Dear 2008

Today is thee last day of my career as an iPhone promoter, and also the last day of thee year. Looking back, this year has been very fulfilling, and I have gained much from this year. Very importantly, I have made important friendships that I hope will last decades into the future, I have completed my enjoyable two year education at the most happening junior college, and also pride myself as a true blue Victorian everywhere I go. Honestly people seem to respect me when I tell them I was from VJC, makes me been with pride. Seriously I would need to reorganize this post, after all it is supposed to be a recollection of this past one year of my life, maybe I shall write it in Chinese. Omg, I'm in desperate need of the loo all of a sudden, later!!!!

People

I realized some people like to make their points by murmurig to themselves bit just loud enough for others to hear.

Customer: how come my iphone's battery use up so fast? I have to charge it everyday!
Me: you can check with commcentre whether they can solve your problem for you
Customer: (mumble) I really regret buying this phone, my nokia had no such problem....mumble mumble pssshsssshsssh

Green --- Ayumi Hamasaki

Post Xmas moodswing

I feel like i'm the boss of this shop now, I just roam around the shop and do nothing, coz I'm in a mood to act big shot. Not that anything devastatig has happened, I merely wished that I could stay in bed longer, bloody hell I only slept 5 stupid hours, I am as unhappy as an injured moose. So dear customers: keep away.
Anyway last night was nice, went out to eat with stepf and gan, it was just nice to be with them, even though I am damn tired today, I don't regret going out last night. Yup, was a nice nice day ytd.

But today is not nice, aaaaargh, time faster pass please, 9pm please arrive now!!!!!

Hmmmm

Ok to further my previous post, I have something to say about people in the service industry and their relations to the customers. Remember we always say thatthe customer is always right, and service people must always smile and put up good service attitudes all the time. Well actually I think customers need to have a proper attitude as well. Service staffs are supposed to offer good service because it's their job to do so, but that doesn't mean they have to put up with rubbish attitudes from the customers, it also doesn't give customers the right to anyhow treat them like they are not fellow people as well. All in all, just don't anyhow throw your lousy attitude at anyone, this should be part of a proper brought up, and basic manners. No matter whether you are rich or poor, your are expected to keep your attitude in check. Yup

Hmm

I must say after working as a promoter for so long, I like to choose my customers. My likes: ang mohs, rich singaporeans and the like. Dislikes: Indonesians.
Ok for that matter, it's quite subjective for who I like serving and who I dislike. Basically I like ppl who can understand what I am talking about, and dislike those who has communication barrier with me. I dislike comm barrier and persistent customers cos it simply makes my life difficult. Then again, it's not really their fault.
I like customers who are friendly and posts meintelligent questions that I enjoy answering or I can find out later on. One funny thing I observed in people who approach me is that they tend to ask questions that they alr can answer themselves. Like for eg. They know that iPhone does not do SMS forwarding, they ask " the iPhone can forward SMS anot arh?" this is kind of revolting and tells slot about the person. Tactless. At least say smth like "I know that the iPhone cannot forward SMS, is it able to do that now?"
Ok, some dumb customer just bitched about me loudly; enough for me to hear la. I admit I was in the right attitude when she asked me a question, but for one thing, I do not answer all questions which is dam true, and she could have asked me nicely, so pui I don't care about her, want bitch thn bitch lor, I am in a good mood today not to bear grudges.

Many apologies

Many apolgies to the innocent customers who has created an impression unknowingly to have their not-so-nice doings mentioned. I was bored. Anw I knew that females sometimes grow mustache,but I nv knew they grew beard too. I recall in my secondary school years I am always grossed out by the loose hairs that grow out the guys' chins, huge turn off, ugh. Now I see the same disgusting hair on a fellow female, double grossity!!!! Females are supposed to not leave the house with unsightly hair growing everywhere, it's a shame and it's disgusting. Worse, that female liked claw proximty conversations...aaaaaah

Pui....

I am going to stone for the next fifty minutes. Die,today is bloody boring, I can't imagine how to go on for another seven more days. The thought of it is like 2012, die. My only motivation is my 1176 dollars, which I had to accept that it comes with cpf, I will be left worn a little bit. Plus when I go spend money, I might just think about how hard it took me earn them, that I most probably will by turn into as liberal as I thought I will become. Sickening. Ok I continues to stone...::

noooooooo

Nooooo~~~ I don't wanna work tomorrow!!! Sheesh, it was minutes ago when I wished Pearlyn to enjoy her weekends, and suddenly just pooofftt, my weekends are bloody gone! AH! Someone gimme back my precious weekend!!! OMG, tmr...just the start of another streak of 5 boring work days.......i want to chew on the iphone pamphlets!!! YUX! I dun wanna wake up at bloody 8am in the morning! WHo the hell wakes up so bloody early, rarrrr....i have decided to pull myself up earlier, to go run, to relax my muscles abit b4 i go for work, because the long hours of standing is just going to ruin my beautiful legs!!! if my legs become some corkscrew, I am going to sue singtel hello shop for not letting me sit down!
I am bloody online, and I dun noe wad to do....sheesh.....when i get my pay next year, the first thing to do is ...pay debt....second....buy Harry Potter and Twilight the entire set....third....upgrade my arsenal of clothes.....fourth...get either a phone or an ipod touch.......pfffft.....my 1k plus will be gone!!! yux....
i am going to find a second job that pays me 10 bucks per hour..this is ridiculous...one the stupid agent tells me now the market pay is only around 5plus...and i get ppl telling me they get paid 10 bloody bucks per hr....hello!!!! Y nv employ me!? sheesh...........

Wow

Omg, guess who I just saw? Justin!!! He was my SA OG mate yo, I was totally into him at that time, coz I find that he look like a korean. He couldn't recognize me, but my memory has not failed me for I remember all pretty faces lala. Ok I hope he doesn't have my blog address. Ha, ok I can say that really made my day hahHH. Yup, and 25 min more to knocking off time, woopee!!!

Dumbest qn so far...

Someone just came and asked me the dumbest question I have so far encountered. The woman actually thought she saved her songs and pictures in her SIM card, and went forth to encquire how to retrieve them now that she has switched to another phone I almost laughed in her face, in order to control myself I coughed dryly. Hahahaha enlighten me please, how the hell do u pit music into it puny SIM card?? And there she was asking me matter of factly whether I an help her get it back....I must be inhumanely powerful if I can do that, for in the first place the things are not in her stupid SIM card!!!! Yux, one more addition to by list of stupid customers.

I'm in a mood to complain

I'm in a bloody bad mood now! I really think my job sucks to the core now. Curse the dumb customers who keep asking questions irrelevant to the iphone, can't they tell i'm a bloody iphone promoter!? Ok, not their fault exactly, the fault is with the stupid shop itself, isn't it just simple and tireless to station someone around to answer general questions? With their stupid information counter so bloody crowded and the line so long,of course everybody will direct their qn at me! Urrrgh!! Plusnplus I just found out that standing too long will result in ugly looking legs!!! I want to kill somebody!!!!!

La

I am so going to fake flat foot. This is inhumane! First they don't let me sit down, now they put three bloodychairs around me!!! What is this?!

二十面相娘

【动画名称】二十面相の娘（二十面相少女）

【播放时间】2008年4月

【官方网站】http://www.chico-tv.com/


【故事介绍】
被养父母盯上性命，每天都孤独生活着的美甘家大小姐千津子与世纪怪盗二十面相相遇，开始踏向了未知和冒险世界的旅途。
初次接触到自由的空气，包围在新同伴之间并找到了自己所应在之处的千子，慢慢开始有了改变。
围绕着“二十面相的遗产”这个巨大的谜团，引起了无数奇怪的事件。即便如此，千子还是决定要继续前行，等待在她之前的将是何种的命运……

本作描写的是冒险剧中元气美少女千子11岁至13岁心灵成长的故事。
2008年4月——千子神秘的命运齿轮开始转动！

【人物介绍】

（材料截于http://www.dm123.cn/ecms/new/xftb/2008-01-12/13399.html）


这是我新发现的一颗珍珠，是众多新番中的一枚朴玉。它画风并不绚丽，色彩并不灿烂，电脑特技几乎没有，它的美在于故事的内容，故事本身就是一颗璀璨的钻石，让我留下了深刻的回忆。《二十面相娘》，如今列入我所欣赏的动漫名单中，我为追看过如此出众的动漫感到欣慰，因为我发现了不起眼的外表下那美丽动人的故事。这一部动漫我甚至会推荐给我的子子孙孙观看，因为它是如此地富有教育意义。贯穿全剧的一句话“靠自己去看、去听、去思考。” 发人深省，我深受启发地把它作为自己的准则，因为它是如此朴实、却又真实的做人道理。
每一个月都会推出许多许多新番，但是要能在众多新番中脱颖而出真的很难，我真的很庆幸自己找到了一部这么好的作品，由衷地感谢此片的制作团队，非常非常感谢。

I want to be a better person!

I just came back from this second iPhone training session at Singtel, it was a total duplicate, even the presentation was almost identical as the first, I guess the presenter didn't expect existing promoters to go down. Well, if nothing new was to be learnt, I shot many questions, and was more or less answered to satisfaction. One conclusion I've made is that it's not really important for me to be able to answer all the questions my customers ask me, what's more important is for me to know what they do no know and from there explore their needs and in the end, sell the iPhone. If you ask me, I'd say that iPhone is a wonderful device, albeit with a few cutbacks that makes it a little prickly to acknowledge. We all accept that men are not perfect, why can't we also accept that the iPhone is not perfect as well. Not being perfect is not the end of the world, at least there is still room for improvement, and I've heard that people are working on the issues raised, and hopefully they get corrected in time.

OK, now the main point of this entry. On the way home, thoughts were going on in my head. Random thoughts, about how to be a better salesperson, how to be a better friend, how to be a better daughter to my parents...all in all, how to be a better person. All through life, we make goals for ourselves, to have a direction. I'm pretty sure all us post-A'lvl peeps who suddenly realized they now have nothing to work for, no expectations, unlike when we mugged really hard for the exams, it was hard, but it wasn't boring. It kind of dawned upon me during the first week after A'lvl was over, that end of A'lvl doesn't mean the end of studying, or to the end of hard work, it also didn't directly equate to spending money without restraint. Post A'lvl is the period of time when we do not commit to any full-time institutions, we have our say in the management of our own time. And it is this period of time, where I felt is the most important, because it is time for us to figure out important things we want or want to achieve in life. Moreover, I don't think 'play' is going to be the most part of it. But it doesn't mean not 'having fun'. Recently, I've come to terms with myself that 'play' does not equate to 'having fun'. I used to think, 'fun' is a subset of 'play', but now I've understood, it should be the other way round, where 'play' actually comes under 'fun'. The simple understanding is that we can have fun anytime, anywhere, and playing is just one way of having fun, and who's to say that you can't have fun while working??

Back to my thoughts. So I was listening to the radio on the bus, the djs were talking about "Good Friends". Everyone's definition of 'good friend' differs, it kind of depends on what you expect from your friend and what you expect yourself to your friend. So the djs were discussing their good friends, saying that these good friends may not always be around, you might not be able to meet up in a very long time, but that does not diminish their value as a great friend. Good friends are always there for you, probably not physically there, they could be far far away on the other side of the globe, but their thoughts travel far across to stay with you. Good friends may not always have the whole world to talk about, sometimes a simple glance can keep you smiling the whole day, coz you know your feelings have been received. Good friends may not be just the ones who would fight for you, they are also the ones who listen to you even though they may not be able to help, they are the ones offering a shoulder to cry on. After hearing all these, I asked myself whether I have done all these to my friends. I realized that most of the time I am more concerned about what I get from my friends than what I can do for them..this really made me feel ashamed of myself. I have noticed that when with friends, it is always that others ask for my needs, and I seldom ask for theirs. I call myself 'self-centred'...which i now list as the number one thing to change about myself...I must learn how to put others needs before my own, because I see the truth in giving, rather than receiving. Or put it another way, I receive more while giving. This may sound old, chao lao, cliched, whatever...I really felt this way, so I am going to do this, seriously, I am going to do this! so ok, first step to being a better person: GIVE more than TAKE.

To be continued....

ha,I just observed something interesting. Well, there was this supposedly pretty lady walking by(supposedly as in she's not very pretty if u ask me), as she passed the shop by, the male staffs here gawed at her (I'm not so sure what gawed means, well u catch my drift), the interesting thing is I happen to see the slight happy smile on the pretty lady's face, one of female pride and vanity. I guess the appreciation from the opposite sex has a curious impact on one's inner recognition. Curious...

my wedding

I just had the perfect theme for my wedding all thought out! There are two options: either knight in shining armour or a ninja warrior. Either one to ask for my hand would be a perfect ending to my fabulous end to singlehood. What am I gonna be? Depends yo. If it the shining armour asks me to marry him, I guess I have to wear a shining armour as well, I don't mind as long as I don't wear the helmet and the armour for the left hand. If it's the ninja warrior dude, I have to get smth mysterious yet fabulous, and at the same time looking the prettiest ninja bride ever. Come to think of it, a shining armour dude should be more preferable...oh well, guess I should happy if someone really do ask me to marry him, you

Boring.....

Omg this is good to occupy myself at work yo, blogging using the iPhone. I seriously wish no customer comes right now because it can mean two things: 1. They stare at me with some puppy eyes beggi get to let them have a go at it, given not all ppl are born with big waterful eyes, I might get some parrot-tiger-winnie-the pooh eyes. 2. I ignore their presence and have the wierdo manager looking at me instead. Either way I have to quickly hide away my blog for privacy and my dignity as well. Oh well, I guess I might just get the chance to start on that great novel I have been stalling for so long. Yes i'm converting to full time next week, begin of a long term relationship with the lovely display sets around the store. Yes I am sooo excited! Sheesh I'm doing this all for money yo, I'm such a hardworking young person learning the ways of this cruel cruel world. Anyway, lately I've been thinking, maybe I should get myself a boyfriend. What!? Why not? I guess the time has come, coz I'm actually considering it seriously.with my Dad all theway behind me, I should find myself coupled up in no time, yo, who da man yo! LOL,ok I'm very much convinced that blogging is gonna be me main activity for my remaining days working here. Tadaa

photos

Prom08

I hate to say this, but honestly prom was mildly interesting, most of it is boring + random photo taking, which I don't have anything against it coz it seems to be the only thing to do, and you don't get to see everyone dressed up all the time. but still, photo taking just became the only thing to do other than eating and going to the loo. haiz...just a bloody waste of money. sure, there were a bunch of pretty ladies and handsome guys to look at, but when everyone are pretty n handsome, nobd is, actually...ok...tt was too biased. but but, i dont know, it just doesnt feel right you know... but but, even tho prom was pretty boring, post-prom was ...hmmm...fascinating ^^, first time clubbing...it was pretty cool! i was quite not myself at first, duno wad to do, just following my frenz around, eck, horrible. but later aft a few drinks, i got hi enough to start dancing, lala, i couldn tell how well i danced, but lala paul twohill shaked my hand, was told it means he tinks im hot, woooo, flattering and i m pretty happy abt it lalala. so...it went on till abt3am..and it ends, i got mildly drunk i tink, coz i was feeling light headed, hailed a cab n went home, the driver was telling me on wednesdays alot of malays will come out of OBar and they all look like merlions, lol, and he told me to not go to such places too often, and dont get drunk coz its embarrasing, ha, he was a nice person. well, i m sure not gonna become a frequent clubber, but there is no harm gg there agen ^^ lalalala. yup post prom was more fun than prom, pui. waste money....