Here I am, blogging again because I don't have anything to do before sleep. Life nowadays is just work, sleep, get up for work, repeat. My happiest time would probably be the lunch break I have with Susan and Shiyun :) Just got my paycheck today, and I'm thinking it's really not so bad to endure a bit of boredom for the money. I'll probably change my mind right after the long weekend haha.

Today I heard that 2 interviewees who got through decided to not come after all. I don't understand, they haven't even tried to do the job. Maybe they had other job offers, or just being picky. I imagined myself in their shoes - fresh graduate with high expectations wrt salary and working environment, and realised that I probably wouldn't stay long too. But I would give it a try first. And at the very least, call to inform that I won't be turning up on my first day of work. Common courtesy.

We had our lunch at Koufu at the nearby Woodlands Mart. I was waiting at the table for them to get their food first, when this grandma put her tray down right in front of me and totally ignoring my existence. I told her that the table is taken, and she actually gave me a look of plain disgust and wandered off somewhere else. Her friend (also a grandma) asked me again if the seat was taken. I said yes, and she gave me an irritated look. Hello, I respect that you are old and I would gladly let you have the table if you asked nicely and explained why you insist on taking my table when the table right beside had 2 empty seats and the place was pretty much empty anyway. I didn't feel very happy. But I looked as the other grandma walked around and couldn't find a table (for reasons I cannot fathom) and I decided to let them have the table anyway. Neither grandma so much as even looked at me while the other grandma strolled over to the table. Nice. And I always thought old people have good manners. I informed Shiyun and she called Susan while I got another table. I have never met people like them before, and I sure hope I won't ever.

Just writing about that incident makes me warm and awake now. But I really should go to sleep soon. Goodnight.

Chalet :)

So from Wednesday to Friday i had my long-awaited chalet holiday with yixin :) After just 2 days of work haha. Work was...it was a very new experience for me. I had the impression from my stint at Astar that organisations should be like that, with a clear structure of hierarchy and advanced IT systems. Everyone was so nice, no yelling, civilised language...haha. Not that I don't like the change. It feels more carefree in a way, at least I don't have to worry about being formal or stuff like that. Yet the work environment is also more restricting, there is almost no slacking time 'cause there is always work to do. I feel more responsible for the work I'm doing now. It feels like there's no room for mistakes, 'cause if work is not done properly someone else will have to clean up and he certainly won't be happy about it. To sum it up...I think I'm only seeing the real world now.

Back to the chalet. Check-in time was at 4pm, so I only started packing in the afternoon. Turned out I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to fit rolly's waterbottle on his travel cage. My parents decided to have a holiday in Kota Kinabalu during this period (-.-) so I had to bring rolly along. And after I fit it on, i realised i should have put it on only after we reach the chalet. One area of rolly's bedding was already soaked by the time I pulled the bottle out. I think rolly was concentrating on how to get out though; he had never been put in such a small cage before and looked rather bewildered. He did settle down after we reached the chalet and could put the cage on a flat stable surface. We took the public bus to Costa Sands - I knew there was a shuttle bus service somewhere but yixin insisted that it wasn't at the taxi stand, which turned out to be the correct place-.-

It was a very nice place, fully air-conditioned and clean. After packing and slacking for a bit we decided to watch a movie. I insisted on watching Love at 7th sight first, and yixin commented at first that he didn't understand a thing, and later that it was lame. I just thought Mike He was so handsome. Then we went out and got waffles and cup noodles for dinner, and some cheese cupcake for breakfast next day. We were back in our room when we realised we didn't have utensils to eat with. So we went back and got a packet of disposable chopsticks just for 2 cup noodles. Haha. Then we put 20th Century Boys Chapter 2 on. I think I dozed off near the middle of the movie, and had to pull myself up to wash up before collapsing on the pillow. Yixin happily continued the movie, I think I opened my eyes to see him shutting down my laptop and went back to sleep again.

We woke up the next day feeling all relaxed and lazy. I put Chapter 2 on again to finish watching what I've missed, and then the last chapter. It felt so nice to be slacking in an air-con room :) We could hardly get out of bed, but it was already 1 plus in the afternoon (!!) We made our way down to Wild Wild Wet since we had free tickets there. There were some construction works going on, so we didn't get to explore the whole place. I loved the lazy river most 'cause it moved so slowly ahaha. Floats there are FOC, they just float around in the water for people to grab them. The waves over at the wave pool were way more exciting than those at jurong, i even got dizzy! I tried the waves once with a float, and then with a life jacket. I think using a life jacket is less tiring since there's no need to hold onto a float. Can pretend that I'm surfing too :) After that we went to Hei sushi for its teatime buffet! But they don't offer free red plates :( I ordered one anyway, I'm so addicted to Amaebi sashimi! After that we went for a little bowling session. There was this super pro uncle right beside us, who smiled and nodded encouragingly when our ball curved right into the gutters. His ball, on the other hand, could make a nice big curve to hit all the pins. So stressed. I lost both games to yixin and he was so proud of himself. He didn't even make the hundred mark heh. Then we took a ride on the ferris wheel, just 2 short rounds :(

I wanted to have a movie marathon, but after watching percy jackson I was very tired already. I think it's the air-con, since I'm pretty much aircon-deprived at home. We slept till late morning the next day, and had a quick swim before checking out. The Costa Sands pool has see-through windows, I totally felt like a penguin in the zoo when I swam past them. Haha. We lugged our bags to Sakura to have their lunch buffet, and to our surprise, there were a lot of people queueing up for the 1 hr buffet thingy. A pity we didn't have any dbs/posb cards, or it would have been so much cheaper. I had a lot of my favourite salmon sashimi :)

Oh and I kicked my HDD off the bed while watching 赌侠. Now it just makes clicking noises and refuses to work. I think it's pretty much dead. I tried freezing it, putting it in an oven (and melting its plastic covering how stupid of me), whacking it on all sides. Haii. Will have to get another one at the upcoming IT fair. It's lucky I keep my important data across all my comps.

Alright here are some photos:


There amaebi!
I'm looking at the menu on the chair 'cause our table was too full! Ahaha!
I didn't have a waterproof camera so we could only take photos after coming up -.-

Handsome guy, pretty girl, pretty guy ?!!