Splendid Christmas 2009

My 2009 Christmas Gifts =D
24th December 2009

Spent this Christmas Eve with my beloved besties, Clar, Ming Yun, Yi Siang and Ying Yan, and my beloved Ben. We had steamboat at MY's house. Spent around 40bucks for the food. Each person under $7. Thought the food weren't enough but it over killed. Lots of leftovers. But I finished all my mushrooms. =D We bought like 4 packets, so it's like 1kg of mushrooms. I didn't eat so much mushrooms before but it was really delicious, and I couldn't stop eating until I finish them all. Haha! =D
I didn't talk much that night cos was feeling quite tired after work. Listened to the girls talk most of the time. At about 9pm ba, we exchanged our gifts. I got no. 1, it was MY's gift, a frog design tissue box cover. (Hmm, I wonder why I always got frog, last time YY's christmas gift to me was a frog design container too. Haha! =D) Just nice, I always wanted a tissue box cover, but always felt that it was too ex.

After the gift exchange, everybody was full, except me. Haha! Was still hotplate-ing the mushrooms while the other girls had already moved to the sofa to chit chat. They were discussing who would be the first to married, and was trying to recall who did they thought it would be when we discussed about it in the past. But for sure, it won't be me. But I guess it would be YY, Clar, YS, MY then me. Why? I believe YY, Clar and YS will want to marry around 25-28 years old. YY's and Clar's bf won't mind marrying them early. But Clar won't want to marry until she graduates and find a job preferably. So YY will be first. YS won't be that soon cos she hasn't been too lucky in her love life. Hopefully she will be able to find the right guy. Since this will take time, she will be behind Clar. For MY, she will observe for quite a while before being into a relationship and be really devoted to it. I believe she's a cautious lover. Whereas for me, I believe most knows why. I have a bf who wants to complete his studies, finds a stable job and ensures that he has a steady income to support a family before getting married. So, without any doubts, I'll be the last. =D
Anyway, after YY left to join his bf, Clar, YS, MY and Ben played mahjong until Clar was really tired. Then, we went to watch Avatar. It was quite an interesting show. But not really my type. The affects were good though and some parts were quite exciting. We watched the 1am show. Reached home at around 4am. Really tired. Enjoyed spending the time with the girls.

26th December 2009
The long awaited gathering was finally here! I was really looking forward to it cos I spent alot of time planning it and worrying about it. Glad that 17 people turned up with their gifts, except for one fat ass who brought some 2nd hand toy as the gift. Hui Ping was rather unlucky to have picked it. But I forced him to take back his dusty gift and return HP's gift. It was unfair man and really too over. Anyway, before the gathering, Jiemin, Jihui and Hui Yin came over my house to help me prepare some food. And Lionel was really helpful to drive over to transport the food. Thanks man! =D But we have too many people so JM, JH, Ben and I cabbed down while HY and Jon took Lionel's car there. We reached Kia Yong's house quite late, 7plus I guess? I thought the food will be half gone, but they had not touched them at all and were just starting to set up the fire. Thanks for waiting for us! =D Was really happy to see so many people there.
Was really worried that my spaghetti will have lots of left over so I started distributing as soon as I finished unpacking the stuff. Actually, I forced everyone to eat one plate! Haha! =D I wasn't too worried about the sushi cos it would definitely clear. In the end, my spaghetti had a little left while sushi was all gone. As usual, Ben and I became the bbq-ers of the day again.

Satay man! Hehe! =D

The mushrooms are mine!!! =D
Look at how engrossed Ben was. Haha! =DWe were also the food server...

Not forgetting a couple shot <3>

Around 9plus, I went around to collect the gifts and numbered them with Ben. After numbering the gifts, it was time to gather everyone for the gift exchange session. So each of us picked one number.

Sorting out the gifts

Everybody gathering around the gifts

After picking a number, everyone was busy looking out for their gift. Where no.___??? It was really fun and exciting.

Yeah! We got our gifts! =D

Let's unwrap to see what we've gotten! =D

Tool Ann's gift from Chun Siang,
a pink colour non-staple stapler.
It's TA's favourite colour! =D

Jovin received an extremely cute handbag
from Kia Yong. Nice one man! =D

Eugene really misses school, correction
tapes for David! Haha! =D

Kia Yong got the longest gift, it's a long
box of chocolates from Haoguang! =D

I got gift no. 7, which was Hui Yin's gift. It's a red hairy bear, 2 Disney pens and a blindfold. Good good, I can use it when my younger brother use the com till very late with the living room light shining into my room. Ben got Jie Min's chocolate, and he's now addicted to the Dove chocolate. It's really tasty and addictive, I like it too! =D

Hope everyone enjoyed the gift exchange session. It's so interesting to see the expressions on all the faces. Some really happy, some shocked and looked as if he's going to bash that person up, some didn't know how to react. Haha! It's simply so entertaining.
After that, everyone went back to their activities, some card games or makan-ing, while others was so fascinated by Soo Teck's gift. It was a hammock, belongs to Wei Jie now. So they took some photos of some dead bodies lying in it.

Corpse #1: Sergeant Jovin

Corpse #2: Big Boobs David

Corpse #3: Crazy Officer Soo Teck

I believe most noticed that I wasn't really high that night. I was really worn out by the preparation. So didn't really have the energy to go around taking more pictures and initiate group shots. Below's shot was taken cos they were just nice there when I was holding on to the camera. Kind of regret not pushing myself to take more initiatives. Haix.

Happy Girls =D

Not sure when, they started playing truth, dare or double dare. Their double dare was really disgusting and R-rated. Seriously, I wonder how they had the courage to do such actions. Guess they were really drunk already. Some actions caught on camera:

Jie Min cover her eyes upon hearing the
disgusting act the guys were dared to perform

Lionel and Jovin were to rubbed their nipples against each
other. Jihui really had a lot of wild ideas.

Guess what Kia Yong was going to do to Jonathan?

This is the answer.

Only those playing the 'challenging' truth or dare game stayed overnight. Lionel sent HY, Jon, SST, Ben and I home. So nice of Lionel. Thanks lots! =D He likes driving extremely fast. My hair was like damn messy when I got off the car. Yup, forgotten to comment. Lionel's car was actually very quite big and cosy, but one big butt purposely squeezed with 3 of us at the back. Thanks to him, I was merely resting upon the edge of the seat.
Really enjoyed looking at how everyone had fun together. Though the feeling might be different from the past, I was really glad that everyone was mingling with one another. A really big thanks to Kia Yong for opening his house for this gathering and pulling the guys and girls together! =D

Prior to the class gathering, we had a mini catch up session with Maria. She's in Indonesia so couldn't join us for the 26th. We met up on 13th, and had dinner at a Indonesian Restaurant at Jurong Point. Guess it was the first time Jihui ate meat with bone. Haha! =D Maria was pretty worried about her results and was extremely regretful for skipping lectures. Believe she will be attending all lectures when the new semester starts. Most of the girls are in university now, it's really hard to find a convenient time to meet up. And it feels like a decade since I've seen Yanjie. Always can't meet her, so unlucky. It's the second time she missed the class gathering. Haix. Next year, I may be studying too. Then, it'll be really difficult to find a common time. But will definitely keep trying my best to arrange a good meet up time. =D

After food =D

27th December 2009

I received my greatest Christmas surprise. Of cos, it's from my dearest Ben. He prepared a Christmas gift for me while I didn't give him anything. I did give him a earpiece and a shirt, but it's not given as a gift and is definitely not as meaningful as what he had given me.

It looks like a simply box but inside it, it isn't as simple as it looks. It's too sweet and mushy to reveal what's inside, so I shall leave it as a mystery. Ben really knows what I want and he always tries his best to give me what I want. He's always so loving and sincere, just can't stop loving him! <3>

My Bro's POP

9th Dec 09

Went to my brother's POP with my mama. When we set off from khatib, it was raining heavily. Thought it might also be raining at Pasir Ris, but the weather there was good, in fact, it was rather sunny. While waiting for the shuttle bus to the ferry terminal, we saw this fussy and petty mother asking one of the NS usher some questions. Another parent in the bus queue interrupted their conversation. Since the parent was already in the queue and was about to board the bus, the usher answered to her queries first. When he went back to help the petty mother, she reprimanded him, saying that he should have answered her first cos she was the first to ask. I was so damn pissed off by her sickening attitude. If his son was the usher and some stupid parent like her scold her for such small issues, how would she feel. The ushers are there to help and not to provide customers service; the parents need the ushers' help, whereas the parents are no help them. However, I wasn't daring enough to confront that mother.
When we reached the parade, the seat were fully occupied, so my mama and I ended up sitting on the steps.

Before the parade: My mama and I =D

Didn't wait long before the parade started. Couldn't spot my brother from where we were sitting so just anyhow snapped.

The 7 platoons marching in

Unload then warm upBMTC School 2 Song

POP loh! =D

After the parade. Bonding time.

My camera's battery went flat before I could use it to take pictures with my brother, so had to resort to using my phone. But luckily, there was free photoshoot provided. Since it was free, we took a few shots. Haha! =D They develop the photo instantly.

The first shot my bro's eyes were
closed so took another one =D

There wasn't much business for the photographer stationed there, cos everybody's in a hurry to go home. So my mother and I patronised him. I love the background. The photo taken was nice, just that I looked hunched back. Haha! =DBefore we left for the ferry

(Finally my mama managed to show a wide smile =D)

I must say that they really planned this event very well. Though the pastries served was *ahem* and the waiting time for the ferry was rather long, we were well entertained by taking free photos, and seeing how well my brother had bonded with his section mates. It was really an enjoyable day and don't know why, when I was watching the parade, I felt touched, felt like crying. Maybe because I didn't get to see Ben's POP or it's been long since we had such close interactions with my brother. Anyway, I was really happy that day, believe my mama and brother were happy too. And I was impressed by the free photoshoot provided. =D

Extremely Busy

Have been extremely busy these day. It's really not easy to multi-task but I'm trying my best.

Work at UOB is still manageable, but am getting more irritated by unreasonable customers. But I'm not going to criticised how fussy they are cos I don't want to be one of them. Since I'm in this line, any wrong is my wrong, customers are always right. I'll take their critcism as a positive feedback cos it'll help me to improve my customer service skills.

Still processing my calling list for my telemarketing job. But am quite distracted by our current blogshop. Always being tempted to post online advertisement as I'm doing the calling list. Haha! =D

BESTIES CLOSET, our newly opened blogshop. Had a very exciting and tiring time preparing for our first launched. It's definitely a splendid experience. Though there's disagreement here and there, we became more bonded. Our discussions are always filled with laughter. Have blogged about our preparation at our website under 'Behind the Scene'! Support us: http://besties-closet.weebly.com

Went to my elder brother's POP from the BMTC school, it's a good experience to see their parade. Enjoyed myself. Can see that my brother had a great time too! Shall blog about it when I'm more free. Back to work now! =D

Back to UOB

Went back to UOB again. Didn't feel like waking up in the morning. Haha! =D But still managed to dragged myself out of bed. Went back to Admiralty branch again and will be there again tomorrow. But from Wednesday to Friday, I'll have to go to Bukit Panjang la. Sian. Totally sian diao when I saw the roster la. Next week not too bad, whole week at Admiralty. Subsequent week sometimes have to go Raffles City, sometimes have to go Bukit Batok and North Bridge!!! But I shall endure, until my contract ends in June. Let this be the longest job that I've stayed on. Pay not bad actually, just that the working hours is too odd and I don't like relieving at places so far. Endure! Jia you! =D

Long Busy Weekend

26th-29th Nov: SITEX Show 2009
Super tiring weekend. Stand for more than 10hrs each day throughout the 4 days. Legs super 'suan'. The physical part was exhausting enough already but still had to bear with the mental exhaustion. Met different type of customers, mostly very fussy ones. Kept asking for discounts and more free gifts. Ask once it's alright, some kept bargaining. C'mon, I'm just a promoter, not even their official staff. The hard disk I bought from them also no staff price la. Some customers just don't understand. Really typical singaporeans. Felt really sian after the first day of the show. Since the first day, had been complaining to Yi Siang about how tired I was. Haha! =D Doubt my sales would be good cos I started slacking after the first day of the show. It wasn't too difficult to pass time actually cos most of the time there were customers to attend to. Working for such shows do make good money but it's really unbearable to me. Doubt I'd work again for the next show. But I don't mind working for Starhub or M1, they had chairs to sit!!! Haha! =D

Earned some pocket money during the four days but neglected Ben. Didn't spend much time with him during his long weekend. But he was very accomodating, tried his best to fetch me or meet me for awhile every night after my work. Guess it was the first time I failed to sent him for his book in. Feel extremely guilty for making him feel so lonely. He said he felt something missing on his way to book in. This week he'll be confined. Have to wait until next week to redeem myself.

25th Nov: Telemarketing
Signed a simple contract and was briefed about my job. Timing is rather flexible but have to spend some time coming up with the calling list. If I'm able to pick up the tele skills, I would be able to earn alot man. One fixed appointment is $10, successful deal is $100. Shall try out for a month or so first, if it's really easy money, will pull some friends in. =D But I have yet to find some time to do up the calling list. Haha! =D

This company that I'm working for is called GloPerformance. It's a company which conduct programmes for CEOs and other managerial positions to let them better manage their businesses and finances.They also provides consultation services to companies. Lots of companies had actually engaged in their services. I don't have very good business knowledge so I don't really know how to explain, I just believe that they have very good business strategies and that I'll be able to earn quite alot. =D