back on track

Hello! Hope you still remember me. :)

2012 has been a packed year! I'm not lying. Coming back from South Africa at the end of last year, it's been celebrations all along. From Christmas to celebrating my 22nd birthday, to New Year's Countdown to Chinese New Year non-stop until end of January.

I had a blast the whole time.

Christmas eve - the first celebration was already crazy. Walked out from a restaurant because there's no food left to order, and ended up buying roadside burger and enjoyed them in Straits Quay.

w/ tg bungah burger

We did managed to go to Full of Beans to have a cuppa coffee & macaroons later on to compensate our pitiful dinner.

our orders

That was the first time I tasted macaroons! Very sweet! Not to my favourite liking. Chocolate still win them anytime! :)

Walked around and took some pictures. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Then 30th December - yearly date that reminds me I'm getting old and hopefully wiser. Already blogged about it so I'm not gonna write anymore here.

Then it's New Year's Eve! Well to be honest, NYE is only interesting because of the fireworks! Everywhere, the prices will be ridiculously increased!

Luckily we managed to find one restaurant that is not so expensive and the prices doesnt increase even during festive season - Mizi Bistro @ Tesco Tanjung Pinang.

dinner @ 8.30pm

After dinner, we walked on foot to SQ for the countdown. The magnificent Christmas tree was still around so we took a group pic.

Many activities were held that day. Slides for kids, lots of mascots walking around, live band performances... and the place was packed like sardines!

w/ a fairy mascot

That's how i bid farewell to 2011 and ushered the 2012 with a bang (fireworks)!

After that, it was a lot of job-applying for me. Cleaning up my resumes, looking at jobstreet and news for job openings etc.. Of course, met up with friends in between to clear away the stress!

peishing . ranjini . karenp . me

with karenc at Starbucks SQ

Then comes CNY! The weather was torturing hot as usual especially the house-visiting sessions, but it's always nice to meet up with relatives and friends! and the food are always, always good! :)

reunion dinner

house visiting @ lean's

thru the magnifying glass

cny joy = wheeeeee!

with childhood friend - mayyee

games session in ivy's

Twister time!

and more twister!

after round 2 of games session in karenc's

Also celebrated my big sis's birthday!

Then right in the middle of CNY, I found a job in an accounting department and started in February. So hello back to working life!

Overall, so far so good la my new working environment. Definitely less hectic as compared to audit life!

In my current working place, I get free lunch at work. A meal where I can choose western or asian.

Above is an example of my choice for last Friday - Pasta vs Tomyam. Free flow of salad + fruits provided too. Anyway that day, I took both pasta and tomyam because I wanted to try both and so does my colleague so we shared! ngek ngek ngek

See! It's been a crazy 2012 so far. Yet, overall it has been fun I would say. Here's to hoping another 10 months of fun! :)

a chapter in life

a picture says a thousand words.

@ Welcome to EY, KL

@ the reception

@ common pool

colleagues

:)

@ Daorae, Bayan Point

the end.

four days of working

this time, i have two other "money-faced" friends to work with me. Lean and ChuiLeng.

the three of us reach gurney at 10am sharp, and as usual, the rest of our colleagues are still missing. lol but they reach a few minutes later..

me and lean while waiting for other colleagues

we started transferring the stocks down to the booth, arranged them according to Canon, Nikon, Samsung, Olympus, Sony, BenQ, Fuji, Casio, Grandvision, SD Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks according to their gb, Screen Protector and UV Lens Protecteor according to their size, Pendrives, Cases, Accesories, Free Gifts, etc...

yeaps, there are really so many things to arrange and we do that every morning.. not to forget that we are going to pack them all up in boxes every night. zzzzzz

so, what we do during work? we either distribute leaflets, explain/talk to customers about the features/camera, gossip with other colleagues, counting down for the number of hours left to work, "play" with the cameras to learn. yeaps we the part-time workers are still learning about the cameras =S

me and chuileng tired of distributing leaflets

one thing i like about working (0ther than getting salary) is that you get to know more people. every fair has a different promoters. like this time, i get to know a few more.

Hi Wei Liang!

Hi Si Man!

Hi Khai Sing!
Hi Ah Hong!
Long time no see Teng Teng!
Long time no see Eric!

though 4 days of standing 12 hours (plus minus) was kinda torturing, but still it has its fun also.

thanks to those who works with me and cure my boredom during work. thanks to Miss Wong for the lunch and dinner. thanks Eric for the McD sundae ice-cream. thanks CL's sis for the breads. thanks to Mr. working-at-secret-recipe-customer for the free Chocolate Indulgence and New York Cheese cake. i thank you on behalf of all my colleagues too!

working at pikom pc fair apr '09

saturday.

after a few hours of work.

when CL and me went to the toilet and camwhored.

=.=''

shu-min . chui leng


sunday.
after two days of work.


me

see the difference?
so charn.
like i just done running 154987 miles.
lol


agnes . shu-min
one and only nice picture after work without looking so charn
(besides my oversized t-shirt)

tiring, but i had fun.
meet new people.
meet friends that i havent seen in a long time too!
and a new working experience.
=)

****************************************************************

lol i was supposed to blog about below but i totally forgot about it!

so, sunday morning, it was raining so heavily in PISA.
after we parked our car, we gotta walk our way under the rain.
and the roads are a little flooded.
and because of that my sport shoe AND socks got wet.
it'll be stinky to be wearing wet shoes and wet socks for the whole day right?
so i decided to take off my shoes and socks,
and got bare footed inside the booth the whole day.
hahahahhaha
and this is the result:


disclaimer: my feet are not fat.
angle problem and i'm just so lazy to take another pic.

my feet got so BLACK! hahahhaa

shu-min wants a new sport shoe!
any sponsors?
;)

valentine's day 2009

since everyone blogged about their valentine's day. let me blogged mine too!

my date for the day was......

WORK! =*(

morning @ hooichin's hse

but i did enjoyed myself actually. despite being tired. we had fun joking around, teasing around, etc... me and hooichin even took photos at the autocity love bridge lol

@ 1am


i like this picture


acting cute. damn eric spoiling the picture lol

happy valentine's day 2009!

working

friday
after class, we zoom-ed to queensbay mall for the fair. i got a shirt (finally!!). i am now officially a promoter for digital cameras with a shirt! hahaha... this time i was under a new girl. in fact, everyone is new to me. havent work with them before except for hc and GS.. so i get to know ppl's name, joke, laugh, "complain" with them. haha. so now i know grace, irene, andy, hendric, doreen, elyn, jimmy... and a few i forgot to ask for their name.. =S anyway, i thought there will be lotsa people in queensbay since it's a friday and a long weekend ahead. but i was wrong. not many people was in queensbay, or maybe i should say, not many people is interested to buy digital cameras. i get bored standing there! =S at night after work, i followed hc back to her house. by the time we reach home, it was already 12am and we had milo+biscuit for supper!

hc_min

saturday
woke up at 7 something thanks to hc's neighbour's dog. the dog was barking for at least 1 hour non stop!! omg.. according to hc, the dog is hungry and barks for his food. =S we reached queensbay mall at 10am and started setting up the booth, arranging the demo cameras and started selling/promoting. oh ya, did i mentioned that hc's mum bought coffee bread, "bah hu" buns and "bak kua" buns for us? 3 types of bread.. imagine that!!!! so we ate those for breakfast and lunch.. haha.. really thx aunty oo.. so kind.. i feel quite "phai seh" la.. anyway, back to the story.. queensbay have more people compared to yesterday.. so it's a little not so bored anymore.. me and hooichin went over to a mamak's place opposite for dinner.. we both had a roti telur each and shared roti planta.. so overall we had ROTIs for breakfast, lunch and dinner!! we work until 1am as queensbay is open until12am for merdeka eve. so by the time we reach hc's home, it was already 2am. then we ate baskin robbin's ice cream cake! first time eating ice cream at 2 in the morning! anyway the cake doesnt look delicious in the pic, but IT IS DELICIOUS!!!!

the delicious coffee ice cream cake

sunday
woke up early, thanks to the renovation "bing bang bOOM!" sound. we changed venue to carrefour as we found out that there's a fair there too. new place, new people. the booth is smaller in carrefour. it's about 1/3 of the booth in queensbay only. but it's FUN-er! the people there is crazier! i had lotsa fun working with lirong, nanyi, irene's bf, en and hc of course.. and also, carrefour has more people.. and more people are interested to look at the promotions compared to the people in queensbay.. so we got more job, more customer.. time is easier to pass! i wish fair was like that always! =P after work, about midnight, hc brought me to delicious tomyam supper (actually our dinner cause we havent had dinner.. too busy).. somewhere in raja uda area (i think..)... and it was YUMMY!! sour enough and not too spicy.. and not expensive also!! and below are pictures of vainpots during work.

left: me and en (boss of the booth)
right: nanyi and en

i realised something. when i dont have work to do, i will go search for any easy part time jobs. when i get it, i'll be lazy to work and regret taking the job. but after the job, i will think back, it wasnt that bad afterall. hehe

working in pc fair

PISA had PC fair last weekend and i'm working as a part timer there. selling digital cameras. i was kinda nervous at first cause i dont know much about digital cams. i dont own 1 myself =(

my class only finishes at 10.30am on friday, so i will be late for the first day. i followed hooichin there. she's working too! =)

we are late for the first day. so when we reach there, we went straight to the main booth for the company. everyone seems to be busy selling already. everyone have their "jobs" while both of us looked around. feeling so nervous and worried. then later one of the senior send me to another booth to help out there.

the booth is smaller than the main one. about 1/4 of the size only. but i get an easier job. my job is just to give out flyers to attract customers, shouting out the promotions to the crowd. i was kinda relieved at first to be given such an easy job and doesnt really need the knowledge of the product =P but after a few hours, it gets boring.. and my legs start to give out. after 3 days, i lost my voice!! TIRING!!

2nd day and 3rd was better. i get to promote and SELL digital cameras. it was fun! the way the customer asks for discounts or price rebate or free stuff. it was difficult at first as i'm working for the first time as a promoter. but later i learn more and more about the products and being more confident. and i learn a lot from the first day too!

and i tell you.. dont ever go to pc fair if u really dun have the intention to buy. it is SOOOO packed! ppl walk like sardins!!!

all in all, it was TIRING... but i had lotsa fun!! i meet new funny crazy friends like GS, pauline, kong, weei, kershing, *disted 199-299 guys*... lotsa funny moments along the 3 days~ no regret! if i get to work with them again in the future, i will go for it! =)


but one thing...


i miss the 08.08.08 BEIJING OLYMPIC open ceremony!!!!


arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


anyone record the show??

opening my mouth big big and YAWNNNNNN!!!

it's 11.27pm...

and i'm stuck in my mum's fren's hse in sg ara... have to wait until they finish talking before we can leave... and they doesnt seem like they are about to end soon =.=''

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!

i'm sleepy *yawn*

tomolo some more have to wake up at 6.30am.. gonna have panda eyes and blurry mind tomolo at work... i'm doomed! =S