Another 2am post. I seem to be doing a lot of midnight shifts. But it's okay I like them. I'm very sad now because I'm falling sick! Having a horrible cold. I think it's the Beach Station virus, because Jeremy and Elton are both sick too. I took a flu pill last night and I drank the cough syrup too! But I didn't get a lot better. Only a teenie bit.

Anyway, it was very busy today. Weekends are always crazy. I did ticketing today, and my ticket dispenser jammed a few million times. Stupid cards will come out unprinted and you have to keep trying and trying. There's always a long queue outside my ticketing counter! And I'm having a blocked nose, so I was trying to breathe through my mouth while talking to the guests at the same time, and there were so many people and I have to fix the ticket jams while talking to people!! Then I got a terrible headache. But things were better after 9pm, when dispenser finally decided to behave and there were lesser people.

Saturday nights are probably the most funky nights! Everyone's going clubbing at Cafe Del Mar because the next day is Sunday so they can party for the whole night. Then they will all wear their nice nice clothes and there'll be all the handsome guys and pretty girls!! And half of them are quite hot. Whoo! Then they'll come back by around 11pm to be in time for the last train, and they'll be drunk by then.

There was these 2 guys who requested to take a photo with me! It was totally random. I gave them my email and told them to send the photo to me, so I'll post it up here soon. Hahaha! Then I heard on the walkie that there were people who got so drunk that they puked at Sentosa Station. And there were people (most probably drunk too) at our Beach Station taxi stand playing with hoola hoops. Haha there were a lot of weird incidents la! Saturday nights are funky.

I'm very sad that I didn't follow my dinner schedule today! I actually planned to have MacDonalds for dinner today and Burger King tomorrow, and I even told Shermin about it! I was eagerly looking forward to my break okay! But when it was break I happily forgot all about going back to Vivo to get my Macs, and I was halfway to Koufu food court before I remembered!! I'm very sad!!

I'm feeling sick. It was Hui Mian, Vincent and me on the midnight shift tonight. It'll be the three of us again tomorrow. I'm going to take the flu pill again.

I'm so tired and sleepy!! Okay here's a recount of what I did today. I reached home at 2am from the previous day's midnight rover shift. Then I slept from 3am to 6am! Woke up, had breakfast, and reached Beach Station by 7.50am. Shuba wrote "well done" beside my name on the daily deployment list because I was early. Then I was rover again from 8am to 12pm! Lunch break, then work somemore till 4.30pm. Was eagerly counting down off the time with Subra (different from Shuba!!) till we knock off, but when it was finally 4.30pm, Vincent asked me if I can work one more extra hour for him! All the O'Level people haven't reported for work yet and he was short of manpower. So I grudgingly gave him one more hour of overtime. Then I came home for dinner first. Before going for youth service. Then I joined Biru and Clarissa's cell! Then I came home and here I am.

I caught a cold! Kept sneezing non-stop today, and I'm coughing really bad too. I think it's the result of sleeping for only 3 hours last night. I'm so sad! I don't want to fall sick. I shall go and eat a flu pill later.

Anyway, today was a really good day at work. I think I was very friendly! I really really enjoyed talking to all the different guests today. There were compliments for me okay! YAY. And I went back all the way to Sentosa Station just to fetch a camera pouch which was lost on one of the trains. I was thinking maybe there was a camera in there, but it was just an empty pouch! And and, whenever I tell guests that the orange train is not in service because the driver is on training, most of them will suddenly be afraid and be extremely grateful to not be on the training train.

Ohh I'm very proud of myself too! I remembered to bring my GP and maths notes for Rachel! I've told her since Christmas that I'll give them to her, but I still haven't done so till now! But I remembered today. And I think she got 29 for her O'Levels L1R5 but she don't want to tell me. And she owe me drink.

I'm sneezing really badly. What if I'm too sick to go work tomorrow? I think Vincent will go berserk. Tomorrow's Saturday and I think there are 3 events going on too. That means crowded like hell.

I'm very tired. And I'm sick. Next time there shall be no more back-to-back morning and night shifts for me. I shall not switch shifts with anyone (especially Devin) if this occurs! Okay. I shall go get medicine for my nose and get some rest. I want to watch Powerpuff Girls tomorrow morning!

Ooh! Midnight shift again today! It's past 2am now. My goodness. And I've got to be at work again at 8am later. That means I'll have to be awake before 6am. That means about 3 or 4 hours of sleep. That means less than my desired 8 hours of sleep. It's all Devin's fault! I wasn't supposed to be working crazy back-to-back midnight and morning shifts, but he switched with me cos he has something on. Weh!! I think I'm going to be really tired. There's youth service after work somemore!! OH NOO.

Today was fun!! Both me and Jeremy were on the midnight shift, so we decided to meet up and go play around in Sentosa before we start work. We met Irin at the office, and she accompanied us to go play too! She's our IC for the night anyway. We went for a ride on the Sky Tower! Then we went to play Luge. Irin crashed into one of the safety barriers!! She just sped off at top speed in the beginning, didn't bother to turn or brake, and she bumped straight into the barrier right at the start. HAHAHA.

Shariffah's last day at work today. Me and Jeremy went to get a teddy bear for her at Vivo. Then a large group of them went to the Luge after their work, but not me cos I was working already. So sad! I think it's always depressing when someone is working for their last day. I'm going to miss her. And what's horrifying is that I'm the next one on schedule to quit.

I met my eyecandy today!! She was with her friend, and there was no one else but me and her and her friend on the platform! I didn't dare look at her cos I was very shy. But we waved at each other! Whee! Then later on in the night, more of her friends came as they were all on their way home. One of the girls was Jeremy's friend, so he went to help me get more info about my eyecandy!! Turns out they're all working at Sakae Sushi along the beach!! Jeremy told his friend that I liked my eyecandy!!! OH NOOO what if she finds out!!!

OH OH. I did something very stupid and embarrassing today. I bumped into one of the pillars on the train platform!! I didn't look where I was going and I walked straight into the pillar. And the pillar was semi-hollow or something, because there was a very loud THUD sound! Then everybody on the station turned and looked at me!!! Oh gosh how embarrassing is that! My whole head was shaky for 20 minutes after that knock okay.

Elton and me were looking at all the pretty girls again today! There were these 2 cute Japanese tourists who were trying to ask us directions, but we couldn't speak Jap and they couldn't speak English very well. Then Elton blatantly told me (in front of the two tourists) that he thinks they're cute! We followed them all the way up to the train platform okay!!! HAHAHA!! Then he cheated my feelings. He said there was a pretty girl outside our Station, so I pretended that I wanted to throw rubbish just to get a look. The "girl" was like, some guy okay!! Her arms and legs were MUSCULAR like she took steroids or something, and she looks like a guy. Oh gosh.


Me, Irin and Jeremy on the Luge. And the funky lady working there too. I like all the Luge people. Elton and me thinks that Luge guys and girls are the hottest staff working along the beaches.

I'm not working today! But it's pretty boring cos I spent it mostly on sleeping. Ever since I finished A'Levels last year, I must sleep a minimum of 8 hours a day!! Last time I can survive for 2 months on 4 hours of sleep everyday. But sleeping is now a very important routine in my life. Hee hee hee!! The past week I've been sleeping like 6 or 7 hours everyday, and that is not enough! So today I slept for a total of 13 hours (so far) to compensate for all the one or two hours lack of sleep on the days where I didn't get my full 8 hours.

You know, I always pooh-pooh Kai Jie when he ridicules me about my crazy sleeping habits. He always reprimands me when I go to school with like, 3 or 4 hours of sleep the night before and I end up like a dead zombie. And since I normally do that most of the times, he scolds me practically everyday. But now I see the wisdom of his advice. You must get enough sleep everyday to grow and be healthy.

Despite it all, I'm still every bit a night-owl. HOOT HOOT! I'm most alert and most alive after 10pm and all the way till 4am! Yay that's why I like all the night shifts at work. And, I still do not have an established sleeping routine after so many years. I know some friends who sleep religiously from 10pm to 6am the next day, and it's habitual for them because they've been doing it everyday. Well, I certainly don't!! I don't want to be governed by strict sleeping times. I sleep whenever I like! Most of the time I choose to stay awake till very late into the night, and sleep until it's afternoon the next day. Or I take afternoon naps. Whichever is good, as long as I get 8 hours every day and 56 hours a week.

Okay. I shall blog about work last night! Was platform rover all the way till past midnight, together with Irin who was IC for the night and with Jeremy at ticketing. There isn't a lot of people left in Sentosa after 8pm! On a weekday, that is. So I watched them rehearsing for the new water show again! Haiya they are rehearsing like almost every night. I'm more or less super familiar with the story plot and all the water/fire/lights effects. But it's still spectacular.

I didn't see my eyecandy!! But I saw her friends! Does that count?? Weh. Jeremy keeps pestering me to ask for her number. But I'm VERY SHY. You cannot anyhow go asking for a girl's contact!! Whee. Azliza and Lavanniah came back after their work to keep me company at the train platform. For Az, it was to suit her ulterior motives la hahahaha!

OHH me and Az saw a huge container ship make a detour for somewhere else!! Everyday at work we see many many ships anchoring out there in the open sea (because we're at Beach Station). And everyday there's at least like one or two gigantic cargo ships that anchor just about a kilometre out from Siloso Beach! I've seen ships from all over the world already, and I've seen those holiday cruise ships too! Yesterday we saw this huge ship belonging to Maersk Sealand lift its anchor and speed out towards Indonesia. It's a marvellous sight I tell you!! The ship is so enormous that it doesn't look capable of even floating. But when it decides to let loose its nautical horsepower, the huge ship is as graceful and elegant as can be.

I'm eating the biscuits now that Su Kai brought back from Hokkaido! VERY NICE. The packaging is in my favourite shade of pink. OHHHH. I got myself a new wallet too! Shopping at Vivo is pretty cool. I like my new wallet! It's dark olive green and it's got a funky strap strap strap thing.


The Hokkaido biscuits


My bag, Sentosa nametag, new wallet and the book I'm reading now.

This will be the third time that I'm blogging on Monday, February 5, 2007. Haha it's not intentional. I just happened to be blogging at weird timings.

I went back to Sentosa today! On my off day! My mum was extremely incredulous to hear about where I disappeared to. Now she's afraid that I'll follow the "family tradition" and go full-time at Sentosa when I graduate from university. For your information, my parents were both working at Sentosa before they eventually married, and my mum quitted after I was borned I think, while my dad is still there after 20 plus plus years.

Anyway, there were me, Shariffah, Hui Mian and Jeremy! Vincent helped us pull strings with the Luge people, so we all got the complimentary 3 free rides on the Luge and Skyride. It was really fun! Basically we sat on the chair-lifts all the way up, then zoomed down on the luge. Repeat that procedure for 2 more times. My first time playing the luge! I've sat on those chair-lifts with Wayne before, but not the luge.

Controlling it was super easy, cos it was a bit like riding a bike. Except that I'm hurtling downhill at about 40km/h. Or what I judge of it la. Went down the same race-course 3 times! There was once when I negotiated a turn so steeply that I was 2 inches away from the safety barrier, but I overtook Shariffah with that maneouvre. We told Hui Mian that she doesn't need her helmet. Jeremy got stranded in the bushes once!! HAHAHA!!! Whee and we were quite crazy on the Skyride. Fun!

Then we met up with Vincent again, and Lavaniah (after her work) to go have ice cream at New Zealand Natural along Siloso Beach. Shariffah's last day at Beach Station this Thursday cos she's flying off to study elsewhere. Then Lavaniah and Shariffah went off first, while the rest of us went for MacDonald's dinner at Harbourfront Centre.

Irin is back from Hong Kong! Yay! I'm going to be working with her and Jeremy till past midnight tomorrow.


Jeremy, Shariffah and Hui Mian, and me taking the photo while we were on the Skyride.


Each of us taking one chair-lift to ourselves.


Beach Station from the Skyride view!! NICE NICE!!


Ice cream, with Lavaniah and Vincent too.


With Jeremy!

There's more pictures. Okay to bed I go.

I'm happy! Okay I'm quite happy, at least for now. I just woke up! Time now is way past 1pm! I love it when I manage to sleep through the whole morning and I wake up in the middle of the day!! Whoopee! That means no more morning! I'm just in time for lunch also.

Not working today. But I'm going back to Sentosa later to play! Vincent called me to go play luge with him and Shariffah. I think more people are going too! So disgusting right!! I'm still going Sentosa even on my off days. But it's for leisure and recreational purposes, so that makes it up. I remember Shanaz telling me (during our training modules) that working at Sentosa is not really working, it's more fun and play than work. Well after like 3 or 4 weeks spent at Beach Station, I think I totally agree. I've learnt many valuable lessons and how to operate what or what to do or what else!

Oh oh oh today is pay day! YAY!! Go check my bank account later.

I just bumped into my stack of GP notes meant for Rachel. I told her that I'll pass them to her one day, but I keep forgetting!! AARGH. I must remember to bring it the next time I'm seeing her.

Another 3am in the morning. Yawn. This time round I'm really tired. But I can't seem to find the urge to sleep because my mind is full of things. I'm pondering about important issues in my life now. Haha I've just come off the end of some important decisions made in the past month or two, and now I've got a different set of crossroads to choose from again.

Okay, let's blog about work today. I was on ticketing today!! Or rather, yesterday, since it's already past 3am now. It was the first time in ten million days that the ticket dispenser didn't have any jam tickets in a shift!! From what I heard, the ticket dispenser jammed many many times during the day. Jeremy and Hui Mian had many many jammed tickets. But when I took over from 6pm, and from then on till all the way past midnight, I didn't encounter any ticket jams! It must be my really really good day.

But the TSM hanged once during my shift. When I was on break, TSM showed that "error" message and shut down automatically. So that means I have to print two Z-reports to account for all the money and transaction details. Shuba wrote a long long story to try and account for all the weird things she did! She cashed out my sales money, then logged in again, then don't know whatever else rubbish she did when the TSM hanged. I was away on break you see! So technically, I didn't have a single fault while I was on ticketing. Things go right when Guan You is around. Whee.

Oh. I broke my own sales record too! I earned the highest sum of sales money I ever did since I first started work! Hooray! It really was a good day. No ticket jams, no major trouble, and highest personal sales record. Closing the station with Shuba was a breeze.

I met my Tourism Acad eyecandy today!! It's been a long time since I last met her. I think about a week? I saw her going up the escalator from my ticketing counter, so I took the lift up to the train platform just to go say hi! She saw me and waved at me!! Then she was waiting for the train, and I felt very embarassed because I cannot keep looking at her, so I pretended to talk to Elton (who was doing rover at the platform). Hahaha he said the moment he saw a red-haired girl, he had a sort of hunch that she might be my eyecandy. And 2 seconds later I appeared up from the lift! Then the whole time she was looking at me I think! She waved goodbye again when the train arrived, then when she was in the train she kept looking at me!! OH NOOO I think she probably discovered that I'm secretly admiring her!! But I still think she's very pretty!!

They had another rehearsal at the new musical fountain. Twice somemore!! The entire area is still under construction, but it's looking more and more complete every day. The title of the water show is Songs of the Sea!! The water jets and lights are very nice. Looks abit like the Las Vegas water show. And the fire balls segment is very very powerful and intimidating. WAH. I made friends with some of the actors involved in the show too! They are all funky fun-loving people.

I had 4 crazy whackos who came up to my ticketing counter and requested for "four tickets worthy enough for four avatars". They insisted I call them avatars because they believe it is their second life on this planet. I think they're drunk.

I'm off on Monday. And Wednesday. This week is not too hectic for me.

3am in the morning. Had work till past midnight again today! I love working the midnight shifts. Got free transport home, and I'm actually awake, alert and attentive enough to do everything! Haiya I'm a night-owl la. I don't do mornings well. I prefer to sleep through my mornings and don't bother with it.

Let's see. Today was a busy weekend! Saturday nights are one of the hippest times at the beach. That's because everyone goes home late on Saturday nights, or they're going over to the new Cafe Del Mar! All the clubbers dressed in nice shirts and short skirts. So it's actually quite a headache today. And TSM is lousy. Ticket jams were extremely frequent today. I wasn't on ticketing, I was doing rover! They didn't line up the queue poles today because we didn't have enough, so everybody is sticking their heads out for the train to whack them again. "Hi sir, for your own safety, please do not lean over into the train platform, thank you."

And and, they ran a full rehearsal of the new musical fountain/water show tonight!! All the guests on the platform were willing to miss their trains just to watch the show. Me and Shariffah didn't care about our rover duties and we happily watched it too! It's very nice!!! I like the concept of having a musical fountain just by the beach. The show is more interactive now, because there's an actual group of actors hired for the show. The lights and laser are cool enough. The water jets are awesome! Music is catchy! Only thing is, the fountain doesn't have those swivel swivel jets. All the water jets are either spouting up straight or in one fixed direction only.

I really liked the show! The entire rehearsal run-through was good enough. And there's fire balls too! There's this part of the show where they kept shooting fire balls one after another into the sky, and the effect (together with music) was brilliant. I like the Munneru Valiba song best! And I like the YAY YAY YAY, WOO WOO WOO ending song!! But I think Oscar the whatever-fish looks like a bat. Ahh. But first I must go watch the current musical fountain show!!

Shariffah got so excited over the fountain rehearsal! And can you believe it, it's her first night shift at Beach Station?? She started work like 2 months earlier than me and she's never stayed past 7pm before. I'm quite used to them testing out the music and sounds and lights and waters at night, but she was absolutely ecstatic to watch everything.

I like meeting all the funky clubbing people at night. They are the most boisterous bunch of people that you can meet at work. There was this group of African-American guys who did an impromptu rap while waiting for the train! One guy was filming a video on his camera, and the other 2 of them were just chanting words out like a bullet train. Don't know what in the world they were rapping, but it sounded way cool.

Oh oh! There was a dramatic case today that involved the police! All of us were on alert for a guy who was on the police suspect list because he slashed someone at Siloso Beach. Then at around 6pm, one of the train driver supervisor spotted someone on the blue train at our station that looked like the suspect! So we radioed all the other Sentosa Express stations to tell them to look out too! Then apparently they stopped the entire train system for 10 minutes, while the police were investigating at Sentosa Station! Could see the trains stop at Imbiah Station and not moving. I was rover so I easily caught up with all these drama! Didn't know whether the police got their man in the end or not though. But it's so dramatic right!!!

And I found out that Debbie is not from Taiwan or Hong Kong or anywhere else out of Singapore! I initially assumed that she was, because the other day she was touring Sentosa with some of her relatives from Taiwan. But she's Singaporean! Hahaha.

Okie. I've got ticketing past midnight again tomorrow. I like ticketing! And midnight! It's just that TSM will jam a billion times. It's happening on a daily basis now.

It's been a busy busy day today! In a short synopsis, it was work, dinner, youth service and cell groups! Tired. I think I'm really getting old. I'm not used to such a frenzied lifestyle anymore. Haha!

Alright, first on the list. Work today! Platform rover from 8am to 4.30pm. I was quite dead in the morning because I hate mornings. But by afternoon, I was left very tired. Everyone on the train platform wants their heads snapped off by the oncoming train. Absolutely idiotic!! I don't see why it's such an automatic reaction to lean outwards into the train tracks when the train arrives. I'm going to tell Vincent and Shuba to hang some bloody, messy, mangled decapitated heads just above the train tracks. Then people will stop leaning over.

Anyway, I'm going to be on TV again! Hahaha! Mediacorp sent this small team down for filming for some youth internship program or something. They chose Zifu! So I had to pretend to teach him how everything on the train platform operates, whatever crap. Sounds quite okay right? But I have to speak in Chinese! And Zifu is like so much more senior on the Sentosa Express team than me. Anyway the program is in June, so me on TV is still far away.

After work, I went for dinner with Shermin! Her slightly belated birthday present, since I promised her a dinner treat! We went to Pastamania! And I gave her one of the green Sentosa tap cards which I stole a long long time ago. Hahaha. Then I paid my NETS because I wanted to see how the girl will handle NETS transactions! I recently learnt how to do NETS and credit card transactions on that swipe swipe machine. So cool!! The other day I did a NETS transaction all by myself! Everything was correct except that my input of the reference number was wrong.

After dinner I had to rush for worship practice. But we met George and Kim!! Okay Shermin probably don't know them, but George was my old Catholic High classmate and Kim is his girlfriend. I can't remember how I met Kim. But never mind, it's been quite some time since I last saw them!

Worship prac was good. Youth service, then cell groups! Everybody split into their new cell groups today. Sort of a major reshuffle. Me and Aaron had no proper cell groups, because he's going to Australia in a few weeks time and I'm going army too. So we decided to roam around and visit all the new cell groups! How fun is that?? Hahaha! Okay. And we helped all the cell groups (except Matt's group) to take new cell group photos. Then walking to the bus-stop abit, before home!!

Photos! Yay!


What Shermin and me had for dinner.


Aaron! I think this pose makes him look good.


With Daphne!


With Shermin! One of the few photos in which she's smiling properly.


And and, Shi Hui and Ben Ng trying some HEE HEE HEE look.

There's more photos here. For those cell group leaders who wants their photos, and for all the other people who's reading this and have nothing else to do.

I'm utterly exhausted. Work today was very satisfying, but very energy-sapping. I like Siti Eyshah, but she's going back to Visitor Arrival Centre after her 2-day "loan". Somehow we've managed to cope without a proper IC looking after all of us.

I helped a lot of people today!! It always gives me a sense of fulfilment when I've helped a guest plan his or her day. I met this girl from Vietnam who promised to give me a tour if I'm there. Although I don't have her contact number. I like meeting Americans because they're always among the funkiest people around. We had a lot of British tourists today. And everytime Shariffah or Siti or Azliza need help with tourists from China, they refer them to me!! I spoke to a lot of China tourists today.

OHH. There was this China tourist who lost his wife's pouch at Palawan Beach, so me and Shuba helped him file a loss report. Then Shuba decided to call the Rangers to check with their lost and found items, and under extremely fortunate circumstances, the pouch has been found! So I accompanied that man all the way to the Ranger Station, helped him deal with all the paperwork and procedures and verification, before returning back to Beach Station! So cool right? I got to sit on the Blue Line bus for one entire round. He's very lucky to get all the items in the pouch back! There was a phone in there and $170 in cash!! WAH.

I sat on the Skyride today! Wayne's crazy idea. I had twenty minutes left during my break, and he was half an hour early for work. So we hopped over to the Luge and Skyride, and the nice guy working there let us in for free. Our original idea was to take the Skyride up and then go back down in the luge! But we didn't want to push our luck trying to get more free rides. Enjoyed the view! It's abit scary to be dangling your legs like 5 storeys above ground, but the view is awesome. Then we went back from Imbiah Station.

I know this sounds a bit stupid, but it was my first visit to Imbiah Station! I've never been there before even though I'm part of the Sentosa Express team. All I've seen of the station is the train platform, and I know some of their staff over there. The station's so cramped! Hmm I still like my Beach Station best. And today is the first time I've taken the Blue Line bus for one entire round! Normally I'll tell guests to take the bus to wherever blah blah if they want to get to somewhere, but I've never experienced it myself before!! All these while I'm giving directions without knowing what really goes on. Now I have a clearer perspective!

Elton and me spent the morning looking out for pretty girls again. Hahaha and he managed to cut a 10 cent coin cleanly into half! Used one of those surgical scissors from the first-aid box. Awesome! I've got one half. That means 5 cents.

I had to report for work at 8am this morning. Woke up at 6am and was at MacRitchie bus-stop by 7am. I felt like I was going for school! I saw all the Hwa Chong people on the bus. I saw a few Nanyang Girls students whom I recognise by face, because I've seen them take the same bus to school for two whole years. And then I saw NJ students at MacRitchie bus-stop! It feels so weird not being part of them.

Tomorrow's going to be a crazy day. It's 8am in the morning again. I must be asleep by 10pm later. Was so tired on the way home that I overslept and woke up at some unfamiliar bus-stop.

Ticketing today! My TSM jammed a few times again today. Had 9 jammed cards in total! But thankfully there were no long queues or large throngs of people at all today. And I handled the ticket jams all by myself okay! I'm very proud of myself that I never panic or anything! I simply removed the jammed ticket, talked rot to the guests who were waiting patiently, and kept trying until the ticket printed! YAY. I'm a superhero.

We had a new IC today. Siti Eyshah from Visitor Arrival Centre I think. She's just here for a couple of days to replace Irin who is happily in Hong Kong now. We all like her because she's so much more lax with us! Hahaha!

Anyway, we had 25 VIPs coming over to our Station to try the trains today. All our Admissions big bosses were here at our Station to facilitate things! Had to ensure everything to be smooth and efficient for the VIPs. They got Preena and Yi Na (from Imbiah Station) to come here to help out, then they turned both escalators to travel upwards, then they disallowed all other guests to enter the station, then they prepared all the special blue tap cards for the VIPs, then they even prepared an exclusive blue train for them!! We were on absolute alert for 2 hours. And when the VIPs came, they were whisked away into the blue train in 5 minutes flat. We didn't say anything more than "Hello welcome to Beach Station" to them! The worst thing is, the VIPs don't even look important!! They were dressed shabbily in outdated fashions!! Ehh okay. So much hustle and bustle for a few old uncles!!!

Something funny. Hui Mian was doing rover on the train platform today, and she called for Vincent through the walkie all of a sudden. So Vincent asked her what was the trouble, and guess what she said on air? "There's a topless guy on the train platform!" HAHAHAHA!! We don't allow half-naked guests to board our trains, but somehow that guy managed to get in without me or Xin Yan spotting him. And Hui Mian was afraid to go stop him because she said he's very hairy. HAHAHA so she called for Vincent!!

Ooh! I saw David Lim today! He was on training for his Sentosa job too. I think today is his module lessons. Then on the way home, I saw Lauren and Mer at the MacRitchie bus-stop! Lauren gave me a big hug. I miss her! And Tis and Mer. My favourite NJ clique, although I'm not part of it.

And and, I've found someone to ogle at girls with me! Haha the whole of this morning, Elton and me were pointing out cute girls to each other. And since both of us were on ticketing shifts today, we just need to sit at the counter and we'll get to see all the pretty girls walking past! Yay! Both of us have rather similar definitions of beauty, although he doesn't think my eyecandy is pretty. BLAH.

Gotta sleep. I need to be at work at 8am tomorrow.

No work today! I'm so sad when I'm finally away from work, I'm so tired that I don't even have the energy to go out. Not that there's a lot of people to go out with either. Everyone's busy at work! I slept a lot today. More than 12 hours I think. I went out for lunch with my mum. I watched television! Something that I haven't done in a very long time.

I finished reading Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller! We did a small excerpt of the drama in Literature class with Whitby last year. Happened to spot the book in the library the other day, so I borrowed it. I think it deserves its accolades as one of the best plays ever to be written. It swings between all the extremes of hope and loss, happiness and anguish, dreams and reality. I like the fluidity of time throughout the play! Willy Loman's present happenings and his own reminiscience are so intertwined it makes for brilliant dramatic effects. Willy Loman reminds me of King Lear. Haha! Except that I think he's a deluded and sententious old man who's hopelessly caught in his ideals. Other than that, it's a tender, despairing, hopeful and haunting tragedy (all at the same time) of the Loman family. Ahh I can go on waxing lyrical about how majestic the play is, but you have to read it for yourself.

I played with my goldfishes today! Yesh I do have goldfishes, in addition to my hamster Nutseed. I don't really care about them, because most of the time it's my dad who feeds them and cleans their fish tank. But today I decided to go spend some time with them. I fed them! And I tried dipping my hand into the fish tank to try and get them to nibble my hand, but they were all cowering in fear in one corner. Dumb ol' fishes. But I shall spend more time with them from now on!

But I still love my Nutseed more. She's absolutely adorable. And she's the most self-obsessed clean freak in the family. My mum says I should emulate her good qualities.

I want to go to the Underwater World! Haven't been there for at least 10 years I think! I can't even remember my last visit. That day at work I saw this kid who's got one of those biting shark thingy thingy. SO COOL!! Oh my gosh I also want! Annie said the souvenir and gift shop is located inside in Underwater World, so that means I have to pay for the admission costs. It's $19.50 okay! My crap I'm not paying that much just to go in and buy some toy. Okay la it's a joint price with Dolphin Lagoon. I want to go Underwater World cos I haven't been there for donkey years. And I've never been to Dolphin Lagoon before.

I want to go get one of those orange Sentosa Express toy trains. The colour's a bit ambiguous. It looks yellow, but it's too dark a hue to be a proper yellow, so it looks more orange instead. Anyway the official Sentosa statement said the train colour is orange. But sometimes OCC will radio us saying "yellow train going back to depot"!! Haiz so confusing. I've been calling it yellow train all these while, so I shall be proper and call it the ORANGE TRAIN. Yay! There's a promotion on all the toy trains till March, so it gives me plenty of time to go get one of them!

I want to get a new wallet too! I want a funky funky one, but I want a proper wallet. I haven't had a "normal" wallet for about 2 years now already! If you know me well you'll know what I'm talking about. Hello Kitty tin cans, Kogepan and Cinnamonroll big pouches. Haha! Time for me to get a new wallet.

I want to take photos of the Merlion walk and the bells! I still haven't done so. I'm beginning to look forward to the bells ringing every quarter of the hour now. It's such a soothing and melodious chime.

I want to get a new bag too!

I'm going to wait till I get my pay first before I go shopping. It's coming soon! Hippee hooray!

I've got work tomorrow. Ticketing from 10am. I hope TSM doesn't jam, or else I'll be in a nasty fix because Irin's on away leave to Hong Kong, so I don't think there's going to be anyone supervising till late afternoon as they're a bit strapped on manpower now. Quite a shame that Irin's away, because I like her working style best! She's very appearance-oriented, so whenever she's at the station, she'll clean the ticketing counter glass panels and the tables and everything. She'll arrange all the things to her convenience, but everything still remains clutter-free. And she's so fixated on personal appearance and grooming that she forces all the girls working at our Station to wear light make-up! And she sent Jeremy back to Vivo office to iron his uniform once. Hahaha!! Anyway I told her I'll attend her "Irin's one-on-one makeup sessions" if she has one.

Ooh. 2am in the middle of the night!! Just came home from the last ticketing shift at work. It's kinda disturbing. At 12 midnight I could hear the Merlion bells chime out fully. And I was frantically filling up my Brinks forms and counting money and rejected/damaged tickets.

Today was a bad day on ticketing. TSM jammed a million times again! Halfway through a transaction, the dispenser had a jammed ticket. Okay I managed to get it out and it was relatively smooth until a lot more tickets jammed again! Then a tour guide came along with a huge tour group from one of the beach resorts, and told me to print fifty thousand tickets for his tour group because they wanted to go see the musical fountain. Of course TSM had to jam at that crucial moment! Then I was under a lot of stress because the stupid tour guide kept asking me a million questions while I was trying to fix the ticket jams! Things got worse when I accidentally printed service recovery cards instead of complimentary cards, so when Shuba (my IC for the night) came back it was a chaotic frenzy trying to account for all the damaged tickets and void transactions.

I was so stressed!! Ugh. But thanks to Shuba who was very patiently trying to sort everything out in order for me. Bloody stupid tour guide. His huge tour group all queued up orderly, and he's the only rowdy ass thinking he can control everything at the ticketing counter while I was trying to fix TSM. Everything was accounted for in the end! If not I'd probably be in a lot of unnecessary paperwork because administrative regulates that all tickets and transactions must tally.

I like doing ticketing. I've got the fastest fingers for TSM. But I hate the lousy dispenser which keeps jamming. After the dramatic incident, it was an extremely peaceful and trouble-free night. My last transaction was at 9pm! So that means I was slacking for 3 hours with Shuba, talking to ourselves or about her previous job at Jurong Bird Park or blah blah.

I met my eyecandy again today!! Even better, TWICE!! But I think she knows that I'm secretly admiring her or something! Because she kept giggling with her friend and looking at me when she was going up or down the escalators on both occasions. I cannot pretend that I'm shy right?? So I happily waved at her! Then she giggled somemore with her friend. Irin doesn't think she's pretty! Shuba says I go nuts when I see her. BAH I don't care!!

Yay!! Eyecandy!! And my yellow train! Silly things like these that makes me look forward to work.

Oh I saw Atiqah today! She was in Sentosa with Jin Jen and her other Science Centre colleagues, but I didn't meet Jin Jen.

I ate ice cream from 7-Eleven today! Melissa was telling me about eating ice cream from there, and I decided to try too! Our Beach Station 7-Eleven is the only one in the whole of Singapore (I think) that doesn't operate for 24 hours daily!! So weird right??

I told all my ICs that I've decided to stop my job after the first week of March! They're in the midst of planning the March roster and I wanted to give them early notice. 5th of March shall be my last day at Beach Station.

I'm off for tomorrow. Nope, actually I'm off today. Okay okay I'm off on Tuesday, but it's Tuesday now already. Anybody wants to go out?? Although I think I'll be asleep all the way till afternoon. Alright time for bed.

Whoo hoo! Okay here's my daily update of my social and work life. Didn't go church for service this morning. Extremely sleepy from the day before and I've got work at 1.30pm anyway. But I did go out to meet Annie at Ang Mo Kio because her heels broke and she wanted slippers!! So weird. In the end she got her own heels because she got fed up waiting for me. Then took the MRT with her and went for work. Haha I'm sooo glad I'm not on ticketing today. Ticket dispenser jammed a few million times today. Guest Relations, and a few hours of platform rover.

They lined up queue poles across the train platform today! Basically the whole platform was divided into half. One end was for guests who just came up from the escalators and are waiting for the train, while the other is for alighting guests. Then when the train comes, the alighting guests gets shooed off quickly before we release the queue poles for the other crowd to board. Crowd control procedures to deal with all the Sunday crowds. I like the arrangement!! That means I don't have to trouble with annoying guests who keep sticking their heads out in the train's tracks, waiting for the train to snap their heads off.

Oh oh oh! Today is a very very happy day at work! I saw my Tourism Academy eyecandy!! And we even had a decent conversation okay!! We said hello to each other, and I commented on her new red hair! Hahaha actually I saw her red hair on Thursday already, but that was when I was doing ticketing and she didn't see me. So I pretended to be surprised!! And she asked me nice or not!! And then I asked her for her name!! Hahaha she's got a very weird name, even though I have this junior whose name is somewhat like hers. For privacy reasons I shall not post her name here. What if she decides to blog search her name and finds it here??? Then she'll know I'm eyecandying her and that'll be so embarrassing!!

Then Jeremy told me later that he thought he saw my red hair girl!! Haha he's doing rover on top and tried calling me the moment he saw her, but I didn't answer. He told me he was explaining to her why we placed those queue poles to divide the train platform, and she gave him a puzzled look!! Haha so cute! Then we went to the surveillance cameras and rewinded to the time when she entered the Station!! AAAAHHHHHH!!! I can see myself talking to her! I can see her on the escalators! I can see her talking to Jeremy, before the train arrives! And I can see her boarding the train!!!!

Yay. I'm very happy today! I know my eyecandy's name!

Yay!!!

I made a new friend today. Think it's the second or third time I met her, cos she's an Islander and she comes to Sentosa quite often because of that. She's beautiful in an elegant way. Cos she's tall and pretty. And she has very nice curly hair! But too bad she's attached already. Her boyfriend's quite goodlooking too! Maybe she can be my eyecandy too!! Eh but no no cannot cos I think her boyfriend looks like the very jealous kind. And I think my Tourism Acad eyecandy is cuter.

Anyway I talked to a lot of tourists today. Especially when I was doing rover, cos while waiting for the train I got a lot of time to interact with people. I talked to people from France, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, England and a lot more! I like all the kids too. They are mostly apprehensive about talking to strangers, but they will wave back to you shyly if you wave first! There was this kid who bought one of those toy Express trains from the IslandLife shops. He got the purple one! And when the actual, real purple train pulled up in front of him at the Station, he had that awestruck look.

And I taught Devin how to fill up all the Brinks forms! You have to do a lot of paperwork after you finish a ticketing shift because must put the money into a safe and despatch it to somewhere and blah blah. Yay! Irin is going to give me a pay rise hahaha!!

Ooh. There was trouble at musical fountain today. Apparently the 7.40pm show stopped halfway due to technical difficulties. I heard it on the walkie talkie. I think it's probably a pandemonium!! I wouldn't want to be at the 7.40pm musical fountain show, and on a Sunday somemore! And anyway, here's a little insider trivia for you. The current musical fountain is going to close soon. There'll be a new fountain show by the Beach Station that's opening in April (I think). Heard from Devin that there's fireworks and blasts of fire! They were testing the water jets and lasers and lights and music today and at night. It's funky. There's the "Munneru Valiba" song sung in a purely tantalising Indian voice.

Okie. I'm on ticketing till past midnight tomorrow. Free taxi back home! I hope there'll be no tickets jamming. And I hope to see my eyecandy tomorrow!


Annie and me. My eyes look so small for some strange reason.

Today is 10th official day at work. One thing I like about the 10am to 6.30pm work shift is that I get to assume all the different duties. Guest Relations, rover and ticketing. All in one day. It's necessary because you need to cover for various colleagues knocking off or going for breaks, and it's not that boring because you're constantly on the move.

But I did mostly ticketing for today. Weekend crowds got me very flustered. TSM (ticket selling machine) died on me when I was most busy!! There was a long queue at my ticketing counter because this huge tour group from Shangri-La Hotel wanted their complimentary passes. Guests staying at the various hotels or chalets in Sentosa gets free passes. And it's quite a slow process because I must type in their room numbers and TSM takes darn long to print 3 tickets in a row. Halfway through, the program just hung! Crap. We allowed all the guests eligible for the complimentary rides to go in without the passes.

I'm tired and sleepy and grumpy. Didn't sleep well last night. People kept asking dumb questions when they can just find out from the island guide. Or stupid tourists who repeats their original question 5934 times after you've just explained yourself thoroughly and clearly. I sort of raised my voice a bit too loudly while explaining myself to death to a China tourist. And when I repeated myself for the final time, he still had that blank look. UGHH.

I put a box of tissue in our back-of-house. It's got "DONATED BY GUAN YOU" on it.

And, happy birthday to Shermin! She was working at Beach Station today too. So sad right working on your birthday!! Hahaha I stole one of those green passes for you. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOOD GOOD FRIEND!!

Need to sleep. I've got a huge pimple on my face.

Ticketing again today. It's funny. I've been working there for almost two weeks only, and I feel like the Beach Station is a place where I've been there for ages. I'm happy working there. I know most of the SOPs of most of the duties. I recognise familiar faces and know most of the staff, including my colleagues. I feel like an experienced veteran. HAHAHA! Did I sound too arrogant?? Noo it's not meant to be that way. I just feel like I've made myself very comfortable at Beach Station.

Anyway, Fridays are one of the better weekdays cos there's more people than the normal weekday. This morning there were a lot of kids in yellow teeshirts running about! Nanyang Primary organised some Amazing Race thingy at Sentosa. The whole morning, we had primary 6 kids that zoomed around asking us for assistance with their questions. What is the legendary walk with a mystery? Haha! Oh oh! Melissa was working at the information counter today. She's pretty! Me and her and Vincent and Shariffah were talking to yellow teeshirt kids the whole morning.

I saw my dad for the first time on Sentosa since I started working! Okay I see him like practically everyday on all those advertisements. But today he drove down to the Station in his buggy. Then he saw Vincent. So they started chatting abit, until my dad asked what time I was working till. Vincent got so puzzled that he asked me "who is he (pointing to my dad) to you?" Hahaha!! He hadn't caught on that my dad works at Sentosa too! Yay!! Oh I found out today that my dad's name appears on the list of SENTOSA PHONE DIRECTORY to all the various important departments. Under Admission Operations, there is an Animal Unit sub-category, and my dad's name and his designation (Executive!) and his office phone extension are all there. Wah! My daddy so big there okay!! Hahaha!

Ticketing today was another breeze. Nothing went wrong! Perhaps the only time I was shaky when handling money, was when somebody gave me $50 and I have to search for $44 change for him. And Irin taught me how to do credit card transactions.

Met Debbie again. Hee hee I got to know her better and I taught her how to play the pre-recorded messages! But she got transferred to Sentosa Station later. Subra is our new colleague at Beach now.

And and, I didn't get to see my Tourism Academy eyecandy today! That's not all. I got teased somemore!! I told Shariffah and Jeremy to inform me immediately if they see a quite short girl with dyed long red hair and they have to let her out cos Tourism Acad people gets to ride the trains for free (therefore she won't have one of those pass). Yar they did tell me of a red-haired girl who went into the toilets. I was so excited okay! Irin gave me permission to desert my ticekting counter to go see her, but when she came out of the toilets, it turned out to be some OLD AUNTIE who's tall with short spunky hair that's super striking red. EEK!! Jeremy toyed with my feelings!! And Shariffah's no better!! To think I was so excited. Blah.

I saw Yan Peng today! She had huge shades on so I didn't recognise her at first. I saw Keren yesterday! I forgot who she was entirely already, but she reminded me that she knew me and I knew her too, so yup. I was supposed to see Atiqah last Sunday but I saw Ms Kao and her family instead. I was supposed to see Annie today but she went playing at Underwater World.

After work I was actually meeting Shermin for dinner, but she had to play for worship last minute, so dinner's cancelled. I rushed down for youth service! During cell group we were taking pictures for fun. Biru's got the exact same camera with me! She copycat!


Cell group! Minus Rachel Kwan.


I like this picture of me!


Shi Hui! Whom I haven't seen for quite long.


Biru! My awesome childhood friend for 14 years plus plus plus. You're on your own now! Hahahaha you're the chief reason why I'm stepping down!!!

The rest of the photos, here.

8th official day at work! When I reported for work today, I noticed two huge LATE acknowledgments on my punch card!! I'm so traumatised okay! I was late for like, 3 or 4 minutes on both occasions only!! But never mind, I've resolved to be early for work for at least 15 minutes from now on!

Anyway, today was ticketing from 10am to 6.30pm for me today. It was a good day cos I didn't have a single screw-up while I was on that ticketing machine! I'M SO BORED OKAY! I feel so trapped in that small little box counter. I like to go out and do Guest Relations and talk to people. I don't mind Rover too cos at least I have the huge train platform all to myself to handle. But ticketing behind glass panels makes me feel contrived and restricted!

I tried to escape from the stupid counter, but Irin caught me twice! It's such an UGHH feeling! It was one of my hyperactive, crazy days, but I'm stuck behind some lousy counter. In the end I resorted to greeting a loud "HELLO!!!" and waving maniacally at everyone who passed by. If people don't want my attention, I want their attention! I think I look like a fool. Nobody really buys tickets from me anyway. I'm giving away complimentary tickets most of the time!

I think I'm going to die tomorrow. Ticketing on the same shift. When I'm bored out of my life, I monitor the 8 surveillance cameras that we have on our entire Beach Station. The whole station is so big okay, but 8 cameras are enough to make sure that almost every spot is caught on surveillance! And OCC (some control centre for our trains and stations) are monitoring it constantly too. Oh oh! I get to play all those pre-recorded "please give way" and "train out of service" messages too!

I've got an interesting encounter with a group of Japanese girls today. They wanted to take to Blue Line bus to go somewhere, so I was leading them down the bus bay. Along the way one of them tried asking me whether they have to pay for the bus ride or not, but I couldn't understand them!! It wasn't until one of them took out her wallet, showed me a $10 note and gave the quizzical look, then I shook my head and said "FREE FREE FREE". Then I just happened to see one of those Sentosa advertisements with my dad on it, so I pointed him out to the girls and told them proudly that that's my dad! And they started to "oooh-aahhh" and one of them said he's handsome!! HAHAHA so fun!

Yup. Shermin was working at the information counter today! And there were three new people (Debbie, Subra and Alicia) who came to our Beach Station for a tour. And I saw my Tourism Academy eyecandy again today!! She didn't notice me even though I was waving like mad from my ticketing counter. But she dyed her long hair red!! It's a striking, deep-hue red! She's so pretty can!!

After work today, I went for dinner with Xin Yan! Went back to Vivo office to punch out and to change, then we took the train back to the Beach Station to go eat at Koufu. I had ice kacang for dinner?? Blee. Oh oh! I found out that she was band major of school's band!! So cool right?? Then we went around pretending to be tourists, and creating hell for our colleagues still on work. Haha!

Then I went back to Vivo to meet Shermin after her work shift. She's nuts okay!! She scribbled so many nonsense on her Sentosa island guide because people has been at her booth all day asking for directions. Whoever does that?? She likes tugging at my sleeve. And I have 11111 hugs on my hugs counter now!! Gosh! Dumb dumb 1 and 2!! We rushed back to find out that band practice just ended.

There's four different-coloured trains available on the Sentosa Express! Yellow, purple, blue and green. I like the yellow train the most because I think it brings out the spirit of Sentosa best. Although all the trains are similar in design and pattern and prints.

Photos time!


My dinner with Xin Yan!


Hui Mian trapped behind that restrictive ticketing counter.


Surveillance!


New musical fountain under construction by the beach. The picture's so dark though.


Shermin looks like secretary!


Xin Yan!


My favourite yellow train!


Inside the train with Alicia and Debbie, and my dad's advertisement with the flying eagle.


One of the funky train drivers.


Huge billboard for the Sentosa Express. I like!! It cheers me up.

The rest of the photos here.

I think other than working, I don't have much of a life now. I'm so sad! I'm like, at the Beach Station 6 days a week, and I spent my only off day at home slacking!! I should be out hanging about somewhere or shopping or doing something!! Sigh. If not for the fact that I'm having fun at work, I think I'm seriously some boring mule who's got nothing interesting in my life at all.

Anyway, I had terrible nightmares last night!! I dreamt that I was doing train platform rover and someone's arm was broken because he got hit by the oncoming train! Then Judith came down and she had to fill up some accident report thing thing. Then I got transferred to ticketing. Which was no better because I dreamt that I lost a huge sum of money! Then Irin was scolding me like shit and she called the Rangers down to arrest me!!

Oh my gosh. When I start having work-related nightmares, it's not a very good sign. And I'm doing ticketing tomorrow!! What if the Rangers really come and arrest me??

OOH tomorrow's going to be an exciting day!! I'm doing ticketing from 10am to 6.30pm. Then I want to go to the musical founitain after work! I shall go back to the office and punch out first. Then I'll go fight with the crowds to watch the 7.40pm musical fountain show! I haven't watched it since don't know when. When was the last time I watched Kiki the Monkey?? Then I want to visit the Enchanted Tembusu Grove too! Is that still open? I want to do so many things! I seriously haven't visited Sentosa (other than the beaches) for so long. The entire island is sooo much nicer now.

Okay! Tomorrow shall be my EXPLORE SENTOSA day. Haven't found people to go with yet, but I shall try asking some of my colleagues tomorrow! Oh Shermin's working at the membership info counter at Beach Station tomorrow too! Everyone whom I've met so far working at that counter is weird.

I can't wait!! I want to go see the musical fountain! Do you know that they are building a new musical fountain just beside my Beach Station? When I'm working on the night shifts, I can see them test-run the water jets for about half an hour each night. It's quite nice! The show will be located at an amphitheatre at the beach and the water will be spurted 40 feet into the sky from the sea. I think there are going to be fireworks too cos I saw the occasional fireworks testing too! YAY! So I must take this chance to go visit the older musical fountain first before it closes down for the Family/Integrated Resorts. I'm so excited!!

Oh oh!! I'm going to try and search for the bells that chimes every quarter of the hour too! I could hear them very clearly, especially during night shifts when there's lesser hustle and bustle. Shanaz told me it's near the Merlion Walk and they're called Carillon bells! The sound of the bells is really quite soothing. The bells follow the Westminster Quarters, which basically chimes two bars of three-four time signature for the first quarter of the hour, and four bars for the second quarter, blah blah. For the geeks, go research that out! Only thing of exception is that the bells don't sound out the hour. There's 2 extra chimes at the second quarter (half-hour) and 4 extra chimes at the fourth quarter (full hour). So cool! I like listening to the bells when I'm on night shift cos it helps me count off the times to the next train arrival. Haha! I shall go search for them tomorrow!!

Annie is going to work at Sentosa too!! Hahaha and Jin Jen and Atiqah wants to work there too, after their Science Centre stint. Yay everyone quick come here and work! And and, Rhoda knows a great deal more about Sentosa than I do. She's an Islander member or something equivalent!! SO COOL!!

Sometimes I feel that things are best kept the way they are now. But other times I feel that I should do something. Ugh. I don't know what I want la. Stupid.

God has been magnificent in this year so far. Things just fall into place so nicely. Opportunities comes nicely when I need them. Situations for me to take control. I'm astounded.

Okie, bedtime! Tomorrow will be an exciting day!

2am in the morning! Okay 2nd day as Rover on the midnight shift. 7th official day at work! It's been one entire week spent at the Beach Station. What can I say? I'm adoring every moment of it! It's perfect as an outdoor, outgoing, outspoken, outstanding job for me. Colleagues are all cute, just like me. The weekday blues are a pity though. So few people compared to the weekends! Eh but it's still Sentosa after all, so we still get a healthy amount of tourists coming in. Busiest moments on weekdays are when one truckload of tourists and the tour guide arrive to mess everything up.

And my walkie talkie! Everytime I send or receive a message on the walkie, I'm very excited okay! My favourite is "Beach Rover sending!", cos that's the reply to answer someone when he calls for you. I think I must have looked very cool. I've got a talkie strapped to the back of my pants. I've got a tiny clip-on speaker on my shirt. I've got a earpiece in my ear. I think I looked like Agent Smith in The Matrix.

As usual, I was eavesdropping on a million walkie conversations cos a lot of departments are also using our channel. Okay la they're mostly work-related or official notifications, but still, the occasional ridiculous message is hilarious! I heard someone say "toilets are jammed, send cleaner". Haha!! OH OH. The entire night, some stupid idiot kept pressing the talk button on their walkie, but never said a word. It's irritating! All you hear is just a series of clicks and beeps and a lot of static. Later on I found out who was responsible. SENTOSA STATION!! Apparently some of them were so bored because there were so few guests, so they decided to have a clicking/beeping marathon. What the hell.

Hmm let's see. Today has been quite okay. A couple left their video camera on one of the trains, so I radioed Sentosa Station and Shao Jie went to get it back for them. A huge group of China tourists stuck their heads out into the train platform when the train was about to leave, and I was in a frenzy trying to prevent an accident. PGD (platform gate doors) didn't close when one of the trains was going back to the depot, and I got a huge fright of my life. Told a woman not to board one of the trains as the driver was on training, and she gleefully smiled at me and said "don't worry, I'm insured, so can I board please?"

Anyway I've established my contacts. I know most of the train drivers and their supervisors now! I know the 7-Eleven people. I know the Coffee Bean people too. I know some Koufu people and the transport people. And the Luge people! And Sakae Sushi people. I know the funky cleaners that come every evening to clean our Station. I know one or two of those hunky, tanned, handsome Beach Patrol people!

Okay this is a trivial comment. I think the music is irritating! There's only like 15 or 20 tracks that keeps repeating itself every hour. Haha somewhat reminds me of KAP music. It's controlled by the Sentosa office I think, so the entire island's PA system is playing the same songs! There's even a speaker along one of the beach walkways!! Sentosa is trying to condition us all. There's Leaving On A Jet Plane played in an angklung style. There's that "because it's Singapore, Singapore, our hearts are big and wide you find, because it's Singapore, Singapore, you'll find happiness for everyone" song. My favourite is Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-dot Bikini!! Hahaha so cute! But when you're working like more than 8 hours a day, you just hear the same old repetitive songs over and over.

I forgot to mention. I saw the pretty girl from Tourism Academy again today! She always board the train at Beach Station to get out in the evening. YAY! My Sentosa eyecandy.

I like working the midnight shift. Fewer people, less hectic, less stressful, and more time to interact with people. And the free transport back on those Mercedes taxis. Hahaha I discovered that there are a lot of fellow part-timers living in Bishan or Upper Thomson or Shunfu or Sin Ming or around my area.

I'm off for Wednesday. Which is now. YAY 2!

Whoopee! 2pm in the day! I just woke up okay!! Hahaha! Last night I reached home at 1.30am. It was another late late midnight shift at work. And tonight too! Hmm not bad la I quite like all the late nights. There's free transport home! And it's not just some lousy stinking normal taxi. It's a Mercedes taxi okay! Sentosa sure takes good care of us. And since I'm a late-night owl, I don't really have problems concentrating on my job(s). The only thing is, by night time, there's very very few people still around at the Beach Station.

Well okay yesterday night I was doing train platform rover duty! I've got a walkie talkie hooked up on me! So funky! I've used a walkie once before, and that was during my Catholic High days, when a few of us planned a massive Sec 3 camp at Ubin. But I've forgotten most of all those talkie codes and commands already! Irin had to give me a brief crash course on what's the proper language to use on the walkies.

At first I was super shaky. Cos my friend told me Sess (big boss) was monitoring on the talkies. But after a few calls, it's quite easy la. OVER OVER OVER!!! The most important messages I got as Beach Rover were to inform me of trains out of service because they are on training or going back to depot or last trains. If not, I'll be eavesdropping on the Merlion staff conversations. They lost some important key to some room I think. And some guy was going to the Ranger Station to return something. And I could hear the Beach Patrol people too! Then some idiot kept pressing the talk button so many times, but didn't make any message. So my poor ears were suffering cos I keep getting the static sound from the earpiece.

It's quiet on weekday nights. Mostly it's people wanting to go to the new Cafe Del Mar that just opened last week. I heard it's quite funky! It's this club that has a in-built pool and you can party underground the pool or something. I shall check it out one day when I'm not on the midnight shift! If not, it's those that are working on the beaches that are on their way home. Like the Sakae Sushi and 7-Eleven and Luge and Coffee Bean and Koufu people. Not bad la I made a lot of friends!! After working almost a week there, I can recognise most of the faces of those staff working along the beaches. There's this huge group of rowdy Sentosa staff working at the office who makes a lot of noise whenever they're down at the beach for dinner. The Beach Patrol people are hunky and nice and friendly! There's this Tourism Academy girl that I see everyday. She's pretty!!! And the train drivers!! They're the most nonsensical people around.

Okay. I've gotta go bathe and eat and whatever cos I probably need to leave for work soon. Some of the A01 people are meeting for dinner, but I can't go. I'll be on the walkie though! OVER OVER OVER ROGER ROGER ROGER!!