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Friday, February 23, 2007

so its been a while since my last update... and yes fazzie, i really want to updat ebut i just aint got the time! anyway... since my last entry on my birthday, many things have gone on actually. hamsa, amirul, fath and razi took me to newton circus to have dinner.. i had a great time! and it was nice lepaking at the new quiet place amirul and I had stumbled upon one saturday night when we were out just the two of us... roaming streets in singapore that were foreign to us and as we discovered national monuments at midnight, we later on stumbled upon this great spot to just lepakk ah... at a quiet corner... with chairs and tables chained together, but sit-able nonetheless... betol relek one corner one la... and most important of all... got free parking space! hmmm lemme think what else i did............................................................................ i think other than that, it was pretty much skool... i'm determined to really keep up with my readings this semester so that i won;t be so kanchiong when exam comes later in april. so yeah... did a lot of readings.. and gym... although as of today.. i think i;ve missed 3 gym sessions... or four? hahha... but hey, i had good excuses for missing them yeah!

fetched my parents from the airport the sunday after my birthday... and my dear lil fazzie got me a birthday present... which i am totally in love with! she'd asked me a couple of days before what i wanted for my bithday but i just told her to surprise me... and it was a wonderful surprise indeed!

which totally led me to just stare anguishly at this......

i miss surfing so much i can die! everytime i think abt surfing and how i long to go ride the waves, fiza's words will come right back into my head..." ARE YOU SURE YOU DON;T WANT TO SURF SOME MORE? SURF SOME MORE LA...LATER GO BACK SINGAPORE NO MORE CHANCE!".... but i was tired lah that time.. and i just sprained my ankle... yeah.. i surfed even after i sprained my ankle... and my ankles are killing me right to this day.... but yeah... i miss surfing... i wish i could find some time to go cherating this break and check out the surf breaks... that will be totally bombin!

enough Already abt the surfing... the rest of the week after my birthday was quite uneventful... until friday, when i heard that my cousin got badly hurt in a motorcycle accident... he ended up in hospital with a badly broken leg and arm... still in hospital but i guess he;s recuperating well...

on sunday... yes... first day of CNY, i took up a job as a kitchen hand at ulu ulu restaurant in night safari... i was supposed to work there for three days... 2pm to 10 pm... as casual labor because they needed manpower during the holidays... i have had experience in the fnb business and my desperation for extra cash led me to forget how i'd sworn not to ever go into fnb anymore a few years ago when i was working at the restaurant in the zoological gardens ( yes... seems like i have affinities to working at animal residences.. hahahha). ANYWAY...i did drag myself down that sunday afternoon to the night safari... and found bus number 138 packed liek crazy la.... here's the interesting thing... it was packed with our fellow chinese, donned in their red outfits... carrying their lil paper bags with oranges in them.... heading to the zoo... i would never have thought that they have relatives at the zoo la.... hahha... but i guess looking at animals beats visiting the relatives yeah.

so upon meeting chef chong the head chef at ulu ulu restaurant... seriously the name irritates the hell out of me... we were told to change up into these chef uniforms!... white top.. black pants.. with a long black apron, a lil, neck scarf and a white forage cap. felt pretty good i must say.. like as if i;m working for jamie oliver la! hahahahhaha!... but oh dear god... the three days were pretty unbearable... the chefs were mostly aloof and stuck up... and seems like they don;t really like the idea of us casual laborers to be there at all... like they couldn;t find any use with us... which relaly frustrated the hell out of me can... like when i'm assigned to a particular chef... he'll be like giving me this strange look... like as if he doesnt have a clue as to what to do with me... cos well.. afterall, i am not a chef, i am not even a cook... so i'm pretty useless i guess... but hey.. you guys apparently needed help so get me soemthing to do la!... some of the cooks there were pretty nice... and showed me around.. like where to get the stuff.. what to do and so on.. the head chef was generally nice but he can be a real pain sometimes... from abt 5 onwardsi had to look after the buffet... and that sucks... i never liked doing that... doing that for five hours was dambn tiring... but to cut the story short, i survived the three days ... and earned myself 150 bucks. i was so happy to wake up tuesday morning.. cos it was last day of work... but work started off to a bad start cos apparently i left my fone on the bus... i think it dropped out of my pocket which was probably not deep enough. that sucked la... i was thinking,,, wah.. i;m getting 150 bucks only to have to use that money to buy a new phone???.... but wat was really sad was that i lost all my pictures and videos in the phone....i tried to see if amk interchange had my fone... but they dont la.. so i'll just haev to suck it up la eh.

but on a brighter note..i got a new phone... and i didnt pay a single cent for it... haha...

actually any fone will do just fine... and so since this one was 0 dollars... i just grabbed it la... and it turns out to be an awesome phone.. loves it!

so after all that excitement, i had to study for my midterm test which was this afternoon at 2... when i looked at the questions i was like... DIE DIE DIE!... i scriblled my way thru it... i dunno how i did la... but i did have a hard time doing the paper... but all's done... it was too economics la! urban sociology... hopefully i'd do better for the exams.. when it's more sociological i hope!... this is 30 percent.. which is pretty substantial... so i hope i wont do too badly for it.... i have heaps of other things to so la... my transcription of the interview that i did for my race relations module... my reaction papers... and to study for my next midterm test! genes and society... i am lost la for this module... thats wat i get for skipping lectures la... but i have S/U ed it... so the pressure;s not too great i guess.... i relaly hope i can do really well this sem la... i wanna be in the dean;s list... just for once, i want to have my name up on that list!

so i guess that's that for this entry... its the end of the midterm break... of which it was pretty much break-less for me... and next week.. it'll be the endless struggle to meet deadlines and battle my way through the readings and face the toughest examinations yet in NUS. i noe i'll get thru this... i just have to keep my focus. so till my next entry ya'll!

cravie |19:43