had been wanted to blog since Thurs but was too tired whenever i got home... BUT i shall blog now coz i've so many things to tell u guys! ;P

well i've started my part time promoter job at the Singapore IT Exhibition at Expo for 3 days already, and tom's gonna be the last! i was one for the 3 promoters who had to work for the full 4 days exhibition, and thank God for the great opp for me to learn so many new things and discover the other side of me! :P

haha, actually the first day was kinda tiring coz it was my first sales job. my past vacation jobs were all office desk jobs which dun really require me to tok much and stand for long hours. but this is totally diff. I still rem my first day, after 2 hours of standing around and explaining the various features of the mp3 player i'm selling, i was already complaining to Serene (who also went to work with me but she was selling bluetooth headset. lucky man, else we wud be competing for the commission liao. ;P)

couldn't imagine myself standing since 11am when the exhibition starts until 9pm at night when it closes!!! that's 10 hours! minus the travelling time and stuff, that's almost 12hrs straight!

i felt as if my feet were temp dislocated frm my whole body by the time i reach home. but i gotten quite used to talking to complete strangers and explaining to them the product and eventually persuading them to purchase one from me. And I've sold 8 sets since Thurs! haha actually not alot, but considering there are other major players such as iPod and Creative around, it's really no mean feat to sell that 8 sets ok. (Imagine standing there for 10 hours, explaining similar pdt features over and over again to many many different ppl and having to smile always and attract customers at the same time. Talk about sales job man!)

I also met very diff people. People who jus wanted to humour you (esp this Caucasian guy, he alr bot one and he jus wanted me to explain everything in details to him, only to tell me that "yah, i knoe it sucked rite, u gif such good sales talk and i'm not buying." urgh. so mean!)

and there was this uncle who came on the first day and he happened to be one of my first few customers whom i approached, so i was very patient in answering all his questions. He actually came back today to find me! haha so happie!~~ But it took me a GREAT deal of effort to convince him to buy one. He actually requested to try out the new set outside for the FM Radion transmission, and he immediately puts down the full amount of money in cash and said that if he leaves with the headset, we'll still profit from the money! haha really interesting man. He was SO totally into our mp3 player and kept singing praises for it. Tok about 'live' publicity! and he said he'll def bring his friends to buy from us because he thinks our mp3 player totally rockzz! :P haha it was such joy serving him, and he really tested my patience and limited knowledge in the product (even i was more proficient in handling the player than my supervisor. they no ZERO things about it. u ask them anything abt the functions, they can't even answer!!!! gosh.)

haha now den i realise I actually can cut out to be quite a good sales promoter u know. not that i'm bragging or wat, i jus realised that i actually love to talk to people and interact with them, and i'm surprised that i don't feel apprehensive anymore when approaching strangers! that's one thing i discovered abt myself during this job. hmm, now i may consider working at this kind of exhibition as show promoters next time. :)

well, it's super late already and tom's the last day of the exhibition. Gonna garner all my energy to sell as many units as possible!!! wish me luck! ;)

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tadada~~~~ VOILA!! :P my new pink bedsheet frm Aussino. hee dirt cheap man, bot at $17.90 with POSB cash-online discount. hee and Mummy bot it for me. Now den i realise most of my sleeping stuff are pink!! how sHu.. :P




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went for product training today for my SITEX promoter job this thurs. Found out that I'm in charge of selling mp3 players, and there were other 5 promoters and 2 perm staff selling as well. and toking abt reaching min quota of 20 units (256mb selling at $200+), how am i goin to achieve that??? gosh, i'll be happy if i can sell one each day. urgh.

and worse, their uniform sucks, i tot it was gonna be a polo tee, end up it's a stiff and starchy long sleeve shirt with the logo and 2 breast pockets. tell me, how taudy can it get??? and the ironic thing was, the in charge was telling us that the image we're goin to portray is 'cool', imagine us trying to be cool in that disgusting shirt w black skirt (no denim fabric some more!). i wonder if anyone would walked to our booth. they'll prob be put off by our uniform frm afar!

after the training, met up with Geok to go shopping, tog with Serene. we walked ard the usual shops and watched Geok trying her shoes, pants and stuff. haha that ger can't decided wat should she buy coz they're all so nice! heh :P but she's so farni, whiny as usual, felt great to be out w her and Serene. like those kind of Sweet Valley High sorority sisters, minus that x-factor, popularity and oopmh! ok maybe u guys have those but def not me. ;)

settled down at Coffee Club Xpress at Wisma at 4pm coz we're both tired frm the walking (and i was lugging a bag of the stupid uniform!). Ordered a Single Latte and a Strawberry Shortcake. aahhh, haven't indulge in one for ages. :P the cake was deliiiicious *smack lips*, with chunky sour strawberries and sweet cream. yummy! :P

after that Geok left for church seminar and me and Serene carried on walking and talking excitedly abt our plans for this hols. We're gonna bake cookies to sell for Xmas!! hee :P well it all started with my future plans of opening a cafe and she was v interested too! yeah a potential shareholder in my cafe! and den we went on abt making cookies to sell during Xmas. we even came out w a name for our cookies! hee :P this is so exciting.

It's so great that i'm not gonna working full time this hols, coz i can finally do things that i like such as these! And i'm gonna be so free man, pls feel free to date me during weekdays (weekends are reserved for my milkboy ;P) currently, my schedule has been reserved for suntanning with Serene and Geok and baking cookies. But other than that i'm still q free. erm, prob minus the driving lessons, gym sessions, i AM still free. hah :)

hah wat a wonderful day! meeting Serene to buy ingredients to make our cookies tom, hopefully it'll turn out good and tasty else i think we can forget abt our cookies business! :P

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went for a day dive today at Pulau Hantu, one of those islands off Southern Singapore.

left the house at 8am and reached Harbourfront at around 8.50 to meet up with Ugin. Den we waited for the instructor to pick us up to go to Keppel Marina where the boat is.

there were other divers around, there's a family with 2 young daughters, 1 couple and 2 girls. they looked pretty amateur (not like i'm very pro hee ;P) but as me and Ugin were the only 2 advanced divers (other than the instructor and Dive Master), so i felt q pro when were gearing up our equipment and preparing to make the plunge. :)

a bit of a prob descending coz i was too buoyant so struggled for a couple of min, gotten another piece of weight before i managed to sink down. hee :P

the visilbility underneath wasn't good, at most 5m depth and mostly silt and sandy bottom. Din expect to see much tho i've heard some divers who went there actually saw pink dolphins and other rare beautiful species. Obviously, we weren't that lucky. ( else the start of my blog wud have been loads of !!!! marks. heh)

anywayz, we were down for 45min only managed to see a starfish and a nudibranch. other than that, i can see ppl's spit hanging in the water and those microorgs which u dun bother specify them. hahah :) had alot of pee in me so i made use of the au naturel toilette to help me :P (dun say yuck, there's no other way to 'unload' cept dis ;P)

we did only 2 dives before we end of the day and headed back to the marina.

O'all it was the trip was merely jus to refresh my diving skills coz according to Ugin, we were suppose to dive like every 3-6 months so that we won't forget those basic diving techniques. :)

now i'm more keen on my pending Perhentian trip coming soon in June/July 2005. Can't wait man, it's gonna be 100x more beautiful den today and will haf our other diving friends who are coming on this free n easy trip.

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gonna head for the gym tom. time to shed those fats. urgh. can't stand them. hanging loosely and obnoxiously on my belly. urgh.

reading the Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' now. it's super intriguing, exhilarating and exciting. heard it'll be made into a movie soon and Tom Hanks is rumored to be the protaganist, Robert Langdon. hope it comes to our theatre soon. :)

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my early Xmas pressie from Ugin!! so cute rite? haha it's abt 3/4 my height! it's so huuuuge and huggable!! :P plus it's PINK! my fave color!! heeee

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haha yeah!! exams are finally over!! weeeeeeee~~~~!!! :P

haha been playing and enjoying myself since paper ended on 16th so i only got to blog now..:P

but i've become a Michelin freak! u know the one with loads of 'tires' on the stomach??? gosh, i've gained weight over these few months from all the revision and snacking!!! grrr, i mus shed at least 5 kgs this hols!!

anyways, these few days gonna be packed from goin out....shall go to Sentosa tom for suntanning session! hope it's gonna be super sunny coz i wan to become tanned!! and Sunday it's diving!! woohoo! tho it's only at one of those outer islands (Pulau Hantu to be exact) but it's better than nothing! heard divers who went recently said that they saw pink dolphins!! whoa, i'll be totally ecstatic if i ever saw one! :P

and i've already spent $50 on 3 tops...hee can't resist it coz the shop was having 30% sale and it happened to be one of my fave stores so i jus grabbed 3 of them and paid for it. hahah :D

am still hunting for a nice sling bag that's not too big like my Crumpler but jus nice to carry while shopping...saw one at Far East but it was the last piece and it's still selling at $29.90...no discounts for the last piece, so i din buy... after that, i went to Bugis Village to see if there's any similar, but none of them looked like the one i fancied... maybe i shud bring Ugin to that shop to see, and asked him to buy for me...:D

Things i wan to accomplish this holidays:

1) Shed 5kg (at least) --> shall take watever means to lose those fats! including buying that TummiTrim slimming pills that Michelle Chong endorsed....hee :P

2) Clean up my room --> nid to clear those used textbooks for hOi to exchange and those unwanted tops and bags! gonna sell them off at Yahoo!Auctions see if i can earn quick bucks on them :P thanks to Serene for the idea

3) Learn tennis --> been wanting to learn this sport this hols, but still can't find a reliable coach that offers reasonable price. you guys got any lobangs? :)

ok tentatively, it's these 3 only, shall write too many lest I din fulfill any of them, i'll invite criticisms frm u guys! :P but the top priority is still to shed those kgs!!! i wan to slim down!!!!!

ok folks, enjoy ur hols!

it's X'mas time!!!

'tis the season to be jolly, falalala, lalala...~~~~~~~ ;D

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finally broke down today....

yes, i din noe that i actually took it to hard.

the past 3 papers that took place few days ago were disastrous. I can't believe i acutally screwed up so much.

the first was ac213 coz i had a bad case of diarrhoea JUST before the paper starts. (i was still visiting the toilet at 9.15am. the paper starts at 9.30am :( )

after that, i had 2 consecutive papers on Friday. the first was BH231, the paper that i was quite confident of it coz the concepts were manageable and i had a good grasp of the main stuff.

BUT the tutor had to set it SO different and difficult as past yr papers!!! i was totally caught off guard and i had to struggle to compelete the paper. Jus in time for the clock to strike 12.

urgh. bad feeling already and i had another paper in the afternoon. aa202. the one wher i'm NOT confident with coz the subject it's too broad based and very theoretical.

and as it turned out, i stared into the blank at the last qn worth 18marks, with 15min left and i don't have any fucking clue how was i suppose to answer it.

2min left. i scribbled something on the paper. shit! there's still part b! ok calm down calm down, gosh i don't knoe this either!!

that's it. i had a terrible feeling. never felt like this before. totally beaten, demoralised.

and i got q stressed up because i'm left with the paper which i'm stronger in. i told myself i musn't repeat the same mistakes i've made with the other papers. being too cocky and stuff, thinking that they would give similar kind of qns as past yr papers.

over my dead body. i don't think they're so nice this time. they're out to kill us.

i made myself sit in front of the book and read the textbook, notes, tutorials, lecture notes. everything and anything i could find about each topic.

i sat there for 3 hrs non-stop, din dared to take a quick nap even when my lids are falling.

and i snapped. as quick as the flicker of my lashes.

i called Ugin and started to howl and bawled non-stop. I've never felt so upset for such a long time.

i think i cried for half an hour. i can't remember. my eyes hurt so bad and my nose was stuck with mucus. can't breathe and i stopped crying.

i felt so much better after that.

i knoe i've tried my best. i knoe that i shouldn't push myself too hard. i knoe i shouldn't try to do stuff that's beyond my limits.

i knoe that. but i jus couldn't control.

i've been like this since i know ABC. getting stressed over not able to do well and such.

maybe i'm a perfectionist. yah maybe i am.

i don't know. i have this kind of 'never say die' attitude? i jus believe that if others can do it, y can't i? perhaps that's the reason i snap so easily. the rubber band was over-stretched.

hmm. i felt better after letting out everything. poor ugin, became my anger-venting tool. (muacks! thank you darling. :)

press on sHu! you're left with the last paper! God bless!

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anybody wanna watch with me? :)

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had a terrible stomachache this morning when i was on the way for exams...went to the toilet 3 times even before i enter the examination hall!! :(

gosh i was praying so hard that the pain would subside when start my paper, thank God! He did answered my prayer! :)

but i spent about an hour stucked on the first question and results in the lack of time to finish the rest of the questions. :( how bad can it be man! :(:(

but i still managed to finish the paper, as in answering the questions but i wasn't satisfied with the answers coz i knoe that if i had more time, i would be able to write more conclusively! :(

well luckily i was not the only one coz most of my friends also complained that they got stuck at the first question for 1hr+ too! :(

it's not as if the paper is difficult or wat, in fact all the questions are so straight-forward and most of them are those similar to the tutorial question! that's wat i'm mad about, I know the answer but there's no time to write!!!!! :(:(:(:(

urgh. hope my next 2 papers on Friday would be better. and pls no stomachache again!!!

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another week has gone by....i'm finally much closer to 3 of my papers this week! hurrah!! this means that exams will soon be over and holidays are coming!! *woohoo!*

haha it's comforting to think in this way, rather than moping over the no of papers left and how much u haven't finished studying....:) seems like all my friends are pretty stressed and troubled over the coming papers, the only thing i could do was to wish them all the luck I could give.. hope they're not too stressed by the exams.

i jus feel that it's better to feel relaxed and and at ease when exams are here so that all those negative feelings about not having the time to study, the amount of books/notes to read will actually take a toll on you pretty soon.

I don't like that so i chose to take it as it comes. Bring it on! that's the kind of feeling i'm having right now. i hope everyone can feel that too.

like what hoi said, studies isn't everything. I'm slowly to understand that and beginning to unleash my tight grasp on it everyday. It's not as if I'll totally gif up on studies or wat, jus that I probably won't be much affected by these stress and grades as much as before.

I know I have other things i could do, other things that i enjoy doing, so i think perhaps it's time to find them now...it's not too late when i haven't exactly turned 21 rite? ;)

press on folks! holidays are coming your way! and so it's Christmas!! :D

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it's a pissed-off Sat morning...

turned on my comp and realised that the McAfee virus scan is expired!! gosh, din noe it can expire, tot it's suppose to last as long as possible?? :p

anyways, i asked Ugin for help and i'm really idiot at all these kind of technical stuff so spent like an hr plus trying to get the latest version downloaded but it still wasn't working..

had to give up and get the CD from him next week.

And i also found out that my comp hasn't been updated for donkey years! there's no window firewall or any security features, and all this while i din even noe it! gosh...had to d/l the Service Pack 2 and it's still downloading now!!! :(

aargh! wasted a morning doin all these stuff, haven't get down to my books yet...grrr!!

aargh! been feeling kind of slack ever since my first paper! cept a couple of days back when i was worried abt one coming paper den i really sat down to study the whole day....after that, it's back to tv and more tv!!

help! i musn't be like this! i nid to study hard!

'nuff said, shan't waste my time typing here..

STUDY!!!!

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went for driving lesson in the morn coz I'll be missing one lessons next week due to my exams... :)

i made sure i had enough time to reach the place but my instructor called me at 9.15am (my lesson starts at 10) and asked me if i'm coming. Then i told him my lesson starts at 10 but he said the registration book put 9am for me... ( They still used the pen and paper method for booking time slots for their students! was wondering y they couldn't use spreadsheet? isn't it neater? hmm...)

ya so due to the blunder, i ended up with only 45 min of driving... luckily my instructor promised to make it up to me another day. phew! :)

i went to register for my practical test too and guess what!? the next available test date is on 29th March 2005! haha so happy! coz that happened to be the day when I turn 21! how significant can that be man! Hopefully i could pass on my first try and that would absolutely be the best present ever! :D

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hah i jus did the most craziest thing ever!

I went for shopping jus after my first paper!!! :P haha i guessed i needed to unwind a little and besides my next paper is one week later, so thot i should deserve a small break for today!

haha it was really nice looking at new clothes and walking on the streets, made me all hyped up! ;) i've already pin-pointed a few item which i wish to get after the exams!! hahaha :)

hmm today's paper was quite manageable i would say, but some of my frens think it's kinda sucky and not really confident of it too.... well, i jus tot the qns were rather similar to the past yr paper so it was quite ok when i was doing it....hope this means sth good eh? ;P

legs abit aching from all the walking and window shopping..hee :P gonna take a good rest tonight and start my revision again tomorrow!

1 down, 4 more to go and 14 days to my last paper and it's HOLIDAYS!!!!! :D

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