| 30.6.04 |
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been clocking very few hours this week...
monday was on a halfday... tuesday morning spent at the docs... now today whole day at home... gastric flu... doc says it's rather infectious... both my parents... and my sis kena... i'm the late bloomer... oni my bro is safe... we reckon its coz he lets off enough wind to expel the viruses... quite jialat... tomorrow sure kena scolding one... one of the models went to the studio for casting today... but i forget this agency oni knows my hp no.... not olivier's... they kept calling me... i kept sleeping... dunnoe why... but i think olivier and guys werent in... but i did tell olivier abt morning casting... shucks... oh well... body aches... wind generation... headaches... fever... everything! piangz... now to add to that list... cramps as well.. "what can go wrong... ...will go wrong." argh! hasnt been oni work-related emails this morning... oni one... but well... i hope it stays that way... and that my client doesnt call me... i'm on MC... let me sleep! keke... need the loo... ciaoz... ----Stef stopped rambling at 12:37 --Link to Post |
| 28.6.04 |
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went to NUS today...
for the hostel stuff... went with lala... stopped by yusof ishak house then block adm for USP... quite weird feeling... this guy was weird... so was 2 other girls... shrugs... went to work late... abt 2... poor guys were still lunch-less... bought some food for them... olivier is still crazy abt thai food... think its their dunnoe how many times takeaway from golden mile laioz... bought som tam for myself... not cheap leh... 5 bucks... models came aknocking abt 4 onwards... fwah... lotsa really good looking ones... but not what i was looking for... oh well... some of them are nice... some cocky... some utterly vain... some really CMI... colleagues are utterly fun... someone tried putting on a bridal gown end of today... HE shall remain anonymous... dun wanna get sued... we've got pictures! cant write much... brain initialising shut down... watched soccer last nite... zzzzzzzzzzzz....... ----Stef stopped rambling at 22:54 --Link to Post |
| 27.6.04 |
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now i'm starting to think my mom's younger bro, aka my uncle, is suitable for the advert...
he looks a little pan-asian... good-built... looks cool in black... and will probably look businessman like in a suit... but i'm freaky abt mixing personal life and work... potential hazards... stayed home most of today... yesh... thats utterly boring... i know... so not-happening... but i got to spend time with my family... kinda missed them... went with mom to change my bank book... and change for a new atm card... more features... but no name... so sad... i'm just so damn proud of my name... yeah rite! i still cant pronounce it properly... "Hi! May i speak to XXX? This is Stephanie calling from..." "Daphne? Tiffany? Har?" i seriously have a speech prb la... maybe thats why CGH rejected me.. =( i want visa mini! bank acc. growing steadily... am glad... quite ironic that i stopped shopping regularly when i'm on this job... during the Great Singapore Sale... oh well.. i guess i din need the work clothes... my staple of t-shirts sufficed... actually come to think of it... my present wardrobe sucks... nuthing seems to hide the thick arms, round waist and all... will have a prb when school starts in a few weeks... it was quite cute the other day... 4 of us left the office to go on different errands... so we shared a cab to river valley... 3 huge guys in the backseat... i think i heard them call themselves charlie's angels... wonder what does that make me... interesting talk.. discussing how one hates kids... how another loves having shoots with snakes... about a spider that was crawling in their midst... olivier kept reminding me to speak during the meeting... past few meetings i've been =X... coz i hate it when i say the wrong things... but that day i was sent to the meeting with the clients alone... bo pian... have to talk... but at least if i talk rubbish... olivier wont know... so he cant scold me! i did panic la... but it was fun... euro has been quite a shocker... france, england, spain, italy and germany... and czech the only team with 9 pts... hmmm.. wonder whats coming next... dunnoe how to predict tonite's match... by logic... holland should win... but by euro'04 tradition of shocker (soccer) matches... sweden might just pull another miracle... not really miracle also... judging by how some of the star players have been playing... haiz... they probably deserved their lot... esp that guy with the squeaky voice... piangz... still so conceited... "i AM the captain..blah blah blah...i still AM the captain...blah blah blah..." liew... i think if i miss a penalty... i'll probably diam diam, head look at floor man... also becoz of my squeaky voice as well... it just doesnt go with the image... ----Stef stopped rambling at 00:37 --Link to Post |
| 25.6.04 |
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family finally back liaoz...
been 5 days... kinda miss them... but it was fine la... slept on parents' bed for 4 nites... but it passed kinda quickly... think coz i was busy with work... din go out and siao with frenz alot... coz no daddy chauffeur... oni monday at nanny's place... and chronicles of riddick with yb... the rest was spent sleeping or watching the OC and CSI... sis came back with braids... no present for me... so sad... obviously... they had so much fun they forgot abt me... to think i offered to pay for their holiday... oh well... hehhe... but still... am glad they are finally back... was supposed to leave work early today... so that i could head down to NUS with lala to settle our hostel stuff... but was so busy i really couldnt... told her next week... but lala... got a major casting from 5 to 7 on Monday... i know i promised to quit if he doesnt let me off... but i think i wanna stay in to gawk at cute guys too... we can go late morning early afternoon? that'll be great... first thing in the morning got mail from client... have to cast more pple... get quotations from modelling agencies... send pictures... do estimates for another job... update job costings... deliver a ring to a jeweller... almost puked when i saw the price tag... at least 30 times the cost of my phone... go figure. was shaking like a leaf having it in my bag... did alot of calling... am glad that i'm finally sounding more confident on the phone... coz at least i know what i am talking abt now... email giving us prbs... was spending super alot of time talking to the guy at the helpdesk... hosting our mail server... piangz... like one duck, one chicken... gave up... and threw the prb to the guys... vincent, olivier and chian... i really buay ta han liaoz... guys huddled ard the PCs... running from one PC to another... "hey did you get test mail 1?!??!?" "no!??!?!" "$@%#^^$%^#%$^$%!!!" they gave up too... chian concluded some guy in the building was d/l-ing porn videos... thus the horrible connection... was utterly horrible for the co. though... felt very unprofessional when i had to call my client and tell her i'm having prbs with my mail... sending them mails with my personal email... trespassing into other co.'s FTP to upload stuff... oh well... two shoots today... one for jeweller... and another for a angmoh boss and his wines... was running ard the office like siao... phones ringing... now i dont really give a damn when i have to scream for olivier across the whole office... no more... walk over to the main hall... and "olivier, i need you to check this for me/blah blah called/should we call Blah blah?..." ate in... vince went out to buy... ive got fried rice today.. it was yummy... the really dry type that i really like... so in case i forget... i owe chian - 70 c for kopi... olivier - 4.30 for chicky whopper jr... vince - 3 bucks for fried rice... lets pretend i dunnoe... casted one pan-asian guy today... came ard 6... had to stay in for him... olivier was out shopping for props... vince and chian at rooftop shooting... took some pix... chian came back... kinda warned the guy being casted that i got reputation for taking horrible pictures... and making good looking pple look horrible... guy was nice enough to come to my defence... saying tat all i had to do was press the shutter... it's the models responsibility to look good... hah... coz chian was complaining i made him look terrible in the photos yesterdae... oh well... there's a reason why i'm not the photographer... i do think he looks really good leh... esp in his starhub ad... been speaking to a lot of really nice pple of late... like i was complaining to one agent that i was being driven nuts... and she told me abt another horrible client... well... people who would go out of their way to help you... and sound really happy when you talk to them... for that i'm glad... i'm learning loads abt the industry... gaining good exposure and experience... it's not THAT bad afterall... ----Stef stopped rambling at 21:32 --Link to Post |
| 24.6.04 |
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super long day...
morning was relatively uneventful... dealing with the aftermath of days of consecutive shoots... bumped into vince while getting coffee on my way to work... not too sure abt his name... let's call him vince for now... he's quite easy to talk to really... quite funny and interesting... turns out that he knows lili... which supports my small world theory once again... tagged along when he went out to buy lunch this afternoon... went golden mile... bought my pat thai... and the little ang ku kueh like thingys... lala.... and i taught him thai! only that pat thai means thai noddles... =P new record time for quotation preparation... dunnoe why this particular client alwaz gives deadlines when he needs estimates... oh well... client give deadline means i die... oh well... rush rush... adobe pdf thingy kept giving me prbs... my email is screwing everything up... end up having to do the primitive thing of printing stuff and passing them to olivier... and faxing estimates over... took a whiff of the mangoes they used for the shoot on tues... wahh... smell super good la! wanted to eat it... but me reminds myself that they painted all sorts of things on it... *me put mangoes down slowly... =( had to courier a mango to a client... weird? i think so too... wondered if the courier would take a peak and eat the mango instead... i din warn him that the mangoes wore make-up... casting today at another client's office... with the talents and the client's client... chian left after the casting... so only me as rep of my co... kinda scary... when u sit at big table with 5 people you dont know really well... demanding more choices... pressuring you... casting din go down too well... they found that the pple that they shortlisted werent wat they were looking for... oh well... i might have to go on the streets tomorrow... casting strangers... wonder how pple would take to that... pple help... good-looking male, early 30s, rugged but cool, look like business man... think adam king? good-looking female, my age, funky/sexy/shoulderlength hair or longer... think samsung e700a advert... but at least i was here when this whole job started.. so at least i can participate actively during the meeting... din say much also la... stylist liased directly with art director... me trying to assure the client everything was going to be alrite.. she looked as if she gonna get heart attack... went for jog... couldnt survive one round... besides... got demoralised when this guy overtook me... =P haiz... need to train up... lose weight... ahhhh! ----Stef stopped rambling at 22:33 --Link to Post |
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| 23.6.04 |
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work today has been FAN-tastic!
well... try starting your day with a cute caucasian male model greeting you at the door... and saying "morning! i'm the new welcome guy!"... was recovering from shock... but it didnt stop me from drooling a huge puddle on the floor... he was utterly friendly too... coz he was borrowing the office's phone which was at my workstation... and calculator to calculate the amt he was earning with upcoming shoots... played with my phone awhile... hallo buddy! i'm trying to work here... but do i look like i mind? of coz not! have been late for work of late... stepping in only at abt 9.20... including the stopover at the hawker centre to takeaway by caffein fix... actually am this late coz i've been trying to be in the same bus as this guy i see every morning... heh... no lah... it's more of deciding what to wear... tough when pple ard you all look so good... "hmm...i'll look fat in this... eeks! i should be losing weight! gawd! that tummy!" i'll probably throw up my hands in resignation... then pull out a tank top or t-shirt to wear with some denim... but back to THAT guy.. yeah man... i think 3 days in a row same bus liaoz... met his eyes when he was alighting... he must be thinking "what a psycho!"... man... "for you, i can be..." - Puss-in-Boots *smittened* day today was super busy... everyone in the studio were... lotsa pple in... the clients... the ad pple... manicurist... models... i was kept super busy... din even step out for lunch... olivier got me BK chicky whopper jr... was rushing out quotations in record time... big job... can see why the rush... was trying to arrange for a casting tmr... between clients/ad agency/talents/us... super tough... if you think organising class gatherings were hell... this is the 18th level... full-time jobs... jet-setting pple... busy schedules... "i want to see everyone..." "where the hell is that?" it's the first major meeting organised by yours truly... olivier is busy with shoot... so that leaves me... chian's being casted... and the clients... *prays for shun4 shun4 li4 li4* shoot today went fine... are going to return the garter and bowtie i bought... apparently it doesnt complete the shot... but they complimented my choice of strawberries... ribbon colours for confetti... and olivier said the chocs look good... he liked the handkerchief too... phew... at least i dont feel so terrible... seen some of the shots already... they look pretty good... feel good that i actually have a hand in it... talk abt job satisfaction! email was screwing up today... tried all sorts of means to get attachments i need out, out... damn! it's tough being a techno-idiot... i know nuts abt trouble-shooting and the likes... i probably sound like a idiot to the person at the helpdesk as well... but she din help me very much either... chian was busy with the props and lighting... so oh well... i was left to fend for myself! din do it very well... but i survived! *breaks into song* destiny's child_-_Survivor tough clients are a challenge... but when you do accomplish what impossibility they asked of you... the sense of satisfaction is indescribable... called like countless pple today.. spoke to agents/clients/models/talents... some of them are so ultra nice it just feels so good talking to them... i had a good day at work today... =)lets hope i wont be late again tomorrow... ----Stef stopped rambling at 22:04 --Link to Post |
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just finished bath...
went for chronicles of riddick with yunnboon... finally we managed to get tickets... think it wasnt that popular a movie anyways... i wanted to watch home on the range actually... but must consider... cartoon doesnt really go with most guys... came home to assure grandparents i'll be home early and everything... then left for tampines ard 8... helped me daddy warm up his engine... so both of us sat in my dad's car for awhile... played with all the buttons... found his dad's car... then went TM... like usual... forced a treat out of him... poor guy... paid 14.50 for a movie in which he was nodding away... 13 for our tix... and 1.50 carpark... muahhaa... i was kind enough to buy my own dinner ya? yoshinoya beef bowl... not that nice... but girl at counter was nice... both of us laughing away when i blurted "beach bowl"... must be all the "yes, our address is 700 Beach Road..." she liked my little boxy case... asked where i got it... well.. i din buy it... but you can find it at muji... gave me free soup.... muahaha... i'm a dishonest freak... been seeing how different pple drive of late... the newbies... edward, yb, kor... damn funnie... the first one cant u-turn properly.... the second so scared when parking and super scared of uphill curves...... the last one still ok... wonder what kinda driver i would be... went out for prop sourcing today... wedding garter... super difficult to find... only saw one in the whole of orchard road... black bow tie... bubbles... confetti... ready made ones CMI... got down to making them myself with ribbons... handkerchief... strawberries... hopefully i can dip them in cream after the shoot... and eat them! and chocs.. which cost 16.80... crazy stuff... but spending time out of office is therapeutical... spent alot of money... garter cost 50 bucks already... woah... olivier better pay me back... talking abt the garter... damn funny... lady at taka kept saying "it's for weddings it's for weddings"... when i expressed interest in it... i may not look of marriageable age... or marriageable in the first place... but it might occur to you i might need them for another purpose? so decided to try other places... none at all... went back to that lady... and she explained that she needed to make things clear... coz they dont sell very well in asian countries... and some might think its a hair band for babies... well.. i do need a garter... for a photo shoot, that is... saw afidah along orchard... and dropped by at melissa's to say hi... imagine... work = shopping... shopping = work... although it doesnt seem rite that i'm enjoying shopping for things that arent mine... i am... coz i get reimbursed... every single cent... work lined up tomorrow... casting for males for the shoot the week after... hope every thing falls in place nicely... dun want my head to roll again... quite paiseh when i kinda screwed up my conversation with phantom models today... i cant help it... i'm new... i dunnoe how to answer their qns sometimes... but at least i have a few good laughs with the girl on the other end... she's been utterly helpful... and i'm thankful for that... major shoot and lotsa work tomorrow... i need sleep... ----Stef stopped rambling at 00:08 --Link to Post |
| 21.6.04 |
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sucky day...
oh well... no one to eat lunch with again... peeps ordered pizza in... but stepped out for air and a walk... aircon in office is killer... jewelry shoot today... even hand models look so good... thats the industry man! am stuck at my workstation... work come in pulses... one moment i can be slacking away... doing everything without ms shortcuts... and next moment... juggling phone, keyboard and files... trying to get something done... really got enough of being left to feel my way ard... then get reprimanded for doing something wrongly... next time it happens... i'm gonna just rebutt the boss... what the!?!?!?!? i'm already trying very hard... if you want things perfect... photographer aka perfectionist... then TELL ME HOW THE HELL YOU WANT ME TO GET IT DONE! took bus to nanny's place... 608 takes freaking long to get to bedok... missed one... caught the next... turn here turn there... finally arrived at bedok interchange at 7 plus... piangz... but managed to bump into mr calvin lim... small world small world... was surprised la... me blur blur just wake up from sleep-drool-ing in the bus... mr lim dazed after his HKG trip... was shocked when i saw him... like he said.. he's my "greatest nitemare"... "pure evil"... exchanged a few pleasantries... if you consider mutual suan-ing pleasant... before i made my way to my bus... reached nanny's place... had dinner... chatted with her family... dong-en and zhonghan's fathers came to collect the dumplings too... with the latter bringing his son... man! zhonghan grew to be very very adorable... very small kid kinda shuai-ness... shy but still playful... but ther way he called my nanny "auntie mummy"... reminded me of how interesting my relationship with her was too... almost like surrogate mother kinda feeling... am very close with my own mother... but the closeness to my nanny is hard to describe... a bond with no blood ties... just the amount of time spent together... she's an amazing person... if only i have the chance to give back all that she given to me... and more... inflation you see... i would... kor gave me a ride back... jie tagged along... so that she could see me up to my place... i feel so loved... so spoilt ya? but its their... mother insist kinda thing... so they dont have much of a choice... but i know jie dotes on me... =) family in bangkok... miss them to bits... but it seems that they're enjoying themselves.. am happy for them... at least i'm not home alone... still got so many pple at home... thats the best thing abt living with 9 pple under one roof... you are never alone... work tomorrow... wish me best... ----Stef stopped rambling at 22:53 --Link to Post |
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kinda sucks...
was a relatively uneventful day... but was sufficiently occupied i guess... i got scolding again... not really "scold*scold*scold" kind of scolding... nor andrew's "*&^(&*%$#%$@#!!!" kind... but getting reprimanded for a mistake no one told me to avoid nor briefed me abt... its kinda unfair... how am i to know you dont ask the agencies to quote their price when you ask for talents? how am i to freaking know that? the worst thing is that he acts as if i'm supposed to know everything when he teaches me nuthing... i dont know how independent am i supposed to work... why dont i just let him do everything? or make him list everything i ought to say and keep mum about... so that i wont screw up no more... give me clearer instructions... ahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! ----Stef stopped rambling at 17:33 --Link to Post |
| 20.6.04 |
 think the photos just look best without me... ----Stef stopped rambling at 02:04 --Link to Post |
 well...they HAD to ostracise me with the pole... ----Stef stopped rambling at 02:04 --Link to Post |
 who's the best in AJ! *points to self* ----Stef stopped rambling at 02:03 --Link to Post |
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busy day today...
lotsa appts... bought lotsa stuff... spent lotsa money... went with aunt for breakfast... grandparents din wanna go... probably feel its inconvenient... granny in wheelchair... grandad having fainting spells... so got takeaway for them... kinda automatic woke up at 8 for this... amazing... maybe becoz i was quite wary abt waking up late and disappointing them... but now... kinda not enough sleep... was planning to recoup all the lost sleep due to stress-induced insomnia and euro'04... oh well... and i'm blogging at 0110 hours now... siao eh! tmr la... will sleep until noon or something... really need to exercise soon... been eating and eating and eating... feel ultra guilty... but at least i'm not going thailand.. i'll probably eat alot there... much more... afternoon went for mr sung's baby celebrations... baby's darn cute... and he was wearing the rompers we got him... yeay! it's interesting to see papa sung in action... usually we see him in school... and play bball with him... it's so different... really interesting to see a different side of pple... mr seah brought his children along as well... his daughters are really very very pretty.. jas and i were smittened sia... but not many teachers came... some HODs... ms teo... yalor... and us, the RTs... met mrs sung as well too... so nice... was watching soccer on TV most of the time... repeat sweden-italy... the last minute goal by sweden was so chio la... by Ibrahimovic, if i'm not wrong... fans of Italy... poor thing... 2 pts... no Totti... looks bleak man... haiz... went back to compass point... bought the flats i have been eyeing since goodness knows when... bought a watch earlier on... cheapo one... but who cares... sis and mom think it looks cheap as well.. but i like... so too bad! white leather strap... dirties easily... but oh well... met the councillors after that... was expecting more pple... but the pple who met at bishan were only lenny loke, big boss, CK, axiao and jasmine.. latter two are stuck together for obvious reasons... so was poking my head ard lenny, boss and CK... lenny was esp interested in my job... the model-castings esp... not that i do alot of that... but considering how buaya he is... he'll probably work for free... too bad he's in OCS... made our way to town... popped by cass' at heeren... liked her shoes... exchanged our footwear for sometime... but found it too ku-niang for me... and in case i forgot to return to her... din wear it for long... i know it doesnt sound very hygienic a practice... but we've been doing it since JC... then went cine for dinner... had yoshinoya's beef bowl... yummy! i like! seldom eat beef... but after today's beef bowl... i think i wont be able to resist.. usually have the salmon instead... coz i like fish... but... i'm kind of hooked onto the beef now... met aud... then the few of us went to taka to buy flowers... okay.. the interesting part is here... we had to bluff boss the whole evening.. that the person we are receiving at the airport later is deb... when siaowen was the one coming back... duped him into buying sw's present today... and said the flowers we bought were for deb... he din know... until sw popped from behind... you should see boss' face... he was in total shock... think we did it really well... he had no idea at all... it was very touching a scenario... almost wanted to cry... like watch movie... but of coz cannot cry la... if i did, it would be so weird... boss must be very gandong... and a very happy guy as well... i love seeing happy pple... jh, yeesh and hx were there too... i think oni councillors can think of such lame-mo stuff... i had great fun today... like when i was talking to big boss while waiting for MRT... and he was saying... sometimes it takes b*stard frenz like these to make life great... i truly agree... love all my frenz... got some photos... lame stuff we took in MRT... will blog tmr... met family at the airport... ate somemore... a set meal at BK and cheesesticks... yummy... daddy was a little siao siao today... i think he's excited abt their holiday as well... din do anything for fathers day for him... maybe he's disappointed.. but i hope he knows that we love him loads... maybe write him a sweet note later or something.. really cant think of anything to get him... haiz... dui bu qi... am deciding whether to stay up for soccer... lallalalalallaaaaa.... maybe... see how... ----Stef stopped rambling at 01:00 --Link to Post |
| 19.6.04 |
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had a good day at work today..
cant decide why... maybe it's coz i din have to come up with quotations... therefore no major screw-up... or that i spent most of the day doing up my pay details... or that i had the chance to sit in a 3-way conference call at my client's office... singapore-vietnam-philippines... way cool! i got free lunch from weijie... getting along just fine with my colleagues... vince boo!-ed me when we met at the overhead bridge... he kinda reminds me of colin of 18th SC leh... chian's been offering to help me buy drinks... olivier's joking more... am now on smiling terms with the building management pple... now i'm probably more ready to manage catastrophes.. more confident when i speak to clients and all liaoz... enjoying work is a good feeling.. really... went for meeting at southpoint... mom's old workplace.. mom's rite abt the great view... of keppel habour... and the lego-like containers... met the pple behind the design of products like baygon and touche... way cool! got a brief on the process of product design... never knew it takes so freaking long just to do something like dat... market research... human response to a product design... they actually have machines to test that! this... that... everything... sat in for the international conference call... way cool! but as alwaz... mouth tight shut... until some points abt the pre-production work comes up... and i speak a little.. but it's way cool! met weijie for lunch... everybody seems to be having casual fridays.. well... i'm casual everyday without meetings... ate nasi lemak somewhere opposite his office... not bad... but best part is that it was free... muahaha... i cant really remember why he had to treat... maybe it was my "dunnoe-why-you-have-to, but-you-have-to-treat-me"... probably the second time i meet him where we sit face to face... 5 years ago... i probably see him every week or something... only that it was usually the back of his head... when he was at the computer... wf and him share the same room... heh... think he looks better with specs... i think alot of pple look very intellectual with specs... and i think thats a great thing... not everyone looks better in contacts ya? but good thing abt eating with the ah chek here is that we never run out of things to say... i talked so much i couldnt eat fast enough... he finished when i wasnt even halfway through... and he still says he eats slower than all his female colleagues... *shrugs* it's small world really... spent alot of time the past week looking for talents and models for an upcoming shoot... surfing the modelling agencies online... saw one of the guys i saw online at lunch today... oh well... too bad... he wasnt one of those shortlisted... client wants someone like ken wantabe (The Last Samurai)... any volunteers? family met nanny's family for dinner at pasir ris... kor's first paycheck and the 10 of us got a 300 buck treat... muahhah... oh well... bet he must have been feeling ultra sore... but i guess the elation of getting second upper honours and 2 mths pay will offset any =(... jie got abit carried away with the ordering... shark's fin... guilty as charged... 4 crabs... venison... mai4 pian4 xia1... steamed fish... the clam thingy... hotplates... cuttlefishes with kangkong... mantou-s... best part... jie's husband wasnt eating much... bro's keen to get out of obesity... dad needed to squeeze back into the car with the tiny space between car door and pillar... jie just had seafood pig-out last weekend... i was the last man standing... as alwaz... but swept the black peppered crabs clean... my favourite... boy boy darn cute la... love it when little children hug you... it just feels so good... i'm not michael jackson... no worries.. but the way he hugged kor when kor carried him... and how he clamoured for kor when the latter left for the toilet... so ke ai!!! but wait till he climbs all over you... calls you by your nickname... and talks back to you... you tell him "mei da mei xiao"... he will answer "qi da qi xiao"... wah liew... he's oni 3... *shake head* nanny alwaz says i'm the guai-est kid of all... =) *floats* am going to her place for dinner on monday... she's definitely gonna cook up a storm... paiseh but... yummy! rest of family going for holiday in thailand... not joining them... coz of major shoots coming up... been to thailand anywayz... but been some time since i last went on hols with them... miss the feeling... and i'm dying to have thai food... authentic and CHEAP thai food! ahhhh! i'm working at beach road... whats the prb when golden mile is just a few minutes away? muahhaha... bringing grandparents for toast and kopi tomorrow... going to mr sung's baby celebrations.. and meeting the 19th SC at nite... packed day... but it's good... better than rotting at home... though i'll appreciate the extra sleep... esp with euro'04 on... ciaoz. ----Stef stopped rambling at 00:01 --Link to Post |
| 17.6.04 |
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was just surfing around...
realised alot of pple got attached of late... i wonder why... good fengshui? lucky month? cheaper HDB flats in 3 years? hah... not that it's a bad thing... love is in the air... just queer that everyone got busy at the same time... oh well... poor lonely me shall just ponder... and wonder... am starting to feel a little pressured... but oh well... wad to do when THE ONE (aka NEO) doesnt appear? dont think i'll ever become Trinity as well... day was mainly ok... till i sent out the very last quotation for the day... was rushing lots out today... and the adobe acrobat thingy wasnt working very well... had problems pdf-ing my files... back to the last quotation... i DID pass it to boss to check... before i send it out... it got approved... so we discussed who to address it to on the email... but prb is... i addressed the quotation to the designer... while the email was addressed to the accounting personnel... even though it was the same email addy... i got it good for the inconsistent names... i cant decide whether it was my fault for not realising the inconsistency... or his fault that he approved my estimate... went down to lucky plaza as well... for the mangoes... back to being my job again coz apparently... the client's filippino employee found it there... met some really nice filippino ladies... spoke to them for a long time... abt the fruits we needed... i guess that's the good part abt the job... you get to meet pple... pple from all walks of life... i guess spending some time out of the office is good as well... 8 hours in the office is killer... seriously... choosing my wardrobe for work is a nitemare really... have to find the divine balance between looking decent enough to go other pple's offices for meetings... yet being comfy enough to walk ever where under the hot mid-day sun... and to sit cross legged at my work station... am t-shirt and jeans most of the time now... but maybe a decent top for days with meetings... all 3 guys went for lunch together... was desperately trying to get my files pdf-ed so din join them... but good also... coz got sent out to lucky plaza at ard 2 plus... so i could spend my lunchtime looking for the tote i needed and a pair of flats... which i didnt find... saw a nice one at m)phosis... quite cheap as well.. but either my arm to thick or it wasnt meant to be slung that way... oh well... lunching with weijie tmr... if he can finish his work... even though both of us are at beach road... it's two extreme ends of it... and its freaking far... but oh well... i dont mind going over to his side... as long as he's the one paying for lunch... he owes me... dunnoe why so many pple owe me meals... probably me and my "eh-you-owe-me-dinner-for-that"... oh well... bad habits die hard... now the list stands as... - weijie: one lunch... - cy: one dinner one movie... - yb: one movie... - ben k: one dinner... and i owe... - huishan: meal for my present job... - students: 25c ice cream each... - and more that i chose to forget abt... =) ----Stef stopped rambling at 21:12 --Link to Post |
| 16.6.04 |
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family probably going for a holiday without me next week...
cant decide that i stayed behind to join engin camp... or to work... somehow... though i've been hearing that engin camp is a must-go... i dont think i can just run away like dat with the major projects coming up... will see how things go... this is the fun part of working here.. how can i miss out?!?!? besides... i truly enjoy rubbing shoulders with the yuppie-types during meetings... the experience is truly amazing... pple giving you namecards... them asking for yours... "i'm sorry i dont have one..." and the posts these pple hold are astounding... dunnoe whether it's coz it's a small co.... or that they make good use of the thesaurus... senior accounts executive... regional accounts director... creative director... harlow... i'm only a temp staff who's paid 6.50 an hour... really... dunnoe whether to pity myself... or stop working so hard... oh well... meeting nanny and family on friday for dinner on kor's first paycheck... guy's got second upper honours... happie for him... cant imagine how proud nanny is of him... going over to her place for dinner on monday... considering the rest of my family is on holiday... lalalaaa... just hope the little kid doesnt climb all over me... that reminds me... i couldnt decide whether olivier's cat was playing with me... or really trying to bite me... they keep visiting me at my workstation... and one was rite in front of my monitor! i cant differentiate purring from growling... i'm fine with cats... any animals actually... just dont bite me! keke... wanna sleep early... dont wanna send the quotations to the wrong pple... need a sharp mind so that i wont kena scolding... ciaoz. ----Stef stopped rambling at 22:13 --Link to Post |
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din blog last nite...
watched the best bet... got home too late... try midnite on a weekday... wonder how i woke up this morning... two meetings in the morning... quite interesting... though most of the time my mouth is shut... and when i do speak... i keep saying things that should not be said? darn... ok ok... i'm learning... i'm learning loads of stuff really... i'm getting the hang of things... though i really fear sending estimates and quotations to clients... coz those are contractual... and alot of money is involved... am going with the flow... being exposed to more tricks of the trade... major production work needed for 2 shoots in the following weeks... lotsa props and location sourcing... luckily chian came back today... phew... at least got more noise in the office now... olivier, chian, vince... i'm banished to being the quiet one again... coz frankly... i dont know enough abt photography to input anything into the conversations between the guys... and knowing me... "light travel faster than sound... ...appear bright until i start to speak..." so i'll rather not speak... had lunch with chian and olivier after the meetings... discussed our responsibilities for the upcoming shoots... i'm glad... chian's doing most of the production... i'm more client liason and paperwork... hurrays! and great... chian's pretty chatty a person... so no more shut-my-mouth-till-someone-calls-the-office anymore! been good so far... let's hope it stays this way... ----Stef stopped rambling at 18:02 --Link to Post |
| 14.6.04 |
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lOOOOoooooooong day today...
had to go collect jewelry from one of our clients for photography... prepare talent files for our clients perusal... invoices... estimates... meetings... collect CDs from the retouchers... buy ink cartridges for the office printer... now they want more pretty faces... kinda tough... when they have a low budget... so we cant use real models... oh well... i'm trying... let's just hope olivier doesnt decide to go street casting... then i'll probably have to stake out raffles place or something... armed with camera and notebook... looking for guys who look good in office wear... Hey! that doesnt sound like a bad thing... went for jas' BBQ... was ok... din eat much... was really hot... the pit and the weather... alot of my buddies werent there... oni me and ching... yihui from my OBS group... and jas of course... yb watched the best bet already... apparently his good fren was going overseas... and had that as a 'last request'... oh well... maybe can go watch with my family... mom has been dying to catch it... aint often that she wanna watch movies ya know? ate lunch with olivier today... was super weird... coz i din know whether or not to make conversation... considering how some guys totally dont like talking in the middle of a meal... and even when i talk to him... it's stupid questions... and he gives short answers... but its the same the other way round too... he ask question... i give short stupid answers... oh well... just very different wavelengths... was ok with work today... maybe coz i had daddy to have breakfast with me... and send me to henderson and back... look for bank and all... even though he makes me cry sometimes... i really wonder what i'll do without him... work tmr... sleep now... ciaoz. ----Stef stopped rambling at 23:03 --Link to Post |
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still awake at such a weird hour...
oh well... thing is... wanted to watch soccer... england vs france.. but thats like so late... and i have a long day at work tomorrow... 2 meetings with clients... eyebags aint nice... esp when i'm supposed to deliver bad news of not being able to find the fruits... oh well... lotsa stuff to do tmr... kinda worried... sometimes i wonder if all the stress i'm facing now is worth the 6.5/hr i'm paid... sometimes i think not... all the walking.. sweating... headache-ing... throw-face-ing... oh well... i guess i'm more for the experience than the money... though the latter plays a terribly impt part too... experience is something invaluable... like weijie said... sometimes learning things the hard way is the best way to learn... cut my hair today... cheap cut... 8.80... muahaha... i'm a sucker for cheapo stuff... cant help myself... but it's a not bad salon... having a promotion... and i'm happie with the cut... it's much shorter... and thinner... therefore making me look even fatter than before... but oh well... better than hair sticking out like duck... and the heat in the sweltering sun... bleah! new kopi-toast-eggs outlet at the mall... shiok... soft boiled eggs to perfection... kaya toast with a slice of butter.. and sinfully sweet tea and kopi... good stuff... wanna bring my grandad there someday... reminds me of how he used to pick me up from school... back in primary sch days... after speech and drama... then we'll go to the church of the holy family to pray.. and adjourn to CMC beside for our favourite kaya toast... it's the oni place i know that serves hot kaya... and the butter melts into non-existence... the salty butter and the sweet kaya... is just amazing... one of the bestest things in the world... in the young primary sch girl's mind... my grandad is the most handsome grandad i know of... i know i keep saying it... but i really think so! will try to wake for england-france... if not... i'll make do with highlights on TV mobile... actually... after yesterdae's opening match.. and recalling france-senegal... am wondering if it's becoming a tradition for surprise-of-the-century opening matches... *shrugs* ----Stef stopped rambling at 01:00 --Link to Post |
| 12.6.04 |
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guess wad!?
met yujin in AMK today... man... and all this while i thought he was still in faraway UK... big fat ediot! just goes to show how small-world sg can get... apparently he came back to sg on sunday... so cool... will get him out to tell me all abt his studies overseas... gonna be in sg for 2 whole months... how cool is that! he no more blond hair though... not fun liaoz... was out with 0102 at seoul garden... as usual... with the large guy-girl divide... with the 'guy-girl' friends smack in the middle... then quite cute... coz the noise decreases as you move from the girls to the guys... girls chatter none stop... guys like abit quiet leh... muahaha... then the pple in the middle... kinda whisper alot... *snigger* ate alot... drank alot... but gosh... it was almost 25 bucks la... freaking expensive... but oh well... i'd rather go fish and co... i wanna eat da seafood platter! but it was great catching up with all of them... happy happy... girls might head to malaysia together some time next month... how cool is that? miss the klass really... bought the birthday boys a baby cake each as well... wd got the doraemon one.. and ws got the spiderman one... hehhee... miss the way we alwaz celebrate each other's birthday in school... i miss school... din take picture though... i think the guys will be rather thankful that we dont have a record of their present hairstyles... but actually i think some of them look good with the cropped hair... muahaha... really! like i told yC... i cant really lie very well... but apparently... olivier looked as if he thought i was lying when i said Filippino mangoes are not in season now... i wasnt... their best season ended just last month... i did my research ok? oh well... wandering ard AMK central with no where to sit and talk was kinda weird... but am still glad we still make it a point to come out together as a group... portugal and greece... good stuff good stuff... am toying with the idea of quitting soon... only problem is that i think olivier cant manage alone... just too many jobs next week... and chian's not back... lets wait till he fires me ya??? i'll feel better... actually i'm quite surprised at how much he trusts me... maybe he doesnt have a choice... he handed me a couple of uncrossed cheques... gave me a key to the studio... imagine all the expensive photography equipment... but i'll have to give it back to him on monday... and he left the fate of the fruits shoot in my hands... the inexperienced and utterly new newbie... really feel very lost in my job... din learn very much from pecilia on day1... oh well... i think i'll just carry on bumping ard blindly... was just reading zf's blog... saw names i found familiar... uncle george in his drunker stupor... and stuff... i miss the sailing pple... like how uncle george will just catch you while he's drunk and mutter funny things to you... he would sit you down solemnly... and start talking to you abt life... abt sailing... abt spirituality... miss mr tan as well... the fatherly figure who never failed to keep an eye on us.. every NYE party by the beach... making sure we had transport home... actually... the beach pple have been a rather impt part of my life... and when you have been away from it all for some time... you'll miss them all... it's sad how the team shrunk now to its present mediocre size... we were pretty together then.. training as a group... but hope that even though we are no longer physically a team... the team spirit and the frenship will remain unharmed... it's sad how some frenships seem to deteriorate... but once again... inevitable i guess... oh well... bath and soccer time... might go play mahjong tmr morning... and i need a haircut badly... ciaoz. ----Stef stopped rambling at 23:33 --Link to Post |
| 11.6.04 |
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probably one of my worst days today...
so terrible that i dunnoe where to start... but i guess all those are relative... try running ard sg under the hot sun... aint pleasant... was kinda locked out of the studio for awhile... olivier still in bed... and he wasnt expecting me... thought i would be out sourcing for the props for next week... went in... forwarded pecilia her personal mails... got my contacts... then headed out... let me see where i went today... Studio(Beach Road)->Town(Taka & Lucky Plaza)->Tekka->Pasir Panjang->Tekka->Studio quite insane.. and like weijie asked... "why din you call them up instead?" yes... i knew that Bell invented the phone some time ago... i should have called instead of gone down personally... but try inquirying abt a fruit nobody knows abt... and then try having a boss whose motto is "Nothing is Impossible" at the same time... kind Filippino lady at Lucky Plaza told me to try Tekka Market... kind fruit uncle at market told me to try Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre... kind wholesaler told me to try Philippines Embassy instead... it's like a tai-chi game... but i'm not having fun... and try getting ard on budget transport... bus, MRT, walk... think my arch collapsed more than ever before... doesnt help tat i'm wearing the insoles... they kinda strain the calves... sometimes i think i depend on my parents too much... got mom to get me number for AVA... on weijie's suggestion to call them to ask whether it is imported here in the first place... called mom for directions to Pasir Panjang... called dad to check whether he was in the area to give me a ride... in the end he came to send me from Pasir Panjang to Tekka... dunnoe what i'll do without them... i'm toying with the possibility of olivier without me doing all this crap... was kinda stretched to the max... coz it's not easy to find pple who would entertain your requests... especially when they are busy... was met with "i dunnoe what you talking abt", "never heard of", "try somewhere else"... way too many times... and everytime i called olivier when i meet a dead end... he would simply tell me it is possible... just a matter of 'how?'... now i've got an anti-motto, "Impossibility is a Possibility"... but it's true! esp when you've got such a low budget for props... of course you can fly everything in... it's a globalised world... but there are limitations... came back to studio... ard 3 plus... and olivier plied me with work again... think he found out i've been slacking? needed to file invoices... check the mango seasons... call talent agencies... select models/talents for jobs... bank cheque... look at the hummingbirds on his balcony... i appreciate the effort to share the visual spectacle... but i'm kinda busy? re-do the estimate for one of our clients... call the courier for him... put CD into cover-put cover into envelope-put envelop in courier's hands? ahhh!!! why cant he do that? i know he pays me... but it's only a measly 6.5/hr... left office at 7 plus... only becoz i have an appt with the bballers at 8... and coz my parents were in the area and i wanna hitch a ride... was on my way to airport... when i really couldnt take the stress anymore... and after swallowing everything the whole day... just controlling... dad kinda spilled the cup... was dishing me all the two-cents-worth of advice... that i shouldnt be this concerned abt something i can alwaz let go... blah... he knows i am very affected by the day... he knows i'm controlling my emotions... coz he knows me damn freaking well.. but i guess i wasnt feeling over-the-rainbow... edgier than usual... like how i act after a rough day at training with andrew foo... started crying and all... kinda ended up with dad raising his voice... something i can never take in my stride... esp when i know i dont deserve it... like how mr patrick lim did during o2 last year... when it was not my fault... saying i got my priorities all wrong... that i should just leave olivier to his prbs... and go on with my life... Is it wrong for me to be responsible for my work? To my duties? Wrong to try my best? i agree that i take things too personally sometimes... that i get too emotional... but it's in my character... something i've been trying to change... but failing to do so for some time now... cried all the way home from airport to tampines to home... i gave the bballers a miss... feel ultra bad... but aint much of a point with my eyes all red and mood so eeky... jas, if you're reading this... this is why... really sorry... was looking forward to tonite as well... jas, ching and rene all thought what happened... called me up and asked... appreciate their concern... thank goodness for frenz like dat... hungry now... din eat dinner... *sings* "Alwayz look on, the bright side of life, *whistle* alwayz look on the bright side of life...*whistle* " that reminds me of ben L. oh well... there has to be good parts to the day... 1) when someone named roy called me midmorning... saying he's from an invest co and my hp # won a lucky draw... when i jialat jialat tried to convince him that i think it's not necessary to go down to meet him... he suggested we could meet for lunch along beach road... thats when i realised it was weijie... yes... i was so flustered i din even reg his voice... but i think he sounds ultra nice on the phone... and i seriously think he speaks well... pity i couldnt make it back in time for lunch though... havent met him since goodness-knows-when... 2) the nice pple who helped me out today... the Filippino lady.. the fruit uncle... the wholesaler lady... the lady at AVA... my mommy... my daddy... well he did come to pick me... my pals... and oh ya... the cute courier...=) 3) sze nga and evelyn who sent me a card by post.. made me cry all over again... drew me as superwoman saving their grades... and complimented my dressing... well... they HAD to say something nice rite? muahahha... 4) drooling non-stop looking at all the good-looking pple while sourcing for models.. minus the photoshop editing part... 5) getting a call from loony... even if it was only to ask where we put our sail masts... 6) getting a call from jie... asking whether i'm going over to her place anytime soon... 7) its the end of the work week! finally! well.. at least my post is looking happier now... better to end off joyous... "IT'S ALL IN THE MIND! JUST IN THE MIND!" i've got the best job in the world! ----Stef stopped rambling at 21:42 --Link to Post |
| 10.6.04 |
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was practically dragging myself to work today...
boss was sick... so he was in bed for most of the morning... found stuff to do... so i just did my stuff... bought breakfast for him... ran some errands to the post office and the bank... walked (?!?!?!) from InCity to Bugis Junction... dropped by to see aud... ate my octoballs... work started to come in for me liaoz... and i thought the admin stuff was bad enough... i'm doing production work now as well... as in TV producer? i'm the photography equivilent... now i'm sourcing fruits from the Philippines... for a shoot next wed... and talents/models for another one... still got props for the major job... wah liew... the first one is the worst... need fruits with leaves and stems attached... and... ...ever heard of a fruit called the Dalandan? i havent! and thats why i die liaoz... need it for a shoot next week... only hope is Lucky Plaza... which i will go to tomorrow... or see whether cy can help... boss says to try the upmarket supermarts... like when do they ever sell such stuff... unless it's some Filippino fruit fair... pple who know where to get them... plz tag... Kalamansi by another name - Calamonding - Calamunding - Kalamondin - Panama orange Dalandan by another name - Darangita - King orange din know weijie worked near me... haiz... if i knew... i wont have to skip lunches or wad liaoz... i thought he was still at paragon... but oh well... tomorrow i'll be out sourcing the stuff... can eat anywhere and everywhere... =P and oh ya... this job is probably the first where i get to use courier service... and man! met my courier like 4 times liaoz... and i think he's pretty cute! shall call for courier more... boss will foot the bill! wait long long ah... he'll probably just send me to the post office again and again... oh... saw qiaoling on one of my errands today... so qiao... think she was on her way to meet guy-whose-name-i-cant-rem... think i remember him being a canoeist or dragonboater... and kallang river is near... asked me if i was joining da race this weekend... well... i really dunnoe... and dont think so... it's been ages since i last trained... definitely not good enough for MOD... and they banned us from club-board already... oh well... anyways... sam's using my MOD sail... SIN23 i'm not too sure... but it'll definitely take some time and effort to get my equipment back in racing condition... dont have the time nor the energy to do the maintainance... think i'll probably start again in uni? pretend i know nuts abt wsfing... and learn everything from scratch? maybe i'll be a better sailor then... like andrew foo always says... we started on harness too early... he is rite... i'll start again and banish my harness to the other side.. muahahhaa... ok... not funnie... i love my harness... it's probably the oni reason why my arms dont break in 20 knot winds... not that 20 knot wind is tough... i'm plain lousy... sam told me the south-west has been blowing rather strong of late... when the storm hit... he coulnt uphaul... imagine this... "SAM CANNOT UPHAUL..." thats crazy... even in the bangsaen crazy winds... he manage to do everything a-ok... i'm dead... i'm dead meat... bath.TV.sleep.dream(of.fruits) oh ya.. meeting the bballers for dinner tomorrow... yeay... love meeting pals... just feel like squishing rene... miss her to bits... i love weekends... oh ya... tianyong msged me today... feel so... remembered... hope he and the rest of s212 will study hard for the midyear... i'm not ard for them to ask questions... but mr lim offered to be ard for them... hope they'll do well.. s208 too.. wonder how they're doing... ----Stef stopped rambling at 21:35 --Link to Post |
| 9.6.04 |
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quite disappointed...
was supposed to go watch the best bet with yb tonite... after loads of calling one another... trying to accommodate to each other's schedules... after i have to explain to my parents why i can watch late nite movie though i am sick... after i told them all abt yb and how he lives one floor above us... and how it was safe that he borrows his dad's car so that we could get to tampines... then we finally checked online... tickets were all sold out... damn... cruel games fate plays on humans... it was one of the only things i was using to get me by the day... and it had to be cancelled... its not that work's tough... just that i find it difficult to work in an environment where there's little communication... olivier's nice... but i feel we cant talk... doesnt help that he stays 2 metres away all the time so that i wont catch his flu... and insists that i wipe the phone with alcohol after he used it... he assumes that i know stuff... when i dont... i get extremely stressed up with invoices and quotations... coz they mean alot of money... just to find the post office today... cy had to call me back from camp just to tell me the nearest one to his home... shoes, socks, jeans soaking wet... never felt more down and out than that... i think it's time for me to start brainwashing myself that i like this job... lest the 6 weeks be hard to pass... actually its not that bad... interesting stuff to do... lotsa pple to meet... even though its the creative line... it's still too corporate for a 18 year old... think the pple i speak to on the phone wont imagine i'm 18 ya? i did try to sound as professional as i could on the phone already... but it seems that boss still aint happy... let's hope things start looking up... pre-pro meeting next monday... tentative shoot on wed... chian's not ard... vince (contract asst.) might come in to help... if not I'LL be the one lugging ard all the equipment... ahhh!!! let's hope i'll survive... cy owes me dinner and movie... ben k. owes me dinner... i owe hs dinner... i need to buy jas' present... i need to refile the invoices... i need to tell olivier he's out of invoice paper... i just bought hoobastank... oh well... ----Stef stopped rambling at 20:28 --Link to Post |
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din blog yesterdae...
was very very tired... din wanna talk the whole nite... thing is... it's one thing learning something when someone teaches you... try figuring out how to work outlook express... get your corporate email account... sharing files... all by yourself... killed many braincells yesterdae... guess thats why a fever kinda broke out as well... meeting went fine... but was there just furiously taking notes... *bleah* day today out running errands... banking in cheques... returning toys from a shoot... going to the post office... piangz... spent the whole morning out... which wasnt fantastic... coz it was raining like crazy... jeans was wet... 4 hours on and its still cold and damp... major mistake yesterdae... while doing a quotation... a single number made such a big difference... damn... left to do things on my own without much guidance... quite hard really... today... boss kinda not happy with my answering of calls... thats the difference in having a foreigner as a boss... but the prb is... although pecilia told the client to look for me regarding a particular job... she did not brief me abt anything about it... ahhh! i'm a fast learner... yes... but i need to be taught! i can prepare to die soon liaoz... oni me and boss... chian's away... there's a shoot next week... darn... *prays* ----Stef stopped rambling at 16:26 --Link to Post |
| 7.6.04 |
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amazing how my jobs alwaz seem to pop out of nowhere...
without me having to actively source for one... shermeen got me mr koh... jasmine got me chemistry at MJC... now huishan got me this... i tink if pple dont pull strings for me... i'll never get ANY job... oh well... hs... i owe you one! ----Stef stopped rambling at 23:35 --Link to Post |
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first day at new job...
and it's been pretty cool... boss and his asst were on location for a shoot... so left pecilia and i... pple do come in and go... but it was basically just the two of us... she was kinda torn between teaching me stuff and finishing up stuff before she flies off tonite... but oh well... hope i did learn all that i have to... coz there's probably no one to ask anymore... she's the oni one handling all the paperwork... did say i was a fast learner and pretty sharp for details... *blushes* do everyone say that to everyone?!?!? oh well... but she's been nice... havent really had a chance to get to know chian and olivier better though... they came back pretty late in the day... boss' olivier... french guy who takes the photos... interesting fellow... told me that i must boss the cats ard so that they'll respect me... he's been pretty smiley so far.... but from what i see... i think he can be quite a fierce guy... oh well... just hope i dont step on his toes or something... in my 6 weeks here... he does remind me of the caucasion teacher in moulmein high though... chian's his assistant... a.k.a. guy in starhub and perfect 10 commercial... starhub: guy and girl discussing what to name their son... all the movie stars' names... or the print ad with the knitted sweater... JUSTIN KEANU TAN! *ding dong ding dong* perfect10: girl in convertible... guy jogging from behind... girl brakes... guy catches up and goes "GREAT STATION!" ya... gosh... i was shocked... almost choked on my wanton mee when pecilia told me... so good! i've got eye candy! pecilia's really pretty though... da kind who you'll point to in mags and say... "oh sooOOOooo preeetty!!" nice... and utterly helpful... treated me soya bean drink for breakfast... so i repaid the kindness with drink for lunch... interesting work really... pecilia has been doing production... eg. sourcing for props, talents, models, locations, et cetera... client liasion... and all the paperwork... cant fill her shoes entirely... so i'm mainly administrative... considering how i-dont-want-to-touch-microsoft-office the two other guys are... invoice stuff... quotations... follow-ups... meetings... i'm attending one with goldheart tmr... way cool! day today has been spent doing mostly no-brainers... photoshop-ping the talent files... fixing up the speed dial on the company phone... learning how to type stuff... filing... and who/what/how to call if i need models/talents/make-up/stylists... someone plz remind me to post that invoice out! i have an access card now... can get into the building... but no keys... darn... probably have to dingdong until olivier or chian gets the door tomorrow... or if they arent in... i'll dingdong until knockoff time, 6PM... the place is pretty cool... view of next to nuthing... but it's a loft... DUH! InCity Lofts... thats why! so the high ceilings are really nice... the two cats have been frenly... one jumped onto my lap on our first contact... is that frenly or wat!? boss' fren who was ard was nice to ask whether i wanted the radio on before he left for work... oh well... it's still to early to differentiate between really being nice and being civil becoz of unfamiliarity... watever the case... it's been good thus far... but hey hey... i've got msn at work... better if i got icq though... and i can use it blatantly coz it's my only contact with pecilia other than her phone... so yeay! i can chat if i got nuthing to do... till tmr... i should get back to studying my work... and not fall asleep during the meeting... ciaoz. ----Stef stopped rambling at 20:43 --Link to Post |
| 6.6.04 |
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let's see...
was utterly comfortable lazing in bed watching super sunday for most of the afternoon... found my USP offer... so i can file it up and stop wondering whether it was a dream that i got accepted... feel like bish-ing pple who dont reply my sms... that reminds me... i'm supposed to reply mr sung's invitation to his baby's first month celebrations... was just wondering whether or not he'll invite us... i like babies... just that one-month olds are probably NOT safe in my arms... dragged out to the library with sis... tried on a top before that... din fit... too bad... borrowed book... short stories from ard the region... good stuff... dunnoe why i prefer to read asian literature... easier to digest, i guess... had wedges with tabasco/ketchup/chilli... crazy sis' concoction... went for dinner with family... ate lotsa stuff... lotsa oysters... that kinda reminded me of wad i read in kino... abt the melancholic death of oyster boy... by tim burton... yb called... want to go watch the best bet when it does come out... man... thats probably one of the firsts where i din have to beg the person to watch a movie with me... hmmm... harry potter was cy's idea too... watever! oh well... i'll have to get back to him later this week... dunnoe wat the new week would bring in... keeping =X dont want to jinx my chances again... got dad to give me crash course on excel... not very effective... considering i kept stealing glances at the young harry potter on TV behind us... he is so cute! oh well... i think boys look better when they're younger... and girls look better when they get older... oh well... it's subjective... but back to excel... learnt what i think i needed to know... just hope it's enough for tomorrow... i should give her a confirmation sms... lest i be stranded at lavender tmr... bought clay aiken's measure of a man yesterdae... cy has got incredible powers of persuasion... aint too bad... but was expecting to be lifted off my seat or something... din happen... maybe it was coz i was trying desperately to better my minesweeper records... trying to at least reach my all-time record of 5/40/118... that was with the previous PC... it's a dismal 10/43/136... darn... shall try harder... ciaoz. ----Stef stopped rambling at 21:37 --Link to Post |
| 5.6.04 |
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major turn of events again...
cy msged in the morning to say his officer/sergeant told him low possibility of being activated.. (officer/sergeant whatever...i'm lousy with ranks...) so kinda asked my bro whether it was ok if i bring him another time... feel bad... but oh well... he's my bro... at least now he can go watch the movie with his best bud.. and his best bud's bro... guy's nite out... better than me, his elder sis, bring him out ya? met cy in town abt 3... decided to wait till abt 1... so that even if they decided to activate his unit... he can at least finish the movie before rushing down to kranji... but din get any calls la... so no prb... movie was great.. harry potter is cuter than ever... i had alot of question marks though... cy says its becoz they left out alot from the book... but he did mention that reading the book before the movie kinda spoilt it... but i think i got the best deal... i havent read the book... (therefore the movie was utterly enjoyable...) then i have cy to answer my questions... alot of them... i must add... hermonie was really pretty... and i kinda liked the flow of the whole movie... there was one lady in the cinema cy and i din like... thing was... she happened to be with her angmoh bf and another couple... on a double date... problem was... they had 4 seats... then without considering the possiblity that her seats might be split... 3-1 like wad happened when i was watching LOTR with weijie and his married frenz... she assumed the kid beside her was in the wrong seat... and chased the kid away... while kid's mom was in the ladies with other kid... such a b*tch... kid's mom came back... lady kicked up a fuss... oni to finally realise that she was in the wrong... and acted so indignant abt it... in the end... kid mom offered to take the single seat in the other row... while the double-daters could sit together... wad a b*tch... cy wanted to bitch (*used as verb, no censorship necessary) out loud abt it... but kinda stopped him seeing how tall the angmoh was... *shudder* shopped around after the movie... taka... man... really wanna buy all the photog. books in kino... they're just so amazing... saw alot of great books... esp this book by tim burton... The melancholic death of oyster boy and other stories... which cost all of 35 bucks... and a book that went something like... "you are not as good as you are, you are as good as you want to be." -the world's best-selling book... pretty interesting... cy was stuck in the business section though... spent 12.30 on a business mag... and i end up having to pay for his movie and dinner... -_-" if there's anyone who can extort treats from me... it's cy... still rem how he duped me into buying him this pencil case from 37 degrees... just coz he was WAAAAaaY too irritating... that reminds me of.... me! walked past LV... wondered why pple queued outside just to get into LV... when LV wasnt THAT crowded... oh the exclusivity! wonder if ben l. was still doing their displays... took a bus down to suntec... for the book fair... i did warn him it wasnt anything fantastic... but let him see anyway... at least i got to see wq for awhile... walked ard suntec... telling each other wad we wanted for our birthday gifts... coz i missed his birthday this year... totally forgot when it was... till i asked him today... he misses mine every year... so doesnt really matter... well... if i do recall... i want the puma sleeveless top... the brown-grey one with the stiched finish... the yellow polo from B.U.M... the blue nike bottle that came with a mini bag and a towel... which cost 33 bucks altogether... and the dry-fit which looks more men's than women's the new adidas tee that cost 35 bucks... the nike shoes with the pink tick... which cy thought was super ugly... and he wants... the holland jersey... which reminds me... i alwaz see cy in football jerseys... different ones... and today's red spaniard was new... no wonder he's broke! oh well... at least it matched his red shoes... the black adidas polo... the nike dry-fit tee... the red mazda 3... or the red alfa romeo... the pretty organiser we saw along citylink... well... he'd better pay me for movie and dinner... and i'll be content... ate dinner at BK... yummy mushroom swiss! which was, like i mentioned, my treat... worse part! he kept stealing my onion rings! oh well... he did treat me to my strawberry sundae.. coz yami yoghurt was closed for the day... =( something wrong with the MRT line today... had to detour to outram and change to the NEL instead of dhoby ghaut... or else dunnoe how long my journey will take... at least he was sms-ing me throughout... while playing soccer... The Spire aint such a good read after a long day... dunnoe why i keep sparking pple who walk next to me along suntec and citylink... stella...yeesh...sam...bernie...serene...et cetera... gawd! cy and i kena until i made him walk 1 metre away... pain leh... issit me or wad?! *shrugs* should leave now... ciaoz. ----Stef stopped rambling at 23:51 --Link to Post |
| 4.6.04 |
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pure insanity...
my two rounds today clocked 17:03... i'm dead... thats even worse than the talk/laugh/joke jog with yb yesterdae... now no excuses... i think i'm just plain lousy... thats like a deprovement of almost 2 whole minutes... compared to when i was at my peak... oh well... i ought to go running more... and stop ogling at other cute joggers... there werent any today... maybe thats why... crazy turn of events... i might be starting work somewhere on monday... note the uncertainty... coz once again, blur stef doesnt know... huishan got me into something i dont really know abt... but they're paying me 6.5 an hour... without CPF i presume... photography co. with ang moh boss... other than the fact that i'll be meeting a pretty girl who will bring me to work on monday... i know nuthing else... but i know i trust hs enough... just me to dive into unchartered waters once again... let's hope they decide to employ me and that it'll be a good 6 weeks for us all... but this doesnt really go with my apply-for-NUS-hostel and pick-up-wakeboarding plans... oh well... still keen on earning bucks... till then... need my dad to teach me everything he knows abt excel... my excel truly sucks... ----Stef stopped rambling at 23:26 --Link to Post |
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thanks to ben k and his introduction of imdb.com to me a few weeks back...
found the quote... "How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd." -Alexander Pope =) was reading the first draft of the movie just now... it was darn different from the movie... wondering how it'll turn out should they make the movie from the first draft direct... but one point worthy of note in the first draft was that... an aged clementine went to Lacuna to get her memory of joel erased again... the records show that she had him erased for more than 15 times already... in a span 50 years... it isnt clear whether or not joel had her erased too... regardless... the issue is... how clear the message was... the message the movie wanted to portray... "...that true love will find its way..." 1) if joel had her erased as well... its amazing how their paths managed to cross again... as if their sub-conscious minds were struggling to hold on to all the memories they shared... that there was a void in their minds that they were dying to fill... like how they met for the second time... how first-time it actually felt... 2) if joel didnt erase her... (which was unlikely...should have seen the pain he was in...losing her...) it was amazing how he could get her to fall in love with him again and again... think: 50 first dates... and how he could endure the pain of knowing that someone would willingly erase him... but like sz mentioned in the tagboard... if you need to erase somebody... it oni goes to show that that somebody held a pivotal place in your heart... is that good or bad? you decide... there was a part of the movie that was cut out of its first draft... which i thought was good... when joel learnt that clementine went to Lacuna to erase him... there was a vague shot of a dictionary definition of the name... i din cut this from there... following definition from dictionary.com... la.cu.na - An empty space or a missing part; a gap. and tip for pple watching eternal sunshine... it might help to know that clem's hair colour goes green-orange-blue chronologically... now trying to get a pal to watch harry potter with me... cy's unit is on alert this weekend... high chance he'll be called back... so here i am with 2 potter tix... rene's watching it tonite... bernie's trying to re-schedule her saturday for me... how sweet... but if all else fails... i think i shall just do the unthinkable... and bring my little bro... i really dont mind bringing him out for meals or movies... in fact... i love to... but... on a saturday!??!?! to cine!?!?!? oh well... sometimes you have no choice... and not like it's cy's fault anyway... better that he tells me to find someone else now... then ciao-ing in the middle of the movie... leaving me all alone ya? oh well... plz bernie... ----Stef stopped rambling at 13:14 --Link to Post |
| 3.6.04 |
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finally caught eternal sunshine of a spotless mind!
woohoo! think it's really cool... a little tough to follow... but if you use kate winslet's hair colour as a timeline... you'll do pretty well... it's an interesting concept... very very thought-provoking... might catch it again... but the cinematography was novel... think: butterfly effect... liked the movie... probably one of the few times you get to see jim carrey in a serious movie... there were some funnie moments... but his performance was good... go catch it... not many theatres show it... met lunnie for lunch and the movie... weird huh? just that both of us really wanted to watch that movie... he was enlisting soon... and i happened to ask him out... lunch at long john silver's was good... had my favourite fish... yummy! met yollie, jess, shermeen and cherysa along the way... so glad to have bumped into them... coz jess was back in town... from the US... and i was dying to meet up with her... oni downside was when shermeen asked me, "how long already?"... piangz... NONO!!! *waves hands frantically in the air* lunnie was fun to go out with... oni prb was... we had serious problems trying to hear each other... dunnoe whether i speak too softly or what... but oh well... maybe its coz i mumble too much... came home early... dinner at home... save-money mentality.. yunnboon called me twice today... to cancel and reschedule our jog together... in that order... happened that the course he was supposed to have tonight was rescheduled to tmr... so we met to jog together... poor him have to pace according to my speed... which was freaking slow lah! the two rounds took us 16+ mins... but considering we were talking/laughing/joking along the way... it was not bad already... he did one more round alone... could see that he finished it much faster... good workout man! at least i couldnt afford to give up halfway with him ard... but cant do this much in the future... guy is staying in camp next month onwards... =( eternal sunshine was good... wonder if it will ever be possible to erase memories like dat... selectively... is it encouraged? isnt that running away? it's simply a chain reaction... he erased me off his memory... now i must erase him off mine... and while i'm here... might as well erase ***... then *** will have to erase me too... is it fair to the one erased? will the person going through the procedure be truly happy? or is it the kinda airy happiness where joy is present oni becoz of the lack of sorrow? the eternal sunshine of a spotless mind indeed... the quote from kristen durst was superb... i couldnt catch it in its entirety... will try find it... elijah wood and durst didnt play huge roles... kinda surprising... considering the major impact Wood had in LOTR... probably one of the few movies which crying scenes really hit me... few that you can truly feel their pain... ----Stef stopped rambling at 22:53 --Link to Post |
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sometimes...
the realisation, tat u're not as impt as u would like to be to someone, is heart-wrenching... but i guess it is somewhat inevitable... u cant expect every love/like/hate to be reciprocated... nor your feelings made known, right and clear, everytime... sometimes... when sms/icq.msges go unanswered... time and time again... it hurts coz it simply goes to show how impt you are to that friend... nuthing more than a flashing icon on the desktop... what if... you're one of the *shrug-i'll-answer-that-later-but-never-do* victims? do you slowly give up trying? forget abt the whole friendship... and maybe hope that one day... just maybe... the person would take the initiative for once? sometimes... you wonder why is all this happening... and why cant everyone deal u the same amt of attn/love/care/concern you had for them since day1... and whether it was worth your while trying so hard? what if... you realised that the person whose call you alwaz answered, whose sms you've alwaz replied... never really did the same for you? that you've been there for them... alwaz... but not the other way ard? is this wat my dad means when he advised not to contribute too much in a friendship... lest you be disappointed at the low returns? no expectation, no disappointment? tough... expectation is bound to be there... not giving it your all? i dont see the frenship going anywhere... i guess it should suffice that i'm trying... hard enough... if there was anyone i need to answer to... it'll be myself... ----Stef stopped rambling at 00:20 --Link to Post |
| 2.6.04 |
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went out with the wsfers...
wanqi and adrian couldnt make it though... oh well... still got to see sam, loony and sz... am happie... been so long since i last had the chance to hit sam's muscular muscles... gossip with sz... and get suaned by loony... miss these pple... am glad they turned up... i think it totally sucks organising get-together sessions... am attempting another one for 0102... hopefully i'll pull that off better... dunnoe why i'm the idiot doing such stuff now... maybe coz i'm free-er... and jobless, of course... was singing all the way home in dad's car... dad mentioned that i oni sing so much when i'm happie... seriously... i sing all the time if i know the song thats playing... and the CD that happened to be playing... actually it was coz the remote control was with me... was something i burnt... so it was all the songs i totally adore... but i think my dad was quite right in saying that... it'll be kinda queer singing when you're in a bad mood... i just enjoy making my family squirm in their seats with my horrible singing... oni they can tahan the terrible noise... hmm... sam's got a bigger build now... think his twice weekly gym and thrice weekly water training is finally paying off... this is pre-army... can you imagine wad will become of him when he goes into BMT?!?!?! siaoz... sz's still as sweet as ever... we're backing each other up whenever we suan the guys... kinda sad that i'm not going into the uni that she's in and wq's going into... but oh well... cant get everything you want ya? loony is still orange... but according to the rest... he looks more adultish now... i guess we have to... aint very possible to grow less adultish... thats going against nature... wq was selling ice cream at the book fair... we dropped by and chat a little... good to see her after so long... she looks happy... flushing at the mention of the love of her life... am happy for her... passed the later 3 their v-dae pressies... abit late... but better late than never... saw boying along citylink... was alone with sam at that time... hope she doesnt think slanted then go back to tell her good pals back in MJ... saw bok too... but i alwaz see her ard... so no diff... is singapore getting smaller??? me going out more??? or that i'm getting to know more pple??? oh well... watever the case... its still a really small world... ----Stef stopped rambling at 22:06 --Link to Post |
 weeling and i...her with the puss-in-boots-act-cute expression...think the school is rather pretty from this shot... ----Stef stopped rambling at 09:26 --Link to Post |
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just came back from the temple...
stopped short of one more on the visiting list... aint feeling too good with the cramps kicking in... was shopping yesterdae... when i realised they're now selling the top i got in thailand last year... oni thing worthy of note was... that i bought the top for 150 baht... which equates to less than 7 bucks... but the shops ard here are selling them for roughly 24 bucks... man! someone get me a ticket to bangkok plz? am gonna watch harry potter on saturday! woohoo! that's if cy has no problem booking out on time that day... made an advance booking... which was so cool coz almost the whole cinema was empty.. and i could choose ANY seat i want... so happie.... infatuated with the child actors man! probably just sit there drooling... considering i never read the books... oh well... i think cy did... so maybe he can do a scene-by-scene explanation... till someone behind us pours popcorn on him or something... ok... its painkillers time... before the pain kills me instead... ----Stef stopped rambling at 09:05 --Link to Post |
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