And here I thought my life bites.
Reading this blog made me realise that all is not a lost cause for me. At least I still have my faith in a positive life. If you have the time to spare, don't forget to visit the above link.
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Thursday, September 25, 2003
You'll be sorry
So apparently I'd shot my mouth yesterday. Well, if I had and what was posted yesterday wasn't true then, I apologise to the Management for bad mouthing them. But if it's otherwise, then I am entitled to my rant. Wait a minute ... I AM entitled to rant. This is my damn bloody blog page ! So I won't take back my words. And yeah, if they still wanna fire me, I don't bloody care anymore. I need money but who doesn't, right ? But I won't be a slave for it if it means I have to compromise my principles (Umm ... what are they anyway ?) ! So yeah ... That's it ... Umm ...
P/S : I was high on caffeine and hence a little incoherent but I do my work damn well, dammit !
P/S : I was high on caffeine and hence a little incoherent but I do my work damn well, dammit !
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Too close to tears
Oh, just heard this during lunch.
All the teachers will get incentive in the form of monetary bonuses. New, old, part time, full time, all the teachers will get subject to pro-ration. I repeat ALL the TEACHERS will get it.
Crap, right ?
Reason for giving this incentive, to cushion the 3% cut of the CPF starting next month. What a load of BS ! As if NON TEACHERS do NOT receive CPF cuts. Work bites. My employer bites. I don't care who reads this anyway. Wanna fire me, go right ahead. I can't put up with this kind of BS anymore.
All the teachers will get incentive in the form of monetary bonuses. New, old, part time, full time, all the teachers will get subject to pro-ration. I repeat ALL the TEACHERS will get it.
Crap, right ?
Reason for giving this incentive, to cushion the 3% cut of the CPF starting next month. What a load of BS ! As if NON TEACHERS do NOT receive CPF cuts. Work bites. My employer bites. I don't care who reads this anyway. Wanna fire me, go right ahead. I can't put up with this kind of BS anymore.
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Centre of my heart
So here I am. Sitting in front of my workstation. Sipping coffee in my faithful Mac's styrofoam cup. I've just finished having breakfast. Feeling so darned sleepy. Listening to some woman warbling, "Just call me angel of the morning angel. Just touch my cheek before you leave me, darling...." on the radio. Just been reading the other peeps blog pages. Catching up with what's new/exciting/interesting/notorious things in a space of a day. So there.
Oh, met up with Sha and Fie. As usual I am always the first one to arrive. Not that I mind, cause I got to see the trailer of "My Boss's Daughter" and "The Italian Job" on the large screen in front of Shaw House. MBD was pretty funny but in the typical slapstick comedy, I will stay far, far away. TIJ is a must watch for me. Mark Wahlberg is like so delicious !
Passed the evening sitting in Starbucks after dinner. Earth shattering conversations. Like the hot factors of Jude Law and Rupert Everett (both equally hot, btw), fact that Aisha and Shikin got rejected from NIE (it's like so blardy funny, but I dare not laugh, for fear they might get a chance to say, "Backacha, L"), discussing my niece's name (come on, guys. It's not that cheesy once you get used to it) and that we can get really good bargains at Cash Converters. For a start, getting tennis racquets and roller blades for under 20 bucks. *winks*
So anyway, we left Starbucks after sitting for almost 2 hours with just 2 drinks to our table (Sha had the Caramel Frap. The one she was "raving" for, for quite sometime and Fie had the Hot Cocoa. I skipped drinks cause 1) I didn't want to stay up the whole night and 2) I was still so blardy full from dinner !). My observation, we were a bit reluctant to cut short the night but considering we had to get up for work in 8 hours, we had better move our asses to the nearest ride home.
We still plan to meet up soon. For one thing, we (Fie and I) need to get Sha's birthday present. And another thing, we wanted to play tennis together. It would all be in a good day's fun. Soon, very soon, I hope.
Oh Has, found out from Sha you have been reading my (crappy!) blog and I want to thank you for the support (!?!). Give a shout out if you have the time, wokay ?
Until later.
Oh, met up with Sha and Fie. As usual I am always the first one to arrive. Not that I mind, cause I got to see the trailer of "My Boss's Daughter" and "The Italian Job" on the large screen in front of Shaw House. MBD was pretty funny but in the typical slapstick comedy, I will stay far, far away. TIJ is a must watch for me. Mark Wahlberg is like so delicious !
Passed the evening sitting in Starbucks after dinner. Earth shattering conversations. Like the hot factors of Jude Law and Rupert Everett (both equally hot, btw), fact that Aisha and Shikin got rejected from NIE (it's like so blardy funny, but I dare not laugh, for fear they might get a chance to say, "Backacha, L"), discussing my niece's name (come on, guys. It's not that cheesy once you get used to it) and that we can get really good bargains at Cash Converters. For a start, getting tennis racquets and roller blades for under 20 bucks. *winks*
So anyway, we left Starbucks after sitting for almost 2 hours with just 2 drinks to our table (Sha had the Caramel Frap. The one she was "raving" for, for quite sometime and Fie had the Hot Cocoa. I skipped drinks cause 1) I didn't want to stay up the whole night and 2) I was still so blardy full from dinner !). My observation, we were a bit reluctant to cut short the night but considering we had to get up for work in 8 hours, we had better move our asses to the nearest ride home.
We still plan to meet up soon. For one thing, we (Fie and I) need to get Sha's birthday present. And another thing, we wanted to play tennis together. It would all be in a good day's fun. Soon, very soon, I hope.
Oh Has, found out from Sha you have been reading my (crappy!) blog and I want to thank you for the support (!?!). Give a shout out if you have the time, wokay ?
Until later.
Monday, September 22, 2003
Lay all your love on me
So today after work I'm gonna be meeting Sha and Fie.
Gonna be giving Fie her gift.
I am still stuck on what to get Sha. I am so bloody unimaginative. Can't even give the present on time. Gosh.
My head is spinning now. It's been such a boring day today. I'd taken the remainder time off if only I wasn't meeting those 2. It's amazing that we are still in contact. My colleagues and other friends are amazed that we managed to keep in touch even after years and years of leaving secondary school. I have yet to tell them that I still keep in touch with a handful of my primary school mates !
Just called Mother at home. Checked up on her. Earlier she had to go to Changi General for her checkup. I just wanna know what her doctor had said. I was a bit worried yesterday when I changed her dressing. She had gotten her foot wet and the skin of her whole left foot started peeling off. Her skin was super dry whenever we bandaged up the wound. Yesterday was even more depressing because you would never know when a broken skin occur and infection sets in. So anyway, last night after cleaning and washing her wound, I did not bandage up the foot. Just to air and dry the area surrounding the wound.
This morning, when I checked her foot, all seemed well and I bandaged up the foot to prevent the cotton gauze from falling off and exposing her open wound. It's amazing to note the progress of growing flesh. At first, just after the amputation, the gaping hole was big enough to put in 5 fifty cents coins. Now the "pocket" can barely take in a one cent coin !
So yeah, Mother's healing pretty well. I can't wait to see how the flesh stopped growing and for the skin to grow and encompass the wound, thus closing it. Hmm ... Wonder how Mother would feel when all the bandages come off and for her to see her left foot. Gosh.
If it'd happened to me, I don't know if I can be as strong as Mother was/is.
C'est la vie.
Gonna be giving Fie her gift.
I am still stuck on what to get Sha. I am so bloody unimaginative. Can't even give the present on time. Gosh.
My head is spinning now. It's been such a boring day today. I'd taken the remainder time off if only I wasn't meeting those 2. It's amazing that we are still in contact. My colleagues and other friends are amazed that we managed to keep in touch even after years and years of leaving secondary school. I have yet to tell them that I still keep in touch with a handful of my primary school mates !
Just called Mother at home. Checked up on her. Earlier she had to go to Changi General for her checkup. I just wanna know what her doctor had said. I was a bit worried yesterday when I changed her dressing. She had gotten her foot wet and the skin of her whole left foot started peeling off. Her skin was super dry whenever we bandaged up the wound. Yesterday was even more depressing because you would never know when a broken skin occur and infection sets in. So anyway, last night after cleaning and washing her wound, I did not bandage up the foot. Just to air and dry the area surrounding the wound.
This morning, when I checked her foot, all seemed well and I bandaged up the foot to prevent the cotton gauze from falling off and exposing her open wound. It's amazing to note the progress of growing flesh. At first, just after the amputation, the gaping hole was big enough to put in 5 fifty cents coins. Now the "pocket" can barely take in a one cent coin !
So yeah, Mother's healing pretty well. I can't wait to see how the flesh stopped growing and for the skin to grow and encompass the wound, thus closing it. Hmm ... Wonder how Mother would feel when all the bandages come off and for her to see her left foot. Gosh.
If it'd happened to me, I don't know if I can be as strong as Mother was/is.
C'est la vie.
Saturday, September 20, 2003
Why
Rain has always caused me to sit down and cry. I don't know why my dam always burst like there is no tomorrow whenever the sky opens up. I like to see rivulets of water running down the windows. It's so calming and makes my throat swell. I had to fight down the tears about to brim in my eyes. I am not a crybaby but rain always makes me cry.
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Never say never again
Today, 2 years ago, was my first day at St Francis Methodist School. I was the newbie on the block. Feeling around like a blind person. There wasn't any specific instructions given as to what I should or should not do. Aside from the solution preparation manual and the practical sheets of the upcoming experiments. The labs were totally new and there were plenty of things to be done. Putting away all the new glassware, wiping the tables, placing stools per bench, inserting the bunsen burners to the gas taps, arranging the chemicals into the cupboards and drawers and removing old labels from glass bottles. Believe me, you, that was the most interesting part of my stint here. Nobody came to disturb me. I was totally on my own from the minute I logged in to the time I left. Back then, I would come in at around 8 am and take off home by 4.30 pm. That was way back when I was smart. It lasted the whole of the 4th term. After which the school holidays came and I end my work day at 5 pm. And remained so until now. Unless I'd decided to take time off.
2 years here have flown by so fast. I remember some of the teachers who were pretty friendly and tried to make my day as sociable as it possibly could. Mrs Bhavani, yeah was just asking about her from Jayashree (Chem teacher). She's on sick leave (Bhavani) and would only be back next year. Also Eve, one of the nicest person here. NO, make that friendliest colleague. Stephanie, another person who tried to make the new person feel at ease. When I first saw her, I thought she was a Malay. And I was happy for a while, until I saw her chain. So that was that. Hey Steph, I've never thanked you for the heads up on you-know-who (currently the "princess" here.) ..... Oh, definitely not forgetting Neo Lin Chen (Mr Neo). The quiet, dependent officer I have to report to in the General Office. And Mr Thomas George aka Chow's 1st Boss. Mrs Montero aka my 1st boss too.
Gosh .....
Just the people I will miss if I do decide to quit my job. The current "in-group" members; Eileen, Chow, Mahesha, Heman, Nicki, Malek included.
Melancholic.
I blame the weather.
2 years here have flown by so fast. I remember some of the teachers who were pretty friendly and tried to make my day as sociable as it possibly could. Mrs Bhavani, yeah was just asking about her from Jayashree (Chem teacher). She's on sick leave (Bhavani) and would only be back next year. Also Eve, one of the nicest person here. NO, make that friendliest colleague. Stephanie, another person who tried to make the new person feel at ease. When I first saw her, I thought she was a Malay. And I was happy for a while, until I saw her chain. So that was that. Hey Steph, I've never thanked you for the heads up on you-know-who (currently the "princess" here.) ..... Oh, definitely not forgetting Neo Lin Chen (Mr Neo). The quiet, dependent officer I have to report to in the General Office. And Mr Thomas George aka Chow's 1st Boss. Mrs Montero aka my 1st boss too.
Gosh .....
Just the people I will miss if I do decide to quit my job. The current "in-group" members; Eileen, Chow, Mahesha, Heman, Nicki, Malek included.
Melancholic.
I blame the weather.