls from employers and squeeze
out time for interviews..

and various job agenicies pissed me off... they are very self-centered.. disorganized and forgetful... some even called me to go down and have a meeting with them again when i just met them hours ago.. well they had my resume before the 1st meeting.. so, yeah ...thats how this can happen.


i chanced upon ''careless whisperer''! lol remember the guy who whispered throughout singapore idol one? lol he had me crying with laughter with that episode.. And there he was, beside me, meticulously filling out the form.. with an earnestness thats almost painful.. it was funny.. i wanted to strike a conversation with him and then i decided not.. cause i realise whatever conversation starters would be sarcastic and I do not think he wants to be reminded of his notorious fame. He was famous for not so positive reasons.. but i applaud his courage(this, i don't mean to be sarcastic).


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i noticed i like to use certain words more often.. one of this includes euphoria... someone asked me why i like using that word...it kept creeping up in my conversation thats why.. hm.. i dunno.. thats how i feel most of the time... euphoric..

hm.. *ponders*
well, I'm either deeply depressed and sucidal or in a state of euphoria.. serious. I'm an extreme kinda person. Thats what i call living life to the fullest. No point doing activities with a neutral stance. It won't be memorable.

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thanks peiyuan for recommending her job. very sweet of her...

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i got a job at OCBC bank. :)

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went out with pei pei the day b4 yesterday... i almost bumped into jasmine.. but she was walking too fast.. and i din noe what to say..after all, i always felt like im the one making the effort to keep in contact with her and sometimes i just wish she would initiate instead.. the worst is that she doesn't let me noe the reasons why she's busy or something. *shrug* I have exactly been guilt-free of ignoring some people so i guess u can call this karma.

I bought a candy cane dress!LOVE IT. its that kinda dress that can make you look slim even after u ate 10 dinners. HAHAHA! *triumphant look*

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what a long blog. blog blog.

gonna meet naz later! cant wait.. :)

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quoteworthy: I like life. It's something to do.- Ronnie Shakes

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:)