lotsa happenings

hi! it's been a while since I blogged.. feel a bit strange now.. just visited a few friends' blogs and wow... their blogs are really populated! ha.. looks like daily updates!

Anyway I just thought maybe I should just note down some happenings in my life recently.. Maybe they'll be a good read for me a couple of years down the road :)

Just yesternight I was having a nice chat with pompom on the phone. Think we talked til like 2am. (ok la we started 12 plus nearly 1) Haven't talked on the phone in ages. Sometimes I'm just too lazy to pick up the phone, sometimes I wonder if my friends are free to pick up the call.. I think that's the problem. Sometimes I 'worry' too much. But friends aren't supposed to be like that. And so a few moments ago I just decided to sms pompom to see if she was free for dinner. Ha! and she was! So we're going out later. Eat what I'm not sure yet. She suggested crystal jade but I'm feeling a bit sick of that place... Ah well...

I'm on what juzeothergirl calls the 'missile' place now.. this year's kinda different cos our dear sup went to jie hun while the super a2 is now rowing boat.. so this year it's s1, 2 a1s, me and ernie! i'm glad for that though, that ernie is here with me.. she makes working there FUN! haha.. the a1s are a bit quiet.. so I'm just talking to ernie most of the time. but that's good enough la.. i'm only here for 2 wks anyway! seems like i'm the only one debooked for the 3rd week.. hmm i think i'll be pulled out of the missile engagement soon... like i think next yr i won't be in any more.. sighsigh! ah well.. they can't have too many snrs on a job anw!

which brings me to my next topic.. Well recently I heard news of 2 snrs leaving.. one confirmed and one not.. (apparently one retracted) Which at first made me feel like leaving too! ok let's call them Miss A and Miss B. So Miss A is confirmed leaving and Miss B is not la. Well, from Miss A I learnt that it makes plenty of sense to stay till at least S. Got more $$ mah! And she seems alot happier to be leaving now.. Not like last year she was still deliberating and wondering if it was the right thing to do. Well, Miss B's leaving was a big err.. 'blow' to me.. cos if she leaves, next yr I'll be doing that job with Ms Not-so-nice! I dun want! And that's why I thought I should be leaving too la.. But now that she's not, I can stay :)
Which is kinda silly la I know, to leave over one person. But sometimes just one week can be hell..

But now I'm determined (for now la) to learn as much as I can. There're still plenty of sections that I'm not exposed to yet.. From now til the end of the year, I can see a smooth path lying ahead. Lotsa blank slots! And my leave is approved! I'm going Sydney at the end of Nov. I hope it'll be fuN!

On a lighter note, I went for a Youth Camp last weekend. It started on Friday night, ended Sunday noon. My group wasn't v close initially, but after some time I could feel everyone was trying to make the effort to make it fun! There were like 6-7 guys in my group and more than half were uncles. Hahah.. either married or not so good looking.. Pretty sian diao initially though haha.. The girls were mostly FD i/cs. At first it was like quite clique-ish la. But later on it was a lot better. I guess 2 days is really quite short for bonding la.. But I made a couple new friends there! Hope to see them around soon.. before it starts to get weird to say hi.. :)

Oh and a question was brought up during one of the forums. I've heard the answer before, and I think I should reiterate it here lest I forget again! You know, sometimes wise words just float to the back of your head..

So the question was how to juggle time between activities. 2 pointers I noted: 1) Put in 100% in whatever you're doing. This way, you'll be able to fulfil what ever u need to do. 2) Prayer. I guess this is one path that most ppl neglect. At least I do. Well I guess if we pray hard enough to want to fulfil all our responsibilities, then we WILL be able to fulfil them. I guess I need to put in more effort baz.

That aside, I wanna say I saw a shuai ge during one of our prep meetings! Pleasant surprise.. But I wasn't holding much hopes of seeing him again at the camp.. Cos we've got like 20 groups! Nearly 400 ppl at the camp. How to meet? And indeed I din get to see him until it was the individual group presentation bit. That's not the point. Thing is, I was trying to tell myself to please forget it, stop behaving like a stupid teenage girl and stop letting my stupid thoughts run wild. And cos I haven't seen him since the prep meeting which was more than 1 wk before the camp, and concluding that I prob won't see him anymore, I did manage to put it aside, for a while. Cos on Sunday's lunch, his group was sitting at the bench in front of mine! Alamakz. So much for my efforts of trying to put this thing away. And it was hmm.. i dunno what to describe it.. But I was talking to some friends in my group and smiling/laughing away. And on his side it was the same thing la. And so I saw him, and I'm pretty sure he saw me, and like we were both wearing happy expressions on our faces. OK end of story.

Which honestly doesn't build up to anything much and I don't think we'll have a chance to meet again cos I'm from the East region and he's from West la. Sigh! (ok i think i like to amplify little things like this. my state of maturity is stagnant at JC!)

Anw Sandra was saying we should pray that our future partners be our partner in kosenrufu. Doesn't mean that he's gotta convert or what, as long as this person helps you advance in your faith and most importantly, makes you a better person. Yup and so I shall add this into my daily prayers. I think I need to be more hardworking and stop doing my slipshod 5 min prayers.

Jia you jia you jia you!

afternoon

hi! it's my 2nd post of the day. in the 'lovely' afternoon. I'm doing WBL today. and I love it! it's like being back in school.. just read and do mcq. (sux when u have to redo though) but that's not the lovable part. the nicety about this WBL is that I get to leave office before 6pM! and i get to take 1.5hr lunches! woo hoo! but the saddest part is my WBL ends this week. I did like only 3 days of WBL this wk. so sad!

newaez I had lunch at far east sq today. There's this restaurant thingy that sells jap paper steamboat. Not bad la. The best thing about it being a steamboat is that err.. it's steamed/boiled. No oil! I think.
Bought Teh chino from mr teh tarik for the first time. i've always been drinking teh tarik, teh halia, teh limau. but i think i'll change from now! this teh chino is really not bad. not too sweet, and there's also milo powder! tastes like bubble tea. but i bet it's still damn fattening and the worst thing is it only lasted me 1 hr! teh tarik is so super sweet it'll last me til 5pm. but it's only 2 plus and my drink is gone. sigh.

oh and ms wong, thanks for lunching with me this entire wk! heh. it's nice to have a cuz working nearby when u're unassigned :)

ok. back to WBL.

hair

Whoa.. just realised that I haven’t blogged in AGES. Well, I haven’t been bringing my laptop home v much… and my 3 week stay at Ayer Rajah left me with no internet at work… and well I guess mainly it’s because I’ve been hooked onto Channel 8 9pm dramas recently.. no time to blog! First it was the lawyer show with Ivy Lee and Thomas Ong (woohoo), and now it’s the new show with Lin Xiangping and Fiona Xie.. Not bad really.. I think ch8 shows are improving!

Hmm so nothing much has happened in my life so far.. The only big change being that I went to rebond my hair on Saturday. It took me 5hrs I think. Apparently the cuticles of my hair are quite thick so it takes some time for the rebonding chemical to penetrate through the layers. Whatever. Trouble was, cos I cut my hair to shoulder length plus added lotsa layers, it started sticking out at the shoulders. Definitely undesirable!

And so I went back on Sunday to let them take a look at my hair… and all the response I got was.. why don’t u wait til u wash ur hair.. cos for rebonding you ain’t suppose to wash your hair til 2 days later. (Yes! 2 long days!)

So I waited till Monday when I washed it, and it still curled out. So I went back again this time, with my mom. Ha. The director guy attended to me personally.. Then just grabbed a pair of scissors and started snipping at my hair. Oh I forgot to mention that the layers weren’t v well done on Sat, I guess cos they were booming with customers they just umm.. tried to do it fast.

This guy was quite good! After the snipping, my hair just looked better, though the curling out problem was still existent.. So he promised to fix the rebonding for me, but I had to drop by another day cos they were like full for the day liao la..

And so I went by yesterday.

Oh I forgot to mention that my hair was done at this salon at Far East Plaza. Used to do it in Tampines (for years…) but my hairdresser has recently jumped ship to this salon. So I went along. And my mom called him up la, to complain about my hair, and he promised that he’ll do the fixing personally for me on Wed. (Cos though I booked him on Sat, he only cut my hair and the rebonding was done by the shampoo girl la). But surprise surprise, the director just came and did my hair for me! (He says he’s supposed to handle complaints..)

Anw we only redid the sides of my hair (which were the problem areas) cos additional rebonding will only damage my hair further la. In fact, the blonde parts of my hair (which were highlighted some time ago) have frizzed up at the ends.. Quite bad la, esp since rebonding is supposed to make ur hair SMOOTH.

What I was quite happy about was that they had pretty good attitude la. Like they wanted to ensure that I walk away with ‘happy hair’. I did the normal rebonding on Sat, and apparently they have a better grade of rebonding which costs more, but apparently damages the hair less la. So apparently that was what the guy used on the sides of my hair. (And I din have to pay more)

In between I had a short chat with the dir (cum hairstylist), and it was pretty comfortable. Cos I dun usually like talking to strangers, and I din start talking to my original hairstylist until I was in JC I think. (He cut my hair since I was in Sec2) What I liked was the fact that it didn’t feel like “I’m handling your hair now cos u complained”, but rather “I sincerely hope you’ll walk away with happy hair”. (‘Happy hair’ is a term coined by him la..)

At the end of the fixing, though my hair didn’t look significantly straighter, I did walk away happier though. I guess it was more of seeing that they have done their best to fix my hair, whether or not it could be fixed. And yup, I think I’ll recommend this place to ppl :)

Ok the most paiseh thing now is that I think this dir cuts hair better than my orig stylist la. So I think I’ll prob get him to cut my hair next time? But it’s gonna be so paiseh cos I’ll be like ‘boycotting’ my orig stylist. Sigh. But I guess I shan’t care. My hair more important!

- ok this seems like a nice place to end, but I’ve got more things to say! –

So I mentioned that I had a nice chat with the dir.. Found out that he’s 29 and getting married soon (or not so soon..) That’s not the point la.. point being I used to think I’d wanna find an other half that’s not more than 3 years my senior.. But a few encounters with these ‘older’ ppl made me feel that these ‘senior citizens’ are actually nicer to get along with. Maybe cos of their age/experiences, they come across as more mature, thinking individuals unlike my childish peers.

Yeah. So I gained a new perspective from my little episode yesterday. Gonna look at ppl in a new light today :)