haven't blogged for a few days again cos i was busy with work.YES WORK. i've found a job at CPF board. posted to Bishan for now, but not sure how long i'll stay there for.26 Dec 06had the girl zone CHRISTMAS BASH '06 planned by melly and yours truly at janet's lovely, huge and beautiful house. had a blast. esp since everyone was really high. we passed cards with our faces, making use of the oil. and yes it was disgusting. we used banana to play ping pong golf and we had to defrost a frozen shirt for one of our team mates to wear. guess what causes a frozen shirt to defrost the fastest? a large amount of water. and where can we find that in janet's house? THE POND! the pond which has many fishes and one frog. the pond which smells like garlic. poor joey had to wear the defrosted shirt. hyok. all in all, we had a wonderful wonderful time. 27 Dec 06went down to tanjong pagar CPF core centre to report for work. my father insisted on bringing me there on my first day and the nasty security refused to let him in. he didnt even let me say goodbye to my father lo. i felt so nostalgic at that moment. reminded me of when i was pri 1 on the first day of pri school. my father brought me too. anyway, i wanted to get back out to chase after my dad, but i was running late. so i decided to just sms him. hyok. so filial right. anyway, we had 3 hours of boring boring dry briefing and a stack of thick notes to memorise about the CPF package. shall not go into detail bout that if not this post'll be super long. anyway, made a new friend called ruo yun, from njc, tall, slim, pretty, fair. instant click. and i found out she's a christian too, attending new creation church and quite an active youth in her cell group. just like me. haha. the woman at CPF core centre asked whether we were friends and offered to post us to the same branch. so nice right. and ruo yan stays in toa payoh -> braddel -> BISHAN. i stay in yck -> amk -> BISHAN. coincidental? i don't think so. divine intervention? definitely. went down to bishan branch after lunch and both of us were fussing bout the blisters we were getting from wearing covered shoes. i was wearing my new open toed black pumps and she was wearing her new brown pumps. quite silly to wear new shoes on the first day of work cos we were bound to get blisters but whatever. when we arrived there, it was peak hour. the supervisor had no time to show us around. it was chaotic. you don't even have space to turn around. trust singaporeans to always panic at the last minute. anyway, she just gave us our tags and told us to get to work. without memorised knowledge, without proper training, we were thrown into the frontline. we were CLUELESS. but nevertheless we tried our best. frantically flipping our notes whenever someone asks a question. we were so glad when 5.00 pm finally came and the front doors were locked. the temp senior staffs there were really friendly too. Nas the senior senior, ming kian the pink guy, keng ling who's same age as us but knows many different languages including dialects and malay, and jeffrey who we didn't talk to at all.watched curse of the golden flower at bishan after that. gongli's beautiful, has great boobs and i was actually impressed with jay chou. besides that, the movie was crap. boring senseless corrupted immoral golden crap. the sewn chrysanthemums were nice though. 28 Dec 062nd day of work. eyes were practically half closed. and just one hour into work, my stomach was growling. ming kian thought us how to use the computer system to check CPF stuff. quite good. right after that we had to attend to the people already. at first we were really quite blur but slowly we were getting the hang of it. was so relieved when lunch time arrived. went to the big coffee shop in bishan central with ruo yun to have lunch. i feel like i'm gonna lose my voice soon because of all the talking, the crowd was lesser today too. BUT at the end of the day. i had to attend to a monster woman. thank god the seniors and permanent staff came to my rescue. this auntie (prob facing a midlife crisis) came waddling from the queue and plopped herself on the chair. and slammed a few letters on the table. shall not type exactly what she said. but apparently she was blaming the 'bloody' cpf system because we were not informing her properly. the letter was sent in nov. she didn't open it till now. she said she was on holiday. hello? NOV. now its almost the end of Dec. she said:"who says that i have to open my letters straight away the next day?! WHO SAID SO?!" then we told her there was actually a registration in april already. she said she went for holidays on and off. we told her she didn't have to come down and could sign up online with her singpass earlier in the year. she said she forgot her singpass and her computer crashed. so its our fault?!?! i'm like what kinda stupid reason is that? and she pointed at the cpf chairman's name and said i wanna talk to this bloody man about the bloody system. screamed and made a scene. a malay man in the queue behind her told her there was a lot of people queueing and she shouldnt be doing this now. she screamed at him saying :'THEN YOU COME EARLIER THAN ME LA!! IF YOU COME LATER THAN ME, DON'T COMPLAIN! I HAVE ENOUGH PROBLEMS OF MY OWN!!" yes she has problems. MAJOR PROBLEMS. she said: do you know how difficult it is to get a car park at the bishan car park?! do you know its raining?!" and she's blaming that on us. i mean, its not like i wanna say this but that's outright ridiculous bullshit. she has to be either dumb or stupid or downright idiotic to give such a comment. in fact everything that came out of her mouth was to make a fool of herself. she demanded to see the manager and my senior told her to go to the front or write in to the CPF board. and she said: why should i write in?! you guys are the ones with the bloody system!! i will not go to your manager!! ask him to come to me!! why should i go to him?!" i'm like... waliao. behaving worse than a 3 year old snobbish brat. what a unreasonable irritating monster. in the interview room with the manager, she talked for hours. how stupid. downright SCHTUPID like my dad would say. and you know what? all she had to do was fill in a form that would at the most take 2 mins and she could leave. but oh well, in the end she was making a fool of herself. the mad screaming woman. 29 dec 06today. day 3. today was better. there was lesser crowd and lesser angry people. thought it was ruo yun's turn to face the music. the people i attended to today were mostly housewives and elderly. though sometimes it was really difficult to get through to them since there was kinda a language barrier. and guess whaT?? rebecca's mum came and she actually came to my counter, she frowned and said you look really familiar. i told her im sarah and she got so excited and exclaimed loudly she couldn't recognise me. hyok. so coincidental.ooh. the chicken rice in the bishan central big coffee shop is really quite nice. ate it today for lunch. went to get belgian choc ice blended from the coffee bean after that. quite nice, except that it was a tad too bitter.well that was all for today. nothing special really happened. You packed your last two bags. A taxi's 'round the bend. You used to laugh out loud, But you can't remember when. You lost your lies. It's like your moving out of time, And the whole word crumbles right beneath you. So, I might've made a few mistakes, But that was back when you would smile, And we would go everywhere, But we ain't been there for awhile. And this I know, There's a place that we can goA place where I can finally let you know. 'Cause I'm the one that loves you lately. You and me, we got this great thing. We're the only one's that around, We're the only one's that around this Babylon. I hope you find whatever you've been lookin' for. Just remember where you're from and who you are, 'Cause there's a thousand lights that'll make you feel brand new, But if you ever lose your way, I'll leave one on for you. 'Cause I'm the one that loves you lately. You and me, we got this great thing. So, come back and you sit down. Relax. Everything's to see that you've come a long, long way, And it's the place that you should be.
snll drifted away at 6:43 AM
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