book sale and its NOT media's fault

the book sale was actually held inside the F&N headquarters and it was in a ICE CREAM PARLOR!

It was decorated in old school American 50s style with Elvis and Marilyn as posters and red vinyl chairs and those record playing machines. okay, it was CDs instead. but it had a realllllly nice feel to it.


it was a sale of unwanted assessment bks and kia-su parents easily bought 4 years worth of assessment bks for their kids. i am glad i am not their kids.

and when (and if)i am a parent, i absolutely WILL NOT buy textbooks for my kids.
i think sch work is (bad) enough. HAHA.

then, we dug around for ice cream, it IS a ice cream parlor after all, and i found a strawbeerry cone which is not being sold in Singapore. it tasted yummmy!


in the course of work, got to know some MOE people and we started discussing about blogs and young people, blogs and dairy.

i suppose most of the blogs they seen r something like mine, just blogging about mundane things, stuff that made up my life. then they asked, so whats the use in letting the public know ur nitty gritty abt ur life? that i can i provided a decent ans. that it is an avenue where u can do catch up with ur friends' life esp when u haf no time to catch up in real life. its USEFUL!

then she commented abt why r young people doing putting their most intimate
pictures/videos of themselves... on the public domain? this, i haf no idea. i haf no idea why people r exhibitionists. i am a no pyschologist.


i also unfortunately have no idea how come young primary kids r exposed to nc 16 stuff and r actually following it without knowing what they r doing.

i would think that the blame if any, lies in the parental supervision more than the media. media is just doing its job! providing entertainment to its target audience. with censorship already in place. but if some1 other than target audience watches, how is it suppose to prevent tht?

by not showing at all? its rubbish lor. then u r not looking after some other consumer segment.

in short. i am just against people who totally blame the media environment. because , dont u realize? hafnt u realize?, in this shrinking global world, every1 has a part to play.


oh, and some MP's daughter's blog was shut down due to some backlash she received over personal comments she made regarding some remotely political issues.

oMG.there is no freedom of speeach or even ideas.=(

that y i stick to mundane blogging abt useless stuff.=)

abt IPP...

i just speed read all my friends' blog posts abt IPP. some r absolutely delighted. some r eh... devastated? not lah, just not happy with their IPP.

some r bored. some r busy and finding it fun.

i wish i belong to the latter.

sometimes i am busy and sometimes i stared at the comp pretending to be busy.

but. the colleagues r quite nice. tml will be helpin out at book sale fair, so my role will be that of a salesgirl. the best part is dun need go company! YAY! still feelin the euphoria of this bit of news.

small things make me happy. but i still need wake up early cause the book fair is held near ULU PANDAN. my dear, alex and syaz and yiting, does this ring a bell?

so after this gd news, i made plans to meet up an ex-colleague for dinner.

overall, still feeelin pretty happy abt the day. i went to some launch event, get to know my sales colleagues better, tao-pao-ed the food from the tea spread back to office and home. and i was the first to leave among the marketing department.

i am glad that we started those chian emails. i think i need those emails to kill my boredom and to know that my friends are still around me. i feel so isolated when i had no1 near to join me for lunch...

hari raya and passiveness

i appreciate public holidays now.

i love public holidays!!!!!!!!!!


today was a family day.i like family time! my brother didnt know how to go to that dim-sum place in chinatown from cityhall... so after circling that stupid area for one hour, we finally went to TPY instead. what a relief, i hate feelin hungry.

the dim sum was just so-so with not-impressive service. next time i shall ban my mother from choosin where to eat.

anyway, my brother and father actually follwed me and mother around while i looked for a bag to buy. it feels so so so weird! thats y i dun like shoppin with guys. it nags on my conscience that i am wasting their time as they wait for me shoppin.

in the end, nothing caught my fancy and my office dress supply remains in shortage. i cant wait for the december sale.


with internship, time seem to pass so much faster!everyday 11h in that office, wasting my youth away. AHAHAHAA.

i also gotten used to fact that i can never leave at 6pm. though i still feel sadden by this fact. time passes by so fast that by the time i can leave, it is already near 7pm. =(


so what happens when 2 ppl r equally passive?

the ans is... NOTHING happens.

urge to blog despite eveything

i AM busy.

i came back from my thailand ONE WEEK AGO and my blog has nothing to show for it.

no time to really describe like rachel did, so i would let pictures do the job!




this is the best pub at ao nang. i had a fruity drink while ALL the rest had ordered alcoholic stuff.



some beach at some small island. i tried snorkeling. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA.YES. i did. despite not howing to swim.i grabbed t and r's hands for dear life.



this was taken after a ride on elephant at some deserted jungle after stormy weather. can u imagine! BANANA LEAVES FOR UMBRELLA. it was a huh... unique once- in- a- life time experience.

My last touristy picture. at the hotel. shirt and bag bought at the ao nang night market. nothing much to shop there. more eating done only. ovaltine bubble tea! KFC layppot rice served in plastic cups.

-.-no insects tho...

hm... seems like a month ago. cant believe it was only 7 days ago when i was happily bargaining away simply cause it was so fun.every1 was kinda shocked when we actually went on the trip with the T and D. but it was pretty fun too. they were really nice to us. treated us meals and drinks in exchange for bunkin with us. ( and cheating out of the hotel fees).

i like takin planes. esp when we accelerate and shot into the sky! kekekeke.

rachel definitely would be blessed if she had...eh-hem, to look after her carelessness. HAHAHA.

abt marshell cavendish. nothing to complain about. its good and tiring and makin full use of cheap labour. the ppl r nice and polite and... normal lor. the only BAD thing is... its so so far. need 2 hours to TRAVEL. its a journey. a long long journey. which includes waiting for bus. and if u know me, u know that...

I HATE WAITING FOR BUS! =`````````(

he asked for friendster

he talked to her.she talked to him too. she didnt expect him to have remembered what she said eons ago.

he got up to leave. she thought its probably the last time seeing him.


but surprisingly, after takin a few steps, he turned around , whipped out a piece of paper and pen and asked for her... ... friendster!


how things changed with the times and technology.

going off to krabi

sawadeeKA.

yup. going off the land of smiles with only the 4 of us. i know its not exactly the best time to go with the politics and weather and the more i think, the more it sounds bad... but but BUT, what will happen will happen. anyway, rachel's lord is on her side... i will just enjoy the surrounding benefits. HAHAHAHAH.


must do- shop shop shop, night life , thai message, beach beach beach... i think i will stray off from the activitied which r remotely adrenaline rushing. and water activities too. dippin my toes inside them excluded.


for this trip i will sacrifice my prefernce for being fair. ha. i hope to come back golden brown! =)

holiday

so far the holiday has been what i wanted, i guess, more or less ... just relaxin and NOT thinking much. but somehow the friends i thought i would catch up with has no time for me!... but i understand, life's like that.

i cannot believe how rachel just walked into some tour agency and suddenly we r supposed to go thailand. i had not told my parents yet. i mean, there is every chance it ends up as AALL TALK only, no need to hear them squek and grill me about all the details.

even tho it is holidays, still must live life with discipline.=/

last day

Last day of Teachin Entreprise Project has gone without much fanfare.

print team is still rushing to tie up all the loose ends. think they will be continuing to tie up loose ends on monday.

we tried to do somethin special on the last day of sch. we ...went to botak jones!
hahaha! all of us except for ahmed syazwan, nothing can stand in the way of true love, i guess.





i like how his specs reflect the light... HAHA.













anyway... i went to the provision shop to buy 100plus next to the coffee shop and the uncle actually spend 10 mins talking to me about a newspaper article in My Paper ( that chinese freesheet).

i was kinda amazed that he would spend 10 mins talkin to me. a total stranger who wasnt that interested to learn in depth about what he was gonna say.

he actually read out the entire article with me helpin to read too, so that i can read finish that thing faster.

patience is gd. so is respect for elders. if not i wouldnt know of this interesting article.

the short article was about living your life so that everyday count. essentially it preaches that one should refrain from procastinating if not you risk not achieving anything in the end.

i have to say he is bery very nice to point out this article to me. it was pretty inspiring. make evryday count if not you might end up not living after all.

all talk and no action is just plain laziness and passion-less. passion seems like a word which is recurring too often. it probably was heard by us in the poly forum 10 thousand and 350 times.

i want to have passion too. but i duno what my passion will be. isnt it good to have a passion to give u a direction in life? to know what u want to do and work towards it. instead of getting a job, a salary and work towards the day u die.

so... i am really glad i got to meet Eugenie. i will be doing volunteer work at ( one of ) her NPOs. in the name of team strawberry lah. haha . like dat more fun. but its not a passion yt. just something i can do to contribute back to... whoever and whatever.


...
the last day of tep ended with a surprise.

kaidi & arshade actually went ard shaking ppl's hand.
even wake me up to say bye.

i appreciated that. i hope arshad has decided to fogive and forget.


yes...
my last words in TEP will be
Bye Bye, people. Good luck in ur future endeavors.


dun think i will have the chance to meet 27 of u in a single room anymore... at least not easily.