2014-06-30

Monday blues, but not yet blue

Morning was shocked to see boss (Spain side) in office. Yay! Got someone to save me in F&D le!

Lunch with Joa, WK and GD. Joa got F&D so we went to Tai Seng to pick her up. After that they suggested to go Old Airport Road hawker centre, but I told them it has been closed down for renovation. They went saggy... Then Joa said she got craving for Mos Burger, ok so we went Nex for it.

Then Joa and WK kept on teasing me with JM. Say I got use communicator and wahtsapp to chat with her bla bla bla. Aigoo, a lot of times is regarding work leh, and most of the time is JM approach me to chat leh. I would do the same if they start talking to me also what. SSF...

Then talked about leave, WK di siao both GD and Joa say Joa got 18 days. I would believe that she has only 14 days la. I won't be surprised if WK or GD has 18 days. But GD said he only has 14 days. Now I don't know how the staff level works here le. I would have think that everybody is at least one level above me lor.

Then in afternoon, SG came into office. Quite nice of him to pass me a bread. Gomawo~

GD was doing his training which is long overdue le, those trainings are supposed to let new staff do after they come into office de. He complained that cannot pass the test at the end of training. Then WK came over to help him, in the end both of them also anyhow hantam the answer. I went over and kaypoh see what question they got stuck. Ahh, it's that one, very easy la. After I suggested the answer, they were like so WOW about it. And GD kept on saying along the line 'your first class honour is true, today I finally see it'. Then WK asked me if I'm FCH, I replied yes lol. Actually FCH so what? Does it make a difference in salary? I don't think I'm taking more than what GD and WK is taking lor.

Went to printer to retrieve my stuff. Malay AJM saw me looked sleepy then she said she giving me something to wake me up - cheese cake brought from Batam! Happened Joa also at AJM desk, so I asked Joa if she wants the cake also. She rejected the offer - that's fine with me.

Then went out with SG and Joa to get some drinks to spend the afternoon. While on our way back, Joa said the AJM = my fairy godmother. I asked her why call that AJM such name, she replied that because I got the cake and she didn't. MCS? It's you who don't want the cake wor...

2014-06-29

Sunday dinner with HL, Sebastian, ZX

Morning went RT. Just when I thought I would be late, was surprised to see long queue forming up. *not first come first served basis meh?* then why the long queue? The answer is that they changed the system to the activity-based de, like what Kenneth and Paul mentioned. Aigoo, ok they are right after all.

As the queue progressed, the PTI announced what are the colors available and blue were running out. Left yellow lor. Then when it was about my turn, the announcement was that left less than 10 blue tags. So without much consideration nor I had the chance to look at the color legend, went to opt for blue.

And then I think I got the high-intensity one. Why? Because the blue tag were the first to out pro! At 9 already collected out pro slip le, Oh yeh! Couldn't help but kept xyying to myself.

Then nothing much happened at home except that I was doing office work. Motivations no morale quite low tbh. I wondered how long can I sustain. Want me to prepare everything yet want me to read logs, not that I don't want to read. But there are simply too many logs to see! Not like the train ones. Only 2 logs to see.

 打開這個特別的巧克力吃
西班牙買的
不會很貴

Then afternoon 1 plus HH asked want come out dinner coz he wanted to claim the spinelli free cake. Then chatting chatting halfway he said he not doing dinner, and the finally ended up not going. Crazy... Want dinner but cannot make up his mind really want it or not. If still fiddling whether to come out or not then don't ask in first place. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if this is his first time, but he always come out with this stunt almost everytime, most of them are hoax, people now are getting irritated by him le. I was quite annoyed lo.

Seow choon now become 中國火鍋?It's sad to see a shop that I already known since young (though I never buy anything from there) to go. When the environment works against you, you either struggle or closed down. In this case, the popularity of apps brought by Apple and Android really hit the console games quite hard.

Attendees:
1. Me
2. HL
3. Sebastian
4. ZX (came a bit later)

Couple just finished their weekend yoga session. Met them at Spinelli before going Daiso where Sebastian wanna get a drink there, while waiting for ZX to come. So coincident that we 3 bumped into him just outside NamNam Noodle Bar. ZX left his wallet at office so not even half a cent could be found on him. Lol, had to ask Sebastian pay for him first then ZX returns him. Had this Dry spicy minced meat pork balls noodle ($9.90). I find expensive because they used instant mee and included only 2 meat balls. Taste wise is ok la, nothing too impactful to strike a strong impression. Like that for $10 leh! Good thing is that the price is nett - no GST nor service charge. They 3 had beef pho, which I avoid as much as possible, with ZX ordering the Vietnamese spring roll and coffee.

我知道賣相不好
$9.90有一點貴咯

Damage: $9.90

Then sat and chat a bit, mainly about CPF. I'm the most chor one, ZX is buying the time so that next year he can stop paying back to CPF because his dad hits 55 years old le. HL debt is quite light and she got ready cash to pay off in one go, so she going to call CPF to enquire this. Then ZX said that morning meeting JX bx. He don't know how to do calculations to arrive at the answer. Then ZX bla bla bla and got the answer out. Omg I think JX may not pass his probation lo (if it's 1 year).

Anyway I couldn't be bothered by much because I had enough with my troubles at work liao. Every meeting go there scolded by them is quite depressing, but I feel that they shouldn't expect an answer or explanation immediately, especially with the number of issues happening and the amount of logs is just too huge le. But what I would do if I can change the situation is that if it's doesn't affect the whole operation then still can raise the issue up but we may not reply to all of them but instead see what we can do to include in the next version update. Just like any other technology company would do, look at Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Google etc. They do take in any feedback on any issue or bug in the software and iron them out in the next software rollout, but they may not tell you what exactly happened. The same principle could apply here. But it's just my wishful thinking la.

HL thinks that HH niece got slim down a bit. Sebastian said the nephew always put up a black face. But what's quite shocking is that now they all open food wrapper must open secretly, the sound made by wrapper if it's heard by the nephew, he will run over and wanted to eat. Niece more kua zhang, there was once when HH was eating his food and instead of giving his niece a small piece, HH ate it away. The niece's mouth was moving and chewing as if the food was inside her mouth!!!!!! Omo, shrieking is just an understatement of what I heard from HL on this.

After dinner, ZX went back to office to retrieve his wallet. Then me and the couple went take mrt. HL suggested to go Toa Payoh and take bus from there, I also followed suit because I can sit down and use my iPad lo. What a day to spend in weekend! Tomorrow will have Monday blues liao. I can't imagine how to spend the week again. Hopefully it's not like last week. Now family starts to notice the heavy workload I have, even my brother starts to question me on this. I myself also think that it's a bit too heavy for a new staff to handle. After all, I need to explain what's happening, so I think someone experienced in this area would do fine.

2014-06-28

Karaoke + post birthday celebration for HL

Attendees:
1. Me
2. PG
3. HH
4. ZX
7. HL

As there was no call from big boss in morning, told PG that actually I could make it to JB today. Anyway he needed to work today as urgently requested by his boss (can claim half day off-in-lieu), so we planned to go in the afternoon. ZX and HL were free for the whole da so they went in first. HH got some family lunch at some atas Chinese restaurant, so the earliest he could make it was after the lunch.

Anyway, PG told me to meet at Woodlands Checkpoint at 3.30 pm. But it was 3 pm and I was still at home, desperate me called for desperate measure - asked bro to bring me there by car! But halfway there, PG told me he's still at Queens St waiting for bus with HH. Aigoo, that means I could have taken 160 there lo. But nonetheless, I saved on the bus trip fare. Haha!

Went Sheng Siong nearby to see see walk walk while waiting PG and HH to reach Woodlands, bought 4 pens @ $3.20. Not bad at all, quite smooth writing and it's gel based. Gave one to PG and sis ds.

Damage: $3.20

We didn't cross the causeway by the same bus.

Was quite shocked to see the massive crowds at the Malaysian side. Aigoo, I wondered how long more I have to wait for they all. Took me 30 mins to go past Malaysian custom. Aigoo, faint~ Just when I reached City Square Old Town Coffee to get WiFi, they two arrived shortly after. PG exclaimed that though the queue was long, but it took at most 15 mins for them to clear the custom. Jin song lor.

First thing was to grab a room at Neway. But saggy was we were only allowed to sing for 3 hours strictly. But that's ok we weren't going to stay until so late anyway. Dinner was good! The atmosphere was good! ZX挑戰茜拉的想你的夜,真的很有挑戰的一首歌咧。遺憾的是太多歌唱不完了!

挑戰茜拉的想你的夜!
超震撼!


 這些就是我們的晚餐
當然還有很多很多美食
拍不完而已
=.=


 Nicholas講今天的他像個大蘿蔔!
完全不行
褲子據說是在Zalora買的
$12罷了
現在大家看看這件褲能穿多久

Damage: ???

Supposedly this karaoke session is to celebrate HL's birthday one. But she insisted to pay for her own share. Now I don't know how to compensate her back ds.

After the karaoke, went to walk walk around before we called it a day. 因為遲了也不好意思麻煩ZX特意在Jurong放我跟PG兩個下車再回去東邊放HLHH下車,所以我們兩個就先回了。They continued to walk around, maybe went for a quick massage session before going back because they know the jam on Saturday night time is usually quite bad.

As we were queuing up for bus, PG 爆料 said AJM was shrieking out '甜到鬼' after a few occurrances where after some outings, ZX personally drop him off directly downstairs. The tone of shrieking was so bx that PG can't even emulate him properly. Aigoo, hear liao I also shake head and said BXDS loudly.

Horrible jam. Luckily we left early so got some spare time to buffer in this jam. As I was browsing the phone on the bus, noticed that the phone lost some of my recent photos because I didn't delete of them. Even those taken today were also lost! So something was wrong with either phone or memory card. That's why I couldn't capture how much was spent for karaoke.

And then when I wanted use the earphone to listen to mp3, found that the right side ear plug was missing also! Became a little bit moody because cannot enjoy myself on the long bus trip home.

Both events made me felt so sad! But as soon as I reached home, I saw the missing ear plug was actually at home the whole day! ^^ 嚇死我了,還以為又要買一個新的。But the photo saving issue I don't know if it's a memory card issue or phone firmware issue. :(

2014-06-27

Super sag and sian

Work from 8 am to 10 pm. What can I say? I didn't have my lunch lor. Shag, hungry and tired... I begin to have some thoughts about my job le. If once in a while still can accept, but everyday like that? I myself cannot tahan lo, unless my salary is higher. Pay me more than 4k per month, I can work 7 days per week.

The best thing is I only spent 13 cents hohoho!

Yay! Works cancelled!

Supposed to work night shift, but last minute got cancelled! Though would have little sleep (yes, again), but I was xyy-ing all the way.

Everybody knows my name and everybody knows I went to Spain for training! I was shocked when this guy called Calvin(?) was able to call out my name when I don't even know his name in first place. News spreads fast wor. Anyway, after the thing got cancelled. Went to chit chat a bit, ahhh~ Now I know more about everything le. Hehe...

Ok, should go to sleep now and welcome the last day of the week!

2014-06-26

Not in a very very good mood + meetup with Sharon and YB

Today at work not in a very good mood. In fact was emo-ing and focusing on my work.

Supposed to leave 2pm for home to rest, but in the end left after 5pm, after finishing whatever I can in office. Meeting until 2.40 pm! Omo... Sibei sian... Seem Pra is enjoying lor. Now don't know if tomorrow still got night shift. This is getting bad. If not for the first job and experience, I would seriously consider to move on to something else le for the immerse amount of work I need to do and the commueration I got.

Not an easy job, but looking at positive side, the experience is going to be a lot a lot ba. Hopefully things are going to change for the better in years to come.

Went JE to meet Sharon and YB for dinner at nomu nomu @ Westgate. Saw Zhen Ken, Sheng Long and Christine from Seascan outside Uniqlo at Jem! Omo, I quite scared but yet curious if they noticed me or not. But in the end, they didn't. Appetizer was seaweed fried chicken  ($7.90), it's not quite the typical fried chicken wings we usually have. Also, it's not the Korean style fried chicken too. Unique... Had this Kamo rosu soba ($14.90++), apparently it's their recommended dish. The duck meat was soft! The noodles was not cold as I've expected. But overall was slightly above average la, still pass the assessment!
 
Seaweed fried chicken ($7.90++)
不是普通的炸雞
也不是韓國炸雞
特別啊

Kamo rosu soba ($14.90++)
日式鴨肉湯麵
吃起來不會油膩膩
鴨肉也很軟
總之覺得吃了不會增肥的一碗麵

Towards the end, I ordered this snowflake matcha cake ($5.90++). Compared to the one YB ordered, this cake is still considered moist, unlike the dried up and hardened YB had.

Snowflake matcha cake ($5.90++)
大概猜到這些糕點
都不是門市的招牌菜
雖然是外包糕點
就會少許不新鮮
 不過這塊蛋糕還是及格的

Thanks Sharon and YB for the birthday treat. It was so last minute and I thought this meal was just to meet up only. I can go dutch

Damage: $0

First thing they noticed is I got skinnier. Sharon commented that I slimmed down quite a bit and asked is it due to I went to Spain and food there didn't suit me. It's not due to the overseas trip, it's because of the workload I have now. I don't know, maybe overseas trip played a part. In fact my appetite is bigger than I used to have for the past few months le.

Chatted about work, Hua Yi, YB's boyfriend... They were surprised that I am repaying a lot per month for my tuition fee debt. What's so surprising? Isn't it good to repay back asap, clear your debt first before anything else. Interest accumulated is not a joke lo.

Took bus back with YB, shared with her about my Madrid trip. She was particularly interested in the mobile bar thingy. Asked me to send her the video...

Last, but not least, I intro them the new Sugar app, available on iOS and Android. The moment I told them got free $10 credit after signing up, their eyes grew big and wanted to know more. LOL~ 好的東西就是要分享的嘛……

2014-06-25

Things aren't looking good

Went lunch with Joa and WK at Imperial Treasure Windows of Hong Kong @ TripleOne. Had 雞扒雙腸飯+洋蔥汁 ($8.50). Not bad, apparently the scrambled egg Joa and WK ordered is the 餐館招牌.

雞扒雙腸飯+洋蔥汁
我從來都沒想過會在上班午餐時候
去吃好料咧!

Then on way back, they were discussing about taking leave on Sept. Don't know where they go. *tried to ask a few times, but my qn got ignored* 毒~ Also apparently from their conversation JY SG also going jek. Joa kept persuading WK to go for this overseas trip. At first she said that if WK don't go, then SG has no room partner. Then WK said he still need to see if his GF wants to go before he decides on this. Then I said whether WK going or not, if WK go, he will stay with GF, SG will be alone. If he doesn't go, SG also alone. It doesn't make a difference liao what. Don't know what Joa was talking about, can't understand her. 

Afternoon got this address talk, but somehow I didn't go.*Don't have to sound so serious ba?! Somemore the invitation for me is optional, maybe next time they indicate is a must to go leh...*

Joa thought I wore slippers everyday. No la, only today coz rain big big in the morning jek. I also don't want to bring slippers to and fro home leh.

Worked on F&D. Haiz, sometimes have to go thick-skinned. I must say this is a good experience to learn how to deal with people which I may lack now due to being a fresh grad.

Left Tai Seng temporary depot already 7 plus le. Reached home almost 8.30 pm!

2014-06-24

Workload increased dramatically

Morning mood got a bit affected by the rain... Whole shoes wet! Legs soaked in the wetted socks. Very gao wei leh..

Lunch with MT, Pablo and Ruben at a tze char stall just outside SMRT office. Fried rice ($6) was nice, thanks Pablo for the treat!

其實炒飯不只是不錯
簡直是好吃

Damage: $0

These week a lot of workload somehow, don't know why, I have been handling stuff which I haven't touch before. Morning went meeting, afternoon, as usual a lot of data review to do. 7 pm then left office... JM and Joa even more late.

Dinner at Kai Xiang with PG, 星洲米粉 $4.50 and 蝦棗 $8. Jin nice and jin full~

Damage: $8.50

Both of us were exclaiming that AJM they all go JB on consecutive days! MCS? Like that not boring meh? Jin du lor, take advantage of ZX when he got car now. Now go JB should be very easy and relaxing for him lor. Du du du!

2014-06-23

Dinner with cousin

Recently, there has been a lot of data review, so stayed in office whole day. Because nobody at home now, need to settle dinner by myself. Suddenly thought of cousin because I guessed it has been quite sometime I last saw her and both of us need to settle dinner ourselves. She agreed to my request and we decided to have dinner at Jurong Point.

Left 6.30 pm because cousin said she not so early left office de. I only reached Jurong Point at 7.35 pm. A bit late liao la, waited very long for train, 6 mins during peak hour?!

We picked Chef's Noodles (FB link) as the dinner venue as recommended by PG. It's a Korean restaurant, tiagong is opened by true Korean ds. Should be nice ba since I also loved to eat noodles. Ordered something which is non-beef one - Jeayook Bibim Guksoo or Spicy Sautéed Pork Dried Noodles ($12.90++) and a cup of Korean tea ($2.50++) to go along with my noodles.

Cousin picked Curry Deopbap or Curry Rice Tub ($12.90++). But it turned out to be beef de! Aigoo...

豬肉麵
好好吃喔
那雞蛋捲做得很精緻
還有圖案在上面的


表妹的咖哩飯
也很不錯
但選用牛肉
我就不行了

The restaurant also served us a cup of their soup each. The soup was so tasty! Love it!

We talked mainly about my trip to Madrid and her upcoming Korean trip. Very xyy ds though I didn't finish my narration on my trip. She exclaimed after hearing my overseas trip story, she wanted to go overseas too very much.

Damage: $18.05

2014-06-22

Impromptu birthday celebration from HL and Sebastian

Back from night shift work 8 am, very tired. Set alarm 9.45 am on iPad, but I totally cannot hear it. By the time I woke up, it was already 10.45 am! Was at toilet when phone kept ringing, PG called de, he at Westgate with WX queuing up for 4 Fingers.

Then I told him I haven't move out coz just woke up aigoo.

At bus stop I bumped into Vincent. Wow, so long never see him liao. He complaining about his reservist (every 2 years one, next one in 2016! Omo, like that how to MR before 40? Keep on taking IPT, RT, IPPT lor till then lor) and last year started going RT (this is rather surprisingly coz I thought he REALLY can pass IPPT without problem one)... Hmm, he said after his ASLC, he was posted to intel... Think life is good for him lor.

He said after the ban on camera-phone was lifted, he still stupid not to bring in a smartphone LOL~ Aiyo, when they said really removed means removed la, no need scared to bring in one de.

Currently, he works at Nokia. LOL, he's using Sony phone now. How irony... He recommended me while I am at 4 Fingers not to take tomyam flavoured fries. Instead, go for seaweed one.

He confessed that he broke up with gf early this year and he 爆瘦 to less than 60 kg now and still hasn't gain back to his usual weight of 62-64 kg. So now the pants all 穿不下 liao and that's the reason why he's on his way to meet a friend to jiak Sakae Sushi buffet at Scape.

Finally met up with PG and WX. WX ssf, dabao so much back for family.. A bit too much IMO... LOL~ Then they two xyy over this app called 'Sugar'. Since WX loves free or super cheap stuff, he was totally addicted to this app ds.

They helped me to order a set of 6-pcs of soy garlic flavoured 4 Fingers Crispy Chicken wings/drumlets wtih seaweed flavoured fries.

Verdict: I still prefer Choo Choo's one over this. Reason being Choo Choo chicken wings/drumlets are more fresh and this one doesn't taste so fresh somehow. Not only me who felt this way - PG too agreed on this. PG had his Katsu Chicken Sandwich. That one not so nice. LOL~

蔥頭醬汁雞
味道是OK的啦
還是比較偏愛Choo Choo
因為它給我的口感不是說超新鮮那種
可能是用了冷凍雞的關係吧

Damage: $5

After the lunch, PG went back home to settle his stuff first, while WX waited for his dad to come pick up the stuff before he accompanied me to e-mart to buy some army stuff.
Then we walked to IMM, had ice cream at McD, can't tahan the hot weather here.

幾時麥當勞的廉價雪糕
也變到那麼五彩繽紛的?

Damage: $1

Then walked walked around, got myself a microUSB cable from Daiso, to be used in office.

Damage: $2

Sebastian said the 韓國人參雞 shop @ 238 Joo Chiat Road closed down liao! Now nowhere to go for Korean dinner. AJM said he not free, not going. But actual fact is he can't take ginseng chicken (not because of reasonable reasons, but just because he dislikes it). I suggested Togi, HL suggested Kimchi. Kimchi looks petite leh, and price not cheap ds. In the end, we decied on Togi instead.

Walked back to Westgate, then train down with PG. As we were early, went to McD at Scape. PG used the McD app on phone to redeem a piece of fried chicken patty with a cup of lemonade to chill and kill off time. Then PG used my iPad to play a round of 國戰 still win ds. xyy~

我很少在iPad玩三國殺的hor
這次難得了

Nicholas also arrived, went 313 to walk (the fact is that HL, Sebastian wanted me to disappear from TripleOne area while they delivered the cake to restaurant)... Aigoo, 我也不以為意的說。

Attendees:
1. Me
2. PG
3. Nicholas
4. ZX
5. Sebastian
6. HL

Food at Togi aigoo, all the taste were off jek... Not very like the authentic Korean taste leh. Saving grace was the seafood pancake, it's really really really nice. One of the best, if not the best, the pancake I ever had in SG.

 門市

반찬
這是我第一次看到佐菜竟然有粥的
左邊那個tuna的佐菜最不好吃
怪怪的
都不像韓國料理

닭갈비 ($16)
味道有偏掉
不是本人要的道地口味

잡채 + 雞肉 ($15)
味道有一點點淡

돌솥 비빔밥 + 豬肉 ($13)
中規中矩
沒有東西可投訴
呵呵

해물 파전 ($18)
這個就我要給多多個讚啦!
因為真的很好吃
脆脆的
裡頭的海鮮給得還算多一下
是大家都異口同聲說讚的一道菜

삼겹살 ($17)
200g 有點少咧

삼계탕 ($25)
最貴
也是最不划算的
因為味道真的太像我們媽媽會燉的雞湯
而不是我在韓國首爾吃到的蔘雞湯
差很多咧

Damage: $25 (total $150)

The surprise came when the cake appeared in front of me! AJM lost his chance ds... LOL~ 誰管?
It's a homebaked cake that's very unique from HL and Sebastian! Green tea sourced from Korea (bought during our graduation trip), infused with tofu (?!), seated firmly on top of a thin crust made from digestive biscuits! Totally healthy in every way! The cool and refreshing taste moved me away from the usual chocolate cake - definitely thumbs up! Appreciate it and thanks for the effort even though the bakers need to rest from their trip to Bali.
 健康又簡易製作的蛋糕
吃了喜洋洋

Also at the same time, they gave each of us some souvenirs. Yah, we all know the souvenir bought in Bali is very bxds...! Hehe!
The topic was on HH's shirt. Sebastian said HH needs people to give him shirts as gifts. That's not really a big issue, but if he does not do something to slim down, it can be a BIG issue because people would have headache sourcing for the correct size
Then left the place at 8.30 pm. Before we parted our way, HL suggested JB trip before she started her real work in a JC. WQBX! The easties went Downtown East for movie with AJM. Then, Nicholas and PG went 313 Tsujiri to continue chill a little bit more. Shared a serving of Chiffon Parfait O-Maccha ($7.50).

 Chiffon Parfait O-Maccha
喔~
我的心跟著那抹茶雪糕溶化了

Damage: $0 (total $7.50). Thanks for the treat!

Chatted about JX... Things aren't looking good for him lo. Actually we wondered if he really know the hard truth that is happening to him?

2014-06-21

Dinner with bay + freaking hot weather + work

Yesterday met Bay for dinner at Swensens @ Clementi. He got 2 vouchers from insurance agent and hence the dinner was a treat from him. Thanks Bay!

Supreme chicken burger wasn't really 'supreme' IMO. Compared to what I had in Spain, burger here is small and in Spain they don't call their burger supreme or whatsoever even if the burger is so much bigger. And oh ya, there was free complementary chendol ice cream as well. Satisfied with dinner.

雞肉漢堡包
沒有很超級大份
所以我不知道supreme在這裡的用意

Damage: $0

The topics mainly revolved around my trip to Spain and then a bit on work. Also talked a bit on how to earn more money... *blink blink blink*



This weekend is like no weekend to me, been working and more working. Morning just packed my army stuff back to the wardrobe to be kept for another 1.5 years or so before another ICT.

Vacuum cleaned and mopped the floor... Sweated as if I've done a 5km run. The weather is freaking hot today!

Cooked the new maggi 'extra spicy' curry noodles, didn't really like it. Still prefer the old classic curry flavour.

Afternoon back to work again. Lots of data checking and referencing to drawings. See liao head big big ds. To make things worse, there's night shift today. :(

2014-06-19

走不了

怎麼會走不了呢?

Yesterday Pablo asked me to go down site to collect logs. After the logs collection, wanted to go leave, but boss asked me can ignore the meeting and stayed at site to collect more logs. Ok, so I thought I would stay until lunch time or at most end of first shift.

Then came Raymond and GD, I got stuck by them until I only leave the place at 5 pm! 不是我的事情都變成我的事情。Aigoo, and then still need to carry the monitors and CPUs.

Haiz...

2014-06-18

生日

Worked extra hard on my birthday. Wanted to take PM off yesterday to enjoy my birthday but in the end worked till 5 plus in the evening. Gosh~

Attendees:
1. Me
2. PG
3. Jordan
4. Nicholas
5. HH
6. Wiyatno

The meetup was initiated by Jordan, discussion must have happened between they all because I said I'm only free after 14 June as I was in Spain and then reservist and Jordan is leaving in 2 days' time - we were only discussing when to meet up only. This birthday celebration is a 順手推舟 thing because the days I can meet Jordan is very near to my birthday mah. Already guessed this is it when Jordan said meet on 17 June lol.

Went Toa Payoh SAFRA for dinner with those mentioned in the list at Kkongdon Barbeque (FB link) . Just when I thought I'm late, I was first to arrive lol. Shortly after, Nicholas, PG and Jordan reached too. We 3 entered the restaurant to order Korean BBQ first because Nicholas need to go back to his intern at 6.45 pm. Jordan passed each of us the stuff he bought from Japan. Wow, that's nice leh! Thanks Jordan. Wiyatno and HH were late - the former got to work and latter has no interest in Korean food, except for Jaws and Issac Toast. Baituo...

Then Nicholas left halfway through. Later came Wiyatno and we continued the BBQ feast. HH came much later with the birthday cake. As he doesn't want to eat BBQ and was actually ok with pancake, he ordered kimchi pancake lo.

韓國大餐!

烤肉喔!
牽動我的味蕾呢

After the dinner, went on to birthday celebration. The waitress Florence Sim very friendly and quite '8'. She opened up a vacant seat for us to move over as the BBQ table was full of plates and quite unsightly. Halfway through, Wiyatno said he wanted to go toilet. Without having any suspicion, we continued to celebrate and ate the cake without him. Later he came back to join us, but left the place for good shortly after. We then realised he used go toilet as an excuse to pay for the dinner. Aigoo, that's not necessary for him to pay la. After the celebration, she reminded me when uploading the photos to Instagram, remember to tag the restaurant. Aigoo... The butterscrotch cake was yummy!!!

蛋糕雖然簡單
但是口味我喜歡
至少不是巧克力
幾天前HH的生日蛋糕
巧克力太多了啦
吃了有一點膩

呵呵

合照

Damage: $0

After the celebration, we moved to Toa Payoh Central there to wait for Nicholas to off from his intern work. JX also joining after his morning shift. We moved into Mos Burger for a shorter 2nd round of gathering. JX bought his dinner there as he flew down from Harbourfront after work. We played SGS for a few rounds before changed it to Saboteur then called it a day. The 157 was quite fast!

JX的臉啊!!!

And today everything is back to normal le. Siannnnnn!

Bad week

Short update in the midst of tidying up photos from Spain and recovering from fatigue caused by the Spain trip and ICT.

This week is rather bad. Not only tio night shift on Saturday (hopefully got off-in-lieu), but also tio morning shift tomorrow. Haiz, in the middle of the week leh! Luckily didn't set any meetup with anybody for this week yet. Maybe one on Friday evening ba.

TBH, don't mind doing on weekends if there are offs to be earned lor. It's just another K9 system that's all mah. But as one ages, this would take a toll on the body and health.

Today had lunch with Joa, Pra and Pablo. Basically talking about overseas trips. Pablo is going Vietnam and Cambodia. Joa is going to Sweden and Spain end of year. Dang, they really got me super excited! I want to go Korea and Japan for now~~~~~ How about me? End of next year maybe... Haha!

After that, me and Joa went to buy kopi and teh while Pra and Pablo went to smoke. *Ok, I may look serious at work, so I think it's good that you clarify it's just a joke or to di siao me to avoid any misunderstanding in future.* Was taken in for a surprise when Joa expressed that she didn't want to study and she prefers working to studying anytime. For me, I would take student life over working life lo, unless I'm paid handsomely then I don't mind OT everyday hahaha. The main disadvantage of student life is that no $$ that's all, but you gain lots of freedom which I guess youngsters would love to have.

In the end, each of us got one cup of beverage, including boss too. Thanks Joa for the treat!

After chatting with JM on our way home, I knew that things aren't very smooth sailing back here in SG, people working very hard, issues happening now and then, some even tio 2nd shift. 有些東西就是那麼黑暗,小心落入陷阱!還是小心,不懂的話再三求證比較好!

2014-06-16

HH birthday

Woke up almost 11 am yesterday. Afternoon went Clementi town centre for Father's Day lunch. A very simple one at one of the kopitiams. Wa, the Chinese dumplings all sibei big size. 16 big fried dumplings for $6 which I think it's cheap lo. The 拉麵 also very big bowl. 我勉強吃完罷了。

Then went out to meet PG and Nicholas for AJM birthday celebration. Was very late as I need to wait at home for 姑婆 to reach my house before I can go out. Otherwise, they got no key to come in as I took their keys to come back first from the lunch. 

Bought the cake from Imperial Treasure bakery. Supposedly it was for Father's Day, but we thought it looked nice and funny (the design is a shirt) with a label 'Father's Day' on top of the cake. LOL~ We thought it suited HH because he does look like a father/mother/nanny to us. Baituo~

After that we moved in to Muddy Murphy’s Irish Pub to put the cake away from HH's sight. After a bit of waiting, HH finally reached. Ordered Muddy Murphy's Irish styled fish 'n' chips.

我是比較不會欣賞炸食啦
沒有什麼可圈可點的地方
吞得下肚子就可以了

PG的香腸餐看起來不錯喔

  炸雞翅膀
總之這餐以炸食為主就是了
因為壽星公偏愛炸的東西
拜託
  
  跟壽星公拍照!

After the dinner, went to Smoothie King (FB link) for drinks and played SGS 國戰版。Thanks AJM for the drink treat. I had the Berry Beautiful drink - it's actually a drink with various berry flavour la. And DDT, he received a lot more stamps so that now he could redeem a free drink.

AJM literally sagged almost throughout the whole game with 4 rounds because he thought his combi wasn't too bad, but he didn't expect I had a even better combi that suppressed his 2 characters' abilities. LOL~!!! TBH, I was xyy all the time~ In the end, he couldn't win because of me around. LOL~ The only round he won was when he was a team with PG. Omo, 都需要 ah lao 的幫助才能贏的說…… Actually it's the same to me also, I won was because 2 of the rounds I was a team with PG and the last round they expected I would have won (the thing is that the deck of cards ran out and we terminated the game just like that as it's getting late. But they expect me to win with the 大喬 + 孫尚香 combi if we continued to play). Then Nicholas didn't win anything because he was alone fighting himself for all rounds.


Damage: $45.20

2014-06-15

Review: 3rd ICT

Day 1 (10 June 2014 - Tuesday):
Book in not very early. TC block is now painted a new colour. Personally I still prefer the former milk + green colour. Still kena caught to go haircut, sian. $2 for some little bit of trims leh. =.= Saw Angus and Kenneth downstairs but never see the rest. Then saw Keith, he said some of them went up bunk. *Very funny that he is ok not to stay with us, but well I'm ok also* So without any further thoughts, I went up to put my stuff and then went down to cookhouse canteen with Henry, Kenneth and Guan Yu. Happy to see them around. As usual, the medics went to Nee Soon Camp for their own training. Henry is still working at NUH now. Kenneth Ow and Guan Yu have graduated and former is looking for a job and the latter is helping father to work as part time. Both are looking for full time job now. Kenneth Ow is looking at some compliance position in healthcare industry... Hmm, seems not bad ds.

Then went emart to buy stuff because didn't have some of the items required. The place was super crowded, I actually wanted to buy them at emart outside de. But the sudden Spain trip got all my schedule messed up! After a long wait at the queue, came back and straight away went auditorium for some welcoming speech by CO.

Then went lunch at cookhouse and in the afternoon had refresher course for a short while before went up rest. Next it was the parade liao. Omg, I didn't have such experience during last time in K9. Ended rather late at about 7 pm liao lor. Kenneth Ow, Guan Yu and Henry jin good life, didn't have to go. 很恶心。Then dinner was catered from outside, it's quite nice leh, not bad. Saw Kenneth Ng, LT and Spencer eating with the rest. Then me and Paul ate on our own before we joined them later at bunk.

Damage: $3.20


Day 2 (11 June 2014 - Wednesday):
Morning 5 am woke up for IPPT. Told bunkmates about my experince and encounter in Spain - I jin xyy when I am the one sharing my experience ds, regardless of the what is it. I mentioned that got pimp(?) or social escort(?) approached me while I was walking along the pedestrian street at Grand Via in Madrid. Of course I just ignored them. Now they used this to keep teasing me. Ssf... Kenneth Ow said it's normal for guys to talk such topics, and those who keep quiet are the ones very pervertic. Then I pointed at guan yu. LOL~ Aigoo this part they laughed le. I'm ok la... rather open to discussion in this area. Then paul said something like soldiers bla bla bla. But i think otherwise, maybe they want last moment of songness? Because the original argument didn't sound logical to me leh.

Aigoo. My shoe laces kept falling out during the 2.4 km run - all those nostalgic memories! Came back with a 12:26 timing aigoo bx. At the last lap caught up to the walking party. Kenneth saw me running he also started to run and paced with me, saying 'walking party' to me but I ignored and continued running - ssf I wanted to finish the run ASAP leh. Regardless sweat or no sweat still also need to bathe one what. Then he also started running so fast that I couldn't catch up with him as I have been maintaining the same pace throughout the run. Eventually I overtook him near to the starting/finishing line lmao. After the IPPT, no time to go back k9 ds and I also don't know if Rex is around that day. Last time only a handful of people taking IPPT, which the whole process was pretty fast. Other than that, it's pretty similar to 6 years ago when I was there. A lot of memories ds.

Then went auditorium for some lessons. Before going into it to find seats to sit down, we went to lion mess and bought 100 plus drink. I saw the uncle very familiar but I couldn't confirm if its the uncle I used to chat to whenever I order food at the mess. Can't keep myself awake and falling asleep. Bx... Same for the rest also. Haha. Then after that went straight outfield to training area. My section was chosen to do the demo which I think overall quite good la, at least a lot of the real stuff later on we no need to do le. But I had no more energy liao - battery flat le lo. And WTF Kenneth went tell the training encik the Madrid joke when encik only asked why my face red. It's because I went through a strenuous exercise please. Ssf. WTF need to put on some camo colours. QS~ Also noticed some 'reserve' or PLT 6 came over to PLT 4. But don't know them ds but got saw them before, one of them is called 'CJ'.

Damage: $1.30

On the way back, was chatting with Ow. This guy kept saying I buy car for him. Qs... me jin poor leh. Haha of course all are joking to make the day pass faster. He said he drives quite recklessly and always got summon. Got once fined for 250 bucks IIRC. But no demerit points la. Aigoo, that's not very tactical leh. Fine is fine but tio demerit points is something need to be more careful. Then he kept curse and swear with the F word on his IA, then he dulan and broke the rear view mirror of the vehicle omo ssf. I can understand the frustration la. But then... This is life, life is fair, some are fairer to the others.

Anyway the day ended rather late. Very tired liao. Dinner was out ration and jiak in coy line. Then Keith quite blur. It was announced 5 mins ago the timing to prepare and he asked almost everything again. Went mess but very crowded then whole lot went lion mess. Closed. And we sagged.


Day 3 (12 June 2014 - Thursday):
Morning woke up slightly later than yesterday. Came back immediately after breakfast to pang sai. LOL!

Then went to a new live range training area. First time there everything is rather advanced to be honest. Facilities are very good TBH. Went canteen to see see look look. Looks very much the ninja van would sell. So while sitting and waiting, began to chat with Paul, Henry and Kenneth Ow. Early in morning talk about some aigoo stuff. Qs. But it's good for general knowledge somehow though. Don't be like some frog in a well like that.

Then talk about religion, housing & starting family (aka future). Kenneth Ow is looking at BTO tampines. Ok now I see both Henry and Paul are Christians, Ow is Buddhist and Angus is roman Catholic. Pretty diverse here.

Then went for the pre-trial before we break for lunch. Went back again to start the training proper. Hurt myself during the process, but just very small external cuts on hand. Pretty satisfied with my score of 14/20 same score with Angus and highest in section! I think the rest also a bit shocked by my accuracy, in fact even I'm surprised by my score, because I kept telling them I wearing the old specs and everything was a bit blur to me that I can't aim properly.

After that, was talk cock session. Can talk almost everything with Henry especially very talkative non stop on anime/manga and his job experience. Very new knowledge to me haha.

Then on the way back (already the last group to leave), this store man from coy A came and sat beside me and we began to talk. Chatted about my ex unit and his ex unit. Pretty interesting that people I meet can have something which I do expect to be in common with me.

Went mess to jiak chicken burger at night.

Damage: $3


Day 4 (13 June 2014 - Friday):
Woke up even later today. Because slept late ytd by watching running man.

Went for training. Super tired. Lunch time talked about working with Kenneth Ng and Guan Yu and Angus. Ng working inside MINDEF and Guan Yu didn't receive any reply after sending numerous applications for job vacancies. Then Angus was asking Ng how's his work. Everything ended rather late. Bx.

Then came back after 7 pm le ba, the sun was almost set down completely le. I was last to finish everything. But the comfort thing was that everybody waited for me and Ow, Paul and Henry helped me in speeding up everything. And I also need to pack up to outpro le. In a way was super tired and not so tired. But fell asleep after 1 am without waiting for C and D. Aigoo.


Day 5 (14 June 2014 - Saturday):
Morning woke up started to pack up everything, including removing the bedsheets and pillow case and revert back everything to the initial state when I got the bunk. For the whole week I didn't use the blanket - it's so hot even under the fan blasting at full speed! Then everything in smart 4. After breakfast, hanging out at the cookhouse before going to auditorium for the closing talk.

Kenneth Ng bought the new MacBook Air! When asked the reason for getting the laptop, he said that it's a good chance to try out the Mac and also the laptop is to increase his 'productivity' because he can't really do something useful at home coz of the computer games. Good buy ah!!! Then he is planning to go Japan and Korea later this year with his friends, one country per week. Envy leh! I also want go these 2 countries too!

Ok chatted a bit about past NSF days with Kenneth Ow. So he's the IC of a section - I don't know how things work over his side. But still, I think my days were rather not bad liao. His one still need to stand under sun omo. At least I don't need to and I get to gain at least half day off. So I have no complains. And working with dogs in NS is something unique because not many people could do it, unlike vocations such as medics or infantry. Most of the time, people are surprised when I told them what I did during NSF time and they are eager and curious to know more. This is probably why I feel rather proud of it. Hehehe...

Suddenly gotten the news that it rained and our barang-barang were shifted around! WTH?! So many things left outdoor, it must be messy liao lor since they anyhow shifted. Luckily I spotted my stuff the moment I was opposite to the coy line, where it was not far to the original location. The rest of section their things also shifted to somewhere else. Thanks Alpha for helping to shift also. Anyway, the bag was wet liao. So I can't be bothered.

Then the survey... While everybody was waiting their inputs to be processed before doing the next question (i.e. doing it slow), I was the first in section to finish everything and hand it in. LOL~ So it doesn't mean you got the form and clicker fast means you can finish fast. After that went back to coy line to wait to out pro. Chit-chatted a bit with LT, Kenneth Ow and Paul. Keith was one of the topics, as usual, I think everybody has given up hope to make friends and socialise with him. It's not we don't want to give chance, but it's he doesn't want to give a chance to himself.

Tried to poke fun at Kenneth by sneakily take his stuff again (last time failed, tsk...). He tried to revenge me back, but I did my precautions liao, too bad! Then he said CB after he realised he like a fool, trying to take something that's already hidden by me. Later when I mentioned 'stunt' again, he said he confirm will stunt me back, without a doubt. Omo, don't so serious leh, joking only la.

But I was very puzzled by his actions. Everybody's bag was wet. But why you want to put your bag on top of mine one - just because you said later your car would kena if bag is wet? Then my bag leh? I also put my bag in car, the car not wet meh? This one I can't understand. It doesn't sound logical to me.

The out-pro was surprisingly smooth and very much smoother than the last 2. So I had no complains. After bidding goodbye to Angus and Kenneth, I faster zao from the place to exit the camp. 10 mins later, was at home already. 就這樣,一切已結束,大家也回到正常日子了。

2014-06-14

3rd ICT over!

It's over!

It's the third and the last low key ICT. Subsequent ones are all high keys liao and they are essential to get the MR status. In a way, it can be good or bad thing. The good thing is that I can see and live with section mates longer (afterall we only get to see each other

Very tired and I didn't have the time to sort out the stuff from the business trip to Madrid. Afternoon was unpacking the ICT stuff, washing those soiled clothes and equipments up and I am going to carefully pack them so that I do not have headache whenever I got ICT - always got 2 big bags to carry around. Yeah kept reminded by Kenneth until I am really going to spend some time to execute it.

Ok, lots of backlog coming up! So going to keep this short and sweet then go clear all the backlogs.




Happened to see this. Kinda brought back the memories. The part on Jurong Island and Sembawang Wharves is mentioned and it really reflects what I did last time!

2014-06-10

Back from Spain + packing for ICT

These few days have been working like mad. Not only work on Monday, but also need to get hair cut and unpack my luggage for Spain trip and also pack my luggage for ICT.

Tired.