Monday, March 31, 2008
i am officially unemployed! first time since dec that ive joined the ranks of the unemployed. i have to say that im enjoying the freedom, although i miss having somewhere to rush to every morning and breakfasting with charm and being on gmail 24/7 and having genie and charm for company every single day of every single week. my email efficiency has dropped by abt 200%. haha dont expect me to see any email you send me now until at least two days later! i think thats e consequence of not being gainfully employed :) but no one's complaining!
weekend after was good. sat was sn fiesta! in case you didnt know yet. haha. it was good. i'd forgotten how hot st nicks could get and the severe lack of air conditioning in the school. there is really no place that you can go to cool off. the best we could do was stand at secret places where there is a fair bit of wind. otherwise you can just melt. the heat is definitely something i dont miss. how did we survive ten years of that, and in pinafores too? ohh maybe thats why we hardly put on weight when we were in sn. and with the amount of staircases! we are living like pampered brats compared to last time. haha. but ive decided to go back more often, especially seeing as now i have all the time in the world to go back and eat orange bowl every day :) anyone on? haha.
sunday was good too. we went to explore a new place which actually was clarke quay. and quite a bit. alot of walking once again, but we did see some pretty interesting things. and we [or rather i!] ate hargao for dinner! yumyumyum :)
on my first day of unemployment, otherwise known as monday, charm, steven and i met up to go to bukit chandu. but..after we reached the meeting place then they told me that bukit chandu doesn't open on mondays. oh well. so we went to the old ford factory only. and den we went to the park outside bukit chandu [thats still open!] and had a picnic! picnicking was fun :) we were attacked by mosquitoes and charm amputated my toe by jumping on it, but otherwise no harm done :)
on my second day of unemployment, otherwise known as tuesday, caroline and i went shopping and we watched the bucket list! we didnt buy anything tho. although we did try quite a fair bit of stuff. haha. but nothing nice enough to buy :( the bucket list is not bad though. not exactly the best movie i've ever watched but its watchable. i think there are few movies nowadays that can be classified as something better than watchable, unfortunately.
and ive decided not to look for another 9 to 5 job. i think what winston said to me on our last day really hit home. we are going to be spending our next 50 to 60 years working. why be overzealous now? haha. so ive decided that since there is no pressing need to earn money now, i shall do stuff i actually want to do, rather than work administrative jobs. things that will make my life worthwhile and help me be accountable if i die tmr. im not being sadist but im really scared of leaving before ive done stuff i should do, and spent all my lifetime doing stuff people think i should do. i cant even convince myself that it was a life well lived, how do i explain it to the One up there? its time to be brave and live! and of course i can continue volunteering even after we start school. i might not have as much time but im sure i can still find a way to be involved. now is a good time to find something worthwhile to be involved in, since i have time to look around and find something i feel for to do. so i shall have a flexi timing kinda thing. which is good because i get to fit in everything i wanna do. but on e other hand since i dont have a secretary or a PA it means im going to have to arrange everything myself. hmm. i dont know if this is how im gonna spend my next 3 or 4 months though. it depends on how everything works out, whether a combination of part time work and volunteering is gonna satisfy me. ideally though, it sounds perfect. whether it can actually be done is a whole different story. but, i shall make it work. i must!
[disclaimer: this is purely ming's personal thoughts and she is not trying to convince anyone to give up their job and join her in unemployment. but of course if you want to you are more than welcome to :)]so much to do so much to see
so what's wrong with taking the back streets
you'll never know if you don't go
you'll never shine if you don't glow
hey now you're an all star get you game on, go play
hey now you're a rock star, get the the show on, get paid
all that glitters is gold
only shooting stars break the mould
live well, everyone! have a good week ahead :)
a star fell from the sky;
10:43 AM
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
ytd while playing pool, charm drew an interesting analogy. cant rmbr e exact words but this is what i rmbr :)
she said, dont u think pool resembles life? like sometimes we are the colourful balls rolling ard and we get hit by the white ball which can be our teachers, our parents, our friends, or other people around us, changing the direction of our lives. other times we are the white ball, affecting and changing the direction of people around us. sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly. sometimes intentionally, and sometimes unintentionally.
den i asked, what does that make us, the ones hitting the balls?
we cldnt think of a definite answer but i think thats where religion comes in :)
funny what inspiration comes when we play pool during working hours ;)
happy tuesday everyone!
a star fell from the sky;
9:54 AM
Monday, March 24, 2008
its a brand new day and a brand new week at work. also happens to be our last, but thats not the point now :)
long weekend was pretty good. fri we went to church. mass took abt half a day man. haha. but it started late la. it was okay tho. and qi helpfully pointed out that we shld sing more coz we only get to sing some hmyns during Good Friday mass. wowee. haha. at night we had a gang dinner! attendance was like amazing. haha all e guys came! except nikhil la, obviously. and caroline and i. not bad eh, for a gang outing. haha organized by our president somemore leh. no wonder everyone came :) we ate at miss clarity at city hall. den we went to this really really really ulu cinema but it only had three shows so we didnt watch a movie in e end. so we played pool! or rather anghong and tiefu played pool. but it was pretty awesome coz we saw the most amazing brown shirt guy at e nxt pool table! we cldnt really decide where to go after pool so everyone left and the four of us sat at some kaya toast stall to talk. and den we had to rush to catch the last bus! and i missed e last bloody 980 again. again! i saw it zoom past. again! i think the last 980 and i just dont get along. oh well. managed to get home [cheaply!] in e end and anghong managed to catch his last bus too! so thats good. i think catching e last bus all e time is no fun la. why cant they have buses e whole night!?
sat we went for a walk at macritchie. i realised that i only enjoy nature when the only living things are plants. i dont enjoy the assorted lizards, monkeys and what not there are in the reservoir. its bloody scary la. after lunch we watched semi-pro. haha its pretty funny. will ferrell shows are all starting to be the same tho. but his face is really elastic!! haha. and he is always funny. sat night i went to my grandma's house. haha which is hardly e same without her. it feels diff. nobody to greet when we reach. and there isnt a need to be careful anymore also. as in like to be careful with not spilling stuff on e floor and not running wildly ard [applies to my bro only tho]. like everything else is still exactly e same but e only diff is shes not there. oh well.
sunday was easter sunday! went to church in the morning as always. and den it was off to anghong's house for mahjong :) they were all late! i was e only one at e interchange la. and i had wait ten mins for anghong to come! oh gosh. and den we cldnt find tiefu! haha. he was lost. but we found him in e end sitting with the ah peks :) went to ntuc to buy drinks and i must say that going grocery shopping with the both of them counts as one of the most exasperating things i have done in my life. haha and tiefu kept trampling on my poor toes! and when we reached anghong's house............caroline was alr there! haha. pretty cool eh. so the mahjong started. den we had dinner den e soccer started and e bacardi came out! haha. soccer was quite funny. coz tiefu and caroline were supporting liverpool and anghong and i wanted man u to win. and they did! 3-0 :):):) enough said. haha.
and........we [okay, me] rushed for e last bus again! this time it was e last 132. and i caught it! yay. so i managed to get home cheaply again :) but got scolded by mum coz she said i shldnt keep coming home so late. oh well. i was hoping she wld be asleep when i got back. but she was awake waiting for me! oh gosh. like an ambush. hahaha.
and breakfast today was good :) charm and i had a subway breakfast and a peach tart! which we bought for each other. wow diabetic! hans has the best peach tarts ard man :):) and the arcade has the best giant springrolls ard! haha but its kinda oily tho. but still good :)
okay i shld stop thinking abt food and do some work. happy monday everyone!
a star fell from the sky;
10:49 AM
Thursday, March 20, 2008
breakfast today was awesome :):)
charm and i got to have e delicious looking sandwich from hans that we saw ytd while buying lunch. and i had a peach tart too! and we had milo that we made ourselves in e pantry :) i took a pic of our delicious looking breakfast actually. shall post it nxt time :) isnt a great breakfast the best way to start a day? and with nice company too, of course. that makes it so much better :):)
and lunch was pretty nice too. we tried e fishball noodle stall at the arcade. i wanted to eat the chicken but e queue was horribly long so i settled for fishball noodles. it was not bad. but no other fishball noodle can compare to orange bowl! orange bowl is the one and only fishball noodle in my heart :):):) nothing can ever replace it! lol.
and we had soyabean ice cream from mr bean for dessert. first time i ever ate soyabean ice cream and i think it will be e last time too. it doesnt appeal to my tastebuds so much? haha as in its edible but........i prefer peach tarts!!
my blog is starting to become like a food review place. haha. but when ure working what else can u look forward to but lunch? and of course going home time. nvm full people are happy people :)
definitely. anyway, im not hiding from the fact that im a glutton at heart :)
i think we shld start looking deep inside for our passion for exercise too. im sure its hiding somewhere inside us, we just need to find it ;)
today is the last day of the second last week of our internship!
let the good times roll!
happy long weekend ahead everyone!
a star fell from the sky;
2:12 PM
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
i had a polar puff breakfast today :):) same as our dearest charmaine, i enjoy starting the day with sth in my stomach to digest :)
work is pretty much flying by. today is the second last day of our second last week of our time here. haha i guess that means we're that much closer to knowing how much we're gonna be paid? but we're that much closer to the end of our breakfasting, bimbotic moments, happy lunches, and so much more :( who says we cant meet up after march? lol. i wonder what im gonna do after march tho. im not actively gonna find another job yet. i think i shall take a break first and den see how. haha hopefully i can do sth really really interesting and that still pays really really well. lol doesnt everyone want that kinda job?! haha. hopefully a job that will require me to dress nicely too so all my nice working clothes dont go to waste :) hmm and hopefully a job within...30 mins of my home? haha sorry but im not e hugest fan of travelling, especially on public transport. hmm i wonder if such a job exists. haha how abt i ask my mom to hire me? LOL. i can be her well-dressed assistant! haha. stop dreaming, ming! okayokay. shld start being a better intern. work, here i come!
do you know what day it is today? :)
a star fell from the sky;
9:40 AM
Monday, March 17, 2008
its been nearly a week since i last posted. quite a few things have happened since then.
well for one the wake is over and we've cremated my grandma. the wake was strange. the mood on the first day was really sombre, maybe the impact of what happened that morning was sinking in. everyone was quiet, treating each other like we're all made of glass. subsequent days were better, the mood was nearly festive. maybe it was our way of forgetting what we had gathered in my uncle's house for. i talked to many of my cousins for the first time in my life, and i must say it must be the longest period i've ever spent with some of my cousins. entertaining guests and having loud and hilarious conversations with my cousins, aunts and uncles made the whole atmosphere almost festive. im sure my grandma would have liked how we came together. so the first few days of the week were spent rushing from work, to home, to wake. took leave on wed so we all [the whole entire Chia clan, i believe] stayed over at my uncle's house. after most of the guests left, those old enough stayed up to here the so called family story. its actually a recollection from my uncles and aunts about the life of my grandma and those around her. her story, i believe is the greatest story ever told. im not gonna type it here coz its really really long but she really is one of the most amazing women i've ever known. what i will rmbr most abt her is her incredible strength and selflessness and thoughtfulness. we will miss her. saturdays wont be the same without her anymore but its definitely a good thing that shes free from the agony of being sick now.
thurs was e cremation. fri i went to work and went for drinks at novus with my colleagues and their assorted friends. seems like i got over mourning pretty fast eh? haha but we knew for the longest time that this time was going to come so i cant say it came as a shock when she left. and five days of mourning is pretty long, really. i was pretty much cried out by thurs.
on sat i met joanne super early to give jov a birthday surprise :) surprise turned out okay even tho it didnt seem much of a surprise? haha but jov i hope u like e present! we went for nus open house and den on to watch horton :) its a really good show. and horton is so jim carrey! its hilarious :)
sunday we got caught in a horribly big rain. in the five [okay maybe ten] mins that we were walking in e open it had to rain like shit. we were totally soaked! umbrella was not much use at all. and my jeans were soaked through. it was disgusting. e rest of e day it didnt rain that bad so seriously we were damn suay. dried off at the nus open house [yes i was there again!]. den we went to watch step up 2. which is pretty good too but i prefer horton :) so if u only have time for one movie u know what to choose :)
okay guys ive gotta do some work. enjoy the four day work week this week!!!
and if you have nothing to do, feel free to spam me :) i'll reply really fast :)
a star fell from the sky;
10:13 AM
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Beyond the days
of hope and mystery,
we see a light
of faith renewed.
And in our longing
we thirst for guidance,
to walk with You
day by day
a star fell from the sky;
4:08 PM
Thursday, March 06, 2008
so, tmr is the day. the long awaited day. although our fates are gonna be decided tmr, lets keep things in perspective. if we get the results we've been dreaming of [not literally, in those dreams when u dream u got 5 Us or sth], then congrats. but if our results are less than satisfactory, lets rmbr that its not the end of the world. heres sth i read that is really apt. the brilliant guy who wrote it is called Douglas Malloch. i havent heard of him either but i hope it helps my fellow i-dont-wanna-look-at-my-results folks :)
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, be a scrub in the valley-but bethe best little scrub by the side of the rill,be a bush if you can't be a treeIf you can't be a muskie than just be a bass, but the liveliest bass in the lakeWe can't all be captains, we've got to be crewthere's something for all of us hereTheres big work to do, and there's lesser to doand the task we must do is near.If you can't be a highway than just be a trailIf you can't be the sun be a star; it isn't by size that you win or you fail-be the best of whatever you are.
it really spoke to me. i hope u guys see the point its driving at too. really, its not the end of the world if we dont do well. sure, it will feel like shit. but we will wipe dry our tears, take a deep breath, and continue from there. life goes on, the world keeps spinning, the sun will rise again tmr. and theres always hope :) keep strong! i love you guys!
be brave.
a star fell from the sky;
6:20 PM
Saturday, March 01, 2008
....the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.i copied that from carolines blog. its from the movie juno. act i told her abt it first but she posted it first so oh well. haha. i thought that was most worth remembering from the whole movie. that, and when she went for the abortion and the person thought she was giving a fake name coz she said her name was Juno MacGuff. haha that was hilarious. but i still think e line is worth remembering. whenever you're in doubt or wonder how u will know when u meet e right person, thats gonna be useful :)
and its pretty amazing isnt it? that you can love someone regardless of anything and the person can do e same for you? i guess thats what people spend an entire lifetime looking for.
ytd was feb 29. i thought that was pretty cool. how abt e accounting system we used doesnt even recognise that as a date? haha. but anyway ytd was my last day at sph. its been a pretty good two months. im glad that im leaving in a way but im gonna miss e people. okay maybe not e people specifically but im gonna miss the camaraderie. of working in a team. of working in a nearly all female environment. of being able to slack once in a while in e day and talk abt sth other than work. but im glad for e change. i think its quite easy to get used to the kinda lifestyle i had for two months. the work is frustrating, not challenging. the environment is bearable which makes it difficult to change too. you get paid, the environment is liveable, you get comfortable and e dreams that u had once fades away easily. its pretty scary that ur dreams can become a memory so fast when u haven even actually had a chance to make e dream materialize. so i guess in a way im glad im leaving. its a change, at least. im gonna be outta my comfort zone again when i start new stuff on mon. but at least thats gonna keep me on my toes. keep me learning and open to new stuff :) not to mention that i'll be able to eat lunch with caroline!!!!! isnt that cool! we're gonna be stuck tgt like last time :):) not to mention if i stay there im gonna grow damn fat. coz pauline keeps pulling me to e canteen! we go to e canteen like three times a day la. not including lunch leh. omg.
i cant rmbr how i spent my last leap year day. hmm i think i was in sec 3. omg i dont rmbr that day at all. maybe it wasnt impt at that moment. but i'll definitely rmbr this years feb 29 :)
we watched The Leap Years. haha abit cliched to watch on feb 29 but oh well. it was a fri! the movies alright. pace is abit slow tho. haha but eunice insists its super touching so oh well. to each her own :)
today was a good day for shopping. met for a super late breakfast den i went off with caroline to her colleague's wedding. first time for me attending a wedding of someone that is not a cousin or relative. heck i didnt even know e bride or groom until i went there la. act i still didnt know them after i went there. anyway. we went shopping after that! cabbed down to e place eunice and i discovered last time. shopping was gooooooooood :) hmm act i only bought working stuff again. how come all my shopping revolves ard working nowadays? haiz. but it seems like every time i begin a new job i have to go and get new stuff. why ars? but its a worrying trend. if this continues im gonna go broke. haha. actually i think even if this doesnt contd i will also go broke. money and me put tgt is like magic la. somehow i make e money disappear. and i dont even feel that im spending alot. its just like one moment its there den............e next time i look for it, its not. magic :) hey tiefu i can be a magician too!!!!! haha.
and omg im so addicted to this song. i think theres sth addictive in e lyrics or sth ;)
It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart
Without saying a word, you can light up the dark
Try as I may I could never explain
What I hear when you don't say a thing
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall
You say it best
When you say nothing at all
All day long I can hear people talking out loud
But when you hold me near you drown out the crowd
Try as they may they can never define
What's been said between your heart and mine
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall
You say it best
When you say nothing at all
enjoy e rest of e weekends everyone!!!!!!!!!
a star fell from the sky;
10:05 PM
