Updates + Good News

Haven't been blogging for a long, long time!! Have been super busy with work and hasn't been able to get enough sleep. Yesterday was (finally) the last day of work and I'm so proud of myself. I actually survived this hell-like month, working my ass off. But I'm glad I got to meet people like Malvin and Renny. They're damn epic.

Oh, but something happened during work about 2 weeks ago. Renny was putting stuff in the storeroom, but slipped and fell... he grabbed the shelve (metal) but the flesh tore. Thank god Malvin went and held him, else his hand would've been gone case. I saw them running out of the storeroom with blood dripping on the floor. Scared the shit out of me. He even fainted due to loss of blood.

We called the ambulance and stuff, and I went to the hospital with him. Female instincts told me I should go, instead of Malvin. We were sent to SGH and the DUMBEST thing was, we had to wait for 3 hours to get him a tetanus jab.

HELLO. If the metal really rusted, he'd have gotten tetanus in that 3 hours, while waiting to get the god damned jab. What the actual.

Yeah so Debbie replaced him since he couldn't work. Well, who could have when they have 10 stitches and cut as long as 7cm, from the tip of the finger to the webbing? I didn't even remotely DARE to look at his hand.

But the last two weeks of work after that was fun too. Debbie, Malvin and I are like crazy people (laugh). Renny calls Debbie and Malvin the 'Pikachu couple' XDD

So here's the good news. On the last second day of work, while I was waiting for Debbie at the mrt station, my mom called me and told me that there's an sms sent to my old phone from SP. They asked me to go for the interview for my course transfer. I freaked!

I've worked so hard the first semester, and I'm finally granted at least a small chance of getting into the course that I've wanted to go since the beginning. But I also had another problem - I had to rush my portfolio, again!

I happened to draw a cat and a wolf during the holidays, and decided to use it. On the last day of work, I drew a stag and refined the wolf drawing. Then when I went home, refined the stag drawing and drew a cartoon-ish Eiffel Tower.

And today, went to take photos for my portfolio, but didn't manage to use any of it (sigh). Didn't take much either, so I just used some old photos. Finally finished my stuff in this crazy 3-day rush. Hope tomorrow turns out well and I get into the course!

Another new update, I took out my second helix piercing and allowed it to heal. It closed and fully healed by the time I woke up the next morning. The piercing totally rejected! D: It has been hurting a lot and hasn't been healing well. One week later, the hole not only has been completely closed for more than 5 days, the swelling had gone down by 80%!

I'm baffled, though. It was pierced with a needle so it shouldn't reject. I have no idea what happened but I want to get it pierced again. Sigh. Oh well, I'll see how it goes then decide again.

Going to meet Chris again tomorrow after such a long time. Can't wait to meet her XDD But, the interview first. ORZ Guess I'll go rest now. Sayou~

Updates on Work

It's been quite some time since I last blogged. My job has been so time consuming that I haven't had much time to go online. Also, there's nothing much to blog about because it's really boring at my work place - just helping the kids with the demonstration of the nerf blasters and stuff. It doesn't sound like much, but it's really tiring.

Debbie got posted to my work place and I've been working with her the past 2 days. It's been fun but she kind of took Renny's place because he got into an accident at work and cut his palm really badly. Heard he got 10 stitches ): Sounds so painful! I felt so useless when I saw the blood just dripping from his hands. Went to the hospital with him and stayed all the way until he got his stitches done.

We went to SGH and had to wait 3 freaking hours just for the tetanus (?) jab. I'm not sure of the spelling though. It's to make sure you don't get infected by rusted metal. But 3 hours!! If the metal was really rusty, the jab would be redundant after 3 hours, come on. WTF SGH???

Other than that, there's nothing huge that happened at work. Other than me getting into a quarrel with some china parents because their kid was being a rude-ass bitch to me, nothing much. I won't go into detail for that matter because it boils my blood just thinking about it. Maybe I'll blog about it next time. Bloody stupid parents. If you don't want to discipline your kid then don't have them.

Oh, and I've gotten cough lately. It's really quite bad. For some reason, my body doesn't recover fast from cough. Sad face!

Time to sleep now. Sayou~

Arubaito Day 2 + 3

So yesterday, something quite interesting happened. There were 3 male office workers who came to buy nerf blasters and I was demonstrating to them how one of it works.

One of them commented, "WAH! You sure you never serve NS before?!" 

I couldn't help but LOL. And they were super amused by the nerf blasters, which was quite funny to me. They even said they wanted to buy it back to the office and shoot people who they don't like. Or when they're in a meeting but they want to go home, they'll just take the gun and point it at the boss, saying "knn! I want to go home already! Fuck you and this meeting!" HAHAHA I really didn't know how to react except laugh like an idiot.

One of them bought the Strongarm and was telling me, "Thanks, man! You're the best hasbro promoter ever!"

Again, I couldn't help but laugh like crazy. They are, by far, the most amusing group of customers I've met. 

Today, Renny couldn't come to work cos he's sick. Damn. ): But somehow I survived. There was this little girl who accidentally hurt herself when she was using the gun and she was crying. I swear, I am damn scared when kids cry if it's my fault. Well, technically my fault cos I failed to take care of her and it's my responsibility. Then she hurt her eye when she went to the toilet and came back to me, crying. I don't know how, I don't want to know either. Somehow, I just got her to calm down and helped her.

And there was this other girl who accidentally shot herself in the face, before I could even get her to hold the gun properly. This wasn't my fault because she refused to listen to me. She brought this upon herself, yes, I'm mean. 

If only Renny was there to help me take care of the kids. God damn, he won't be there tomorrow either. He's only coming back on Saturday. God, please give me the strength to live through tomorrow tyvm.

Part Time Day 1

I just came back from my part time job. Second job of my life, and I thought it'd be easy since I'll just be promoting toys. I don't know, man. I've never been so WRONG in my life!

I am promoting Nerf blasters now and I thought it was quite fun - demonstrating Nerf blasters and all. It is fun! Especially for me, because I love shooting games, and I'm like a guy so.. explains a lot. However, I met this little girl. OH MY GOD, I swear, she's a little monster. She's so selfish and demanding, like a spoilt brat! I'm not even joking. I'm so pissed!

She doesn't want to share with others, even though she already has more than what she needs. I even tried to fierce her, but I wasn't very. I mean, first day of work, I don't exactly know the stuff there. And, I'm not good with dealing with kids at all, because I hate kids.

Thank god Renny was there to save my life. I don't know how many times he saved me today.. from that little monster, and he was the one who helped me with the stuff when I first stepped in... AND! When this uncle was talking to me about all sorts of crap (non-stop), the Nerf manager told Renny and he came to help me. Oh, Renny, what would I do without you.

We also went for lunch together and I found out that he's an anime fan (like me), and he likes Japanese art. He also has tattoo on his calf and chest. Woah, much! He knows about GazettE too! Somebody needs to give this guy a trophy (laugh). I can't believe this!

It also turns out that his friend was in SP, in my course. Technically, he's my senior. Singapore is too small! But they're both really nice guys, so I'm glad I met them both.

Anyway, today was boring except for that two events that happened today. Let's just look forward to tomorrow and see what else is in store for me. Hopefully, not little monsters.

[Movie Review] The Help + R.I.P.D.

So I stayed up to really late last night (or rather, till 3am this morning) to watch this movie that Nick introduced to me, called The Help.

I know, I've never heard it before either, but I watched it. It was talking about racism, and basically shows how they're mistreated in Jackson, Mississippi. Of course, it doesn't show the extreme (eg tarring and feathering, burning, beating), but they talk of it.

It's a movie about this lady called Skeeter (or Eugenia), who wants to write a book called "The Help", interviewing maids (in that time, all the maids were coloured) in Jackson. It shows how much effort she put in to get the maids to help her with the book, so that they can stop racism. It also shows how the maids change their minds and, ultimately, help her with her book. Skeeter's friends are all racists, so it's really hard for her to change their mindset, but she managed to publish the book in the end.

It's a very touching story. I cried like an idiot at the end of the movie, with like.. short crying in between. Definitely a good movie to watch. Not to mention that it's very.. what's the word, real?

I did a book called "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" for literature one - two years ago. It was horrible. In a sense that the book was too draggy in the beginning. There was a total of 12 chapters if I'm not wrong. Talks about the writer (who is coloured btw) as a child, how she was treated, how she saw the blacks being treated, how only one or two white people were good to her, how racism impacted her and her family as a whole and individually, etc. The only interesting part was the last 2 chapters, which was too long a wait if I were to comment. If this book was written as well as the script for The Help, I'd have adored that book.

Anyway, that's a 4.5/5 stars for The Help. Because I don't really understand their accent LOL. Not a relevant point though. Punch me for it.
(If you can't find it, you can watch it here.)


Also, I just finished watching R.I.P.D. Jenna told me it was a good movie, but I never had the time to watch it. Now that I finally do, I went ahead with it. Okay, first things first - RYAN REYNOLDS is so HOT. Anyone who denies that, you're weird.

Now that that's off my chest, it was a terrific movie! I like the idea of it cos it's really creative, like how they have dead humans working for the Rest In Peace Department, protecting the human world from any forms of intrusion / danger that the dead (who escaped from judgement) causes. I thought it was quite an interesting idea, that the other world might work like the human world.

I also like the idea of how the RIPD have a fake identity to hide their real one in the human world. Well, most people think that they'll look the same after death, but this puts a twist to what people usually think. It's kind of like.. unexpected. I like unexpected. Really nice concept.

I'd rate it a 5/5 stars, not because Ryan Reynolds is hot, he has nothing to do with this. But because I really like the idea, the concept, the storyline. And it doesn't have much suspense in the movie, like you know what they're doing from like.. 10 mins onwards? Even though the gold thing did suspend me a little but it didn't bother me as much, because you know what they're doing, even if you don't know what it's for.

That's all for now, will be watching more movies these 2 days. Sayou~

saikin

I went out with Nick and Jie'r again on Monday. Super fun! I met Jie'r first, then went to Bishan to meet Nick for lunch. We decided on PastaMania, but there were too many people. We did something damn.. bad. We took a seat, and the staff were like "oh, this way", and all. But we were so ticked off with the number of people that we just walked off. HAHAHA! I thought we were quite bastard XD

We went to Yoshinoya, then went to Nick's friend's place cos she was having some house party.. but turned out, there were really only the three of us HAHA!!! I have no idea why. We watched Grown Ups 2, but it was quite boring so we stopped halfway, and watched The Conjuring (again). Well, Nick and I watched it before, but Jie'r hadn't, so we just watched it together.

Afterwards, we went to have dinner and went home. Jie'r gave me this too!! It's supposed to be my birthday present, but.. my birthday is in January (laugh). It's fine, because it's the thought that counts.

Tattoo stockings! The devil version! I'm super happy because it's damn cute! Looks like this when worn:

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Super cute!! Not my photo, but still.


On Tuesday, I met up with the stay-back people, my oovoo group. Some of them are from my class while others are from other clusters. We went for movie, and then some shopping, then dinner. Watched Killing Season. We didn't know it has really bad reviews until after we bought the tickets, so we went ahead anyway.

It was GORY. And such a weird movie.. It made sense to me but many of them didn't know what was happening. Maybe because I took Literature so I could see more links? The movie started with these group of people shooting another group of people in a war. Then to the now. This guy, who was supposedly shot, got some info on the people who shot him, and went to find the guy who shot him. They start killing each other because the one who was shot, wanted the shooter dead. They start engaging in this... idk, really long fight, which ended up the same, the shooter was going to shoot the first guy. Basically, a really long story about them fighting each other. But the shooter threw the gun away and freed the guy.

I remember the shooter telling the guy a story. In the beginning when they met, they were talking. The shooter is an old man, by the way. He said, (something like that)

"One day, a man came to the confession booth in the church and said 'Father, I have a sin that I would like to confess to,' and the Father said, 'sure, son.' The man said 'During the war, a woman came to me and said she needed help, so I sheltered her in my attic.' The Father said, 'Well, that's a great thing that you did.' The man continued, 'But it was terrible, she started paying me back with sexual favors, like blow jobs.' The Father told him, 'Well, the war is hard, and both of you were helping each other. You are forgiven, my son.' The man replies, 'Well, that's one problem off my chest. Another problem I have..."

And he stopped there. At the end of the movie, after the fight, he repeated the same story again.

"'Another problem I have, Father, is that should I tell her that the war is over?"

Okay, I admit, I laughed at that part. I know, it's awkward, but I get it. Because, the war is over. Which means their fight is over.

I don't actually think that it was such a bad movie, though.

Then we went to Far East Plaza for shopping. I know, there's nothing to shop there. Jenna wanted to buy shoes so we went over. I didn't want to buy anything, but unexpectedly bought these:

So cute!! I'm a bit crazy, but yes, it's cute to me. But it's just a copy of what they have at Kreepsville 666. Then we had dinner at EAT. and went home after that.


On Wednesday, I went out with Nick again. Went for a job interview and all. I so need this job right now, I'm not joking. I'm so broke, I can't even. We went around Singapore and stuff, which is quite.. psht. Long story to write (><)

And I heard today, that Heresy is now open to global fans again as of today! I'm so happy, I cannot. I am super excited because I've always wanted to join Heresy!! Okay, I'm just babbling about my fangirling stuff. Just a bonus for myself before I go off and do something productive:

Natsu Matsuri 2013 + Event Day @ *Scape

Went to Natsu Matsuri yesterday!! It was super fun because I had a really long talk with Bunny, whom I haven't met for so long. We bought takeaway, and sat under the hot sun to eat, while queuing and the floor scorching our butts. But a while after we finished, we were allowed into the school sheltered area to queue, so it was better.

Oh, there was a group of xmm in front of us, and 3 Japanese ladies in front of them. Nothing wrong, but while we were moving in, one of the Japanese lady got her umbrella caught in the barbed wire fence, and the group of xmm just cut her queue. Okay, WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. They were THRILLED! And actually happy that they got to move in front! How could anyone do that? Just taking things as if they deserved it, when in actual fact - they don't.

Ah well, went fine after that. While queuing up:

I'm not sure why, but I thought I looked quite different here.

After we went in, there was a performance, so we stood and watched. I really enjoyed it and I could really appreciate how they smile so wide when they're performing.

When the entry line opened, we walked around for a bit and bought food. Oh, and my favourite ice cream!! Soda Stripe!

This one's different flavour from the one that I had last year, but it's the same thing. Last year I had the soda one, this year was the melon one. It's super tasty! The green part is melon flavoured ice, like kakigori, and the white stripes are vanilla cream. Kind of tasted like Solero ice cream from Wall's.

Then we walked around and I happened to meet Javen, Vivienne, Nabilah and Mimi! What a surprise! I honestly didn't expect to see them around. Didn't take photos with them though ):

Oh, and I went to Keita's stall to support her, and I bought this pretty necklace, handmade by herself!!

Ah, my feels for Alice in Wonderland. Check out her stuff in the link written on her card! She makes really nice stuff.

Then we walked around more, and I bumped into Cid! Like, WOAH, hold it right there! That's too many people I'm coincidentally meeting today! Went to sit down at the field after that. Started eating, talking even more, and got bored, so we started drawing. I drew the girl sitting in front of me. She's really pretty, but a pity I could only draw her back view. She looked super good in yukata!

And Bunny and I took photos together cos we got bored of drawing.

(For some reason, I can't get my phone to send the image to my laptop, so I got this photo from Bunny) The construction site at the back is quite epic, though.

Oh, and my super cute socks! It's the other 2 pairs that I bought together with the cat one (2 posts ago).

I wore the bear on yesterday. I was telling my mom, before I left home, that it's damn cute and forced her to look at it. I annoyed her until she took a look xD She commented, "it's on the inside! No one can see it anyway!"

I proved her wrong, because when we were sitting on the mat in the field, and we have to take our shoes off. So I'm like, look at my cute socks, hah, look at it look at it! XDDD

Yeah, then the bon odori, and happened to see some other friends. Talked a bit and left. A long ride home, but it was fun nonetheless. I really enjoyed myself and damn, Bunny and I should meet up more often! We have never ending topics to talk about.


Today, I went to the cosplay event at Scape, to meet Kelly!! But I had to go to my friend's house before I could like... go out with her because she overslept. ~_~ The sky when I was walking to her house (she lives within walking distance, thank God!)

It's really a beautiful day and I thought it'd look really nice on photo. Well, the water spoiled the photo cos the color was so bad, but the sky was so clear and the clouds were so calm, I just had to.

Skip to the part about meeting Kelly. (LOL!!) I found her at the area behind scape, but the photographers were hogging her! Sad life me. I waited a while for the photographers to clear, but they were just... not leaving. So I went to have lunch, buy movie tickets, then went back to find Kelly.

Apparently, she wasn't at that spot anymore, and I was instagramming her LOL. She walked out of scape warehouse to go to the toilet, but I happened to see her, so I went up to take photo with her x)

SHE'S SO CUTE!!!! I SWEAR, SHE'S. OMG. CUTE. I even asked for a solo shot of her before she left because my face spoiled the photo... as usual. Didn't wear make up cos I woke up late too, but not later than Kimberly. (laugh)

Her solo shot, no filter. She is THAT cute in real life! And she's a super nice person! You'd think bloggers who are slightly more known than others would be super snobby/ arrogant? She isn't! And she's really nice to talk to. She tries to converse with you, make you feel that she appreciates her fans. Super super nice.

Then went for my movie... THE AFTER DINNER MYSTERIES1!!! I finally understand why Cassandra is so crazy over Sakurai Sho! Well, I'm not crazy over him, but I do admit that he is an amazing actor. The best part is - he's only acting because he likes it, not for fame or fortune.

Anyway, it was a really good movie. As a sucker for mystery novels/ dramas/ movies, I can usually predict the plots. But not for this one. Not only the acting is good, the storyline! It was incredible! Highly recommend people to watch it!

After that, Kimberly and I walked around, bought some stuff, and went to Orchard area for food. But the queue was too long, so we walked to Dhoby Ghaut for food. She wanted ice cream for dinner. LOL DIS GURL. I had dinner at home so I didn't eat. Our loot of the day!

Most of the stickers are hers. My loot is just the dream catcher (which is hanging on my phone right now), the 3 badges in the center (the ace, moose, and the triangular thing with a lady lying on her back at the base), and 4 stickers (the girl beside the dream catcher, the panda, the skull and the cartoon rabbit). It's kind of not my style, but it was so cute I just had to buy it.

Oh, and Kimberly says the girl on the sticker looks like me. OMG. I showed it to Nimi when we were (are, actually) on oovoo, and she said the same thing. Oh lord, this is quite creepy indeed.

And we saw these 2 cute dogs cosplaying!

So cute!! I don't have a thing for pets but they were super cute! I was a it annoyed because I took 7 photos, but only 1 turned out clear, because they were moving so much! Cute, nevertheless.

After dinner, we went back and just talked the whole time. I'm really glad we managed to keep in touch all these year though. It's rare for friends to stay with each other from primary 1 to this age. We've known each other for 10 years now. Isn't it cool? XD