Hey all,
Sorry for the lack of post..my net at home is down..n my laptop crashed..
its gonna be a while b4 i can realli sit down n blog..
lots of things happened recently..both good n bad..shall come bac with it soon!
Ciaoz...
Naval Open House
In my ever continuing bid to backtrack my life..i shall bring my post bac to the 25th May where I worked at the Naval Carnival. The carnival was a 3 day event stretching from fri to sun but i only worked on fri. Maybe thats a good thing though.
Cos just one day was enough to get me sun burnt pretty bad. Not that i haven been warned though..but a little sun just meant some more dosage of vitamin D.."always look on the bright side of life~.."
I roped in gary, ai jia, jenn, suet lay (jenn's fren), ryan, kok boon, sentill and weiyuan (who eventually failed to turn up..n din inform) to accompany me at the naval base.
The job officially starts at 9am but we were required to report by 7.15 at expo for transportation and briefing purpose. Which is why so many of my guys kept asking.."so why do we get paid only starting from 9??"..and i couldnt really offer any explanation especially when market practice elsewhere is to get paid for training sessions as well as briefing. But fortunately, they werent really the 'hard-to-deal-with' sort and eventually forgot abt it..
Submarine
Most of us arrived at around 7.20..and dats where i was contacted to liaise with the driver. i rem askin "so the bus driver is alreadi here?"..n the guy replied.."er..er...the driver is there alreadi.."
and later i found out the reason for his 'ers'. Cos while the driver is there..there were no bus!
Instead, we were required to ride at the back of a lorry.. -_-'..thats y he was reluctant. Lol. But its alright..i've rode on the back of many vehicles b4..lorries r nth new..haha..for me dat is..
we gave up the 2 front seats to jenn and suet lay cos...we were all so gentlemen..(esp. me..)..hee..
after we took off from expo..and joined the main road..another lorry was travelling beside ours..n there were Bangladesh workers at the back of it..n we were like "now we realli look like banglahs..." lol..
but hey..dun take anythin away from the Bangladesh workers..they build our houses..so dat we dun hav to..so i'm grateful..
after abt 15 mins..we were at the security checkpoint of the naval base..n a warrant officer saw us at the back and told the driver "oh..unloading ah??..uh!..go there! go there!"..n we were like.."oh..now we're cargoes...".."Banglahs to cargoes..Boys to Boxes"
we were den told to alight at the main stage area..and stood there for 5 mins without instructions..n den told to board the lorry again..to bring us on a 'tour' of the base where we made countless U-turns..gettin lost all over the place..n finally parkin at a carpark..so that we could all walk back to the main stage area... -_-''.
y we had to follow the lorry around?..i hav no idea..keep uncle companied..its lonely gettin lost alone...
we could hav jus waited at the stage area. oh well...it was a SAF event..as always..'The Decisive Force'...dat can nv decide on anything..
we were den issued T-shirts which had a wierd smell on it..but it din bother me dat much..though i am aware of the smell. We were hoping they were new shirts..which later we discovered..was not..cos they collected the shirts bac from us to reuse. And put it bac into the same black trash bag where we collected it from. Whether they wash the shirts or not..I dun wanna know..
after we changed..we were all allocated to different sections of the event. And i was allocated to look after the inflatable playgrounds and making sure that nobody were hurt. They told us to station one man at each playground..but there were onli 3 of the latter. So there were 2 extra guys..n we just spread ourselves as evenly as we can..like in the pic below..
The day got hotter and hotter and we had to go buy our own water since there was none going around by afternoon. Later in the day..we were told that we weren't supposed to buy things from the stalls either. No water provided..stationed us in the sun..no instructions to us not to buy from stalls...n den ask y we went to buy things from the stall. Once again..i cant stress enough..everything happens for a reason.
In the SAF..we either had unclear instructions..or conflicting instructions. There..we had NO instructions. When an organization's organizing is worse than SAF's..u can be sure that things r very wrong.
While helping clarence to collect his 'secrets of millionaire investors' from adam khoo's office dat day..i chatted with one of the staff there..and she said.."oh u'r from SMU..so u sure have name cards rite..."..n true enough i had some with me and we exchanged cards..
Many of us carry it with us..n exchange it when we work with outside parties. But that day..our cards were kept in the pocket. No intentions to give it out. Except to some of the JC gals who got bored and came to chat with me. They were there like the whole day..n had nth left to do or see.
What the girls made for me...
-My Hanyu Pinying Name-
While they were tending their booths..
-A is for Alan's Absolutely Amazing-
~Thank you so much! *Hugs*~
The job was done by around 6 pm..instead of 7..n we took the shuttle out of the base to tanah merah MRT. Ever since that day..everyone has been calling me lobster..sigh..cos i was all red..including my arms. N peeling followed after a few days. Luckily it has mostly subsided..n i am no longer lobster boy..
The company left a pretty bad impression on us at the end of the day..(n i still haven got my pay as well)..and i'm gradually agreeing more on what many greats like Lee Kwan Yew says.."It takes forever to build a good reputation and 1 second to destroy it all".
I said that becos some of us worked that day not becos we had to. Some were merely killing time. One of us came from a rich family and drives a Mercedes to sch..n while i'm not sure what kind of business his family does..i do know which events company he would not be recommending to his dad should the business need an event.
Now..even spoil the brand name. Once again..value is further reduced..
In my ever continuing bid to backtrack my life..i shall bring my post bac to the 25th May where I worked at the Naval Carnival. The carnival was a 3 day event stretching from fri to sun but i only worked on fri. Maybe thats a good thing though.
Cos just one day was enough to get me sun burnt pretty bad. Not that i haven been warned though..but a little sun just meant some more dosage of vitamin D.."always look on the bright side of life~.."
I roped in gary, ai jia, jenn, suet lay (jenn's fren), ryan, kok boon, sentill and weiyuan (who eventually failed to turn up..n din inform) to accompany me at the naval base.
The job officially starts at 9am but we were required to report by 7.15 at expo for transportation and briefing purpose. Which is why so many of my guys kept asking.."so why do we get paid only starting from 9??"..and i couldnt really offer any explanation especially when market practice elsewhere is to get paid for training sessions as well as briefing. But fortunately, they werent really the 'hard-to-deal-with' sort and eventually forgot abt it..
Submarine
Most of us arrived at around 7.20..and dats where i was contacted to liaise with the driver. i rem askin "so the bus driver is alreadi here?"..n the guy replied.."er..er...the driver is there alreadi.."
and later i found out the reason for his 'ers'. Cos while the driver is there..there were no bus!
Instead, we were required to ride at the back of a lorry.. -_-'..thats y he was reluctant. Lol. But its alright..i've rode on the back of many vehicles b4..lorries r nth new..haha..for me dat is..
we gave up the 2 front seats to jenn and suet lay cos...we were all so gentlemen..(esp. me..)..hee..
after we took off from expo..and joined the main road..another lorry was travelling beside ours..n there were Bangladesh workers at the back of it..n we were like "now we realli look like banglahs..." lol..
but hey..dun take anythin away from the Bangladesh workers..they build our houses..so dat we dun hav to..so i'm grateful..
after abt 15 mins..we were at the security checkpoint of the naval base..n a warrant officer saw us at the back and told the driver "oh..unloading ah??..uh!..go there! go there!"..n we were like.."oh..now we're cargoes...".."Banglahs to cargoes..Boys to Boxes"
we were den told to alight at the main stage area..and stood there for 5 mins without instructions..n den told to board the lorry again..to bring us on a 'tour' of the base where we made countless U-turns..gettin lost all over the place..n finally parkin at a carpark..so that we could all walk back to the main stage area... -_-''.
y we had to follow the lorry around?..i hav no idea..keep uncle companied..its lonely gettin lost alone...
we could hav jus waited at the stage area. oh well...it was a SAF event..as always..'The Decisive Force'...dat can nv decide on anything..
we were den issued T-shirts which had a wierd smell on it..but it din bother me dat much..though i am aware of the smell. We were hoping they were new shirts..which later we discovered..was not..cos they collected the shirts bac from us to reuse. And put it bac into the same black trash bag where we collected it from. Whether they wash the shirts or not..I dun wanna know..
after we changed..we were all allocated to different sections of the event. And i was allocated to look after the inflatable playgrounds and making sure that nobody were hurt. They told us to station one man at each playground..but there were onli 3 of the latter. So there were 2 extra guys..n we just spread ourselves as evenly as we can..like in the pic below..
There were no further instructions to us and just made sure that nobody got hurt. There was a guy who were in-charged of us all at that particular area of the site. I shall leave his name out..n name him, what sentill would call him, 'the hero'.
After stationin us..there were no instructions given..despite me continuing askin.."is there anythin or any numbers we should know?" We had to take initiative to ask the regulars around for what numbers to contact in case of emergency and in need of ambulance..(they had a couple of them on standby at the carnival)
n 15 mins later..hero returned with someone prob his supervisor..n since boss was around..he took liberty to come reprimand us and said.."guys! dun squeeze la!..so many in center!.." n lookin at our position..i dun see how we can go without being nucleated..go to the back of the playground and look at trees??? u cant see anything except from the front for the initial 3 playgrounds.
n gary was like.."act la..some ppl jus wanna act to be doin somethin in front of their boss.."..which is so SAF..although the event was ran by an external events company.
about 30 mins later..some crowds were in..n some regulars chatted with us..n passed us Navy lanyards for souvenir..n it would be rude to say no..so we took it. Hero soon returned to the scene and asked fiercely "WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FROM??"..n started scolding away.."It's company policy not to accept anything from client!!". Jus how do we know when u tell us nothing?? He then continued to complain about more things. "What is this in ur hand??(pointin to my camera)..you're here to work! not to take photos!!"
n just which eye of his has seen me take photo while there were work to do? The reason the camera is in my hands is becos the company provided no lockers or bag deposition points for their staffs n we had to take care of our own belongings. This is such a basic provision for events company. Just like water..which they didn't prepare enough to go around as well.
It is not our mistake that these things werent provided. Reprimand us for your own shortcomings. Very good. Blame everyone..blame everyone else. Everything happens for a reason. If things didn't go your way..take responsibility to find out why.
Talk about value reducers. Adam Khoo once told me that there are 3 kinds of ppl in a company
1. Value Creators (Create more value than he is paid for. e.g. if paid $4000, will clinch sale > $4000)
2. Value Sustainers (Deliver exactly the same value as he is paid for)
3. Value Reducers (Reduces the value of the company and is a liability)
The moment he gave no instructions...made ridiculous remarks and scolded me for everything..everyone dropped the working mentality. We all wanted to do a good job. I mean although the pay is not really high and we had to be in the sun, we were there to do a job and wanted to keep our promise.
But his management just puts all of us off that none of us wanted to work anymore. Ryan is a man of principles and determination. He too wanted to give him attitude back. When one person does such a bad job..n that one person can cause the 5 or 6 others to not wanna work...u have effectively reduced a lot of value in the company.
People who takes no responsibility for their own mistakes will never go far and will continue to reduce value every single day. And true enough..comfirmation were received when i heard he screwed up the day before the carnival as well. Everything and EVERYTHING happens for a reason.
I dun realli tink we were gei gao (calculative) ppl..some of us has worked for free b4..n were still happy..becos of the treatment and proper management. So if u can pay us..n we still get pissed..u r something..
But i wasn't that pissed really..just a little..its not easy to make me worked up..those around me can vouch..if i ever flared up at u..take heart to know that u'r one in a million..cos u muz have done it so many times I can't take anymore sh*t from you. Lol.
They look like little duckies..so cute
The children that were there at the playground cheered us all up realli. they were a joy to watch..and quite funny too! I took pics n videos on breaks..n they were so cute!Look at them play in the video.
n 15 mins later..hero returned with someone prob his supervisor..n since boss was around..he took liberty to come reprimand us and said.."guys! dun squeeze la!..so many in center!.." n lookin at our position..i dun see how we can go without being nucleated..go to the back of the playground and look at trees??? u cant see anything except from the front for the initial 3 playgrounds.
n gary was like.."act la..some ppl jus wanna act to be doin somethin in front of their boss.."..which is so SAF..although the event was ran by an external events company.
about 30 mins later..some crowds were in..n some regulars chatted with us..n passed us Navy lanyards for souvenir..n it would be rude to say no..so we took it. Hero soon returned to the scene and asked fiercely "WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FROM??"..n started scolding away.."It's company policy not to accept anything from client!!". Jus how do we know when u tell us nothing?? He then continued to complain about more things. "What is this in ur hand??(pointin to my camera)..you're here to work! not to take photos!!"
n just which eye of his has seen me take photo while there were work to do? The reason the camera is in my hands is becos the company provided no lockers or bag deposition points for their staffs n we had to take care of our own belongings. This is such a basic provision for events company. Just like water..which they didn't prepare enough to go around as well.
It is not our mistake that these things werent provided. Reprimand us for your own shortcomings. Very good. Blame everyone..blame everyone else. Everything happens for a reason. If things didn't go your way..take responsibility to find out why.
Talk about value reducers. Adam Khoo once told me that there are 3 kinds of ppl in a company
1. Value Creators (Create more value than he is paid for. e.g. if paid $4000, will clinch sale > $4000)
2. Value Sustainers (Deliver exactly the same value as he is paid for)
3. Value Reducers (Reduces the value of the company and is a liability)
The moment he gave no instructions...made ridiculous remarks and scolded me for everything..everyone dropped the working mentality. We all wanted to do a good job. I mean although the pay is not really high and we had to be in the sun, we were there to do a job and wanted to keep our promise.
But his management just puts all of us off that none of us wanted to work anymore. Ryan is a man of principles and determination. He too wanted to give him attitude back. When one person does such a bad job..n that one person can cause the 5 or 6 others to not wanna work...u have effectively reduced a lot of value in the company.
People who takes no responsibility for their own mistakes will never go far and will continue to reduce value every single day. And true enough..comfirmation were received when i heard he screwed up the day before the carnival as well. Everything and EVERYTHING happens for a reason.
I dun realli tink we were gei gao (calculative) ppl..some of us has worked for free b4..n were still happy..becos of the treatment and proper management. So if u can pay us..n we still get pissed..u r something..
But i wasn't that pissed really..just a little..its not easy to make me worked up..those around me can vouch..if i ever flared up at u..take heart to know that u'r one in a million..cos u muz have done it so many times I can't take anymore sh*t from you. Lol.
They look like little duckies..so cute
SAF Regular's Decendents
The day got hotter and hotter and we had to go buy our own water since there was none going around by afternoon. Later in the day..we were told that we weren't supposed to buy things from the stalls either. No water provided..stationed us in the sun..no instructions to us not to buy from stalls...n den ask y we went to buy things from the stall. Once again..i cant stress enough..everything happens for a reason.
In the SAF..we either had unclear instructions..or conflicting instructions. There..we had NO instructions. When an organization's organizing is worse than SAF's..u can be sure that things r very wrong.
While helping clarence to collect his 'secrets of millionaire investors' from adam khoo's office dat day..i chatted with one of the staff there..and she said.."oh u'r from SMU..so u sure have name cards rite..."..n true enough i had some with me and we exchanged cards..
Many of us carry it with us..n exchange it when we work with outside parties. But that day..our cards were kept in the pocket. No intentions to give it out. Except to some of the JC gals who got bored and came to chat with me. They were there like the whole day..n had nth left to do or see.
What the girls made for me...
-My Hanyu Pinying Name-
While they were tending their booths..
-A is for Alan's Absolutely Amazing-
~Thank you so much! *Hugs*~
The job was done by around 6 pm..instead of 7..n we took the shuttle out of the base to tanah merah MRT. Ever since that day..everyone has been calling me lobster..sigh..cos i was all red..including my arms. N peeling followed after a few days. Luckily it has mostly subsided..n i am no longer lobster boy..
The company left a pretty bad impression on us at the end of the day..(n i still haven got my pay as well)..and i'm gradually agreeing more on what many greats like Lee Kwan Yew says.."It takes forever to build a good reputation and 1 second to destroy it all".
I said that becos some of us worked that day not becos we had to. Some were merely killing time. One of us came from a rich family and drives a Mercedes to sch..n while i'm not sure what kind of business his family does..i do know which events company he would not be recommending to his dad should the business need an event.
Now..even spoil the brand name. Once again..value is further reduced..
Sesame Street Gang
Finally..on sunday..the gang of Sesame street returns to action as we met up for yet another sushi session. Everytime we meet up, a lot of salmon dies. n that day..it was no different..we wanted to meet up at town initially..but figured that we (actually onli addy) were too lazy to travel. So we decided to meet in tpy instead. N obviously..we know who suggested the meetin place..the ku ku that is capable of gettin lost in her own neighbourhood..
when we were confirmin details..i asked cookiemon to confirm with jason (brown) as i was driving. jason didn't pick up the phone and addy said "shit la..i'm afraid brown will sleep n forget abt it lo..". and right after..
addy falls aslp..
hur..hur..
point finger somemore..lol..
we finally met up at TPY's entertainment center n had sushi after sushi. Den we decided to pay addy's dad a visit at his stall n bein ever so nice he treated us to duck rice!..yum yum. But i couldnt realli eat much more..cos...once again..i am a light eater..lol
Sushi sushi..yum yum..
Braces!!
n i was jus plain astonished to see how much brown can actually eat..he eats like a..a..a...PIG!!..no wonder he's called miss piggy..lol..he had tonns of sushi like we did..had ice cream..n duck rice..n..he is skinny like a lamp post..hm..
i dun wanna tink how much he outputs..lol
Ice cream from childhood days..
The great stare..
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"hello?? this canon phone dun seem to work..hello??"
Ms Piggy: "mm..roasted duck.."
Eee...Ms piggy looks so freaky..
Brown is a mud now..truly brown..
Wat r u tryin to do!?!?!?!
I may look happy..but i was forced..
But they r truly happy..
n so is he..
"hello??..this Gucci phone dun work either..hello??"
the shop where e auntie realli thot brown is melayu..
after sayin bye to addy's dad..we headed down to thompson to chill..we were melting..in need of air con..weather these days is terrible..
we eventually went liquid kitchen..which is opened by my cousin's cousin..hm..makes us relative rite..how bout some relative discount??..haha..
Heineken, the perfect driving drink..
2 blurs..lookin like wooden blocks
What addy like to call..e blow job..
Top shell~
Now i'm awake..
Now i'm not..
This toothpick brand cig dun seem to light up..
still tryin to lit..
we played the usual drinkin games which brown jus cant stop losin..hmph..he tinks we dunno he's jus tryin to grab all the booz..tink we stupid..haha..but he can nv stop drinkin..hm..cos i'm rite next to him..hee hee hee..bow to the master..
it was fun to finally meet up the gang again..sigh..lost them as supper kaki ever since all of them started workin.
P.S> Jenn..cookiemon agrees with me dat when asked to guess whats 'round and flat'..it has to be...A COOKIE!!
Minds Café | St James Powerhouse
alrite..i shall update my activities for the past one n haf weeks..finally..haha..been an eventful week.
met up with weiyuan to go queensway shoppin centre to shop on last last fri..u know..we've gotten quite sick of town..god knows we're there..EVERY..SINGLE..day..durin semester time..
i took like 15 mins to reach there and another 15 mins just to queue and enter queensway shoppin centre's carpark..its insane. The queue stretched all the way to the main road..and it was a weekday afternoon!!
In the end..weiyuan went to look for me in the 'queue' and dats where we met up instead..
it is by far..the worst car park i have ever driven into..even including those i've been to in M'sia. although it wasnt the first time i was there..but this time it realli grabbed my attention. The lots were limited and small..
weiyuan had to alight b4 i could park cause basically..there would onli be space for one door to open..n i hav no intention of climbin over him or vice versa jus to get out of the car..lol..
N even when i finished parkin the car..a big part of it was protruding out of the lot..
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n its not like i was veri far away from the back wall..i wasnt..(check pic below)..it was nearly kissin it alreadi..
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sigh..n e carparks had pot holes all over..realli feels like m'sia..lol..
anyway..we got on to our shoppin n sad to say there wasnt much to buy. i onli got myself a t-shirt. But the sales person was veri friendly though..she started chattin with me by openin with "r u studyin in uni now?"..n i'm like.."what?..do i have a university face??"..haha..
it is a rare thing that i'm linked with anythin academic by 1st impression..i dunno..i jus dun hav the 'study' look...tsk tsk..looks can be deceiving..haha. If i'm on the train..or waiting for someone or something..u can bet ur last dollar that i'll be reading a book (no..i'll not be people or chio bu watchin..) and you can bet ur last cent that it will not be a story book. Haha. It will ALWAYS be a business related book..
n i tink she must have felt like killin me cos i guessed her age at 19 when she was onli 17..ops..with all dat make up sometimes its hard to tell..hee..but we exchanged cards n contacts anyway..so..i guess there's no hard feelings?..lol..
weiyuan n i ended up in Ikea after a while..somehow we could smell swedish meatball all the way from queensway shopping centre..hee..n basically..dat place reminded us of our past..
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It was alreadi a mess when i took the pic..hunger got the better of us...
alrite..i shall update my activities for the past one n haf weeks..finally..haha..been an eventful week.
met up with weiyuan to go queensway shoppin centre to shop on last last fri..u know..we've gotten quite sick of town..god knows we're there..EVERY..SINGLE..day..durin semester time..
i took like 15 mins to reach there and another 15 mins just to queue and enter queensway shoppin centre's carpark..its insane. The queue stretched all the way to the main road..and it was a weekday afternoon!!
In the end..weiyuan went to look for me in the 'queue' and dats where we met up instead..
it is by far..the worst car park i have ever driven into..even including those i've been to in M'sia. although it wasnt the first time i was there..but this time it realli grabbed my attention. The lots were limited and small..
weiyuan had to alight b4 i could park cause basically..there would onli be space for one door to open..n i hav no intention of climbin over him or vice versa jus to get out of the car..lol..
N even when i finished parkin the car..a big part of it was protruding out of the lot..
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n its not like i was veri far away from the back wall..i wasnt..(check pic below)..it was nearly kissin it alreadi..
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sigh..n e carparks had pot holes all over..realli feels like m'sia..lol..
anyway..we got on to our shoppin n sad to say there wasnt much to buy. i onli got myself a t-shirt. But the sales person was veri friendly though..she started chattin with me by openin with "r u studyin in uni now?"..n i'm like.."what?..do i have a university face??"..haha..
it is a rare thing that i'm linked with anythin academic by 1st impression..i dunno..i jus dun hav the 'study' look...tsk tsk..looks can be deceiving..haha. If i'm on the train..or waiting for someone or something..u can bet ur last dollar that i'll be reading a book (no..i'll not be people or chio bu watchin..) and you can bet ur last cent that it will not be a story book. Haha. It will ALWAYS be a business related book..
n i tink she must have felt like killin me cos i guessed her age at 19 when she was onli 17..ops..with all dat make up sometimes its hard to tell..hee..but we exchanged cards n contacts anyway..so..i guess there's no hard feelings?..lol..
weiyuan n i ended up in Ikea after a while..somehow we could smell swedish meatball all the way from queensway shopping centre..hee..n basically..dat place reminded us of our past..
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It was alreadi a mess when i took the pic..hunger got the better of us...
After e meatballs..we den headed down to esplanade to meet rio and su xian..i haven been there for while now and colours by the bay dun seem to have dat much colours these days..although the rest of the building has more crowd now.
we eventually tucked in at Thai Express...n i love their glass noodles..though it wasnt wat i had dat nite..
Exhibits @ Esplanade
after dinner..we headed down to minds at clarke quay for some board games..n for some reason..i can nv rem the names of the games i play..ive been there so many times n the onli game i realli rem is blokus..tsk tsk..selective memory..
Clark Quay
i den had supper no.1 (cos it turns out dat i had more than one dat nite) at minds. btw..their beef lasagna is good! But..dats not wat i had either..haha..
while i was gaming away..faith, sylvia, qiang n his colleagues were waitin for me at St James..n i had to go cos..i promised to..n i always keep promises..haha..
so by ard 1am..we took off n headed to St James. btw again..Finding a petrol kiosk in town is a chore!
rio n weiyuan headed home cos hm..they were in non-clubbin attire. Believe it or not..i haven been clubbing for a long long time..n i haven been to St James till dat nite..basically..i had better things to fill my time lately.
It was a fun time there..n who u club with realli makes alot of diff. I saw sylvester sim as he performed on stage in dragonfly..n i have to say i was disgusted to bits. He had white long hair..n wore white singlet and pants on stage..he was fair and realli skinny with tattoos all over..he looked like a ghost..
n while performin..sylvester pointed his middle finger to some of the 'ah lians' and even crossed it thru his legs, underneath his groin..sigh..n thru out the whole time..he was adjusting his guitar effects..strummin n testin..n nth seem to work. But the band was still playin fine with or without him. Meaning to say..his onli contribution is..to point fingers..hahaha..
i mean i couldnt hear wat he was playin as well..n den i realised he wasnt playin..haha..jus..strummin a guitar that is connected to probably nth. n his whole behavior realli jus puts me off..irk..
we left the club at abt 3 plus 4..n headed down to river valley road for supper no.2..but i din realli hav appetite though. i am a veri light eater these days..
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Faith &
Sylvia (e terrible woman dat left me bruised n battered)
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Su Xian . Faith
The Horrifying Pair
n by the time i got home dat nite morn..it was alreadi 7.30 am..
time to start another new day.
n i din hav a chance to slp cos i was supposed to drive my bro to NYJC for his award ceremony..n admission talk at SMU SOA. I also had to meet up Jun Chen to do some stuff..n by the time i gotten some slp..it was alreadi sat nite (Chelsea vs Man U)..n nth..could hav prevented me frm slpin..lol..
n luckily i did..the match was a bore..n i had no intentions of watching chelsea lift the F.A Cup.
we eventually tucked in at Thai Express...n i love their glass noodles..though it wasnt wat i had dat nite..
Exhibits @ Esplanade
after dinner..we headed down to minds at clarke quay for some board games..n for some reason..i can nv rem the names of the games i play..ive been there so many times n the onli game i realli rem is blokus..tsk tsk..selective memory..
Clark Quay
i den had supper no.1 (cos it turns out dat i had more than one dat nite) at minds. btw..their beef lasagna is good! But..dats not wat i had either..haha..
while i was gaming away..faith, sylvia, qiang n his colleagues were waitin for me at St James..n i had to go cos..i promised to..n i always keep promises..haha..
so by ard 1am..we took off n headed to St James. btw again..Finding a petrol kiosk in town is a chore!
rio n weiyuan headed home cos hm..they were in non-clubbin attire. Believe it or not..i haven been clubbing for a long long time..n i haven been to St James till dat nite..basically..i had better things to fill my time lately.
It was a fun time there..n who u club with realli makes alot of diff. I saw sylvester sim as he performed on stage in dragonfly..n i have to say i was disgusted to bits. He had white long hair..n wore white singlet and pants on stage..he was fair and realli skinny with tattoos all over..he looked like a ghost..
n while performin..sylvester pointed his middle finger to some of the 'ah lians' and even crossed it thru his legs, underneath his groin..sigh..n thru out the whole time..he was adjusting his guitar effects..strummin n testin..n nth seem to work. But the band was still playin fine with or without him. Meaning to say..his onli contribution is..to point fingers..hahaha..
i mean i couldnt hear wat he was playin as well..n den i realised he wasnt playin..haha..jus..strummin a guitar that is connected to probably nth. n his whole behavior realli jus puts me off..irk..
we left the club at abt 3 plus 4..n headed down to river valley road for supper no.2..but i din realli hav appetite though. i am a veri light eater these days..
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Faith &
Sylvia (e terrible woman dat left me bruised n battered)
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Su Xian . Faith
The Horrifying Pair
n by the time i got home dat
time to start another new day.
n i din hav a chance to slp cos i was supposed to drive my bro to NYJC for his award ceremony..n admission talk at SMU SOA. I also had to meet up Jun Chen to do some stuff..n by the time i gotten some slp..it was alreadi sat nite (Chelsea vs Man U)..n nth..could hav prevented me frm slpin..lol..
n luckily i did..the match was a bore..n i had no intentions of watching chelsea lift the F.A Cup.
Apologies
as i was reading up on the saga of UNSW (University of New South Wales)...it suddenly struck me that there was a gal named rachel who left a few messages on my cbox some time ago. In the midst of chatting with her via cbox..she revealed that she was from UNSW and I casually asked her when her school was starting.
Upon asking that question, she replied "why so kaypo, mind your own business can or not?". Reading her comments..i just lost my interest to continue my conversation with her and just replied "whatever junior..".
Now looking bac, i'm tinkin she might have had news of the UNSW saga and decision to pull out way before it was made public and before it was made known to me. My casual question of "when is ur sch starting?" may have sparked some uneasy feeling and frustration to the situation and would explain her hostile reply in "why so kaypo, mind your own business can or not?".
Thus...
Rachel, if my ignorance has caused any negative feelings towards or within you, I sincerely apologise for it.
P.S> Shall update more of my recent happenings soon.
as i was reading up on the saga of UNSW (University of New South Wales)...it suddenly struck me that there was a gal named rachel who left a few messages on my cbox some time ago. In the midst of chatting with her via cbox..she revealed that she was from UNSW and I casually asked her when her school was starting.
Upon asking that question, she replied "why so kaypo, mind your own business can or not?". Reading her comments..i just lost my interest to continue my conversation with her and just replied "whatever junior..".
Now looking bac, i'm tinkin she might have had news of the UNSW saga and decision to pull out way before it was made public and before it was made known to me. My casual question of "when is ur sch starting?" may have sparked some uneasy feeling and frustration to the situation and would explain her hostile reply in "why so kaypo, mind your own business can or not?".
Thus...
Rachel, if my ignorance has caused any negative feelings towards or within you, I sincerely apologise for it.
P.S> Shall update more of my recent happenings soon.
Financial Literacy Training
I finally started my first training class with speedb as a facilitator...n the first assignment was at Pasir Ris Crest Secondary school to teach money management skills. It is not exactly my first spell as a trainer for secondary school students though as I have held character education workshops in ZHSS too.
it was a project my team initiated from scratch, convinced schools to let us conduct the trainings and our syllabus was eventually adopted by the Singapore Boys' Home as part of their curriculum. This time round..its a bit diff...in the sense that i did not really have the flexibility to change many things in the course. (if i could..it would be an entirely diff course with same teachings)
I had to leave home early becos like the name suggest..e school is located in Pasir Ris..n i'm like in good old serangoon garderns..but its not like i'm complaining..no where is that far in Singapore to be inaccessible..
When i got there..I was sent to class 3/4 which was a normal acad class..which was a good thing..as I felt i could relate to them better being once from it as well..in fact..when i held my own training at ZHSS..it was towards normal acad classes as well..I tink they are a joy to work with..and many was interested to hear my stories as well..abt my struggles to excel in poly..until how i finally fought off competitions from both poly n JCs to make it to e uni of my first choice (1 in 9 applicants to SMU biz...brag abit..lol..)..
i rem stayin bac after my workshop talkin to some of the students..who were sick of being looked down upon..n some even contacted me in msn after to tell me they were now motivated to strive for the best (maximum satisfaction for my team n I..hee)
but i din reveal to the students at Pasir Ris Crest though..simply becos I wasnt the one kicking things off on the first day..normally in my workshops i would..as it is much easier to create the connection when they know they're with someone who was in the exact same shoes not too long ago..
"hur-hur...i have secret pics of my own!!"
to be honest..i felt the way the workshop started was a pretty lousy way to do so..It is just like a rock concert..it has to start with a bang..to spark interest and set the tone..cos e moment u've lost the first impression..u'll nv get it bac..
this is y gd training companies have their trainings in halls..with speakers, music and activities to kick things off..to shake off the lethargic mentality to enter the 'play-as-you-learn' mode of doin things which is crucial for students who are more right-brained and easily bored (jus like me).
there r no 'stupid' or 'dumb' students..just ineffective ways of teaching..n i felt we werent adopting innovative and cutting edge methods of teaching. Although i am aware some of the trainers would prefer to have gotten express classes..it was very much a lack of education on neuro patterns..hence the misunderstanding. Not dat I have a phD in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing)..but at least i bother to read up..n understand ppl like me..
I was very much understudying the manner the courses were conducted the first 2 days..it was onli e third day that i took over and conducted the seminar instead. But I onli gotten the training materials 10pm the night before the third day and there was very limited fluff and activities that I could plan for. My personal objective was to make them feel it was fun to learn..n activities..props..and rewards were key to make it work..which i did not have the luxury of time to do so. So long as it's not fun to learn..nothing will be learnt..
nonetheless..i tried my best the following day. I have to admit it was not as good as I would have wanted it to be...but I feel there was at least progress..spotting response from some students dat were otherwise slpin in the first 2 days..
on the whole..they were playful students to say the least..haha..who could blame them..i sometimes still am..haha..n i rem this boy asking me "who will choose? Girlfriend, mother or work?"
and jus cos i was reluctant to answer that..
they concluded: "Must be girlfriend la!!"
and i'm like: "I didn't say that."
They: "I know one! Cos I saw you and your girlfriend kissing outside!"
and i'm like: "What rubbish!! I dun even have one!!"
haha..i'm like how shy can..
n there was even a student who secretly took pictures while i was teachin..(which was later 'bao-tou' by her frens)...sigh..i hope i wasnt doin some ugly or chor-lor (unglam) gestures..lol..
some of the gals wanted to take pictures at the end of the third day (how honoured I feel..haha)..n i have yet to receive any!! except for one..thanks nabilah!..i realli hope they will send me the rest though..
it was a veri enjoyable time spent over at Pasir Ris Crest..and I sincerely hope they have learnt something..even though dat was wat they said. If given the chance to go back there and teach again..i would have no qualms abt jumpin on the wagon and doin so..
but seriously..with more time and resources..i'm sure the effect of the workshop will be entirely different..
I finally started my first training class with speedb as a facilitator...n the first assignment was at Pasir Ris Crest Secondary school to teach money management skills. It is not exactly my first spell as a trainer for secondary school students though as I have held character education workshops in ZHSS too.
it was a project my team initiated from scratch, convinced schools to let us conduct the trainings and our syllabus was eventually adopted by the Singapore Boys' Home as part of their curriculum. This time round..its a bit diff...in the sense that i did not really have the flexibility to change many things in the course. (if i could..it would be an entirely diff course with same teachings)
I had to leave home early becos like the name suggest..e school is located in Pasir Ris..n i'm like in good old serangoon garderns..but its not like i'm complaining..no where is that far in Singapore to be inaccessible..
When i got there..I was sent to class 3/4 which was a normal acad class..which was a good thing..as I felt i could relate to them better being once from it as well..in fact..when i held my own training at ZHSS..it was towards normal acad classes as well..I tink they are a joy to work with..and many was interested to hear my stories as well..abt my struggles to excel in poly..until how i finally fought off competitions from both poly n JCs to make it to e uni of my first choice (1 in 9 applicants to SMU biz...brag abit..lol..)..
i rem stayin bac after my workshop talkin to some of the students..who were sick of being looked down upon..n some even contacted me in msn after to tell me they were now motivated to strive for the best (maximum satisfaction for my team n I..hee)
but i din reveal to the students at Pasir Ris Crest though..simply becos I wasnt the one kicking things off on the first day..normally in my workshops i would..as it is much easier to create the connection when they know they're with someone who was in the exact same shoes not too long ago..
"hur-hur...i have secret pics of my own!!"
to be honest..i felt the way the workshop started was a pretty lousy way to do so..It is just like a rock concert..it has to start with a bang..to spark interest and set the tone..cos e moment u've lost the first impression..u'll nv get it bac..
this is y gd training companies have their trainings in halls..with speakers, music and activities to kick things off..to shake off the lethargic mentality to enter the 'play-as-you-learn' mode of doin things which is crucial for students who are more right-brained and easily bored (jus like me).
there r no 'stupid' or 'dumb' students..just ineffective ways of teaching..n i felt we werent adopting innovative and cutting edge methods of teaching. Although i am aware some of the trainers would prefer to have gotten express classes..it was very much a lack of education on neuro patterns..hence the misunderstanding. Not dat I have a phD in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing)..but at least i bother to read up..n understand ppl like me..
I was very much understudying the manner the courses were conducted the first 2 days..it was onli e third day that i took over and conducted the seminar instead. But I onli gotten the training materials 10pm the night before the third day and there was very limited fluff and activities that I could plan for. My personal objective was to make them feel it was fun to learn..n activities..props..and rewards were key to make it work..which i did not have the luxury of time to do so. So long as it's not fun to learn..nothing will be learnt..
nonetheless..i tried my best the following day. I have to admit it was not as good as I would have wanted it to be...but I feel there was at least progress..spotting response from some students dat were otherwise slpin in the first 2 days..
on the whole..they were playful students to say the least..haha..who could blame them..i sometimes still am..haha..n i rem this boy asking me "who will choose? Girlfriend, mother or work?"
and jus cos i was reluctant to answer that..
they concluded: "Must be girlfriend la!!"
and i'm like: "I didn't say that."
They: "I know one! Cos I saw you and your girlfriend kissing outside!"
and i'm like: "What rubbish!! I dun even have one!!"
haha..i'm like how shy can..
n there was even a student who secretly took pictures while i was teachin..(which was later 'bao-tou' by her frens)...sigh..i hope i wasnt doin some ugly or chor-lor (unglam) gestures..lol..
some of the gals wanted to take pictures at the end of the third day (how honoured I feel..haha)..n i have yet to receive any!! except for one..thanks nabilah!..i realli hope they will send me the rest though..
it was a veri enjoyable time spent over at Pasir Ris Crest..and I sincerely hope they have learnt something..even though dat was wat they said. If given the chance to go back there and teach again..i would have no qualms abt jumpin on the wagon and doin so..
but seriously..with more time and resources..i'm sure the effect of the workshop will be entirely different..
Mothers Day
Its been one week since i've blogged..been a packed week really..n i shall back date all the way to last last fri..11th May..
went to Pearl River Palace to celebrate Mothers' Day. It was done on the fri cos mum nv liked Mothers' Day Set dinners..so yeap...we gone there for their ala-carte buffet...
It was rumored to be good...annnnd...rumors were true! Haha. Particularly their Buddha-Jump-Over-The-Wall. We were onli allowed one serving each person probably due to the fact that the ingredients were expensive.
overall..there wasnt any dish dat was disappointing..but their roasted duck was realli good! And so were so many things...salad prawn rolls, Cereal prawns, steam prawns, peking duck, scallop toast, coffee pork ribs, steamed fish and i had endless servings of Salmon Sashimi..mm...nice! haha..
One of the appetizers
Roasted Duck..yum!
Diggin away..
Peking Duck
Salad Prawn Rolls
Sashimi!!
Mouthful of goodness..
Cereal Prawn..
Wasabi!!!
And even more sashimi..
Scallop on toast
Durain Pudding..
At the end of e meal..i was bloated..haha..a rare state i'm in these days..given my small appetite now.. n i reckon its a place worth visitin again..though it is not exactly cheap..$30++ a meal..not cheap by my poor boi's standard though..
After the meal...my mum went to check out balaclava...what cool parents i have eh..but we din stay long as my parents din like noisy places though..
Check out the yahoo logo..so cute..n it was animated..
-pay attention to what was being searched too!!-
Its been one week since i've blogged..been a packed week really..n i shall back date all the way to last last fri..11th May..
went to Pearl River Palace to celebrate Mothers' Day. It was done on the fri cos mum nv liked Mothers' Day Set dinners..so yeap...we gone there for their ala-carte buffet...
It was rumored to be good...annnnd...rumors were true! Haha. Particularly their Buddha-Jump-Over-The-Wall. We were onli allowed one serving each person probably due to the fact that the ingredients were expensive.
overall..there wasnt any dish dat was disappointing..but their roasted duck was realli good! And so were so many things...salad prawn rolls, Cereal prawns, steam prawns, peking duck, scallop toast, coffee pork ribs, steamed fish and i had endless servings of Salmon Sashimi..mm...nice! haha..
One of the appetizers
Roasted Duck..yum!
Diggin away..
Peking Duck
Salad Prawn Rolls
Sashimi!!
Mouthful of goodness..
Cereal Prawn..
Wasabi!!!
And even more sashimi..
Scallop on toast
to top off the meal..there was a small range of deserts being served as well..mango puddings..durain puddings..royal jelly..some cakes and other deserts dat i was too full to try.
Durain Pudding..
At the end of e meal..i was bloated..haha..a rare state i'm in these days..given my small appetite now.. n i reckon its a place worth visitin again..though it is not exactly cheap..$30++ a meal..not cheap by my poor boi's standard though..
After the meal...my mum went to check out balaclava...what cool parents i have eh..but we din stay long as my parents din like noisy places though..
Check out the yahoo logo..so cute..n it was animated..
-pay attention to what was being searched too!!-
