Just came home from work! At 1.20am in the morning. I did ticketing today! I thought the Sunday crowd will kill me, but it didn't really. Ticketing at Beach Station is quite non-existent, because people come to my counter to ask for directions instead. And, since my shift was from 4pm to midnight, there's not much people left on the island for me to entertain anyway.

Most of the time I'm doing ticket replacements for people! You wouldn't believe how damaged the tickets can get. The worst I've seen were soaking wet. I've got guests who came to my counter and asked for a replacement card because they said they dipped their cards in water to see if it is waterproof. Yesh my gosh. Not one or two guests. MANY GUESTS. I don't know what in the world they were thinking. The card is like cardboard material!! Do you think it's waterproof???

Ticket replacements are troublesome. Cos it comes under service recovery and only Station-ICs and Supervisors can authorise them. In the end Irin just gave me her username and password and told me to handle all the ticket replacements, cos there were simply so many millions of damaged cards. It's troublesome. And Irin's lazy. I typed her password (8 numerical digits) so many times that I can memorise it off-hand now.

So yup, basically there were only me, Irin and Azliza after 10pm. Me and Irin settled all the money and closed the station, then we headed back to the Vivo office. Transport is provided back home if you work on the last shift. And and, it was a Mercedes taxi!! Okay la I didn't sit in the Mercedes taxi cos there were only 2 of them. I took the other normal normal one. I'm tired and it's an unearthly hour, but still, free transport from the Sentosa company! I'm not complaining.

Today the big big big boss of Admissions & Operations talked to me!! I let him into the Station without asking for his Sentosa staff pass, cos I knew he's the big big big boss. By right I'm supposed to ask for it, but since I knew him, it's okay. So he started commending my actions and telling me that I should be insistent about asking for staff passes, but I should also be flexible and blah blah. I didn't really catch all of it. When your big big big boss talks to you in a friendly but lecturing manner, what do you do??

All my Station-ICs and most of my bosses at Sentosa Express knows me now. I very sad!! They all know that my dad is the guy in all the advertisements with that eagle. I'm very stressed okay! Irin keeps threatening to tell my daddy if I do anything wrong.

Before I forget, today was the first leaders' meeting for the year. There's going to be some changes and additions to the way things are going now. I'm quite ambivalent about them actually. For one thing, I probably won't be around much to see how things will go since there's army in less than 2 months time.

You know, usually I hate it when people get all too hypothetical during meetings and the entire meeting becomes a "what-if" session. Hahaha ask Jun Ying. I detest "what-if" situations or questions during Green Link meetings, and he'll always be the cool cucumber to answer everything. But okay I do understand that it's a clarification meeting and it's essential to make sure all perspectives of the issues are looked into.

Strangely, somehow today at meeting I wasn't extremely irritated at all the "what-ifs". Maybe it's because I told myself firmly not to be bitchy at meeting. Or maybe it's because I'm stepping down. Or maybe it's just that the "what-ifs" were sensible and logical. Hee hee I hate illogical "what-ifs"!! But whatever it is, it gave me a more objectional view on the whole situation. I was able to understand the concerns and arguments over some aspects. I need someone who's level-headed enough to balance me out. Like Jun Ying.

Okay. Time for bed. It's 4.30pm till past midnight for Monday and Tuesday too. I'm going to do Rover!! That means I'll get to use that funky walkie talkie.

Weekends at Sentosa are quite a nightmare. There's billions of people running around everywhere and congesting all the transport on the island!! Okay maybe it's a common occurence, but I wouldn't know exactly. 4th official day at work today! I like to count off the number of days I've worked so that I can compare seniority with my colleagues. Hahaha! But it's extremely busy for us at the Beach Station okay! Loads of people arriving by the truckloads on the beach trams, buses and our trains.

I'm quite good at Guest Relations now already! Been doing it since I started my first day. I think it's the most fun job duty cos you really get to meet all kinds of people. I know how to answer most of the questions that the guests ask me! Whoopee. I get the greatest sense of satisfaction when I've helped someone plan his day to visit whatever attractions or that sort of thing, and they come back to our Station and comment that their day has been awesome.

Oh oh, today has been my most interesting day at work so far too! I saw Lauren and Charleen and Soe-Na! They were there at the beach for some Aerius outing or something. I so wanted to talk to them a lot a lot, but Vincent (my Station-IC) and Sess (big big Admissions boss) were around so I had to pretend they were just normal guests. Weh! But okay la. Lauren asked about the flower she gave me. It's err, dead???

There was this huge group of girls from Catholic JC in their first 3 months. And this three girls from RGS. And this group of Malay guys from somewhere. And this group of 4 who were trying to search for the Skyride when it's just in front of them. They are all friendly enough to stop to chat with me!! I like it when people actually talk to you in a conversational way, instead of just asking you for directions. Even if it's nonsensical, superficial stuff. And there's every reason for me to flirt with all the pretty girls! Or to act cheeky. Or to be totally me. Whichever is better.

Anyway, today was such a busy day that I only went for my break at 7pm. Normally my break's at 5pm if I'm working from 1.30pm to 10pm. But we were quite short-handed and I had to take over at some places. Finished dinner first, then I went back to Vivo to meet Shermin cos she just got off her own work at the membership area at Vivo. Talked a bit, before I rushed back to complete the rest of my shift. I think it's okay for all of us to screw up la. Whee.

OOH I did Rover duty on the train platform for an hour while Hui Mian went for break! It's quite scary cos I've got to ensure safety at all times. But the crowd don't care. They will happily stick their heads from the platform out in the train's approaching direction, just to see what's the excitement about. They will lean far out into the station tracks. They rush for the train the moment it arrives, without letting other guests to alight first. Being a Rover is super stressful cos you have to be alert all the time. And guess what? I got to use the walkie talkie for the first time! There's a clip-on mouth-piece and ear-piece, so I look like a undercover policeman!! And when Shuba called for me I was so excited okay! The talkie's quite cool. You can eavesdrop on the Merlion staff's conversations too.

Towards the end of my shift, I quite got cranky. I did quite a stupid thing. There was this group of 3 girls who came up to me because one of them lost their Sentosa tap cards in one of the other train stations. So she couldn't get out of the Station cos the tap card thing works like the EZ-Link cards. Something like that. She wanted to get out and still come in again later in the night for her return trip to Vivo (unlimited use of the card within the day), but since she lost her card and I didn't want to make her pay an extra $3 just to get another new card. Guess what I did? I tore off a piece of scrap paper, wrote "Admit Kexin for one ride", then I signed my name!! Yea she's Kexin, but not the Kexin that I know in school. The 3 of them were just giggling non-stop. But in the end, just when they got out of the Station, Kexin realised that actually her card is with her all along. I'm very DUH!! Shuba (my other Station-IC) heard what I did and asked me incredulously "What the hell did you think you were doing?"

Okay. Tomorrow is leaders' meeting. Then rush for work till midnight. I'll get to ride the free taxi home! Shermin claims its a Mercedes taxi. I don't believe they're so extravagant.

Half an hour late for work (was supposed to start shift at 8am) due to traffic congestion. Sluggish morning. Hectic afternoon. At times, there can be as many as three billion people trying to squeeze through the turnstiles. But other times, not a single soul wants to get in or out. Today's my third official day at work! And sadly, Yvonne and Suet Yee's last internship day. They've been working there for 5 months already!! Okay I only know them for a few days but they are really nice people to gossip with.

Ooh. I went for break with Shariffah at Vivo Banquet. She's got a rich family heritage! Arab, Malay, Chinese and Indian. Even more complex than Beets I think! And she's pretty okay! She'll make the perfect racial harmony ambassador. I want to complain!! Someone asked me to clear his plates at Banquet!! I was wearing that hideous orange-and-green uniform and he asked me to clear his plates! What the hell!!

There was this huge horde of guys who kept going in and out of our Beach Station the entire day. They were playing some treasure hunt or something, and the base point was the Coffee Bean just beside us. They ran around topless most of the time!! Whoo hoo where else can you get to ogle at hunky guys and hot girls in bikinis?? Jeremy wouldn't believe it when I told him that I led this really cute girl (in my opinion) to the beach tram. Cute okay!!

After knocking off work, I hurried for worship practice. I've got a bad shift timing next Friday, so I swapped worship leading slots with Alicia for this week. Bumped into Tammy at J8. Tensed up on stage. But Ben Ng's video was awesome. Sometimes I think when I've got no focus at all, God works the best miracles. I should aim to have NO AIM in everything I do. Hahaha yar right. And cell group time!

Okay I'm going to bed soon. It's been a long day. Tomorrow is another long one.

2nd official day at work. I made quite a lot of screw-ups today! Aargh it was quite stressful for me. I mixed up the locations of Siloso and Palawan beach. I gave wrong directions to the Luge and skyride. I didn't know the Underwater World and Dolphin Lagoon package were together. I happily gave people complimentary passes when they're not supposed to get any. I forgot to punch out after work.

What a klutsy day. Was on Guest Relations! That means I just need to interact with people and assist people at the gantry gates. Easy right? NO. A million things to take note of. Then I must be ready to operate at the train platform itself and make sure things are safe. And I have to take over at ticketing booth if it's busy.

Oh oh, I must mention this incident. At around 9pm Shuba (my Station-IC) got me to try doing ticketing for a while cos I've never done it before yet. Well okay there's fewer people around by that time, but this group of people working at the Koufu food court on the beach came and asked if they can get a free ride. Normally most Sentosa staff gets the complimentary pass, or as long as they have the Sentosa transport concession. This group of people didn't have the concession, but they demanded the free ride anyway! This drunk guy shouted at Shuba for 10 minutes! He was threatening a million things and shouting away happily.

So I was stuck in the ticketing booth without anyone to look after me. Wayne (this other guy) was out handling the situation too. It's nervous to do ticketing okay! I sold my first 2 tickets smoothly. Then the drunk guy came over to my booth and tried to challenge me to a fight. Then another couple came and wanted to buy tickets, so I did everything right until the money part. I forgot to give them their change!! Had to go find Shuba for the key to the key press, then the stupid drunk guy came and harrased me somemore, then I cannot trouble Shuba anymore cos she was trying to be patient talking to the drunk guy. And I couldn't find the key! Frantic search, finally found it and gave the couple their change. Then the stupid drunk guy came over again and this time he started spweing vulgarities. AND, the phone rang. I didn't know what in the world I had to say so I just "Hello. Beach station", and of all crap the person calling was Irin, one of my Station-ICs. She started lecturing me about having to use the proper phone greeting and blah blah. And Shuba busy with the drunk guy, then Vincent, another of my Station-ICs called. This time I followed the little card pasted on the phone and rattled "Good evening, Beach station this is Guan You speaking. How may I assist you?", and Vincent called for Shuba. But I can't trouble her cos she's dealing with a very volatile situation! Then the phone rang again, this time it's Erica, one of my biggest bosses cos she's mostly in charge of the entire train operation. I had to rattle the long greeting again, but she told me she's coming down to deal with the chaos and she's coming with the Rangers. Whooppee. When she was finally down, this guest had a crinkled and folded ticket that he wanted to replace, and I didn't know how to do service recovery with the complex ticketing machine and issue him a new one, so Erica had to do it instead.

There you go. My disastrous attempt at trying to do ticketing. AAAARRRGHH.

And and and, my cover is blown!! So far I've been trying to conceal my identity from the Sentosa people. I don't want them to know that my dad is an Animal Trainer there! My dad is quite high-profile there I think, cos the latest Sentosa posters featured his huge face with a flying eagle. I can see his picture everywhere on Sentosa okay! There's one in every Sentosa Express train I'm sitting on! I'm trying not to tell anyone about it. But then, the big bosses of the train operations Judith and Erica know me! They've heard about me coming to Sentosa to work!! SO SCARY RIGHT?? Apparently it's been circulating in the upper office that Francis Low's son is working at Beach Station. FLYING COWS. Judith happily came to me and said "Hello! Your dad is quite famous huh? Anyway you really look like him from the nose down". Okay! How am I supposed to react when one of my big boss comes up to me like that unexpectedly?? I don't even know how she recognises me. Anyway, Shuba was super surprised to hear about that too. Somehow she knew my dad vaguely too.

Dang. There goes my grand plan of trying to keep my dad out of my Sentosa working life. And it's only my 2nd official day at work!! Okay la I should be more proud right?? Sigh.

I stayed back for half an hour after I ended my shift to try and understand how everything works. Shuba was nice enough to give me a guide through the entire station. I think I'm more confident now with the ticketing machine! I know how to play all the pre-recorded platform announcements! I know how to answer emergency phone calls! I know how to monitor the security cameras! I know how to use the walkies! I know a lot of things now!!!

Okay. I'm having fun working! Everyone I'm working with and working for are awesome. I'm still learning a lot of new things, but I think I'll get more experienced in a while. I think I can run an MRT station after this.

Anyway, I messaged my dad that I felt very stressed when I was about to knock off work. All he said was "OK", and "come home got food for you". Something like that. Eh okay a bit no link, but I take it as concern right?? I messaged Shermin too and she went very motherly. I messaged Annie too! But I think she's asleep cos she didn't reply.

I shall try messaging different people on different days after I end my shift.

I'm so glad there's no work tomorrow. Haha tomorrow is Shermin's turn to be at Vivo membership counter.

OOH my first official day at work! I very nervous can!! This morning I woke up very early and I started panicking. I went to read through all the Sentosa brochures and all the manuals and modules and whatever else that I've went through! And I started memorising what colour bus route goes where and where most of the attractions can be found and a lot a lot!!

Beach Station, along the new Sentosa Express! I reported for work half an hour early, which was quite a wise thing cos there were a lot of admin things to do and since it was my first day on the ground, my Station-IC Irin (and later Vincent) gave me a tour of my job scope. Basically what I had to do was just stand at the gate gantry and assist people in and out. And replenish brochures. And interact with guests and help them. And talk to them like they're my best friend. And smile. And greet. And thank. And welcome. And sell an "experience".

I was very nervous!! I very scared I gave the wrong information to the guests! And there were like 5 million people asking 10 million different questions! And must differentiate which kind of passes can get free rides on the train! Okay la my first few hours were quite disastrous. Got this huge group of tourists (like, twenty of them??) spoke to me in Korean and I couldn't understand a word. The silliest thing was, one of them started waving their arms around in wide circles, and the whole group started waving their arms in wide circles too! So stupid looking! After 10 minutes I still don't know what they want or where they want to go. In the end I just shoo-ed them up to the train platform and hope they got what they wanted.

But after like 4 or 5 hours, I kinda got used to everything and it was relatively easy from there on. And since it's Beach Station, there were a lot of hot hunks and babes! I saw a couple board the train clad in skimpy bathing suits, and they were HOT. Haha! The only grouse is I don't like my carrot uniform! Look like traffic police!! And, since my work shift is 1.30pm to 10pm, most of my colleagues are gone by 6pm. From then on there's not so many guests anymore, so it's more slack. My new colleagues are nice nice and sweet sweet and pretty pretty.

And and, I saw Shermin!! She was on her own group training and they were touring Sentosa today. Didn't even noticed her until she shouted "GUAN YOU!!" from the escalator down, then her entire group shouted "GUAN YOU" too, just to see if I will respond. I think I was extremely terrified at that time (cos I just entertained the Koreans, described earlier), so I didn't dare go talk to her.

Working tomorrow too. Same shift timing. I want to see more hot babes.

I don't really like the ominous feeling I get when I'm about to step down or resign from some form of responsibility. You know, the logical thing to do is to ensure that there's a proper handover to competent people who can take over you. I did that in Green Link! By the time us seniors had to pass on to the juniors, most of us had an idea of who we wanted in which positions. I did that in fellowship comm too, cos I ear-marked Joel for grooming! But I still don't like the uncertainties and the unresolved feelings that I'll get. Things like, what if I've chosen the wrong people and they destroy everything? What am I going to do after that??

Towards the end of last year, I made the decision to step down from cell group leadership earlier than expected. I mean, sooner or later I will have to step down anyway due to army, but that's in March. I told Matthew I wanted out by the end of January. Personal reasons hahaha. But the trouble is, I don't really have people who can replace me. Aargh I ended up with more regrets about things not done or things I could have did.

Worse, I'm beginning to feel stagnant and tired. When you've got an eye on your resignation day, you don't really feel like initiating anything; you don't really feel like doing your duties wholeheartedly; you don't really feel like doing anything well. I admit I've kinda ditched Biru alone and indulged in my happy own world when it comes to cell group leading. She's busy trying to rein everything in order while I'm adding to the disorder. Maybe I'm feeling extremely discouraged. Maybe I'm just apathetic. Sorry ol' friend, I'll try harder to assist you in my "ending of days"!

Someone recently shared with me a similar experience. She's quite unhappy at her responsibilities now, and she's counting down to the day where she'll quit everything and start somewhere else afresh. Somewhat like me right? Haha. Anyway, she told me that she was determined to be as antagonistic and uncooperative as she can be, now that she's filling out her days while waiting to be free from her duties. But her attitude changed slightly when someone wrote her a letter. It went something like "I hope that you will end this segment of your life with a joyous conclusion, instead of it being a drag to the finishing line".

Hmm. I shall aim for a "joyous conclusion" too.

Is there such a huge difference between the Social Support division and the Social Cohesion department?? It sounds the same to me, but Annie insists there's a drastic difference. Ahh whatever.

Tammy said they threw away partially melted ice cream and mudpies at work today because there was a power trip. So wasteful! Think African kids!

The opening launch of the Sentosa Express was on the news! I think I caught sight of Vera behind the ticketing counter! They showed this young boy who was among the first few visitors and he likes to play with trains. Then they showed him playing with his train collection and he has already got the full set of the Sentosa Express trains in the 4 different colours. Why so crappy?? Stupid Channel 5. Hahaha anyway the whole place looks kinda empty. Who asked them to choose a weekday for the opening launch?? Never mind I'll find out for myself tomorrow! First official day at work!

I shall blog about what happened yesterday!! Yesterday was Sunday. I met Shi Hui for breakfast at J8! It was supposed to not make her suspicious, although I've got no idea why she would be. Then we went for service! After that, Tammy and I got out the birthday cake and balloons for Shi Hui! Hahaha we decorated the cake with yellow icing and blew up all the balloons the night before! Tammy bought white FBTs and dyed it pink (although it still looks more white than pink) and I printed a BIMBO CLUB photo for her. Whee. Then I sat in the fellowship comm meeting for 15 minutes, before rushing down to Vivo for more work training! Yesterday was on how to operate the Ticket Sales Machine. Okay la there were a lot of things to take note and whatever, but after a while it was quite easy.

Yesterday was quite a bad day for me. Public transport was the culprit! In the morning while going J8 to meet Shi Hui, I took the wrong bus! There are 5 different bus services that I can take from my home to J8, but I cannot take 162! But when the bus came I just happily took it and the bus took a wrong turn away from J8, so I had to walk like three million miles back in the correct direction. The second time was after work training from Vivo! I overslept on 855 and ended up in Yio Chu Kang/Ang Mo Kio area. So I roamed around the neighbourhood for 20 minutes trying to find familiar bus services back to Bishan. Stupid right? I should have just took 855 in the reverse direction but I was feeling a bit more adventurous. In the end I took a taxi back.

Sometimes I think my life is quite ironic. Maybe God just have different plans for me contrary to what I would have imagined my life to be. I just discovered (after a long talk) that I might have ended up being in a relationship with a certain someone. Okay maybe not that optimistic, but it might have led us somewhere. Isn't it strange?? Scary even. It sounds kinda ominous now that I'm in retrospection. But right now I've got to deal with my current feelings. I don't know what I should do, or what I can do for that matter.

I like talking to people about my life. I like talking to people about my own stand on certain issues. I like expressing my views. I like telling the world about my opinions and perspectives. Problem is, no one is patient enough to hear me out. Sigh.

Today is the official opening launch of the Sentosa Express! I officially start my work tomorrow! Guest Relations at Beach Station.

Whoopee. 1am in the middle of the night now. Anyway, I had a almost-three-hours meeting just now! Post drama camp evaluation. I wanted to go into the meeting in a bitchy mood but I didn't feel like being antagonistic. It almost always turns the meeting into a tense and volatile argument. See! I'm so mature in thought and responsible for my actions right??

Okie. Here's a random thought that has been going through in my mind. I think girls shouldn't be afraid of asking guys to do things. Sometimes girls are hesitant about asking guys to them a favour because they think some guys are not gentlemanly enough. Actually I think otherwise. I think most guys are quite gentlmanly! Okay maybe it's a sweeping statement, but I think most guys would be willing to do simple things like opening doors for girls, fetching items, helping them with something, accompany them somewhere, and other small little things like that. I mean, as long as it's not that demanding! And it doesn't even have to be guys who are good friends. I don't know, but personally I'm more than willing to do anything for anyone, but people don't really ask me for a lot of favours anyway.

Sigh. Have you ever got the feeling that you wish something will happen, but then again you don't really want it to? Worse, you're actually partly in control of the situation and if anything is going to happen, you'll be the one to initiate things. But then again, you're so uncertain of everything that you really don't know what to do. Have you got such experiences before? If you have, do tell me about it and give me some advice.

OH MY ZMYGHSTSFIOSDNPIREFDS!!! I just helped my neighbour Jolene with her Chinese homework! I can't believe it! CHINESE!! Okay even though it's just simple primary three Chinese, but it's still difficult for me okay! 2 years not touching that horrible language! I still can read Chinese newspapers and books and stuff like that, but I can't speak and write in it anymore. OOH. Give me English Literature anytime.

Anyway, shopping with my mum at J8 today. A little kid beside us fell off the chair while we were having lunch. So poor thing! He was crying so badly. I've got a small cut from that accident.

Got a post-drama-camp meeting later. Maybe I'll blog more after that. I want to go play with my hamster.

Hmm. Okay my day today! I only woke up at 11.30am when Tammy called me and phone conferenced me with her and Amelia Yeo. Then I fell back to sleep and woke up at 1pm to watch Sesame Street. Elmo's laughter is annoying, especially when you just woke up. Went out to market in the rain to buy lunch for me and Mummy. Then I went to J8 to meet Tammy and Ame to hang out. At around 5pm Ame left to meet her friends, while me and Tammy took a bus down to NJ! We wanted to go for the orientation dance party! Toured around the school, pigged out at the College Publications room with Shi Hui. We tried to find Chris Chen (and a whole lot of ex-NJCians) on the college archives but couldn't. But I saw a certain Lim Liyan and Dorothy Chua and Mr Don Whitby and Ms Helena Ting! Okay then we walked around somemore, met Tammy's friend Shanshan (sunshine!) and Khairi and so many millions of people. Didn't stay for the dance party though. We came back to corps for youth service cos it's Covenant Friday, then cell group time and then I went to buy food after walking with Sarah and Shermin in the rain. Sarah did one huge detour to avoid a puddle of water. BLEE.

Anyway, I have prata and curry to eat now! I'm absolutely famished cos I haven't had a proper lunch and I skipped dinner too. There's some leftover soup in the kitchen too. And corn! Whee. I shall have a feast.

Oh yar I must mention the corn! My mum recently went on this corn craze! She started buying huge amounts of this supposedly organic corn that costs like almost a dollar per corn! Normally you can get two normal corns for like sixty or seventy cents? But my mum likes it, so my diet has included a lot of corn all of a sudden! The organic corn is sweeter and more crunchier, but I prefer the normal cheap cheap kind ones! Organic corn is sweeter but less juicy! It's much harder and firmer, so there's less juice. I shall secretly replace my mum's organic corns with the normal ones!! Well my mum isn't the only one obsessed with corns. My hamster too! She loves eating dried corn!

I forgot to mention. Thanks Su Kai for the chocolates from Hokkaido! I haven't tried them yet, but they look very elegant. And, the box is baby pink! Okay almost baby pink, except that it's slightly darker. Whoo the box alone is enough to make me love it! Hahaha! Anyway, I got her candy from Candy Empire in exchange. Thanks Su Kai my crappy nugget!!

I've more or less made up my mind on everything that I plan to do in this year. I spent most of the end of last year thinking about things that I want to do and things God wanted me to do. Then I spent most of the start of this year thinking about how I'm going to do them and trying to trust God to let them happen. So bottom line, decisions decided, resolutions made and ready to go into this new year!

My current addiction: teeny boppy happy bouncy music from Japanese bands. Those that sound like those Gameboy or Nintendo games! Thanks Sheng-De for his crazy introduction to all these weird songs! And and, Biru compiled a collage of my stupid faces! She was hoping of blackmailing me, but I'm more than JUBILANT to see my own stupid faces! Hee hee hee!

Went back to NJ with Atiqah today! We walked the long way in and got a cool Visitor's Pass! Okay that's trivial. I forgot to bring my NJ tap tap card along with me! What a tragedy to think I was looking forward to tapping my attendance! And and, the Jap stall terminated their lease with the school, so now my favourite canteen aunties aren't working there anymore. So sad! I feel so old now that I've graduated and all the different changes taking place. Sigh. Had a very long talk with Mr Alvin Leong and Ms Teo Sui Ho. Have no idea why I'm still so formal in addressing them but I guess it's habitual. Saw quite a lot of teachers, and a lot of juniors. Saw the new batch of juniors mass dancing. Oh oh, I met Elaine!! She saw me like 3km away and started waving at me! Okay maybe not 3km, more like 50 metres? But still, she waved!! Met Xiu Jing who's teaching Maths there now. The field was destroyed because of orientation war games. And, I visited the Green Link garden! The flowers are bigger and healthier now. Hydrangea especially, cos last I saw it, it was droopy and languid. Hong Yi and her EXCO are doing a good job. Hee hee!


Articuno Atiqah


Food!


Look at what Cheryl and Qiling did!! Yay A01 left behind a legacy!

I'm reading about Sesame Street on Wikipedia. I grew up with Sesame Street okay! I can't believe the stuff they have on Wikipedia. Check this out: Elmo is left-handed. Bert and Ernie are rumoured to be gay couples. Oscar's pet worm Slimey has its birthday on 18th February. And loads of other nonsensical theories and facts and trivias! Whoopee. I still love my Cookie Monster! I'll cheer whenever he gobbles up the Letter of the Day. I hate Big Bird cos it's one huge mangled mess of a yellow bird monster. Ernie can be my good friend because he likes rubber duckies. I like counting with The Count. Elmo and his goldfish Dorothy! And I like Mr Noodle's stupid dumb dumb antics! Blee. When will I ever grow up. I shall go find Cookie Monster merchandise.

Shermin couldn't find icing at Vivo. I think it's sold out already cos when I saw it on Tuesday, there were only 2 squeeze-tubes left.

I think I've got a new food item to add to my "DO NOT TOUCH FOOD AT ALL COSTS" list. Right now grapes are the only food item on that list. Revolting, inedible grapes. Oh, the new food item is chocolate milk! I think it's too thick and too rich and too creamy for my liking. It induces emesis! Don't get me wrong I love my chocolates. I'll eat most kinds of chocolates; dark, milk, white, whatever. I don't really like chocolate with nuts cos it tastes bitter. I don't go for luxury, premium, overly fanciful chocolates too cos it's too expensive and too smooth. But chocolate milk! It's a horrible mix. Milk should just be milk, not with chocolate! It sticks in your throat like peanut butter and the taste is too strong! I just feel like puking. BLEAGH.

Wikipedia shall be my new online hobby.

It was quite dramatic this morning. My mum left some laundry out to hang before going out of house, while I was happily sleeping like a pig. Guess what? It started raining! So she called home to ask me to bring them in, but I was sleeping and I didn't hear the phone ring. I only woke up at 12 noon? Then I went to check the house phone and there were 7 missed calls from my mum or dad. Checked my phone and there were 4 missed calls from my parents too. Hee hee!

I watched Sesame Street today. Then I went out to post some letters and to develop some photos. I went to the market and the first photo printing shop said their instant print machine was spoilt and the minimum number of photos that I must print was nine! Went to the second one, but I must wait till Friday to get the photos! So I walked to J8 and got them printed INSTANTLY and at 50 cents each! Whee.

I bought a sundae from Macs and walked back home! Then I went out to get a haircut. NICE NICE! Okay it looks normal anyway. I had dinner with Eleanor today.

I'm quite sad you know! My parents say they might not go and send me off when I'm going army! My dad's going to the States somewhere in March for business and he won't be back in time for March 16, and my mum doesn't want to alone cos she thinks it's weird! WEH. I'm so sad! My parents are not going to send me off into the army! They told me to go invite my friends.

I'm going back to NJ tomorrow with Atiqah! I can't wait! Hahaha Su Kai and me are going to exchange gifts. I'm going to meet the Jap stall aunties too! And and, I can tap my NJ tap card!!

Second day at work. Today was just a lengthy module session on the corporate beliefs, plans and whatever else of Sentosa's management company. And what you should do as a Sentosa staff to make GUESTS (not visitors) feel welcomed and be impressed with our service. Haha that's about it. Oh oh, I'm going to be posted to the Beach Station! Hahaha it's the coveted station cos all the babes are there. My new colleagues are great too. Next working day: Sunday afternoon, training for the ticketing machine. I must wear the ugly carrot uniform!! EEKS.

I explored a small part of Vivo today. My aim is to finish exploring Vivo within one month. I shall be a Vivo directory! I met Kwek Zhenyu there today! And I made friends with one of the Candy Empire staff.

Pictures time!!


I like this picture! It's so spontaneous.


Yurong's hair is messy.


Fellowship comm!!


A01 at Chiew Yee and Qiling's party!


Birthday girls and me!


I like this photo too!


I don't know what me and Dezmand are doing.


With everybody at Chris and Lingling's wedding!


At the boardwalk.


My bikini pose! Haha.


Me and Shermin!

Credits: Last 5 photos, thanks to Lurong! I'm quite horrified to see the 13 consecutive photos of my stupid face.

I shall go Starbucks with someone soon. I don't know who yet.

Had a very good day today. I THINK I'M GOING TO LIKE MY SENTOSA JOB A LOT. Today was sort of my first official day at work! Okay actually it wasn't even working, cos it was supposed to be training, but I'm getting paid for it! What's more, today was a free tour at some of Sentosa's attractions! Fort Siloso, the new Carlsberg Sky Tower, Images of Singapore, Merlion, my dad's Animal Encounters show, and numerous bus and tram and Sentosa Express rides. So cool can?? I enjoyed myself a lot! The last time I seriously visited Sentosa's attractions was when I was 12 or 13?? The entire island is very attractive now!!

There were like 14 of us, so half of us started on the tour while the other half did the in-class modules. My group (the tour group) was pretty funky, although we were all quiet and not talking a lot. Only Vincent (our trainer) was talking, and the only person I remotely know is Vera cos we were in the same interview group. But never mind, it was still fun! All the places and attractions were a lot better than I could remember of in my childhood days. I like Images of Singapore best! The displays were very very good. And every single staff that I met there smiled back when you just catch their eye. I shall be determined to be a nice Sentosa staff too! I think Sentosa is quite a decent tourist attraction actually, except that it's quite expensive. Blee.

Haha all my fellow new part-timer collegues are either O's or A's graduates waiting for results. They're quite pleasant! Whee. Oh oh oh I got my Sentosa uniform too! I think it's quite hideous. Hahaha if I wear it I'll look like a huge carrot!! The colours are orange and green and the pants is dark olive green like my Catholic High shorts. CARROT!! WEH I'm a carrot!! It looks a bit like some road sweeper's uniform too! Gosh what in the world were they thinking when they decide to standardize such horrible carrot colours?? I like the purple one actually, but that's for people working in some other department.

But, check out the awesome name-tag!



Anyway, my job is kinda complicated. I'm part of the new Sentosa Express team (they call themselves the SEX team), and the office is at Vivo! Oh by the way, the Sentosa Express is really fast! Its official opening launch is 15th January, but we sat on it today and it's sort of like the skytrains at the airport. And you reach Sentosa in about 5 minutes from Vivo! Okay so I might be doing ticketing at one of the stations. Or I might be patrolling the station. Or I might be doing admin stuff. And I have to know the transport routes of the island and what each attraction is mostly about. No wonder we're called the Admissions Host because the job scope is so wide.

I'm in the tourism industry! YAY! Hahaha my dad's been in this for more than 20 years! I think it runs in the family, cos my dad met my mum while they were both working on Sentosa! Okay okay I got this job through my dad's application for me anyway. But I don't plan to let my new colleagues know that my dad works at Sentosa too. Not yet. I mean, we were at the Animal Encounters show today and my dad's in charge of that (but he wasn't at the show today) but I didn't tell anyone that my dad is one of the animal trainers. Except maybe Vera who knows, but she didn't say. Blah I don't like to live up to expectations la, so I hope my new SEX team bosses don't know too. And they can't stop calling me Mister Low Kuan Yew.

Haha. I think I will be going to Vivo a lot in these 2 months. Anyone going there can just give me a message! I shall explore every nook and cranny of it!

Whoo! The weekends had been a mad rush for me! I travelled a lot. Was in a million places these two days. And and, public transport is expensive! I spent $20 on transport in 2 days alone! BLEAGH okay it included a few taxi rides. But still?? It's unacceptable! I need my own personal assistant to plan my days and I need a chauffeur.

Anyway, let's start with Saturday which was yesterday! I woke up at 10am yesterday and I watched Powerpuff Girls! It was exciting okay they were fighting a huge Medusa-like monster called Sedusa (because she's female and she seduces people). Anyway, I cleaned my room some more! Until about 3pm when I went out to embark on a long and dangerous journey to Yew Tee MRT! Okay it wasn't dangerous but it took 45 minutes. Was meeting Annie there to go to Qiling's house. I haven't seen Annie in eons okay! Yep we went to buy chicken wings and marinate sauce and herbs, then walked over to Qiling's to marinate the wings! Hahaha we did it to my secret recipe again!

I think Qiling's parents are the coolest. My own parents would never let me invite my friends over to cook or prepare food, cos they think it's messy and I'll cause the stove to explode. But after marinating the chicken wings and our fingers, I went down to meet Yurong and Weiting and Dezmand to go over to Clarence's surprise party! Took the long and dangerous MRT ride with Qiling and I got off at Yishun MRT. Quite a huge mistake because they were waiting at Yio Chu Kang MRT instead!! But but, guess who I saw at Yishun MRT? I saw ELAINE!! Elaine as in my school's Elaine. AAHHH!! Haven't seen her in eons too!! Okay, at Yio Chu Kang we took a taxi down to Clarence's. His house was the first home in a long time that I've been to that has a decent herbs and spices garden! Anyway, loads of people turned up and the surprise was quite surprising. Plenty of booze, smooches and disco dancing! I can't figure out why anyone would want to go clubbing. It's foggy and loud and tiring and most of the songs have the same annoying DUM-DUM-DUM beat. But yeah, didn't really joined in much anyway cos I was tired. Going home was quite a chore, cos had to take 3 buses and try and catch the last bus for each one.

I didn't know Kenneth stayed opposite my block until 2 weeks ago. In a sense I went home with him last night, and we agreed to try and wave at each other from our windows sometime. Haha does this count as neighbours? Anyway I reached home at 12 midnight exactly, had a terrible insomnia and people messaging me all the way till 4am.

This morning, I woke up at 10.30am! Was supposed to meet Kenneth to go for service together, but not when I overslept horribly. Shi Hui came in this year's orientation red OGL shirt. I think my year's nicer!! Okay. After service I went home to dump my stuff and got my guitar out, then I went to J8 with Melanie and Biru. We met Andre and Andrew there, then we went Bishan library to borrow books!! Hahaha! I've never been there before even though it opened not too long ago. But I like the concept of it! I shall visit it again.

I left them and set out on my long and dangerous journey to Yew Tee again. Halfway along the way Annie messaged to meet her at Khatib MRT, then we went back to Ang Mo Kio MRT to meet Qiling and Chiew Yee who were buying food for the barbeque! Bought all the stuff, Annie and me walked to Qiling's aunt's condominium and sun-tanned at the pools. Then Qiling's cousin (who is a pilot and waiting to assassinate me) drove us to her house. Last minute preparations for the barbeque! I think I know Qiling's house better than she does.

The official meeting time was supposed to be 5pm at Yew Tee MRT for everyone, but at 5.10pm I called Kai Jie and he's the only one at Yew Tee MRT! So I walked over from Qiling's, expecting him to be the only one. But then Rhoda was there! And Ginny and Cheryl and Liyana arrived after! We went to buy ice and serviettes, then walked back to start the barbeque. Helped started fire, and cooked! I appointed myself the cook for the night, although I burnt millions of food. But the barbeque was good!

We saw a huge meteorite streak across the sky! It lasted too long to be a shooting star, and it had green and purple streaks as it burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. Hahaha people started wishing for good results for A's. It didn't even cross my mind! Then cakes for the birthday girls! Chiew Yee had durian cake, while Qiling got chocolate cake. Then I did my performance! By that time we've finished most of the food, hung around, then the remaining few of us went back up to Qiling's to listen to Kai Jie playing piano! Left at 10pm, and I was too tired to endure the never-ending trip back to Bishan, so I took a taxi home.

And now here am I! Uploading photos. Oh oh Chiew Yee's got a new camera which is somewhat like mine, of which I think I somehow left it in a precarious position and it fell off the table. WOOPS. My camera ran out of batt halfway through. And I just cleaned Nutseed's cage!

I've got to be at Vivo tomorrow at 10am tomorrow morning! I'm starting work at Sentosa! Okay technically tomorrow is not the actual working, cos it's training and briefing and stuff like that. I'm excited! I'm going to meet new friends tomorrow! Yurong's afraid her new friends will eat her up. Blah I think meeting new people is one of the things I enjoy most in life. What shall I wear tomorrow??

Oh oh! My left thumb is hurting. I think I scalded myself while I was barbequing this evening. I can't type properly now cos I can't press the space bar effectively. And I can't squeeze the toothpaste out! And I can't eat curry puff! WEH.

Shi Hui just messaged to tell me that the orientation walk-in and skits will be tomorrow at 8.30am! I want to go! Kai Jie's going back to NJ too. But work training is quite important and I can't really replace it. Sigh. Then Su Kai said she wants to pass me chocolates from Hokkaido tomorrow! I can't wait.

Photos here. You have to differentiate which was taken at Clarence's, and which was at Qiling and Chiew Yee's. Quite funky right? I've got 2 consecutive birthday parties in 2 nights.

Who wants to eat dinner with me at Vivo tomorrow??

YAY! Today is a happy day for me! The Sentosa management finally called me to inform that I've got the Admissions ticketing job! I'm supposed to go down to their office at Vivo on Monday for in-class training. And it's supposed to last for 2 days?? I have no idea what they can teach me for 2 full days. I mean, there's only that many ways you can operate a cash register right? I think it'll probably be one of those customer service training thing. And a basic tour on all the attractions of Sentosa. And the history of Sentosa. And who's the CEO of the Sentosa management. OH NO WHAT IF THERE'S A TEST??!! I don't want!!!

Blah anyway, I went for a walk at the market in the morning! Then when I came back home, mummy watched Cows and Crayons on TV with me. So cool right how many mothers do you know that watches shows on Kids Central with their sons?? I think my mum is weird. She thinks the Sentosa job is not safe cos she thinks that the tourism industry is hazardous. She's afraid I'll get bombed or robbed or kidnapped or something. Blee.

Okay. Then Tammy messaged me to go hang out with her at J8 cos she's got nothing to do. Khairi called to ask if I wanted to go back NJ with him cos it was CCA fair today for the orientation kids, but Tammy messaged me at an earlier time, and I've got worship practice anyway so I had to turn him down. Sorry ol' buddy. So Tammy and me walked around at J8 in circles, then we walked back to corps. At around 5pm I went for dinner with Shermin at Kopitiam! Then we came back corps for worship prac. I was leading today! Yay I felt great today. You know when there are days when you don't feel like doing anything and days when you just feel excited about something? Yar today was the exciting day. Haha!

So yup, during cell group I met a new friend! Andre brought his friend Daryl for service today. Well he happened was from Catholic High too, so there's a common point there. Haha he's a funky guy. Then Andre started talking about his orientation at VJ! And Shi Hui (who's a cool whackass OGL this year!) told me about NJ's one too! I realised I'm actually missing school quite a fair bit. It feels weird having people telling me about their orientation instead of me telling them about my orientation! Okay I'm growing old and shrivelling and withering.

Our cell group stayed in church for a while, then we migrated to the mini-mart to buy food. Daryl is a pole vaulter! I thought Singapore didn't offer that in athletics at all. But apparently they did. Hahaha I know about pole vaultings okay! Cos when I was young I've always admired those people who can take-off like 5 metres above the ground with a single pole!! It's so cool can?? And and and, do you know that there's only an exclusive group of guys who broke the 6 metre barrier in the event! And there's this Russian woman (whatever her name is) who has been dominating the pole vaulting scene for the past 2 or 3 years, and all she ever does is keep breaking her own world record?? HAHAHA!!!

OOH! I walked Shermin to the bus stop again! Bus-stop buddy!

You know, I've been thinking about my army enlistment. Somehow all my male friends around me are dreading to go in, while I'm the only idiot who is kind of looking forward to it! I'm treating it like it's some excursion!! Hahaha! You see, there are many perks! You get free food, you're paid a monthly salary, you get the occasional free lodging, you get free uniform and attire, you get free toiletries, you get concessions to a million things. That's not all! You get to fire machine guns and rocket launchers and bazookas! And throw bombs! And drive tanks and fly airplanes and ships! It's every boy's childhood dream! Ah ha I'm so ready for NS!! The government's feeding me! And ten million other freebies!! YEAH okay go join the army.

I think I'm constantly in hunger these few days. I want to eat everything! FOOD FOOD FOOD.

I've always admired people who have artistic talents. People who can either dance, act, sing, play instruments, draw and write really well! I think they're gifted people who have a unique way of presenting a message for the rest of the world. Sadly I think I excel in neither any of those aspects! Well okay okay maybe I've been trying to dance. And I've been trying to act and sing and draw and write and play instruments, but I'm not really very good in any of them. Keep trying Guan You! If I don't have sufficient talent, I can always make up for it by practising!

I enjoy watching people dance. It's quite nice watching graceful dancers in ballet performances, or traditional dances. I like hip-hop performances too! I think it's quite hard to be synchronised in beat. I think guys who play the piano are sexy (think Kai Jie). I've always wanted to learn piano but my mum didn't think of enrolling me for piano lessons when I was younger! She enrolled me for drawing classes and acting workshops!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? I can't remember a single thing from those classes. According to mummy, she said I look forward to drawing classes all the time, and my drawings were not too bad. Hahaha! Okay I like drawing with crayons. Then when I was slightly older, I supposedly told my mum I wanted to be an author when I grow up. Can't remember saying that too!!

But I didn't turn out too bad I guess. Haha! I've acted on stage before okay! I was in some Total Defence performance in primary school! And I was one of the three witches in Macbeth! Had minor roles in church drama performances and whatever skits. Oh oh! I was the lead for the Aerius skit for Orientation! I was in many many minor dance performances in school too! And I do know how to play guitar! And I used to play trumpet/cornet and trombone and a little bit of euphonium okay! I know I know I know how to play the recorder!!!

Shermin made me eat ham. Daisy Lin Yurong. Chris Ngoh borrowed a book from me. Qiling and Chiew Yee happily dumped the planning of their joint birthday party onto me. Nutseed refuses to eat oranges.

I want to go back NJ! I miss the Jap stall aunties. I miss the horrible colours of the canteen. I miss the butterfly garden. I miss all the teachers and juniors. AND AND, I miss tapping my NJ tap tap card! Do you think the system still recognises me? They will, right right??

Oh oh, I forgot to blog about all the birthday messages that I sent in 2006! I meant to mention it in that end-of-last-year post, but I forgot. Anyway here it is now... For the entire of 2006, I've sent a generic birthday message to all my friends on their birthdays. So if it's your birthday and I love you enough to remember your birthday, I should have sent you a message that went something like that: "whee!! have a fun-filled, enjoyable, splendid, awesome, cool, blessed, spiffy, pretty, amazing, magnificent, hip, funky, gorgeous, groovy, merry, wild, crazy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!"

Hahaha I sort of decided to do this at the start of last year. You know those kind of character tests to see how different people respond to the same thing? I wanted to see what kind of replies I'll get. Well, most of my friends didn't even acknowledge the long list of adjectives! They just replied with a "thank you" in various spellings. I think spelling "thank you" as "thankew" looks/sounds quite funky!! I shall spell in that way from now on. The next common response I got was "wah your vocabulary very good!" Haha! I've got one that said "your english must have been a distinction"; one that said "how do i love thee? let me count the ways"; another one that says "i am going to have a fun-filled, enjoyable, splendid, awesome, cool, blessed, spiffy, pretty, amazing, magnificent, hip, funky, gorgeous, groovy, merry, wild, crazy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"; and one that started lamenting about how his birthday can't be merry because he has to study.

So, for the year 2007, I shall try experimenting with another new generic birthday message! I just sent the first one out for Chiew Yee. Yup yup happy birthday CHIEW YEE! Thanks for your fabulous friendship, for being my big sister and I'll beat you in Solitaire Showdown! Meanwhile, all you people can wait happily till it's your birthday to find out about my new birthday message!! Then reply me in a cool and funky way!!

I was just wondering. They always say life is too short for you to hold back from doing something and you must treasure your loved ones, blah blah blah. So technically speaking, there should be a situation where everyone is going sky-diving, bungee jumping, or roller-blading. Or going to see the polar bears. Or go in a submarine or a space rocket. People throwing in millions of dollars to invest in their life goals. And shouldn't there be people hugging and kissing all the time because you must treasure your loved ones? Wouldn't there be people proposing to their boyfriends or girlfriends everywhere?

So why are people afraid of going sky-diving? Why doesn't people flock by the millions to go save the penguins? Why are people afraid of confessing their love? Why are people witholding all they have to save it for a "rainy day"? I thought you only live once, so spend all your money at one go! Why are people embarrassed to give even a simple speech onstage, not when you have only one shot at life and no one will remember what you've said two million years later and you're just a small fry caught up in a gigantic universe and what you do has no impact on the cosmic scale?? Why why why can't people just shout out their love for their beloved without fear of rejection?

Just wondering. But sometimes I'm guilty of that too.

I managed to find an excuse to get out of house today. Went heartlanding at Ang Mo Kio Central with Qiling! She happened to be in that area cos she's staying over at her cousin's (who's a pilot and ready to shoot me down from his fighter jet anytime) house. We went to the library to eat! Hahaha then explored the area for the whole afternoon. I haven't been to Ang Mo Kio for quite some time now, and the entire AMK Central changed a lot a lot. It's definitely more hip now, like I didn't know there was this new row of shops hidden somewhere above somewhere. The huge and newly opened NTUC is stealing the show though, cos the crowds were monstrous and it looks quite urban. Qiling thought she was in town.

She wanted to buy whipped cream for her aunt cos she's baking a cheese cake, so we went over to NTUC and we saw whipped cream and whipping cream on display! Hahaha I've never heard of whipping cream before, and I certainly don't know what is the difference! Isn't it a bit strange? Whipped cream is understandable, cos it means cream that is pre-whipped so you don't have to whip it yourself. But what about whipping cream?? It's confusing because you expect the cream to be undergoing whipping at the very moment, but the packet of whipping cream is just one ordinary packet with no special whipper devices inside! So how can it be whipping cream??

Then a nice uncle beside us probably heard our conversation, and he explained to us that whipped cream is yar, pre-whipped cream that is available in aerosol cans only, while whipping cream is cream that you have to whip yourself and is packaged in containers (sort of like milk). So cool right? I never knew, which goes on to show that you can learn something new everyday. What in the world were those people thinking when they call it whipping cream?? Wrong use of present participles!!

That's not all. There were 2 different brands of whipping cream on sale, one was Emborg and the other was President. Both say "UHT Whipping Cream" on it, but President's one has French on it while Emborg's had some Arabic language on it. The price is also different despite the similarity in quantity; President's is more expensive.The nice uncle told us that the different packagings was actually misleading because he went to Europe and visited some dairy factory, and both brands of the whipping cream originated from the same factory! And then the cream is simply shipped to the two different companies' factories to be packaged!



See! Look at the difference in price! Almost a dollar okay! My guess is that it's because President is a French food processing company while Emborg has its headquarters somewhere in the Middle East. But who cares? It's the marketing and economics that intrigues me. Don't you just love a conspiracy??

I wish something exciting will happen in my life. I want adventures! I want to go cave exploring and scaling mountains and trek jungles and canoe in rivers. I want to go find hidden treasures and unravel mysteries and investigate all the unsolved riddles! That's exciting! Or I want to rescue someone from a dangerous situation and help someone in desperate need and save someone from a danger! Yay yay!!

I think I want to do a million stupid, nonsensical things, but nobody wants to be my stupid partner-in-crime. I have boring and un-interesting friends.

Somehow the more I think of it, the more I'm having second thoughts about it. Oh gosh. This can't be happening.

This entry is going to become quite emo soon! Okay.


A little boy wearing a Spongebob shirt, and Qiling's fingers.