rants&musings
Monday, November 28, 2005
thanks everyone for the birthday wishes so far.
had a great time with my cell group yesterday at suntec city carl's junior restaurant. ate till i was so stuffed and couldn't eat anymore. thanks for the meal and the book guys. really, really appreciate it. (:
thanks to everyone who sent messages by sms or on msn messenger! in no order:
francesca (super early cos she went overseas. haha)
khee ngiap
tovya
samantha
kaisin
alexis
aundrea
keng wee (thanks dude)
joachim (thanks too!)
ron
ianpang
ishak
peici
sook fern
brandon
gloria
peisi
fangsheng
apologize if i left anyone out. i really appreciate everything! (:
and i'm sure more are to come. thanks everyone (:
darryl was chasing the sun at 09:20.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
i feel so drained. days of walking around for job interviews that make lots of empty promises (lots of $$, easy hours, flexi hours, that kind of crap) and being conned twice (thanks to some commission-based work. bah) makes one a tired person. and i wonder why i'm doing all this. is it for the ipod? or is it to buy the stuff i want like clothes, new pencilcase and stuff? i'm becoming so materialistic. argh.
tip of the day : never do commission-based work. it's a big scam out there. especially selling beauty products and charity tix oh cos noone fucking buys them. GRRR. i really feel like a condom after sex (hidden line : USED). that company marketing the tix is so bloody creepy. their morning session involves people shouting weird stuff to every question. and i wonder how they manage to sell one consignment of tickets in like 2 hours. the beauty package one was much worse.
i think i'd rather be a waiter. no commission-based shit. just serving and taking orders and cleaning tables. pity the long hours and not-that-good pay rates. ohwells. rather than not selling anything and not get a single cent. kinda miss the SMU job. it was fun and it paid well. ohwells. maybe i should email the professor again.
seriously, come to think about it, what can a person with O level qualifications expect out of a temporary position. nothing much, really. all that an O level qualification gives you a chance to sit at a stall, be a busboy or sell charity tickets. really. after my A levels i will not hesitate to approach ducktours and be a tourguide for them. because that job really is quite fun. but that's still quite a looong way off so yeah.
went out with tovya and kS yesterday. coffee at cream bistro next to THAT CD SHOP at pacific plaza. yeah it was fun. then went roaming around taka for a present for a friend of kS. ahahaha. she finally decided on something aft like 3hrs. yup. we should do more of this kind of get together. ahaha i'm high. :D
oh and pw is finally over. yay.
darryl was chasing the sun at 21:41.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
i think i'm addicted to mahjong. i've been playing like every week and with overnight sessions to boot. ahahahaa.
darryl was chasing the sun at 12:12.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
this is super funny. go view at http://www.jeffiscool.com/numanuma.html
darryl was chasing the sun at 15:34.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
YEAH my PW oral presentation is finally finally over. think i was slightly nervous during the presentation part but my classmates said i owned the Q&A segment. haha just waiting for the results next year i guess. so what's left is I&R which is due on wednesday. and after that it's goodbye to 9988 (the PW subject code) for the rest of my life. (argh they should just scrap this subject, seriously)
been working at SMU on tuesday and wednesday. basically i've been helping this professor doing data entry for his research project. converting paper surveys into codes on an Excel spreadsheet. sounds easy, but not when you have 235 + 50 scripts (there are 2 different surveys) and each survey is like 10 pages thick. managed to finish everything in 17 hours with miminal errors and got paid handsomely. ipod fund has increased to 150 from 0 previously. haha. now looking for more jobs so i can buy that 30gb ipod video which costs only $504 (student price) by the end of the year. haha.
talking about that ipod, i don't know which is more worth it. the 4gb nano at $403 or the 30gb video at $504 (that is, if i'm even going to get one or able to afford one in the first place). i only have 3 gigs of mp3s in my comp so i don't need the space of the 30gb. but then again i top up a 100 bucks to get 26gb more space. so in quite a dilemma. argh. ohwells
anyone looking for temp staff pls contact me immediately! ahaha.
darryl was chasing the sun at 19:05.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
wow. i haven't blogged in a week. this is what happens when i'm too busy the past week with so much activities.. haha.
well, school is finally over. but then again there's still the dreaded PW. my oral presentation is on the 10th of november (thursday) and there will be a chief moderator for my group. wonder what this will mean. shan't think negative thoughts as yet i guess. haha. well after the oral presentation pw is more or less done with! the subject that wasted about 7 months of our time is finally over.
chinese AO paper is over too! got only 2 out of the 5 words correct.. not too sure about the rest. the paper was ok, overall, and hopefully i'll manage to pass so there'll be no more chinese for the rest of my life. how much most students hate chinese is probably because of the way the subject is examined and taught in schools.
went out for a class outing with the usual gang again (not much of a class isn't it), first to cine, where we couldn't decide on a show to watch, then to lido and finally to le meridien hotel (monstercue) for pool and slacking at the le meridien food court there after. it was generally fun, pity the small amount of people..
overnight mahjong + bridge was fun. i just learnt these games the very day itself. thanks sam. haha. although i was quite stoned the next evening cos i had about an hour of sleep only. imagine playing mahjong till 3.30am then walking out for supper and walking back to play more mahjong. haha yeah!
oh and i had the opportunity to perform at last night's st. andrew's charity gala dinner to raise funds for the building of SAV. in case you don't know, SAJC is moving to potong pasir next year. i was on duty as photographer and had to perform guitar pieces too last night, making for lots of running around. well, performing in front of tharman is probably a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
i wasn't even scheduled to perform in the first place!! haha. cos some ppl decided to slack while one other guy was sick. so yeah i was a last minute replacement of sorts. thankfully i still remembered some portions of the pieces if not i'd be making a big fool of myself. haha. the 10 minutes or so were probably one of the more nervous moments of my life. well it was a success so that's good enough for me. went supper after that at lido macs and off home with francesca thereafter.
i'm quite glad this week is over. time for a well-deserved break!
darryl was chasing the sun at 16:03.