Counting Down: 7 Days

Dear Dairy,

I'm with 7 more days till the end of my work in Neo Group. What am I suppose to look out for my next job? I want to earn at least $1.7k for a 5.5 days work week. Sighs. I think it's kind of hard. Anyway, just out of consideration, I thought I could send buffet (not more than 30pax) or sending food. The following would be the costing if I were to take up this consideration.

Buffet

$45 x 2 orders/day = $90

$90 x 30 days = $2700

Less car rental: $2700 - $1100 = $1600

Less diesel: $1600 - $500 = $1100

Food

$30 x 2 orders/day = $60

$60 x 30 days = $1800

Less car rental: $1800 - $1800 = $0

Less petrol: $0 - $500 = $-500

Haha! The sending of food is ultimately ridiculous! *faints* Anyway, the above consideration was put of by mummy as she said she rather me to find a part-time job or stay at home and cook dinner ): There goes my plan. But it is really cool to be able to drive a vehicle, even if it's a van.

I'm super bored here counting down the number of days that I've left. No. Not number of days, is number to hours! It's killing me. I want to get on with my diploma as soon as possible and find a right career path.

HTB is off from work today. I really want to get him a Braun Buffel wallet initially, but he says it's firstly too expensive. and secondly, it's really not practical as the designs are... really not practical. I wanted to get a "build-a-bear-workshop" teddy bear for him too. But financially tight now ): I will look forward to getting him a pair of good sunglasses next year. Time is passing real quickly. We have been together since 16 May 2010. Which means we are still sticking together for 1 year 4 months and still counting! :D Life is getting sweeter, but of course, there are times when we quarrelled and me getting upset with him for small minor things. I am getting mad about him. I really want to spend the remaining of my live with him. Many friends and colleagues asked me, why would I want to be with someone who is older than me by 20 years! But love can't be explained. I have a sense of comfort whenever he plays with my hair and beats my pigu (: He is really good in giving advises too. Sighs. I wish he can settle his flat issue fast and get a house of his own. Things will be much simpler. If anything happens as in if I quarrelled with mummy and daddy and have to move out of house, at least I will have a roof over head. But things seems to be getting further and further.

Anyway, looking on the brighter side, we just came back from Genting. Our trip lasted from 17 to 20 October 2011. The exact date when we went last year. I wonder if I can store the photos on anywhere on the net but away from people's eyes. Hmm... His next trip is to be to Macau. Both of us are addicted to playing Roulette together. Talking about couple power!

My entry shall end here today, if not, there will be plenty to write on.

I want the people surrounding me to be happy and free from worries and trouble. But it seems that the more i walk further into life, the more sadness i come to realise that these people are going through.

Finally I have an off day together with worm! Will be going to sing song today *hopefully at bugis* as i don't quite like going to kbox. But sometimes wonder why they don't update their bank of songs.

Worm got me my first monthly present (March) on 13 May 2011! It's none other than my portable charger for my iphone. Wahaha! It's red and white in colour. 2 more prezzies to go. 1 for April and 1 for May. Now i can worry free when i go for my lessons (:

Went mustafa yesterday in search for indian spices yesterday. Walked many parts of the building and we only found powdered spices. We needed whole seeds. And finally we found a whole block of shelves selling these! That gave us a great sense of satisfaction. Went home after that and fell into a really deep sleep.

Boo-hoo-hoo~! I want my monthly present! Especially for the month of May! ):

I am not going to sit or drive his Volvo anymore.

Just ended my lesson at Wilkie Edge.  Collected my course material for my bridging module, "Basic Accounting" just now. Due to the long queue, i was late for lesson for about 20 minutes. Upon reaching class, i guess i am left with no choice but to sit in the first row along with my other 3 classmates (who happened to sit together also in our previous lesson). I guess being in the front row is a pretty good choice. Firstly, clarity is non-comparable with sitting in other rows. Secondly, i won't be distracted so easily by the movements of other mates. Was very lethargic during the first half of my class. But turned out to be attentive after my long-awaited toilet break. The feeling of having to control your urine for embarressment of going to the toilet, bringing slight pain to your bladder and finally being able to release it in the rest room, is really something to relish! We finally had a question to discuss on, thereafter, i realised we (2 other guys & i) realised that we were in the same study group! How coincident! Class ended at about 10 minutes earlier, much to the "gleefulness" of my other coursemates. This time round, i had to make my way out of town myself. Worm is not here to fetch me as he is working today. (while i m typing this sentence, light in mrt just turned off!) Plan to have dinner with worm at Sakae Sushi  in Jurong East (near chevron). Hopefully he ends his work soon so that i won't have to walk around for so long to wait for him). I am currently on my way over to Jurong East via the red line. And i just came across a thought of how i can blog without being disrupted by disturbances such as incoming sms etc. That is, to type my contents in the "notes" application of my iphone, thereafter, uploading it via "blog writer" once i have completed. Just passed Braddell station and it's raining  now (5.41pm).

Worm told me earlier on that 小鸡  (small chick) met up with an accident in Malaysia and passed on. Quite a shocking and sad news to hear. But i guess that is the consequence that many fear for riding a motorcycle. Life can be really short.

Battery is left with 39%. I need a portable charger badly  Hope i receive from worm my monthly prezzie soon! Shall end here to save on the battery.

Feels so disheartened now. Worm suddenly disappeared to don't-know-where. I cooked for him porridge for lunch, but guess he is asleep now. No matter how much i called or sms, there is still no reponse. This suspense is killing me. I don't even know which unit is he in, which means i only know what's the level. Hope he wakes up soon ):

I caught another male cockroach yesterday. I placed with my existing pregnant one. The male one was so hungry till he kept eating the bread.

Went Pandan Garden area to look at the house last night. Super cool! There is 2 doors to each unit. One in the kitchen and one at the usual place. And the floor area seems to be rather spacious.

I want to eat porridge at Chinatown ):

I saw something that I should not have. Suddenly in a very downcast mood. What should I do? There is absolutely no one whom I can talk to. And now forced to swallow my own fears. All you can do is keep asking me why am i in the bad of mood and why i kept showing you attitude. Have you ever understand how i felt? I wish i can just jump off the building or get knocked down by a car. All these just keeps happening repeatedly!

i caught a pregnant german cockroach last night. I gave it tiny corner of a white bread and kept it in a small container. How many baby cockroaches will there be? Hmm...

I want to buy a new rubber shoe from Sia Huat! I cant bear for my banana crocs to get soiled with oil, grease and other yucky stuff. When can i get a pair? ):

Worm promised me on 29 March 2011, Tuesday that i will receive a present (can just be something lower cost as long as it's wrapped in pretty papers) once every month :D Let's see if he breaks his promise. *wahaha!* Oh ya! And he promised to let me fetch him to and from OC in 3 months time! What more can u ask for with such a lovely worm on hand?

I want to keep a rabbit in worm's burrow when everything is settled! I want to rent a small tunnel too and make it into my "resort". *hohoho!*

I will wait for all these to happen (:

Sometimes, i really take things for granted. Thinking back, where can i find such a nice boyfriend? Someone who will hear me make noise when i talk, beat me when i do something silly and ridiculous, hugs my head under his armpit, shows me imitation of my bunny teeth, follows me when i turn my head and walk away, hug me when i cry, and best of all, always make me feel like i am the only one for him!! (:

Many updates lately since my last post. Shall have a brief description the happenings before I go into anything further due to the lack of time.

1) 27 February 2011, Sunday

Dear's mama passed on in the early morning. Funeral wake was held at Blk 37 Sin Ming Drive #01-579 from 27/02/2011 to 01/03/2011 (3 days) Went through alot during these 3 days in the process of her funeral. Shall blog about the whole process when I have the time to.

2) 06 March 2011, Sunday

Went on my very first cruise trip on the Superstar Virgo. It was so huge that it's like a resort on the water with so many activities and things to do onboard. Came back on the 09 March 2011, Wednesday. A total of 4 days and 3 nights. I even felt a "jet lag" when I came back to Singapore. The funny part was, I woke up in the middle of the night on my bed (1st night home), and I wondered "how come the ship is so still (no more vibrations from the engienes)?" and after about 3 minutes, I realised that I am back at home.

3) 13 March 2011, Sunday

I bought my very first Sea Horse Brand Memory Pillow from Jurong Point. Cost me a fortune of $38.50. Felt highly uncomfortable on the first night of sleep due to the lack of "softness" but the feeling soon wear off.

I am going to make a pact with my dearest blog. That is, I will try to update almost everyday.



Let's talk about work recently. As usual, working here is a huge torment. Job's rather boring, everyday going through the same itsy bitsy routine. I don't mind if the routine occupies me the whole day, but basically, everything here just lacks of the jolt of enjoyment. Take for example a basic necessity in such an established company. The first thing that comes to mind for an accomplishment of successfully delivering 803 orders on the first day of Chinese New Year, would be our kind of system or how our whole process is being carried out. Much to everyone's surprise, the system here sucks like hell. The company might be able to savour it's success of it's glory this year, but, 1,000 (target for next year's CNY), that will just be another laughing stock.



Firstly, stock taking here is in a huge, glamourous mess! *thumbs up* Anything messy or not tended to, reason being so, "We are doing recovery after Chinese New Year". Bless us all. That's really a way to push things aside.



Secondly, quality control. There is a lack of consistency. Fried items are sometimes burnt, sometimes under cooked. Curry chicken far too oily. Within an hour, a layer of oil as thick as 2cm high glimmers at you and you will be mersmerized by it. Ok fine, if it's Chinese New Year, talk about us giving customers the best decorated Curry Chicken ever with it's glistening and bright cheerful red shawl. Vegetables, either too hard, too soft or too plain. And the worst thing that can happen to any food, the mushrooms that they included in the dishes still carries the taste of that brine that they were soaked in. Not any tinge of the gravy can be tasted. Every single ingredient in the dish stands out from the rest. Sum it all up, it seems to be the Mr Bean's way of drinking coffee, pouring hot water into his mouth, coffee powder, milk, gurgle the solution in his mouth, swallow and ta-dah! You have coffee coming your way. In our case, we have a can of mushrooms, carrots, gravy. vegetable and other ingredients all cooked seperately and only pieced together in the food tray like a jigsaw puzzle. If you can imagine, it would be like eating these things straight out from it's can. Eeeew.



Recently, we had clinch another record. So many complaints! With more orders comes more complaints. I don't see the point in improving in the number of buffet orders delivered but on the other hand, the quality drops. That's incredible. A little child would surely love it. Talk about a little game of see-saw. On one side, threshold of orders are getting higher, on the other side, reputation is being tarnished. Still calling itself Singapore's no. 1 caterer, it is not wrong technically. But is it something against our guilty consience that we should ponder on?



These aside, let's talk about something more personal. In the joyous hours when I was still in the Sales Department, I was told that operations department would hold a better prospect. With more things to do and at least slightly higher responsibility. I eagerly requested for a transfer. But very much to my dismay, work load started to lighten itself. And everytime I asked for something more, it lost it's own weight. And right now, I have absolutely nothing to do. When requested in improving the system in this company, I was only thrown a question in my face squarely, "who are you to suggest anything?". Ok, working here for only a year plus, I hold absolutely nothing worth comparing to those old birds. But I was thinking, shouldn't new birds have fresher ideas when these old birds are already starting to grow moulds and age? Well, that's the whole point about uneducated people who will only be smoked and blinded by those more "educated", people from it's side-line (IT company). And recently, I hear the most hilarious thing ever. "Virus is nothing. As long as you have anti-virus installed, you can be worry-free about your computer network and internal information". I wonder if the higher positions know, IT keeps propelling itself forward, never once stopping to take a break, thus never stagnant. And to my horror, he actually believed in investing in anti-viruses without other means of backup. And another joke to add, he even invest in a rack with promises to be able to guard off fire. And guess what? it is just an ordinary black metal rack with it's sides left uncovered.



Will stop here at the moment and continue later on. Goodbye! (:

Updates

Just went into app store & searched for blogging app for blogger and here i am using it. Not really user-friendly though. Text fonts are small, functions are simple and the list goes on. But who cares as long as i get my updates done.

Work has been getting tougher & more hectic recently ever since i get transferred to the operations side. We don't get to sit in the office all day, unlike those in sales or admin department. Popping into the kitchen every now and then forms my routine. But i appreciate my current position more than before as it allows me to "see more things" and also move around instead of staying put at a single spot. Have already been in Neo Group Pte Ltd since 20 October 2009 till date. In other words, 15 months.