Monday, July 14, 2008
ok its not a friday i know, but i've run out of things to do...not bad ah, 3 months into it and i'm still on schedule *beams!
today all senior staff slowly trickled out on their sales visits or went for training with the new management trainees. my boss just left too, and the dept secretary who's almost always around took MC.
so. i guess i tried! :D
anyway GUESS WHAT. as if things cant get any more surreal in lore*l... guess what i just found out!
MY BOSS DRIVES A BMW CONVERTIBLE! in hot silverrr. and i got to sit in it!! :):) i know i sound like a total ditz but i'm telling anyone and everyone haha.
its not that i think she cant drive one or what, its just that i never would've thought in a million years!!
i mean like she is so... grounded. with the amount of over the top things i see in lore*l, its hard to imagine my sweet (ok most of the time) somewhat motherly boss driving a sportscar. compared to the rest of the utopian population here, she's the only one who looks relatively realistic. i mean she dresses nice and stuff but i dont think alot of it is branded.. her bag is pretty too, but its not branded either (i know where its from but we'll just leave it la huh) and she carries the same one everyday. she doesnt wear psycho nosebleed high kinda shoes to work everyday, and her hair is actually messy sometimes.
"SHE CANT BUY NICE STUFF COS SHE SPENT ALL HER MONEY ON THE CAR LOR. DURRR" cow's wise old quips as usual over our lunch time musings.
but hoenstly she's the most unassuming person, like she doesnt act like snobby or attituded or whateverr
(i KNOW i'm the worst example of judging a book by its cover haha).
and... and...the last time i took her car it was this non-descript family looking thing!! when we reached the carpark and was walking in the general direction toward It, i expected the blahh car as usual and i thought the blahh looking one next to It was hers la....thats how non-descript my earlier experiences in the car was. haha.
then. she clicked her car keys and the lights flashed on the convertible. i really just stopped short ( I KNOW LIKE A FRICKIN SWAKU) and the first thought in my bleary mind was "why is that car doing that" hahaha. so i was like frozen there until like my brain kicked in and i started tentatively toward the car. what, for all your know my mind could be hallucinating after all that stress i went thruuu! :D
when she opened the car door it was like OMG again!! hahaha.
acutally honestly, it was nothing special la, a lil bit low so i got a shock when i stumbled in. again like a swaku -_-
we didnt drive with the top down tho (NO BIMBO COMMENTS. i can almost sense the building up of the urge haha), but still we got a stare or two :D
the last memory i had of driving in a convertible was in sec3 i think... amanda tay's dad sent us home after some party at her house. i was sitting in front cos i was the first to drop, but i remember he was speeding PSYCHO fast... i usually HATE belting up but halfway thru trust me i WANTED to. i was damn scared and i remember amanda laughing like crazy at the back haha.
memories :D
speaking of taitais, theres this lady in my office who wears top to toe branded. she's like a sorta ah lian taitai la, but honeslty man even her hairties are Chanel... i dunno which is more terrible la, the frivolity of it all or the fact i noticed.
ok then there's this damn cute uncle who delivers our big stuff, like for example our banners or standees for events, all that. he's a regular around here and has become like part of the lore*l culture.. like he teases everyone and has nick names for everybody even the big bosses (i'm called Baby by the way, i guess cos i'm youngest in the dept? dunno)
anywayy he was gossiping to me about the Taitai that day (i kid you not. he calls her that) and he told me to notice that all her watches are branded. i cant really see the names la but hell, they look ex and she changes it everyday. she's perpetually showered with jewellery all over, and wears like a different branded bag everyday. she leaves her LV or whatever scarves all over her chair and even her frickin phone is the Prada one la.
goodness, i've never seen anyone so Brandist! i mean its all nice but isnt it like a lil bit overdone...
again speaking of taitais the other day i went on another one of my Walks. this time we were meeting a designer about one of our window displays. so i tagged along with my boss and when we got there turns out the designer brought one of her execs as well, to take measurements and stuff.
what i found damn funny was that they were walking around so fast discussing, and me and the other exec were trailing in their wake, trying to keep up. hey i was in heels!! so there we were, adding in whatever info we knew/could (me) or taking notes (him). really struck me as personal assistants to them taitais la. hurrs!
some of the ppl are damn nice to work with but i didnt like this one.. its like i briefed her about some of the stuff first, and she was friendly and all was good when she met me. UNTIL she gave me her name card and i introduced myself as an Intern, suddenly i didnt seem all that relevant after all. bet she wanted her name card back haha.
biatch.
haha heey this blogging thing is damn good, time has passed quite fast and its almost time for me to leave :)
come to think of it i can actually go la, like i said almost everyone is gone alr. but aiyah, blogging is strangely therapeutic :D
just the last word. the other day i bought $1 ice cream. only now its $1.20!! not that 20 cents is gonna kill me or waht but its sacrilege!! i've been paying $1 for 20 over years, for as long as i can remember. its something i grew up with!! you know like "oh i wanna buy $1 ice cream". its just another mark of how everything changes i guess.
where's their sense of nostalgia la, bloody GAHMEN!
2:44 AM
Friday, July 11, 2008
last hours of friday are always the most idle, so here i am.
since my mind is just about an absolute blank now i think i'll settle into the comfortable familiarity of complaining :D
ok at the start of my internship, i actually made an effort to drag my sleep deprived body out of bed just so i could enjoy a lovely morning run in my heels from the MRT station to the office.
and that lasted about... lets see. 3weeks? considered alrite alr i think.
haha after that... Cab Days slowly increased bit by bit each week. jon cant stop nagging and we calculated. if i take cab an average of 3 times a wk, i will be spending about~200 bucks on cab every month which is about 1/5 my pay not counting the cpf cut (haha do the math, i refuse to openly gloat about how much i get, its vulgar. *beams)
anywayyy the bad news is now that has become an optimistic estimate. ie : we undercredited the amount. hurrs.
yeah :( i've started to take cab everyday cos i cant wake up on time.
now the issue is not about whether to take cab or not, rather should i take cab all the way or try to ease the guilt by changing to bus halfway -_-
rarr.
so anyway yday i sleptwalked my way to the bus stop as usual, and when i reached marymount rd, there was like this massive jam! this was new. i weaved my way across and got a cab, and once inside having the typical singaporean morbid fascination with jams i asked the uncle if it was an accident further down.
when he said it was ERP, i was tempted to argue with him but really, i wasnt in the mood for an early morning debate.
when i told him my office was in orchard, he told me he didnt have enough for ERP.. cut a long story short, he checked his card and had about 5 plus. so i was thinking like HUH what he means not enough.
but you know uncles la, you disagree with them and they'll spend the rest of the trip making you sorry for it. i agreed to lend him my cashcard card if we had to pass a second gantry. being an absolute swaku, i was thinking he was either the looniest or kiasuest cab driver ever..
almost all cab uncles are kiasus la, esp where U-turn signs are concerned--no U-turn sign, no U-turn. and believe me i have seen my share of loonies.
i remember CJ forced us to go to the NEWater plant for some excursion thing, and me and the girls took a cab from the station . the cab uncle spent the entire journey telling us about how if you leave the "toilet water" there to stand, after awhile it smells like armpit. i kid you not.
hahaha OMG i just laughed at the screen again and my colleague gave me a funny looook!! :D
i have no idea how he knows what an armpit smells like, or am i supposed to assume he got it from personal experience? hahahaha.
i cant remember who was in the cab that day but all i remember was killing myself trying not to laugh behind his seat and steph giving her Steph face next to me :D which of cos just made the suppressed laughing fits much worse :D
hahahaha funniest cab ride ever, i cant forget it! hahaha.
anyway DIGRESSING.
so as we neared the ERP gantry i saw it on the new digital thingie they installed. get this.
motorcycle-$2, cabs-$4, cars-$6, lorries-$8.
wthh!! what they planning to do with all that money?? pave our roads with gold?!
i really cant believe it, this is getting ridiculous. i mean do they honestly think they can get away with making us pay that amount for using TAR AND BITUMEN?!
WHY IS NO ONE MAKING ANY NOISE. we should have riots or something.
Every Road Pay.
i bet now everyone is laughing at how ironic that comment was last time -_-
my cab fare came up to a whopping 17 bucks la. my god... i seriously dunno what they want us to do now, especially ME!
my parents refuse to send me and i'm not arguing with that (6 fucking bucks to take a car ride into the CBD!?). now cabs are like out of the question too. i cant even take a bus anymore cos the cheaper gantry along marymount means every morning its like a slow-moving stampede. i think i'm speaking for everyone as well when i say buses are crowded as fuck! and prob only gonna get worse :\
scowl...
today was tremendous willpower on my part to walk all the way to frickin braddell station to take train. aside from the horrendously long walk made extra abusing bcos of my heels, the greasy hawker smells, and the loud and leering uncles, my morning was just about great. all before a lovely day ensconed in my boring cubicle. rarr.
TGIF!
2:36 AM
Monday, July 07, 2008
"When I get to Warwick Avenue
Please drop the past and be true
Don't think we're okay just because I'm here
You hurt me bad but I won't shed a tear
I'm leaving you for the last time, baby
You think you're loving but you don't love me
I've been confused outta my mind lately
You think you're loving but I want to be free
Baby you've hurt me
When I get to Warwick Avenue
We'll spend an hour, but no more than two
Our only chance to speak once more
I showed you the answers, now here's the door
When I get to Warwick Avenue
I'll tell you baby, that we're through
I'm leaving you for the last time, baby
You think you're loving but you don't love me
I've been confused outta my mind lately
You think you're loving but you don't love me
I want to be free
Baby you've hurt me"
-Duffy
let go.
10:21 AM
