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Friday, June 28, 2002
Sent:Tue, 25 Jun 2002 20:48:58 +0700
hey, i had that thot too, to go housekeeping. aiyah, y din u reply earlier coz my frens here thinks i'm mad and so i dropped the idea! if only i had that encouragement earlier. i'm now serving my last wk and got a change of dept to the business centre. basically doing very duh jobs like faxing, photocopying and so on. quite brainless kind. my other fren who is more assertive ( a trait i think i shld hasten in picking up) got a transfer to the exciting sales dept. so she is only got to work for 2 hrs today coz we are on aft shift i.e 3pm and office ends at 5.30pm. shiok right?
i will be travelling till late jul. i've confirmed my return tix on 26/07/02 (fri) which is the end of 1st wk of sch i.e i'm going to miss wk 0 of sch. u think it'll be ok? *cross my fingers that u wun scream at my idiosyncracies* i mean, i am only leaving for thai on 5/7 and travelling north to laos will take abt 1wk fastest. and since i'm already spending so much $$ on the laos visa, i betta utilise it to the fullest right? and laos is super mega scenic lor! got big waterfalls, fantastic rapids, mountains and the world heritage sites etc...so i think i'll be spending like 2 wks there. in summary, i can only be back on the 26th (earliest).
anyway, i am going to north myanmar with my two other frens from sedona for 6 days and will be leaving this coming sat. having no time so we are flying i.e i m BROKE! i've finished my US$500 in myanmar coz of the flight. damn bad hor. now i'm trying to live off free meals from pple so that i can sustain myself thru the north myanamr trip. the first thing i'll do upon reaching bangkok is to find a teller to withdraw money. cannot make it already.
ok lah. this is quite a lengthy mail. shall spare u the agony of hearing (or rather reading) my complains.
tata
dreamer
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Final mails from Yanshan?
Sent: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:53:53 +0700
hey gals,
just dropping a note to announce my release from BP in 2 hours time. things look pretty bad for me these days coz i just got ticked off by my manager who used to like me quite abit. think i have no mood to work this wk and have been running ard that's y but heck man! 2 more hours and i'll be done! yippee!!!!! this a season to be joyous fa la la la la la la la la!
in summary, the only thing i got out of this "learning experience" is that hotel is really not for me. it aint my cuppa tea and that i am hopeless in tryin to get what i want and i can be really down on my luck. Like now, i;m the only pathetic soul stuck at work while the rest of the world is having a birthday party upstairs.
sad dreamer
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Thursday, June 27, 2002
6 month anniversary of this blog!
It's commencement time!
The ceremonies are being held from 9th to 14th September at (where else?) University Cultural Centre. There are three ceremonies per day, at 10am, 3pm and 7.30pm.
So far I've gathered that my friends are scattered across several ceremonies. I'm quite disappointed that I won't be in the same ceremony as them. Guess I'll have to make do with the webcast. Why isn't like the movies, when everybody graduates together?
Anyway, here's the range:
Ceremony 11 (Thu, 3 pm)
Class 2001 Arts Honours (e.g. Literature) YuehChin...
Amy (all by my lonesome self!)
Ceremony 13 (Fri, 10 am)
Class 2001 Social Science Honours (e.g. Geography, Psychology) Rach,Jean,Serene...
Lee Eugene
Lee Shea Li
Ceremony 14 (Fri, 3 pm)
Liew Jiaming
Lim Keemin
Ooi Tjin-Kai
Ceremony 15 (Fri, 7.30 pm)
Then Josephine
Yang Yanshan
Ceremony 16 (Sat, 10 am)
Yin Mayling
Han Huayi
Ceremony 17 (Sat, 3 pm)
Lim Sufang
do let me know of others' ceremonies
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002
From: Yanshan
Sent: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:25:00 +0700
hihi dearie,
my work is getting really mundane and boring and i can stand at the recept to secrete calcium carbonate all the time.soon moss will grow and lichens will sprout. damn bored leh. i'm serving my last wk of imprisonment next wk and am thinking of changing dept. u think i shld request for transfer to the deli counter( like the name suggests..... it sells pastries and bread....the bread sucks but the cheese cake...yummy....melts in the mouth).
talking abt fd never fails to make me hungry. but i jus had the supposedly famous noodle for dinner.....and dats like 10pm now. oh well..yes late shift today coz there was a shortage of staff.
sian sian sian.
dreamer
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My current favourite song:
"Precious Illusions" by ALANIS MORISSETTE
you'll rescue me right? in the exact same way they never did..
I'll be happy right? when your healing powers kick in
you'll complete me right? then my life can finally begin
I'll be worthy right? only when you realize the gem I am?
but this won't work now the way it once did
and I won't keep it up even though I would love to
once I know who I'm not then I'll know who I am
but I know I won't keep on playing the victim
these precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless
and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends
this ring will me yet as will you knight in shining armor
this pill will help me yet as will these boys gone through like water
but this won't work as well as the way it once did
cuz I want to decide between survival and bliss
and though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am
but I know I won't keep on playing the victim
these precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was a kid
and parting with them is like parting with a childhood best friend
I've spent so long firmly looking outside me
I've spent so much time living in survival mode
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Thursday, June 20, 2002
Sent: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:26:00 +0700
i'm going back to slack for a while before catching the argentina v england match.
oh yah, must also tell u this! i put on ALOT of weight!so much so that my colleagues(who apparently sees me almost every other day) says that i am now rounder both my face and my *horrified!* BODY!!!!aarhhH!HHH!HHH!! my fat body! terror terror terror!!!!panic siah. while i dig for my lost determination to exercise, i will still devour on the cheap(US$0.75) cheesecakes, choc cakes, chock twist and free chinese restaurant supper (illegal though). hiaks hiaks. dun be surprised to find an eddy murphy's sized yanshan in two mths time (cant remeber the show tittle where he became a fat man...issit nutty professor or something? oh heck!)
dada
shan
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Sent: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:47:28 +0700
meanwhile, i'm having a boring time today. am being put on aft shift from 2pm to 11pm so i cant join my frens for dinner and outings. sian. both my frens are having fun now, one shopping and the other went out with a guy fren for dinner at seemingly Trader's hotel(d best hotel here...sorry, i'm not going to lie). and the fd at traders is so ex! at least US$2 more than those in sedona! i'm so jealous. poor me had to go out alone this mornign.
went to singapore embassy but security there is so tight that i din go beyond the front office. sickening. then i walked to a nearby
shopping area n spent 2000 kyats(approx $5 which is alot!) on Pokka drinks. time to pamper my frens and myself. and now i only have abt 1000kyats (aprrox $1.20) on me. so broke. got to change my currency soon...
ok lah, got to go back to boring staring into the space job again. will be off work in an hour's time. Yippee!!!!!
lao gao
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I've been in an emotional doldrum for the past couple of days. But I think I'm on the upswing now, so I'm feeling pretty good.
Not feeling creative though, so can't think of anything to blog about. I'll just post some more e-mails from Yanshan.
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Monday, June 17, 2002
This has got to be the worst year of my life.
And to think the year's only half gone. Still loads more crap left to deal with.
Someone please put me out of my misery!
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Saturday, June 15, 2002
I'm back! I'm also still deluding myself by thinking that someone cares about this fact. :-)
Although I had a great 4 days, I'm completely exhausted now. I'm rather brain dead and I couldn't keep up my end of the conversation with Len today. Like Li-sa says in her blog, the hotel breakfasts make us wake up earlier than normal. I can't remember the last time I woke up at 8bloodya.m. just to go for breakfast.
Other than that, I vacationed with my 33 month-old niece and 9 month-old nephew, which explains why I'm so worn out. It was an endless cycle of feeding, diaper-changing and keeping a watch on them. If I ever get brood-y, or start listening to my biological clock, remind me of this vacation before I do something stupid.
Overall, the trip was fantastic. And I'm going to blog about it for the next couple of posts. So, if you want to avoid the sure-to-be-inanely-boring travelogue, just don't read my stuff for about a week or so. :)
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Monday, June 10, 2002
I'm going for a family vacation to Langkawi from tomorrow until Friday.
I'm pretending that somewhere out there people actually care about my whereabouts. Don't spoil my illusion. (",)
It'll be interesting to see how I cope without cable TV and my favourite shows. It's more interesting to see if my family can spend all this time together without anyone getting killed. Come to think from it, I might actually need a vacation to recover from this one!
Au revoir! Love you all.
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Congratulations to the following people for being offered Honours:
Economics: Yanshan, Xueli
Geography: Eugene, Josephine
Political Sciance: Tjin-Kai
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An elderly man commited suicide by jumping off my apartment building this morning. Mum said she heard a 'loud thump' around 9 a.m., and when she looked out the window she could see the body lying face down. The police and media came round soon after, and when the corpse was taken away, we could see several mourning relatives.
Soon after, it started to rain. And rain. And rain. The first thing I thought of was: "At least this makes the cleaning up easier for the custodians tomorrow." Then I was reminded of a similar suicide, which occured when I was in primary school. It happened in the block opposite my house. She was wearing red.
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Saturday, June 08, 2002
I'm having a low self-esteem day.
I feel like an utter loser.
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Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Themathic quiz-of-the-day
Take the What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be? Quiz
Hahahaha, completely unlike me, but funny, nonetheless.
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Happy cinco de junio* everybody!
Today's a special day for me, having managed to keep my mid-year resolution for an entire year! I'm dead pleased with myself.
But now that I've done it, I'm figuring out what to do next. To carry on for another year or to just forget about it? Afterall, I have achieved my objectives. Hmmmnnn......
*5th of June.
FYI: The actual holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The Fifth Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexicans over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, but is also celebrated in other parts of the country and in U.S.cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, Mexico's Independence Day, which is actually September 16.
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Monday, June 03, 2002
From Yanshan:
Sent: Sat, 25 May 2002 09:00:33 +0700
Subject: HelloS!
this email addy is the biz centre and is shared not only by my frens and me but the entire hotel, including guests that needs to send mails. so got to keep the mails frivolous. read between the lines lah.
things are looking up here i suppose, like we are going out more often coz our frens from another company has a driver so they will pick us up for dinner. gd right. eh, know wat, i put on 2 kg already. yeah! but i am extremely unfit and damn lack of exercise lor! some more every other night, we get gd fd from the zhong1 can1 ting1 (chinese restaurant) coz the chef is fellow tong2 xiang1 (fellow countrymen ie. singaporean) who knows we are pretty much deprived of hao3 chi1 de (good food). i had chu2 shi1 ji2 de4 (of chef's professional std) supper lor, envious?? muahaha! nah, just kidding. my dad is lor. haha.
k lah, me got to go back to work. sneaking out to type this mail.basically i typed this for fang and since i have to speak in diff tounge
there are parts that u dun understand, go ask fang. dats y i dupliated this for u. not i bo sim (heartless or unsincere) ok.
take care.
Dreamer
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