ConVoCaTiOn

after 3 years.. on 24th july 2007.. i finally offically bid goodbye to my undergraduate days. i still remember tt the 1st time i stepped into the nanyang auditorium,it was for the freshmen orientation. i remembered clearly tt the dean cogratulated us.. and he called us the "graduating class of 2007". at tt pt of time, i was thinking to myself... "pls lorr.. now i juz stepped in as a freshie.. juz started uni.. and u already happily call us 'the graduating class of 2007'... still long b4 2007 comes and i can grad lorr..." who knoes..3 years.. it juz went like tt..

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only got 2 tix .. but i had 5 pple coming. lucky in the end, sis, bro-in-law, and hubb still made it into the auditorium even though they had no tix.. haha... else i'll feel soo bad making them wait outside.. ok.. pics time!
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~FAMILY~

dearest papa & mama. i hope i've made them proud.

ah ji and bro-in-law. i know sis is proud of me.. she told me.. hehehhe *blush*


and hubb! wad's tt white spot on his pants..think is the camera prob..



all except my brother. boo~ never gimme face! anyway, thanks to them who took leave and time off to come attend my convo.. early in the morning and soo far away. heheh. :)
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~FRIENDS~
IT gang..

inside the nanyang audit. throughout the 3 years... i only went in twice. once on the freshmen orientation.. the next was graduation.. haha.. how extreme..

fyp mates.. too bad din managed to take all us 3 together with our prof. he was there during the ceremony.. but after e ceremony don know where he went. we tried looking for him but to no avail. called his hp but a lady answered.. boo.. too bad...

the marketing class. marketing was the v v 1st class we attended. so these pple r the v v 1st few pple i came into contact with when i entered uni.
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~Esplanade~
b4 going to esplanade.. we went had our fill @ billy bombers @ jurong pt.. ermm.. don say i sua ku.. but it's the 1st time i ate at billy. hahahah... quite nice actually.. esp the corn soup.. yum~

tada! with the "durian shells"

with the skyscapers.. we'll all be successful women in the society!


hhaha.. the jumping shots.. nt too bad lar horr...


nice formation


ambitious outlook
the crescent girls

inside esplanade

photographers for the day.. ah yan's bf and hubb.. who happened to be childhood frens and staying in the same block... how small the world can be rite?? hahahah
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actually convo really nothing much. juz names after names being called onto the stage. lucky they did not differentiate the classes of degree. haha.. lastly.. i wanna specially thank hubb.. for driving me ard and staying to help us take pics.. he had an exam the next day.. but he still stayed and went esplanade with us. took up so much of his time, when he could actually go home and study. thanks hubb. and i know recently.. u r quite bothered and angry with me.. becuz i ***.... i know how u feel.. but... sometimes.. really cannot blame me also lei. i also don know y like tt. haii... gimme some time ba.. and.. pls don be angry and let tt affect our relationship ok. it really does not mean anything lorr.. i still love u.. there's no doubt ok.


thanks hubb
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and last but not least.........................

我毕业了 !!!!!

Congrats Huiping! YOU ARE THE BEST!

CommuniTy BonDiNg DaY

yesterday my community celebrated the "community bonding day",held right at the void deck of my block. the guests of honour were the mps of the tanjong pagar area and............... PM lee! haha.. such a rare chance tt someone of such high rank will come to my area and right at my block. therefore, being a kpo, i purposely took half day leave to go take a look at him.


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there were stalls selling things being set up and he was walking along the stretch and shaking the hands of pple. and so.. i ended up like a little fan busy going ahead of him so tt i can see him front view. not too bad for my effort since i managed to take real close-up shots of him.
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but my main motive is not to take pics of him or shake hand with him... but to....

take a pic with him! and i did it!

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c'mon on lorr.. i forgo the chance for me to earn money.. of cux must achieve my ultimate aim of taking a pic with him.. though it's really quite paisay cuz apparently no one asked to take a pic with him and there were so many pple looking.. mm... abit malu.. but then.. rare chance leii.. how often can u see him in real, rite? saw tt guy in blue behind? think he's one of the bodyguards. quite a number of them. all tall and big build and put on those stern faces. duh... and.. now then i realised pm lee is so tall. think even taller than hubb since i can reach hubb's ear but i can only reach pm lee's neck..

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and ... i managed to take a pic with one of the mp also..

haha.. cant stand myself.. maaaluuuuuu!!

ThE FoRmEr StAr StuDenT

obviously, the former star student refers to ...me! haha..bhb...well, afterall, for PSLE, i scored a whopping (don puke!) score of 249 with 2 A* and 2 A. for O levels, i got A1 for maths d, and A2 for A-maths. not tt bad rite.... but how come.... just after a few years... i cannot even do sec2 maths and p5 sci??! omg omg....

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sec 2 maths... i taught the class the wrong thing. i wasnt exactly sure of the method, and so, i called up to verify with my ex-teacher... and oops, i was indeed wrong. lucky i bother to verify, else i'll be instilling in them the wrong method. more lucky thing is, the class is those quiet quiet type, not tt kind who r very outspoken.. else i'll sure kenna boo-ed at. haii... failure failure...damn paisay

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p5 sci.. so many questions i don know how to do.. ok... must defend myself.. is not don know, but is forgot. somemore, i never took bio lor.. so naturally the bio part im not too confi. cant blame me de rite. haii..lucky b4 class i went to borrow the sci textbk to check it out. lol~ paisay again :s

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was marking the letter-writing done by the sec2s. topic is to express your views on dengue fever. and this kuku boy mentioned tt the government should impose fines on households found to have mosquitoes breeding in them. this is perfectlyt fine. but then he continued and said tt those pple purposely breed mosquitoes so tt the neigbours whom they hate will suffer when kenna bite by the aedes mosquitoes.......... (-_-")........... kids these days... xin1 ji1 very zhong4. issit creativity? or juz illogical? mmm.. i guess it's juz a thin line between the 2.

ShioK

One of the very rare times when i can juz stay home and nua. yesterday nua and today too :) and.. the tuition later is cancelled! yeah! can truly truly nua whole day at home le! but then.. like tt will delay my payment also.. boo.. tt gal ar.. always wanna change the scheduled tuition days.. as my schedule is really packed, there's no other days for her to change within the same week le. so can only cancel... haii.. my payment will therefore be delayed.. hrmp..

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convo's finally over.. yea.. really nothing much.. juz names after names being called onto the stage to collect the certs.. and cuz it's in alphabetical order.. i had to wait like don know how long before it's my turn! only the photo-taking was fun. but at the mmt, there's no pics to post yet. gotta wait till all being burned into a cd 1st. so pls wait patiently. :) i'll blog abt convo soon, i hope. hee

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wad's with tt craze over harry potter? pple queuing up even before dawn juz to get the book at the 1st mmt? pple crying because there'll be no more harry potter? i was told u can nver borrow the books frm library cuz the waiting list is forever unending? tian ar.. is it really tt gd? i've never read any of the harry potter's bks or seen any of the movies... ok.. ostracised me.. say im sua ku..say im not living in this century.. but.. fantasy story lines were never my cup of tea. lord of the rings, transfomers etc... too far fetched frm the reality... i cannot accept..and i cannot understand y pple r sooo crazy over it.. cannot believe either. juz by writing books.. frm a nobody to a somebody with a networth greater than the queen. sometimes.. it juz takes a stroke of luck. everyone else is writing books, but how come no one is earning as much as rowling? how come no one is able to create a wave like she did? in the entertainment industry, all actors and actresses are gd looking, but how come some r more successful than others? in our homeland, pple like stefanie sun made it rite to the top, but wad about all those who never really quite made it? 命运 is such an interesting thing. 是人定胜天 or 天意难违? like i always say... most of the times.. we only need a chance. for rowling, at tt pt of time, she only needed a publisher. if at that time, no one gave her any chance, today, she wont be where she is. same goes for so so many successful pple out there. so .. i no longer believe tt 命运掌握在你手里. no one can succeed alone. behind every successful person, there r tons of pple who gave them chance to prove themselves. 天时,地利,人和 is wad i believe now.

Another TyPe of Class

today i took a sec 2 english class. unlike the hell class that day, today's class was much better. in fact, abit too quiet. actually if the whole class is very quiet and not responsive, it is also very sian. it's like you talk and talk and talk but they cannot be bothered with you. i tot of making some jokes to make the atmosphere lighter but decided not to because in the event of 冷场, i will be the malu one. can u imagine u tot u'd made a funny comment but apparently no one laugh and no one gave any response? it's super paisay lor. to save me from tt kind of embarassement, i just deliever the class w/o trying to be funny.

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and i simply cannot stand students who show a pissed-off face. act like i owe them anything like tt lorr.. so bu shuang then don come to class la. come to class and show attitude.. irritating...

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whenever i teach, i'll think of many ex-teachers. jc teachers, sec sch teachers, pri teachers.. i finally can understand y some teachers did things tt they did.i finally understand how a teacher feels when faced with different classes with different attitude. if time can turn back, i would be a student with qualities tt i hope my students can possess ie. responsive, attentive, willing to learn. but too bad.. time will never go back. which is gd too.. cuz i neber wanna be a student again! hahah!

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tmr's monday again. bet it's gonna be a boring day @ work. lucky can do marking.. else don know wad to do le.

IlluSiOnz

我的向往,我的憧憬,我的希望,随着今天而破灭. relieving classes is my fav and as i mentioned so many times b4, i love relieving classes. but today...... that sec 2 class which i took.... it totally shattered my passion. usually in a class, there r bound to be the noisy ones and the quiet ones. so u can always find comfort in the quiet ones.. at least u know whatever ur teaching, someone is listening. but today.. the whole class was noisy except for 2 gals. the boys were bad, and so were the gals! one gal totally showed me attitude and i ticked her off w/o giving her face. show me attitude... wad the.... for naughty students, there r many kinds. one kind is juz 顽皮 and like to act funny and make funny remarks and make u 啼笑皆非. another kind is rebellious and 目中无人. today i bumped into the 2nd kind! use hp despite my constant warnings, talk among themselves, make noise, talk back, ignored me when i asked them qns....... 简直当我不存在!! finally i lost it and yelled at them. and yesh, better after tt. but still, they use hp, talk, and refuse to do the work.

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actually only 1 or 2 boys were naughty. the rest i can see tt they r willing to learn de. but somehow, they kenna influenced by the naughty boys. in the past i cannot understand y parents must go do volunteer work, go make donations, go queue early in the morning etc juz so tt their kids can get into gd schs. parents even cry when their kids cannot get into the sch of their choices. i used to think it's so silly of those parents. wad for? if the child is born smart, he is born smart. wherever he goes, he'll still make it. but.... this is TOTALLY WRONG!! who u mix with is of fundamental importance! 近朱者赤,近墨者黑, this is really really true. if u r a naughty boy, but all those ard u r gd and studious boys, u will turn to be like them too. conversely, if u r a gd boy, but all those ard u r naughty boys, then u'll turn into a naughty boy too. 出污泥而不染不是不可能...但又有几个能做到?? so frens, in future become parents liao, pls pls take note of who ur children hang out with! as far as possible, set up a gd environment for them to grow up.

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now i understand y some teachers totally bo chup the students. they simply continue the lesson even though no one's listening and everyone's making noise. they understand tt there is no pt scolding and wasting breath on these students. this kind of teachers is smart.. no need to stress ownself, no need to gek sim, no need to puke blood, no need to get angry. so long as he/she delivers the lesson as scheduled, it's considered job done. i need to learn this approach. i don wanna be like some teachers who scold, scold and scold and in the end, the one who suffer most in the teacher him/herself. make myself vomit blood.. wad for? and now.. i can understand y my teacher cried in front of the whole class when a classmate showed her attitude le. the feeling's really bad when students 不把你放在眼里.... but then, i still cannot accept a teacher crying in front of the class cuz kenna bullied by the students. it juz shows how weak the teacher is. cannot cannot...

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next week i still gotta relieve 3 classes.. omg... something i love becomes something i dread... how sad can life be? tell me, wad else can i look forward to?

The 1sT ExPeRieNcE

yesterday was a special day. cuz it was the first time i sat in a car drove by my bf. and yesterday, it was his 1st time driving after he got his license last week.i will be lying if i said im not worried abt sitting in his car. he has never been on expressways b4 lor. and i'm his very 1st passenger and i know nothing tt can help him in case he got prob driving.. so i was really worried. but then.. the worry was proven to be unnecessary. usually i will suan him, 扁him, 踩him until 一文不值, but this time, i really must admit he's v gd. totally no sign of a 1st-time driving. im really impressed.

the boy


another 1st time was... hehe.. i drove as well! hahaha.. no la.. not drove la.. i not so daring and reckless k.. juz tried to move forward and reverse only. don report me yea. hee.. fun!

looking foward to the day when i can drive too!

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im really inspired now. time for me to go get a license too! but for someone who can even fail basics.. i don know how long it will take before i finally obtain 1. totally demoralised after failing basics and hence have no motivation to take again. or rather, i wanna be fully prepared b4 i go take again. it's no joke failing it twice! failed once already kenna mocked by frens(including hubb! argh!) liao.. no way i will fail it again. but then, it was seriously not my fault lor. i think i was juz too complacent. did not really study for it.. cuz it's so commonsensical lor.. who knows.. hai.. okok.. stop finding excuses for myself. fail means fail! and.. i suspect i got hand-and-leg coordination problem. yesterday while trying to drive, apparently i cant seem to conc both at the same time. diao.. i cannot imagine how to take care of the leg, hand, and the traffic all at the same time. ok.. i am a loser.

behind every successful man stands a woman??
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yep. congrats to hubb once again. glad u finally achieved something u wanna and worked hard for. jiayou and don be complacent!!!!

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later going to work again. besides having to relief a class at 8pm, i don know wad else is there to do. apparently most parents would have already make payment by now. so today i don expect too many pple making pmts. mm... so wad else is there to do? hopefully it wont be a sian day like monday. and hubb's going to drive me to work today. it's soooo gd to have a car. i must really jiayou le !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lost

o gosh.. i think im so out of touch with my frens. i've been rejecting outings and gatherings.. juz nw read on yy's blog and she mentioned going ktv with glo, jo & gang.. y am i not informed of the ktv session??!!! ok... even my frens do not love me anymore. sob... sad...depressed.. these few days.. it had been work and tuition.. been rejecting pple till pple also sian to ask me out liao lor.. i had it coming.. nothing to say.. frens, pls forgive me. i really bobian de... wo ye bu xiang zhe yang de.. haii..

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ok, juz some update. today officially ends my working days in dp info (the co which i always go back to do part-time). been doing part time there since mid-june. and now, the project's finally over and i can go off le. i wanna thank ian chow for being so understanding. always allowing me to take off to attend interviews and stuff. and sorry if my "mia-ing" interrupted the work. but then, today, everything still end up fine rite?? all that must be done are done rite??? and u met ur target n can slp soundly at nite liao rite??? hehehhe... thanks chow :)

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and now, every fri, sat, sun and mon, i gotta go work at the tuition centre. they converted my contract. so this new contract, i only need to serve 2 wks notice. yep. but then, im considering if i should continue to work for them during weekends. tt will bring me abt 500 bucks more per mth. worth considering. but there'll be implications as well. gotta think properly 1st.

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work @ the tuition centre has been good so far. fri, sat and sun are the busy days cuz many classes held on those 3 days. basically i go there do simple stuff like receiveing payment, tallying, filing etc. but i love reliefing classes. so far i did it twice. once with sec1, and once with p6 kids. kids these days r real smart. challenged my ans (or rather, the ans provided by the centre), voiced opinions etc.. unlike last time, all diam diam listen to teacher and follow blindly. i really love relieving classes. make time pass faster and the kids r juz so interesting.

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me: monogamy means having one partner for one's lifetime. do u all know wad is the opposite of monogamy?

students (making alot of noises and in the midst i heard ans like ...): bigamy?! origami??!!!

me: no. it's polygamy. meaning that one person have many partners...."

students: huh... monogamy, polygamy.... u mean monopoly issit?????

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tt is juz one of the v few instances. real interesting. i hope the real teachers can absent more then i can take more relief. hehe.. fun fun fun!!! this fri taking sec 2 english. looking forward!!!!

WorKinG oN a SaTuRdAy

boohoo.. 1st time working on a saturday. full time sat. tmr also full day. boo.. but the time passes really fast la. today learnt new things again. how to receive payment, how to handle withdrawal, how to make refund etc. quite fun. when there's no customers, there's no customers. but when there are, they all come at the same time! cuz those pple who wanna make payment or enquiry abt stuff, they will come juz b4 their classes start. so whenever it's around the time for a class to start, there are bound to be many pple waiting to make payment or make enquiry. my colleagues told me today not tt bad liao.. there r times when the customers gotta queue all the way till outside! hah.. maybe im new ba, so many things still learning and tt's y time passes v fast. interesting to learn new things. but then, all these still v simple stuff la. still haven got a taste of the real real working world. how i wish i can be a part-timer, doing simple stuff forever.... v no ambitions horr??

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tmr got to take a class. p6 english. looked thru the materials and tried the questions myself and............................. i got a few mistakes! shit... how to explain to the class tmr when i got the questions wrong myself?!!!! jialek.. "has been" and "had been" - when to use which one huh?? wan dan le......

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and juz now... on the way home... took 176.. and.. i missed my bus stop cuz i fell asleep! went all the way to bukit merah n i din realise until someone tapped me on my shoulder to wake me up! lucky man.. else kenna shouted by the bus driver liao.. save me the malu-ness... heng ar..

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and i hate hubb! i am soo angry with him! we were supposed to meet after my work but he smsed me and said he's too tired to meet! wahh.. best lorr.. tired then don wanna meet me lor. im also tired ma.. yet i still can meet u lorr.. fine.... 3 years 7 mths.. as far as i can remember, this is the 1st time he did such a thing to me! maybe he doesnt love me anymore.. don wanna meet me anymore.. fine.. to punish u, i shall not put ur pic on my blog this time round! u BIG FAT LAZY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1st day @ work....

today finally started on the tuition centre job. overall ok lor. 1st part of the day all the boliao stuff la.. telling me how to update stuff, how to search info, how to file stuff etc etc etc.. then in the evening, they sent me over to the jurong west branch. can take taxi and claim. the idiotic thing is, after i reached jurong west, then tt taxi uncle told me tt his machine cannot print receipt cuz it was down! then i told him to write me a hand-written one and he rejected, saying cannot write, now all use machine to print! diaooo.... how suay lorr! but luckily i still managed to claim w/o receipt. phew.. it was $9.10, inclusive of $2 peak hour charge. lucky still can claim. now then i know jurong so big. from jurong east to jurong west also need $7 worth of journey.. hmm..

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then @ jurong west, it was busy. handled 2 clinic sessions. basically is one-to-one short session la.. juz tt they gave it a nice name "clinic session". besides taking the normal tuition lessons, students can also sign up for these clinic sessions to clear doubts. one session abt 30-45 mins... so quite fast. but met this p6 gal. super zai lor. very keen and gun cheong. so eager to learn. v impressed. and erm... one paisay thing.. apparently i could not solve one of the maths questions.. ok.. laugh at me.. but then.. don know lei.. i don knoe y cannot get the ans lor. luckily she agreed with me tt my method's correct and did not insist on getting the ans. phew.. she really zai leh.. i also abit stress.. she looks like tt kind who will doubt and challenge the teachers de lorr.. then another clinic session was with a p4 boy. also quite smart tt kind. after i explained his questions he said he understand liao. but then, after his actual tuition lesson ended, i saw him staying back and asking the teacher questions. wahh.. he doesnt belive my teaching ar?????

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after the 2 clinic, it was a class tuition. piang.. i wasn't given much instructions lor. and no one to guide. on 1st day gotta handle a class liao. stress.. lucky only 6 students. all sec 1. but then 3 boys really super mischivious lorr.. talk and talk and talk.. and i tot i wont feel nervous when talking to a class of students. but actually i do. for a while la. especially when they giggled and talked softely among themselves.. like sharing some secrets tt kind... wonder if they were making fun of me! boohoo~ but overall it was still quite fun la. nice experience.

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personally i feel grp tuition really not so effective. it's like.. the time's v limited lor. and i cannot really explain wad i actually can explain becuz of the time constraint. and the attentive students are at an disadvantaged cuz they gotta tolerate the naughty ones. if can afford, really shld opt for private tutoring.

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tmr lucky will end at 6pm. still can go shop after tt. hope tmr will be eventful again. :)

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ps:congrats to hubb. u made me proud. but u urself don be too proud horr..

1st DaY... Is It? Or Is it NoT?

tmr will be the 1st day im gonna work @ the tuition centre. o well.. a perm job which became a part-time job. haii.. all thanks to me. so tmr, i don think it can be counted as my official "first day of job". good anyway.. i definitely have no wish to start officially on a friday-the-thirteenth. tmr's gonna be a long day. all da best, huiping! ***three cheers***

Still No ConcLuSiOn

prestige, money, and future.. which one will you choose? y cant have all three @ the same time? why some have these but lack in those. then some have those but lack in these. i guess things r jux like tt. u want this, then u'll have to sacrifice tt. u want tt, then u have to let go of this. u cant have this and tt and everything at the same time. maybe can... but im not so blessed..im juz not so lucky.. 鱼于熊掌不能兼得... yah....我明白的...

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today's supposed to be my 1st day to my 1st permanent job. yet i did not go. haii.. y did it started this way? all those anticipation and excitement of starting on the new job. all those new shoes and clothes tt i've bought specially for this day.. all have to wait le.. haii

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on sat went to collect my convo gown. i was never excited abt convo. i even considered not attending @ all. but tt day, after i tried on the gown, i suddenly grew v excited and proud. don know y.. the magic of tt gown and tt hat.. hahah... another 2 weeks time.. then i'll officially be a graduate. officially say byebye to uni and study life le. mm... 24/7/07.. officially puts a full stop to my 15 yrs of continuous education. woo... and.. anybody have gd recommendations on where to take those professional photos? the prices quoted by tt studio which i collected my gown frm like abit too steep lei.. i don know wad's the norm prices... but offhand, it seemed quite steep. shall do a research soon..

Im a God DaMed LiaR

im a loser. yes im. i did such a horrible horrible thing. why? im a liar. i lied. it's not a white lie. it's not a lie to save someone from embarrassment or to keep someone frm the hurtful truth. i lied for my own benefits. i lied because i was selfish. i lied because i was greedy. i lied because of myself! man.. 忘恩负义 is the word.. i forgot how pple was willing to give me a chance when all others rejected me. i forgot how pple was willing to take me in on e very 1st interview when others told me to go home and wait. i forgot how pple was able to meet my expectations when other pple told me rite in my face tt wad im asking for is too high. i forgot... i really forgot..
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i hate to do this to pple who r soo nice. i hate to do this to pple whom im grateful too. i hate.. i hate.. yet i still did it. 我无话可说了.

Diaooooo

i really don know wad am i doing... now @ raffles place... pacific coffee... using their internet services... spent 6 bucks on a coffee juz to use the internet. wad the.. ok...i juz went for another interview. a private securities company. later at 2pm, im going over to uob to discuss the contract and at 5pm, i have an interview with the overseas bank. can someone pls tell me wad am i doing??? i already had a contract on hand... so y am i still attending interviews and getting myself into more trouble?? diaoooo.....

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well .. i guess i juz wanna try... anyway, no harm going for interviews rite?? gd experience ma.. and not as if they'll offer me.... but i really don know y am i doing all these lorr.. being so fickle and jumping to whichever side tt is giving me more. i don like myself to be like tt! how could i ??!! i signed the contract with JUST.. yet when uob came, i entertained the tot of jumping to uob. and later im going to discuss contract with them. so, if the overseas bank gives me an offer, am i going to do the same thing i did to JUST to uob? and happily jump to the overseas bank cuz it's better??? i know this is not the way of doing things. u don juz jump cuz the other side is better. so y am i still doing it? i cant stand myself being so fickle! i hate myself for being like tt!

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im such a bitch. im despicable and incorrigible. i have no sense of responsibility. im selfish. im not focused. i don knoe wad i want. im HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

峰回路转

things r always unexpected.. tt bank's interview with the hr personnel... the one which i tot was super cui and cmi... they actually called back n made me an offer.. diaoo..... juz when i'd already signed the contract and more or less ready to start on the new job. why....

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terms offered r better... (actually juz pay wise, benefits all these i don know).. working hours apparently shorter (but of cuz, bank don know need to "stay back" or not)... and of cuz... more prestigious...

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but... i thought of the pple who interviewed me.... for the bank.. for the 1st interview, there was a man and a lady. the man wore no smile at all.. super stern and boring face.. the lady, an old one, was better. some laughter at least. then.. i remembered those who interviewed me at the tuition centre. also a man and a lady. lady interviewed me 1st, then went to another rm to be interviewed by the guy. the diff is i don feel stressful at all.. they were v nice pple.. laugh, joke, explaining their company's vision and stuff to me and eventually i started joking with them too.. and they made me an offer rite on tt day. i don care if they r short-handed or wad.. at least they see the quality in me and made me an offer st rather than ask me wait then 2nd interview blah blah blah.. to me, it's sincerity lor. and the terms they offer me.. it juz show the sincerity..

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ma and pa and hubb said since i already signed the contract, i shld not change my mind now. on the other hand, colleagues at dp told me to jump and advised me on the various ways on how to "legally break the contract". confuse once again. i knw there r many ways to go abt it if i really wanna break the contract and change to the bank's job. but.. i really don wanna be a bastard and i really don wanna do this to the tuition centre. but the bank.. it will open me to the bnf sector, and higher pay and better prestige. mmmmmmm.. sometimes.. not having any options might not be a bad thing... i guess..

TaipEi GrAd TriP - 4th May 2007 - 10th May 2007

i shld have blogged this long long ago but been too busy. now's the time! if still don blog, then really don know when liao. hehe.. my grad trip with miss ng enghan. lemme say some tots on taipei 1st. it's v different frm my initial impression. u know, it's always on the tv how their political figures quarrel/fight during meetings. even women fight like nobody's business. and so, i tot taiwanese r rude and 粗鲁 and they speak only hokkien. but im wrong. they speak mostly chinese and r nice n friendly pple. one thing shocked me in fact. when using the escalators in mrts, they really strictly stand on the right (for them is on the right, not left). so u can clearly see the demarcation. on one side of the escalator is the pple standing and on the other side, pple r moving. it's v organised lor and the pple strictly follow it unlike in sing when pple stand on both sides! so irritating! and on the platforms, lines are drawn for pple to queue. u don queue any-o-how. u have to queue within the lines so tt u don block the pple alighting the train and pple can enter n exit more efficiently. this is really impressive and i think they far exceed us in this sense. o, and they have these priority seats for the elderlys, pregnants, handicapped... we saw students looking for seats but dare not sit on the priority seats even when they were empty. then we tot we were not supposed to sit on them. then we went to chk with the hotel pple.. and they told us tt we can sit but try to give up the seats to pple who needs it more than us. but then, students in uniforms are not allowed to sit on these priority seats. hahah.. tt explains y the 2 kids kept walking and searching but jus don wanna sit on the priority seats. ok.. now the pics..

tt's ah zhong mian xian. v famous. but actually nothing v impressive la. and gotta stand n eat. no place to sit de. in the middle is ximending. near our hotel. think ximending is equivalent to our orchard rd?

2nd day. went to long-shan temple and all the posh shopping malls like taipei 101. top left corner: us with 2 friendly jap tourists. we helped each other took pic and then they suggested the 4 of us take pic tog. haa..

ate bento set frm 7-11. their bentos of a much larger variety than ours. cheap n nice! green structure is the ferris-wheel @ miramar shopping mall. cool rite.. ferris wheel at the top of the shopping mall. and it's tall lorrr.. can see the v nice scenary of taipei..

day 4 went 九分. the day din start off well cuz i had this ache in my jaw. it was dead painful whenever i tried to open my mouth. even talking n eating also painful. hence was in a rather sucky mood. hope did not scare han.. haha.. but in the afternn it got better.. heng ar! bumped into some ntu frens there too..

九分's a very nice place. one of the best place in taipei. but it's v far frm the central. gotta take mrt, then change train, then change bus. v mafan de. many many things r sold there. v nice to shop. and cux it's high up on some highland, it's quite cool and breezy. the vendors there v warm n friendly. they let u test their food and @ the end of it, if u decide not to buy, they'll still be all smiley. v nice pple. and.. the fishballs/meatballs there r fantastic!!!! really really nice..

c.k.s memorial hall. tt day was a super sunny and hot day. quite terrible cux on the way to the main hall got no shelter de. hot like hell..



went yangmingshan on this day. yangmingshan....the worst place for the whole trip. i think me and han did not know the way ard la. cux apparently jas n ah yan said it's fun and got many things to see. for the 2 of us, we took the bus n alighted at a stranded place. we alighted for the sake of alighting lor! mian qiang took some pics and then waited hell long for another bus to take us back. and on the bus, we both fell asleep! diaoo... went to
泡温泉 as well. hhehe.. interesting experience! after tt, we got to know the knowlege behind hot spring baths! yes.. there r knowledge invovled.. not any-o-how 泡 de.. ahahaha... bottom left pic: tt's the priority seat i mentioned earlier on.




渔人码头. v v romantic place. esp when the sun's abt to set. it's v v windy. and got songs coming frm the restaurant nearby. really a very nice and 舒服 place.

saw the tall ice-cream on the top left-corner? hahahaha... we were happily taking pics b4 we eat. han ate one bite, and i ate one bite. and then it started melting at a super fast speed and the next thing... it dropped on the floor! the top rite pic shows the 残骸 of the poor ice-cream. after the ice-cream dropped, han was still holding onto the cone.. but don know y, she dropped the cone as well.. diao.. we were juz not fated to eat the ice-cream... lucky we took a bite each and lucky, it wasn't a very delicious ice-cream! lol!
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now the nite markets..


饶河夜市 .. the 1st 夜市 we went to.. it was drizzling tt nite. boo.. ate quite a bit. the sweet corn.. but not v nice. not like wad i tot.. then ate the smelly tofu too. but it's really smelly and han and me cannot tahan. in the end we only ate abit. hahaa.. and saw this v cute dog. it's a real dog lorr.. many others were taking pics of it too.


士林夜市. i think it's the most popular 夜市. but then i dont really like it lei. cuz it's an enclosed area. something like our hawker centre. then it's v smoky and smelly inside. u know... all the smell of the food comes together with the smoke and oil smell.. it's really bad. and besides food, like not much shopping areas unlike other nite markets. and their oyster egg... v different frm us de. not nice.. hahha.. disappontment. ate the big chicken cutlet also. really super big. me n han cannot finish one. the best is 棺材板. it's a deep-fried thick toast with filings of ur choice. v nice. yummy!



师大夜市. the v nice and big 可丽饼!


华西 nite market. the last nite market we went too. there's a st where they sell all the exotic food like snakes and turtles.. arhh... scary.. and since it was the last nite, we decided to eat something gd. hehe.. ate sashimi! quite cheap actually. nice place also. many things to see and shop.


at a restaurant in ximending. the name's tamago-ya which means egg house. han's fav restuarant i guess. we ate 2 times there. as the name goes, the main thing is eggs. hhaha.. nice food. abit ex if compared to wad we ate at the nite mkts. cute restuarant. we also ate 麻辣火锅 at a restaurant v near to our hotel. yummy!!

some miscellanous. our hotel.. v nice. small and cosy. v cheap too cuz of the promotions. the breakfast.. not as sucky as wad jas said la. plain porridge with those side dishes lor. quite nice, really. after soo much fried food, it's gd to eat something plain every morning to cleanse the stomach, rite?? lucky found this hotel. thanks to all for recommending and helping us find. our main mode of transport was the train. v user friendly and convenient. juz like singapore's. no prob getting ard.

our last day.. boo..... went eat the v famous 鸭肉扁 @ ximending. nothing v impressive again. in fact i find the meat too tough. v difficult to eat. and rite pic.. a nice phenomena i took frm the plane's window. hehe.. artistic?
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yepp.. tt's all the pics. overall, taipei's a v nice place. in fact nicer than hk. the pple there also nicer and warmer. things also cheaper. but the thing is, i tot taipei's a v vibrant place whereby late at nite still alot of pple on the street. but not so leii.. on the way back to hotel at nite, the street already not many pple. yepp.. unexpected. the food there mostly deep-fried de lei.. i ended up with a v bad cough..lucky no serious outbreak!

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im glad i went on this trip. v gd experience. 1st time travel with a fren. 2 gals all alone in a foreign land. pretty cool, now tt i think of it. again, i wanna thank han for staying with me and i apologise if there's in any way, i made the trip not so fun for u. hehee.. and thanks to all who made this trip happened! it'll always be memorable. i'll always remember!