Gimme more

My supervisor will be giving me a record number of households tomorrow. After the meagre amount of households i got from the past 3 batches, i think i will be more occupied with my work after fri. Someone from my group is quitting and my supervisor is passing all her incomplete cases to me. My numerous requests for more households had finally been answered. I guess i do not need a concurrent part time job anymore.

I just hope that i don't get too many vacant households. Only worked for around 3 hrs today and did not work yesterday. Went to watch Kingdom of Heaven with my jc mates at cineleisure. Who wants to watch movies on weekends nowadays? At the price of $9.50 (other than cathay), it is really an exorbitant price to pay even for a movie fanatic like me. Lots of blockbusters are heading to theatres from may to july though. Watch out for Star Wars: Episode 3 which is opening 19 May, Batman Begins, War of The Worlds, Fantastic 4, Mr & Mrs Smith and some others.

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Quiz

Your wise quote is: "The best antiques are old
friends" by Unknown...
Your buds is the source of your happiness
(maybe not all but still). Even if it's just
one, a couple or a whole group they are the
ones you can't wait to see. It does not matter
if you're shy with everyone else or not, with
them you let your true spirit shine and can be
as loud as you want. They accept you, and you
love them for that.


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Blunder

It was kind of wishful thinking on my part that i could earn that much for my job but i have realised that much on it depends on luck. The more vacant households on your list, the less you are paid coz you are not able to do surveys since the unit is vacant. So back to my prowl for part-time jobs this time round.

Going for job interviews tomorrow as telemarketer with JJ. I'm going to set the record for doing or changing the most jobs within the span of only a few months. :)

Spent these past 2 days at home as we had a family gathering on sun. My sis and i had bought mum 2 bottles of perfume from the body shop. Played pool with my relatives for some time while the rest were playing mahjong.

Originally planned to swim at bukit batok swimming complex today but woke up too late and decided to suntan on my rooftop instead. Did not work today since i had only 3 households left which are hard to deal with. Hope to get a part time job soon.

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Inexperience

Went for work in the morning and got only 1 submitted case. Met up with my jc gang again after that to resolve the problems of the malaysia trip. We went to the travel agency which we booked the trip as one of our classmates, ade, decided not to go. After some discussion with the staff, we could not persuade him to cancel her trip as we had already paid the full payment. So the best solution is to find a replacement. We were thinking of changing the trip to include more places like Cameron and Genting Highlands since the current package we have is 4D 3N at KL only and we might get bored there. However, there is an amendment charge and some other extra charge if we decide to change.

Tips for minimising the problems arising from organising an overseas trip:
1) Do not book so early (1 month before the trip is sufficient)
2) Go to the travel agencies which pay the deposit first instead of full payment immediately.
3) Call everyone to have a last confirmation before booking the trip.
4) Decide on the best package before booking.

We did not do all these and had to settle the various problems. Had lunch at the big hawker centre after the discussion. Went east coast park to cycle after some aimless walking and shopping at chinatown since we do not have any other ideas on what to do. It is quite cheap at the rate of $4 for 2 hours. Started from near the 10 km turning point (my unit's running route) all the way to Safra Resort about 2 km after the start point. So we cycled for about 14 km and were all quite tired with our painful asses.

Had supper at the famous Bedok hawker centre with the "rou chuo mian" after that. Mothers' Day is tomorrow!

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Dead (almost)

Went to my ex-company InCall Systems to get my last month's pay which is only a mere $145.25 since i've worked only 2.5 days there in april. Went to Alexandra hawker centre to have lunch with kp, terence plus some of their colleagues. Many of my ex-colleagues are already not working there anymore. And my dumbbell is still in the office! Luckily, terence offered to bring my dumbbell back to his house so that i can get from him next time.

Went to DBS branch in Queensway to get the cash from the cheque and headed to work immediately. Condos are hard to get through! I had to convince the security guards that i'm not those salesmen or suspicious characters and i have to talk to the management committee after getting through the gates. There is quite a lot of red tape and a lot of time is wasted.

I was heading to and fro from this particular condo, to that particular condo (classified info), and back again as i had made appointments with certain households. The red tape also wasted quite a lot of my time at another condo i have to visit. I don't even have time for dinner and i did all the way til 10.30 pm!!!! I was famished and exhausted but i just want to complete more households today since i haven't been working much the past few days.

Completed 6 surveys with another 1 almost done. Still got quite a lot of work to be done. Endured headache, rain, abrasion, exhaustion and hunger today. Went back home in a zombie state.

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Movie prices have increased! (except Cathay cineplexes)

Tuesday, was late for an early meeting at LK CC for 40 mins. In the afternoon, i was late for 35 mins when i met up with Chris for a movie. Overslept for a nap as i set my hp alarm clock to 03.15, instead of 15.15. Stupid right? Guess i was too tired as i slept only 5 hours the night before. Went Great World City to watch Millions.

Went for a ktv session with Ks in the morning. Used our free ktv vouchers that we got from the new JJ cd. Met up with Hc and Kr after that as we planned to watch Sahara. Actually i was supposed to meet my supervisor in the afternoon to get new household records but i delayed it until 8 pm. Got 2 completed surveys through the phone today and i saved the trouble of visiting them. 21 new households to go! Should be working hard to get them tomorrow.

Feels like i'm not working at all. I only need to work a few days a week. Great for a slacker like me. :)

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Birthday Celebration

Monday, met up with my supervisor at commonwealth to sync my PDA for a short while before going back to survey the households i'm left with. I was only left with 2 cases, one which the resident who is determined not to open the door after my 10 mins of knocking and calling, and another person who works shifts almost everyday and hard to contact. Did not get any completed surveys after 45 mins. Left for douby ghaut to meet up with my army mates for sgt Weijie's birthday celebration.

Quite a lot were late and we spent half an hour waiting for them. Had our dinner at yoshinoya and we were considering ktv or movie next. Many of us did not like the price of singing ktv at night (around $20 per pax) and we decided to catch a movie instead. However, some of the movies we are interested in are too late and the earlier ones like Creep (i did not want to watch) and Divergence (I've watched already) were not selected as well. Thus we decided on playing pool at park lane. We secretly discussed the celebration plan, "recce"ed the area and decided on the cakes in TCC at Paradis centre beside park lane. By the way, the snookerium there sucks coz the old pool tables are all 7 or 8 feet and the low quality cues have many different lengths with a smaller tip. I was quite stressed when playing pool as the rest expected me to be quite good since i got a pool table at home. Didn't play very well as a result. Embarrassing lor! Cannot help it lar, "wo shi ai mian zi de".

Zhangyi and Keng Han excused themselves from the snookerium as they went to TCC to prepare the cakes, candles and stuff. Jianyu then told Weijie he's sian of playing pool already and we left, bringing the birthday boy to TCC for a surprise. Innovative and sweet, ain't we? Took a few photos as well.



Great to see my good old army mates once again.

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Labour Day!

Sunday, went singtel callcentre to have our PDAs tweaked. It was quite fast and my team went off at 10 am. I was taking my time going to somerset as i was meeting my sec sch friends at 11 am for ktv to welcome Fuli back from Taiwan after 32 days of outfield exercise, ATEC and R&R. I booked the ktv room first and was disappointed to hear that we can only sing up to 1.30 pm if we did not reserve rooms beforehand. Flipping through the song selection, i found 3 new jj ktvs, no new david tao or penny's ktvs and 2 new fir ktvs. It was a 2nd disappointment as i had not sang ktv for quite a while and there are only a few new songs.

Luckily, our food arrived at around 1.30 pm and we deliberately ate very slowly so that we can extend our time there. It worked and we sang until 2.20 pm. Bernard had to leave as he was helping his sis on her work. The rest of us were clueless on what to do and we were roaming around aimlessly as usual. David wanted to play pool but i was not interested as i already have a pool table at home. So the 3 of us were walking and talking, and i suggested having a teabreak at the shophouses along Killiney Road. There were quite a lot of people in Killiney Kopitiam and we checked out other eateries but were not interested.

So back to walking and talking until we went centrepoint and got ourselves seats by the escalator in the upper levels as we were rather tired from all the walking. Went Starhub centre for dinner subsequently. I left after that as i was meeting my parents and sis at Pasir ris mrt for my cousin's birthday chalet at NTUC costa sands. There were lots of food there and my cousin's husband was busy bbqing lots of food for us. We had our stomachs filled to the brim and i was listening to my uncles, aunties and parents talking about the economy, casino, my slowcoach maid, etc. Quite interesting actually, although i didn't really participate in the conversations. Cutting of the cake was next and the cake was quite delicious. I asked my cousin where she bought it and she told me she got it from Angie The Choice. Should be getting mine there in a few months time. :)

Many of them played blackjack after that including my mum and sis as we always gamble during family gatherings. I was watching them gamble and the tv until around 11.30 pm when most of us left. Totally exhausted as i had spent the whole day outside from early morning til midnight. A labourous day indeed.

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