i am shocked rui posted! haha~ ok. i think all our batch outings are: we meet, then we decide what to do. haha so no point deciding everything so fast! haha~ i wish everybody:

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

short post!

ntu band concert was great! i love the alumni (laoshilaoshilaoshi). i love howl's moving castle. and hy was rubbishing abt the quote being a combined quote. it's clearly a hy quote. i'm not that intelligent. my brain has disintegrated from working. i'm beginning to mix up words like 'intelligent' and 'intelligible'. says A LOT duzn it? =P

ok batch outing on 11 feb! rui's house!! pretty much confirmed. although i think paula can't make it =( i hope most ppl can??

i wanna go on 31st jan! but dunno whether err must go visitings.

take care everybodyyy~

hello everybody! =D e following msg is for marlin n pat! hey marlin n pat! dun be lazy! blog! i noe u two haf been reading e blog! if ur have forgotten e username or password, msg me! muz blog k?

haha...ok...i went for ntu concert ytd! (with marlin, sl, nic, clarine n xy) we got to see both laoshi n mr oura! laoshi conducted e alumni band! n they played hannukah! i miss laoshi! his conducting is still so good n laoshi-ish! ok, ur noe wad i mean...a combined quote from xy n me: "most conductors conduct e beats onli, but laoshi conducts e music." =D yep...n mr oura was great too! i think e repertoire tt he chose was realli good =)

btw, mandy asked whether we all would want to visit laoshi with her batch n peiyan's batch. most prob on 31 jan (3rd day of cny, it's a public hol). yep...leave a msg on e tagboard or msg me k? mandy needs to noe how many pple r going. ok...tt's all! take care! =D

hey. i'm here again. seems like i'm spamming the blog eh. anws, i retract my statement. got damn fed up yday cos this person frm some hot shot firm emailed, and i had to liase with him. and he kept threatening me with higher management. yes, i do take pride in my work, and whether its abt being polite or efficient, i'll try to do it well. but lets all face it la. rmb the venice story? we're just like the mercenaries with no loyalty. we go to the firm that pays the highest. so who cares abt representation. you can jolly b rude to the customer and get fired, but who cares? its only a temp job, and no one cares abt temps anws. no records of ur performance either. so like the mercenaries, you can jolly well get paid and do a bad job. that's with the provision that you do not suddenly wanna settle down in the country and work for it loyally. pity i wun do tt cos i've become too guai. gahh.

oh as i was walking home frm the office today, i heard sth really pleasant to my ears!! g y s s is behind my home. and whilst walking back, i heard the sound of instruments playing. trp and trombone i think. and it was really nice. rmb the huge mass of sound tt was produced when we warmed up for prac each time? it was sth lyddat. it also resembled the kinda mix of sound tt we produced when we did indiv. and the hot sweltering sun brought back the memories of how we'd sweat like shit and prac in the corridors or amphi. abit sad can. no more days like these.

oh wells. short post this time. i think i'm blabbering. so yah.

my gosh. i havent been online in ages. you all have posted so much! and even lr had time to post a rare entry -gasps- i reckon this is the most we've ever posted in like wad.. half a month? HAHA. gd tt this blog is revived eh.

HEH. i enjoyed yday. haha. the time spent tog was rather short tho. but i got to laugh and do stupid things again. somehow you dun manage to laugh at the workplace. and i guess tts y i manage to laugh so much at certain scenes at the tv serials tt i'm watching now. nv used to b so amused by such things in the past. laughter is gd for you. hah.

yap zhun is being far too cheem for me. she makes some sense, like representing the company tt you work for, and all tt. i guess my brain's really stagnating. but i guess when you work, you get to put urself in the shoes of others. like i met this guy with superbly poor service at the bank yday. bo chap attitude. i mean, now tt we are working, you know tt even if you were placed in his shoes, you'd provide better service than tt. and tts coming frm the daoest and meanest person tt you ever know.

i think i make alot of calls too. no more phobia of calling pple tt i dun even know. i know tt we're like equipped to handle this. adjusting is one thing, but accepting it is another. i think you see superficiality in sch too la, but on a different level. but i maintain tt perhaps if we manage to make it to the top in future, we shld still b able to see the valley of the mountain tt we ascended. so far, the nicest pple at the office are the cleaning ladies and the postmen la. and not the hoity toity upper level management who only know how to scold pple -.-

i think we're all damn sheltered, be it abt wad goes on outside, or wad goes on in companies. tts y i wanna LEARN sth, n not get paid to do brainless work. nonetheless, xy's working environment sounds funky and dynamic. haha. not the job scope.

hy, guess wad. despite the fact tt we're all working at different places, i think its a gd thing. i do not want to work in a company with any of you in future. temp jobs are fine, but not perm jobs. once politics and stuff take over, the old bonds will be erased, and tt'll b how sad. its better to either lose contact and rmb the gd times, or to remain in contact but meet less frequently, than remain in constant contact and conflict. and we haf the blog to keep us in touch! even marlin reads this la, tho i doubt she has accepted our invite to the blog. shes how sneaky :P

and i wanna finish watching les mis. the last time was wad.. 2003 band camp. we got interrupted by SOMEONE with like INFRARED vision eh. HMPH. oh yah. i realised yday tt cny eve is supposedly a sat.. so we can still meet up i think? i guess most wouldnt hafta work! i hope px sees this. haha. we've been meeting up every new year's eve for the past 2 yrs anyways. haha. batch tradition anyone? and lets all bring photos the next time round!

gah. gg off soon. this entry is bloody disjointed. but i read all the entries and had so many thoughts gg on in my head, so i jus dumped everything into this. yep. here's to all the pple tt i've known for ONE THIRD my life, SEE YOU SOON!

hey dears :)
haven't seen all of you in ages and ages! i've missed all of you alot. like alot alot alot. heh :) so we have another outing in february at liurui's house isit? since px is in london :p mm if you all want to organise outings my free days are mondays and the later half of saturdays. weird i know, but i'm in this church programme you see :) oh but i'll be away from the 4th to about 17th feb i think for a mission trip so i'm not too sure if i can make it for the next outin :( :(
anyway all your work sounds quite interesting. i mean even if you all don't feel like you're doing anything constructive, it's still an experience in the working world and i suppose money cannot buy you any of that.
many things have happened so far to make me so glad that i have all of you :) -big hugs-
take care and till we meet again, keep smiling ya :)

love, paula.

hey everybody! (cheapo imitation of hy) i can't wait to see all of u today! yes it's today! since fri the 13th was remarkably sunny, i bet sat the 14th will be rainy. just our luck o_O xinyi misses everybody!!

heyy the game rui was talking abt is an interactive dvd board game thing on pop trivia. ok.

poor shun. i kinda like being around so many 18 yr olds, cos like we gossip and do rubbish like discuss fashion o_O when the boss is not around. haha but i got scolded by the boss today. ahh in fact i'm very sad today. cos i got scolded by this aslfajlcijw guy, a certain uncooperative mr. pang. he thinks i'm making trouble for him, and he scolded me for half an hr, and i cudn slam the phone down, cos my boss will KILL me. i was nearly crying lor. my colleagues said my whole face (and ears) was red. i hate uncooperative ppl. i want to bash him up. i haf his address. muahahahaha~ ok then my colleague called him oso, and my colleague got scolded as well. stupid rite? man i get paid to get scolded. how exciting.

OH i've a new colleague (who thinks yuqing is an ok guy o_O) haha. ok shan't elaborate. who noes who reads the blog mann.

i love everyone.. and i really really miss u all. i hope we're ALL playing for cadenza? eh 21st at rui's house can?

hello everybody! =D dis is e hy greeting! haha...yep...no one else can have e same effect (but i dun think dere's one=) anw, i dun mind going to lr's house!!! we can all force her to wear wadeva nic n xy got her for her birthday..haha. i want to watch les mis too! is it like very long? den we wun haf much time to do other stuff. oh..can we fly kite at ur house, lr?

so wad's sl working as? does she work at a bank too? how come need to count money? haha..i calculate the amount on cheques too! but i always make mistakes becos e office calculator is so different from our normal school calculator =S a bit hard to use (tho dere r significantly less buttons)

nowadays, when im at home at nite, i'll think of e times tt im realli happy. tho dere aren't many, i realised most of them r spent with ur. so i can't imagine how boring and sad life will be when we realli go study and work in different places in the future. can we haf outings like once a month? hai...but i think it's a bit impossible esp since we can't even find a day when everyone is free now.

ok...i think most of u r going to earn ur 1st thousand before me, considering e low pay tt i get. so i want a treat too! haha...anw, can ur all see tt my entries r getting longer and longer? tt's so not hy. so i shall stop here. haha...bye everybody! =D

hey! have been reading all the working entries that you all have made and haha today i'm finally in the right mind to blog. anyway, all of us seem to be having very different experiences. haha. as for me, i'm like practically the only person in my office other than my bosses. oh there's this new manager woman but she's a manager. and another new manager woman next week. but basically i'm the little xiao mei mei there and have no one to talk to other than the adults which i dun really mind. haha cos i dun have to think of what to say to them and can just keep quiet and to myself. been counting lots of money and i believe that i hate seeing notes and coins by now. i mean i like the thought of having money but not the thought of counting them. imagine u have 10000 bucks all in 50 dollar notes. i'll definitely die counting.

anyway, dun be too discouraged lah. the real world is like that, can be quite unfriendly, can be quite unfeeling, lots of superficiality going on but we still need to remember that these people after all are trying to stake a living for themselves. and sometimes it may be very hard to contain everything to yourself and not let it out at all but yet u dun want to confront the person, so i guess that's why there's bitching and backstabbing. not that it is right... i dunno if we can we should avoid it but haha i guess we just got to live with it lah. haha welcome to the real world. initially i had to make lots of calls to strangers and i hate making phone calls to even people i know so it was pretty weird. and it's pretty weird to have to let the other party know who you are. it's like you are some small fry and is it even worth it knowing who you are? hmm but it's a new experience (somewhat) that when u work u are no longer representing urself but ur company and hence cannot do whatever u like. haha reminds me of that time when liying scolded us for not tucking in our band shirts. tucking in band shirts may seem like something really preppy and uncool but she taught us a very important lesson that when we go out into the world we are really no longer individuals, no matter how much we would like to be. so hmm... to see it in an optimistic light we have not been unprepared for when we enter this working world... haha our band experiences and discipline had already prepare us for stuff like that.

i sound like i'm giving a lecture. haha but work is really... dry? i won't say it's tough it's something that definitely takes less effort than mugging i suppose cos there's like a fixed routine to it. but maybe cos there's a fixed routine that there's no challenge in it all. the bright side is that we are getting paid for doing something brainless. the other side is that we are getting paid peanuts for doing something brainless that is wasting our time, or that we are getting paid alot but the opportunity cost of giving up leisure is higher. haha i think i have a better understanding of all these econs rubbish now that we're working. i think i'm just really bored today and talking rubbish. yeah when i work i'm bored. when i have a free day i'm really happy but still bored. i hope that you are not facing this boredom syndrome that has infected me since the holidays started?

and yeah i dun mind the batch outing... but i mind the distance! haha. and yeah xinyi ur boss happen to live in the same place as liu rui or what? haha you make it sound like liu rui is ur boss. in that case i dun mind being employed by her too. haha.

i just had a bbq at my boss' house (which is at liurui's house o_O)! it was quite fun! haha. despite my complaints, i'm glad at least i haf a really really decent boss =) she gives us a lot of incentives and makes allowances for us la, like if you come back 10 mins after lunch ends, she doesn't nag. (she was from rj!)

ANWs, i'm free on sats. actually got work but it's optional la, it's like OT, ya. AND liurui has kindly offered to let us go her house. we could bbq or something o_O. if we can start the fire. i tried learning today. haha. and we can go west coast park or something. yarr. and her pool very nice, i can't wait to jump in it, ya!! anw i really really miss u guys. although my colleagues quite nice, but i'm still not very familiar with them. sometimes i dunno wat to say to them. and some of them are like really chummy already, so i can't like errr get into their clique kinda thing. ah dunno how to say. but ya, i miss like talking rubbish with u guys =( hurry decide ok. err how about THIS SAT?!! like ermm 14th?!! or 21st!! 21st should be safe for me? haha. i dunno. choose la u all. 14th or 21st. if like more than 3 ppl say ok here, then we start msging ppl. i can do woodwinds? haha. then 1 brass do brasses then well nic do perc. well nic contact zun o_O haha. ya?ya!! ya!!! =P

oh wells, now tt most pple are employed. i guess sharing our experiences wld be good huh. den you'll see the positive and negative pts of ur job with a more objective point of view.

i guess each job has its own plus and minus pts la. my pay's decent. but boring. i'm jus damn exasperated cos i dun learn anything useful. before getting employed, i was feeling unemployed, unaccomplished and unsatisfied. after getting employed, you just take away the first factor. my last day of work was today. for being a recep tt is. and some of them were pretty nice to me. but on closer observation, some pple are superficial to some of their colleagues. perhaps they arent tt superficial to xiao meimeis like us, cos we're temps and they have no need to be wary of us. i HATED hearing stupid refrains of 'happy new year' with tt fake cheery voice, cos new year was like one week past, and of course, you know that they dun mean it, but use it as part of a formality or friendliness that i cannot understand. gossiping, yes la. sure haf one. backstabbing, i havent really seen. (err, pple who work in mncs dun go blogsurfing, do they?)

but as to whether we are child labour, i think i'd agree on that. pre adult labour maybe. most are pleasant, as i've said many times. i appreciate that. but there are some who look at you with a sneer and prob think that you arent well skilled thats y ur stuck with this job that is obviously brainless and not as impt as theirs. they look down on you, and take you as an outlet for frustration. like today, i got scolded over the phone w/o giving myself a chance to explain, though the fault wasnt mine.. at all. and of course i was so indignant that i was stunned. being the proud person that i am, i obviously do not take to such things v well. and i dint clear things up. i hope i'm not biting the hand that feeds me. i appreciate the nice acts by some of my colleagues. but shld i just say that some arent as.. tolerant? they prob assume you made the mistake cos ur young, ignorant and stupid.

maybe thats y i think i'll nv go into the service industry. i dont think i can take pple's black faces v well, tho i'd b rather glad to be able to help anyone in the course of work.

starting new job as some data entry cum call ctr operator. ans queries. i dunno wad i'll get outta there. but i'm the youngest. and there are only like 3-4 others working on it.

maybe thats how i got jaded eh. no one to keep me young. i guess its cos of wad hy said. tv keeps me frm gg crazy. keeps you away from boredom and reality. being cooped up at home over the wkend only made me feel worse. i miss the company of frens a lil. but because i feel so hollow, i dun mind being a loner. cos when ur hollow, you know you dun feel like talking. maybe we shld meet, cos i'm sure i'll perk up then. haha. i'm free sat! -raises hand- but i think p's only free aft 3.. so we compromise? put up ur hands pple.

i'd like the beach. wrong weather tho. the rain stinks when you want some fun.

haizz. cadenza. i miss my trp. bloody braces not out yet. not soon either :(

i think this is one of the first few times that i'm putting up such long posts and stuff. sharing my sentiments cos we have less time to meet up now. and being so frank at that. dont know who reads this, but i hope no one comes aft me for that.

hello everybody! =) yay! so many pple are working now, im not e onli one anymore. hmm...but most pple seem not tt happy with their work. actualli me too. cos firstly, e pay is realli low. according to inez, it's worse than child labour. xinyi almost came to join me, but luckily i stopped her juz before she was going to sign e contract. n dere's lots of work to do now!!!

but i muz say im more lucky than xinyi n tsemin cos most of e pple dere r realli nice n helpful. dere's onli a bit of backstabbing coming from a few black sheep. yep...most pple r friendly. n surprisingly, all e pple speak chi. so my chinese is improving again aft i have not touched chinese for 2 yrs =)

yep...but life's quite boring now. sometimes, when i come back from work, i'll feel quite empty. den i'll think of u all, my horn, mr oura, school n A lvls results. ya..den i'll start to panic. ok..ignore tt. anw, i keep asking when r we going to haf an outing. i shall stop asking tt n ask another qn. r all of u free on sat? den we find one sat n go fly kite(s)! yep..reply k?

oh..n r all of u going to play for cadenza? though i'll be quite lousy dis time, but i still want to play with all of u again! hopefully, e proposal will get thru =) haha...n mb nic or iris will haf to conduct dis time =) ok..i shall stop here..see all of u soon! good luck to anyone who has any interview or anything! bye!

tsetsemiff seems unhappy with her work!!
haha but the idea of getting paid for doing nothing sounds good to me.
i feel like child labour o_O you call people, they slam down on you three times in a row, you get fed up and tell them this is a compulsory government survey and u betta do it if not we can fine u up to $1000/day. so there. i call 100 companies a day and my boss still says it's slow!! lol.

but i guess office work is kinda superficial. i see ppl gossiping, backstabbing alr. and my whole team consists of 18 year olds with like 2 supervisor, one only 25, and the other is a errr female (whose age we cannot disclose o_O) we even had a near rebellion last wk o_O quite scary, like one of the departments just stopped working, then all work had to stop cos like errr nothing gets processed. but i guess i still haven't seen the real world yet, most of the time i'm stuck in a little room, chatting to other 18 year olds about mundane stuff from shopping to music (but of course, only when the boss isn't looking) and my boss is quite nice, when we OT, she'll buy dinner for us from her own money!! sometimes i can nearly forget i'm in an office, until grouchy old permanent staffs come and complain about our noise levels, our lack of productivity, about how we jam the photocopying machine, or go to the toilet to often.. sounds almost like school, doesn't it? haha~

soooo tseminn!! don't be so jaded! we ARE still youngg! let's have a batch outing on sat!! i was thinking of the beach, where it's sunny and we can scream and run and be young again!! haha. ok but it's beeen pouring recently. maybe we can go iris' or nic's house again!! and just pig out, watch alarming french movies and just bitch about stuff, haha =)

hey. one wk has passed since the new year, but it feels much longer than that. i guess its because we dun go to sch, and dun see familiar faces, so time seems to pass by slowly. hows everyone? busy? the blog is dead.. yet again. so i shall just post sth here to share my thoughts about the past wk.

actually i cant decide if i miss sch. it IS boring, and tiring. and of course, if i were in j2 all over again this yr, i think i'd be sleeping in lessons yet again. but then again, sch is more dynamic, and you can lose yourself in childishness with the excuse that you are still schooling and still young. and its more fun, of course. all that craziness. at the workplace, people are nice, but with a sense of superficiality to them. i've been temping as a receptionist for the past 3 days. at 2 different companies. yah, the pay's not bad, considering you get paid for doing almost nothing half the time. the mere idea of it sounds gd eh, get paid for doing so little, jus answering calls and what not. but i find myself staring out of the window to gauge the weather, and watching the clock closely though i have a book with me. its darned boring. its brainless. and it irritates me. for once my brain gets to rest, and i get fidgety.

and so, i've been thinking about stupid stuff. like the pros and cons to women's fashion. and i think that the person who invented it shld be shot, though tt person would most prob be dead by now. court shoes stink. they only bring you blisters, and spoil ur feet by deforming them. and my agent told me to wear em for my 2nd assignment. im glad i stuffed a shoebag containing sandals into my bag, or i'd be in agony the whole day. and i think that skirts are stupid cos they limit your movement. what if you are running away frm a crook, or chasing after a thief? you arent able to take large strides at all, and you'd most prob get harmed. not to mention chasing aft a bus if ur late.

as you can see, these reasons are pretty stupid, and i must haf been superbly bored. but the thing is, there is no satisfaction in whatever im doing now. apparantly a jc education only gives you a passport to doing stupid stuff cos you haf no cert, and pple dowan to fully equip you with the skills cos its a waste of time since ur only a temp. so i dont get what others mean by saying that you'll learn sth frm ofice life. their structure? you dun even adequately know their job scope, or wad you could do. maybe you get an insight of how ur going to be a carbon copy of these people in a few years time.. superficial and falsely sophisticated. to them it could be 'etiquette' or 'protocol', but its just plain superficial to lil ol' me. maybe i'm biased, but i so dont want an office life.

maybe these words are going to come back to me in time to come, cos i may be stuck in an office. i think i'm disgruntled as i usually am la. the grass is always greener on the other side. this time, i dont know where. but i know the grass here is kinda disgusting.

oh wells. ranting here doesnt seem to help. i dont know what i want now. maybe having a lil batch outing wld be gd, can sink back into our childish personalities and haf fun. anyone? or too busy with work.. kite flying.. sharing photos. we've much to do here. hah.

i'm gg off first. tell me if anyone finds a more optimistic outlook towards our growing process. maybe i'll buy it..

happy new yearr!!

i have a simple wish for everyone: may we stay happy!
this year feels different somehow (strange what 9 minutes of fireworks can do to you). maybe it's cos this year began with a heavy downpour o_O haha, but may it wish away all our tears and misery and let us face this new year with a fresh start!!