Work: Day 45, 46, 47

Work Day 45 (28 April)

Nothing much for today, but after reading a forum thread yesterday night regarding colleagues vs friends. Yep, I think I should be more open and positive, i.e. don't keep colleagues as strictly colleagues but to mix around with them and see if it's possible to make more friends. Isn't that good news? Can be colleagues during work, but friends after work wor. Well, to become friends it shouldn't be too difficult. After all, my team's average age should be quite young, so definitely should be easier right?

Ahh, my habit is still there - I always keep to myself if I'm new to environment and open myself up slowly. And till now, I still got colleagues that I'm quite unfamiliar with...

Lunch with colleagues and Vicki. As I wasn't feeling 100% fine, I had porridge instead. WK seems to know a lot of 八卦事, GD teased him that he knows lots of gossiping stuff.

*Omo, I already knew my schedule up till June. Don't know is good or bad news zzz...*

Work Day 46 (29 April)

Morning super super sagged. As usual, I followed the timing to wake up, prepare myself for the day and finally left house to walk to Lakeside MRT. Everything was normal until I reached the platform - it was slightly more crowded today. So I thought it was just happen that the previous train had left for a while and next one was coming...

But the display showing 3 mins! Aigoo, I knew likely would be late ds.

There were longer waits at stations up till Buona Vista before the train behaved like 'normal'. After checking out at forum then I knew there was a track fault towards the Pasir Ris direction, which was the cause for the delay. Zzzz... Simi stunt?!

Indeed I was late! It was already 7.49 am when I tapped out. And when I tapped out, $1.22 was deducted. NOOOOOO!!!

To balance myself out from this incident, had a very full lunch @ 建記辣椒板麵 with WK and GD. Ordered their 辣椒幼麵 ($5) and a bottle of their homemade barley ($1.80).

看起來很小份

可是我飽了

因為碗大的關係

WK was ranting and then GD ended it off by looking at me, saying 'I'm such a good person (than WK)'... Haha, I almost bursted out laughing but hold it in and replied both of them were good people and I'm a 'bad' person la. Ok la, not really bad, but just to bring out the fact that they both are really nice people what.

Oh, GD was born in 1990. He looked like he's from 1989 but I was wrong. Same as CY lor, born in 1992 but yet could manage graduate from uni same time as me. *See how much time I've lagging behind them, if not for the NS, I would have started my career path earlier than them already...*

Finally, the letter from CPF is not about my application to repay the tuition fee loan was rejected, but now it's being processed! Phew, I was super flustered when the 2 applications I submitted previously were rejected with the reason 'signature is irregular'. I don't know what does that means. Anyway, went to bank last last Saturday (19 April) to update the signature to the one I'm using now.

Next up is to write in to increase the installment amount so that I do not have to incur the compounded interest. Jin chor leh.

After this, I couldn't do anything but would have some time to brush and pick up some financial knowledge. Yes, with the salary now I'm getting is enough to feed myself and support family partially, but isn't enough to live comfortably. So by increasing side-income would be good. But I'll see how as from now till the day I would start to do investment, there is about a 2-year period. Use this time to learn as much as possible ba!

Work Day 47 (30 April)

Followed GD to site to do work. This is the day where both of us could not complete anything! In the end we tried to do other stuff, but also didn't seem successful too. Super sian, plus the rain in the late morning didn't help neither.

His new phone now is Galaxy Ace 3 after his S4 was lost 2 weeks ago. He brought it back from Australia after his gf got it in some ways. Lucky out of the unlucky unfortunate events. A very big downgrade I would say. Didn't he want to get at least a flagship model? I always feel bad about it because it's the day he was working with me when he lost the phone. Hope the month of May is a good one ba!

He said I had good life after graduation. Where got good life?! If I can shake leg at home + money come in - then I would say it's good life. I already lagging so far behind le shuo.

Then I explained to him I started out as second upper and was quite happy with it. Until Nicholas came along to do self study outside home and my results improved leaps and bounds. I didn't want him to leave an impression that I WAS THIS good since the beginning, but only achieved it through hardwork. Aiyo~

Hehe, the fact that I was a dog handler did spike his interest to talk more. Finally got common interest liao haha. He had 3 German Shepherds (2 alive and are 7 years old each, the other one died at 10 years old) back in his home. Ok, I would like to see the pictures of the dog... Anyway, I find it's not easy to get him talk and chat lo, but I think is a good start. :)

After lunch, followed him again to another site. We talked about dogs again after showing him the photo with my dog. He mentioned something like his gf's sister would put dogs with him and the dog after finish eating, it would go up to him and gave him a nudge asking to help clean the mouth or something. The dog jin cute lor. Haha... Lastly, he asked are the balls of the dogs cut off. I was quite surprised by this question initially but I  answered him accordingly lol. It's due to the work nature, that's why the balls cannot be taken away. His dogs are done like that? Omo...

*Surprised to see Alberto there wor...*

Over there I actually didn't follow carefully what he was doing but instead I followed WK more. But again, he didn't get his things done because of some problems. Aigoo...

WK now promote to 'photo manager' hor, sneakily taking photos of us here and there. Tsk, very paiseh to have candid shots taken. Oh ya, I want him to send me the photo he took the other day when I was walking around the tracks.

Korean drama '식샤를 합시다' (Let's Eat) review

*這兩天整個人都累累的*

經過漫長的三、四個月，終於看完韓劇'식샤를 합시다' (Let's Eat)。這是PG一直死命在那邊介紹我去看的一部新韓劇。本來我沒有興趣看的——只不過是吃的而已嘛有什麼好看的。

我覺得吸引我看下去不是劇本，而是導演怎麼把享用美食的樣子用鏡頭捕捉起來，不只是普通隨便拍下食物+人物嘴巴這樣簡單而已。看得出導演是有精心策劃，把吃東西那麼日常的事情都拍得特別精緻。還有就是演員比較誇張的進食表情，我敢肯定平時吃東西的時候，他們都不是這樣子的。吃東西的時候完全是進入忘我境界，一邊吃一邊笑的說……另外一點就是戲中任務會有一些奇怪誇張的表情，而且還會附帶音效，看起來就很好笑。

整部劇主要圍繞這個已離婚的女主角이수경（本名也叫이수경！）的生活，最後變成三角戀愛的故事。

 수경看到美食欲罷不能！

오도연（이도연飾演）單看那個樣子已經很搞笑了，加上一些誇張的表情還有就是她的語音，要笑死我了！還有就是她太自戀了，以為兩位哥哥喜歡她，tsk tsk tsk，觀眾看了誰都會知道那是不可能的啦，哈哈哈！

PG 在劇中最喜歡的人物——오도연

連那個小弟弟也是很不行，一直想辦法去zeh zeh家玩。哈哈！人小鬼大啊～

至於劇中的狗呢，已經是一個焦點了。除了很靈之外，很聽話就對了，不知道是不是女主角的狗，因為好像蠻聽她的話的。

我最不喜歡它的結尾，做得實在是太差了，很多東西都沒交代到。他們應該多加一集下去來交代這些東西，除非是有續集啦。然後就是不怎麼喜歡會有那種詭異的畫面出來，露手露影子就是不露臉，然後又要放那些音效，有時候不得不當作鬼戲來看。拜託！

 劇情結尾的最後一個畫面

Work: Day 44 + night work + dinner with Bay

Afternoon got informed that got night shift(!). What a surprise! But I already told Bay got meet up for dinner later, so I don't want to cancel it, so just chiong and meet up with him in the end. At the most drink coffee to tong for night work. As I experienced such situations back in K9 days, I was more or less prepared liao de. Even Bay also agreed that it works very similar to K9 system lol.

Met Bay at PS, had dinner at Ajisen. *Omo, happened to see Jer Wei at Uniqlo!* Had Bay suggested ramen, I could have set the venue elsewhere where we could have some rather authentic ramen. The menu that the store had was quite high tech, placed order through the iPad Mini located at each table. I had the chicken karagge curry mayo ramen ($14++) while Bay had the seafood miso ramen ($12++). The curry ramen smelt like it's quite exotic but after a few bites, it tasted rather normal liao. For Bay's one, the soup tasted almost like alcohol on first impression! But after that, it began to shift back to typical miso soup taste. LOL... Bay was commenting that there weren't a lot of scallops, but with a few sotong pieces and some vegetables. Cui by my standard lo.

 日式咖哩炸雞扒拉麵

咖哩香味撲鼻

但味道有少許淡淡

至少不是呈現出來那樣濃濃的感覺

 這個有一點點失敗的成品

Bay說是sotong + 包菜拉麵

多過是海鮮味增拉麵

Damage: $30.60

That's my treat to Bay.

Bay said that he saw Geraint 2 days ago when Geraint came over to his building (Bay attending course at Tanjong Pagar this week) to buy lunch. What's more surprising is that he actually buy cai png and commute by MRT! Omo, I thought he got a car and use that as his primary transportation. Really down to earth ds.

Then heard from Bay that Geraint didn't make contact with K9 peeps liao. True that now everyone working, hard to stay contact. He also said that SK changed a lot lol. Well, for his case, everyone was surprised too!

Went to Cold Stone Creamery @ Orchard Central. Guessed it's the first time Bay patronising this shop. Had the smallest serving of chocolate devotion ($6). Bay had his mint mint chocolate ($6) and we sat down there continue chatting.

Damage: $6

First time doing night work at mainline. I'm still rather wowed by the system and its equipments though it was not the first time seeing it. But still wowed...

Left house at 11.45 pm. Took cab down to Bugis. Just when I was about to conclude that I'm the first to reach as nobody was around, saw Vincent and Paul. Then they told me JM was waiting downstairs. But in my mind I only wanted to find toilet.

Then came up with JM to ground level, saw a bunch of people waiting outside. So weird, I was there 5 mins ago but I didn't see a single one of them. Then 5 mins later, they were waiting there. Hmm...

Started the work, got to know how to manage the system and such. Finished everything by 5 I guess(?). Had breakfast @ Starbucks, treated by boss. *Bosses were fast!* By the time then, I was a bit stoning there liao while the rest talking amongst themselves. It's not as if I am not sociable, I love chatting and talking nonsense but sometimes it's a little bit difficult to start off somewhere and I also don't know how other party is like as a person, so I tend to observe people more whenever I am new to the environment. Maybe people see me as a quiet person? Don't know.

The large sized green tea latte jin full leh and I couldn't sleep after got back from work. Zzzz... Body clock all upside down :(

BWB | burger VS wings + bar

For the first time, I went to both sites in a single day. Accomplishment?! Haha~

Went to track with WK and GD. I always scared by taking photos there, I wanted to but in the end don't dare to do it. Anyway, just kope from WK can liao. Haha~

Today ended work rather smoothly, so went home slightly earlier. *Got time to do RT one, but sag that I only can know go home earlier at the very last minute* Weird that JM was at office today instead of following GD with Pra. Asked GD about his phone thingy, he said he made police report and gotten another SIM card from Telco FOC. First time hearing that the replacement SIM card is free in the event that the phone is lost. Hmm... He also got a phone (much worse than the previous phone he had), don't know where he got it from, but heard it's some extra phone his friend has.

Yesterday went in office around 2.45 pm to work half day following the night work on previous day. Then 6.30 pm left the office to go Somerset. I was quite on the dot when I reached 313 Level 1. WX and PG were already there at level basement 2. Of course I didn't see them baituo until I called them and they were surprised that I was waiting for them at level 1! Aigoo...

The restaurant 'BWB | burger VS wings + bar' is located at level 11 of Orchard Central. It isn't really famous and easily found, but the good thing was that the crowd was ok and the ambience was pretty good. The lighting makes it perfect for any food shot!

Ordered their hot buffalo wings. There were 3 levels of spiciness - mild, medium and suicide. While knowing how dreadful it is from the Korean instant noodles, I decided to forgo the suicide level and opt for the medium one.

BUT it was so spicy until I only finished 5 out of the 8 pieces when I thought I could finish all. (I could finish the super spicy Korean instant noodles wor but not this one) Very sorry about that.

它的炒飯是冷的！

其他的就ok

 Brownie看起來不錯

味道卻只是普通而已

 我完全被這個炸掉去

很辣！！！

Damage: $14.90

Last(?) night shift

Went back office to work yesterday to clear some work.

Surprised to see JY and SG in office. Omo, what brought them here to office? Chatted a while there as they want to know more about me. Couldn't stray away from food as the chatting topic. So basically we talked about what kind of food we eat, how our mothers cook food, what are the shortcuts and better ways to cook food, etc. They also very interested to know what healthy habits I have after I told them I very seldom consume other drinks other than plain water. They were also astonished to know that my body age is 3 years younger than actual age! Haha!! Jin yang talking to them. *I like to socialise and talking to people as I could exchange ideas, experience or simply just for entertainment by talking 廢話. The issue is that I warm up rather slow as I tend to observe people on first few meetings, till now still trying to get to know colleagues better.*

Also saw JM, Pra and Charlie came back from site, GD still at site doing work. Only left the place at 6.40 pm. Omo, not much rest time for night work later.

Luckily the work was finished early and I could have a slightly longer rest after work to make up for the insufficient rest before that.

Heard more night shifts coming up. Wondering how my body would tahan the siongness. Haiz, shall see how it goes.

心裡不是很舒服

Making a blog post at this hour seems crazy, but I just need to get something done while waiting for hair to dry up after night work just now.

剛才跟WK聊了一下下
更了解他們以前的狀況是這樣的
只能說如果我跟GD一起2012年畢業就好
老實講心裡確實會有一點點不是很舒服
不平衡醬
但是呢，既來之則安之
我也只能這樣接受醬的一個事實咯
而且現在最重要就是還債
其他的都不去想先

然後對於有些人的評語……
我跟你無怨無仇
也沒講你somok東西
我不明白zomok無端端又中箭了
我知道你想要說的是什麼
只是你用一個婉轉的方式講出來
不要那麼尷尬而已
其實是很尷尬的
我能有什麼反應？
利用很累要閉上眼睛為由就這樣帶過去咯
還能怎樣……
麻木了

*真的很無奈中*

今天也沒什麼
早上去上班
GD已經到了！
誇張到鬼
但沒有走去問他手機怎樣
我不是故意不問
只是不知道如何開口問
事發當天是有一點點不是很好受啦
畢竟他不見手機的那天剛好是跟我同隊的
後來好像有發現到他買了一個新手機咯

午餐有一個女同事說我講普通話
會有台灣腔
真的有嗎？
不覺得
也沒去注意
可能一路以來都有看台灣綜藝節目的關係
或多或少有許影響？

這禮拜的schedule還蠻不是很和我心意的說
拜六晚都要做！
Aigoo, 醬我的RT就去不成了咯……

Tulipmania + meetup with Haegen

Went for the Tulipmania exhibition @ Gardens by the Bay yesterday. *Don't know how many times I've came here within a year, each time visit feeling more and more sian liao =.=*

The queue was horrendous and the whole place was macam like a wet market, probably due to the fact it was on a Saturday. Yang got passion card so all tickets were entitled to a 10% discount (from $12 to $10.80).

Without much descriptions, shall let the photos explain everything. (Actually is lazy to write liao)

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Today morning went RT, bumped into WC, this time round he spotted me. Aigoo, he has to complete 20 RTs... Mcs...

Then bumped into Sharon at Lakeside MRT, although the distance was just 擦肩而過 type, but she didn't see me at all. Guess she's going to work.

Then met up with Haegen at JP. He's changing his job soon and his new workplace is at Lorong Chuan which is quite near to where I work now! Good for him lo, at least no need Talked a lot about each other's work...

He introduced me this smartphone app called Waze. It's an traffic management app showing where are the traffic jams, speed cameras, road block, etc. so that user could choose an alternative route to reach destination. All these information are fed by other motorists aka users of the same app. It works quite similar to Google's implementation on the Google Maps.

But the thing is that my spare phone now is so cui, can't wait to get a Xiaomi phone to replace it so that I could enjoy multimedia entertainment and utilise these useful apps at the same time. Heez~

Last but not least, Haegen also expressed his helplessness when he wanted to ask the fellow ex-colleagues out for a gathering since this year's CNY. People such as Angie, CJ, YH, RQ etc. are included, but failed every time. Reason being they are busy. Actually I also wanted to treat Angie back, but couldn't find a time where both of us available. Perhaps a weekday evening?