do u take things for granted?

well i tink i do.. perhaps this is the reason why i dun like changes.. whenever i settle into an environment, i take the things there for granted, so when i'm forced to change, i dislike it becoz that would mean the things i have taken granted for will no longer be available to me...

humans are juz like that... they nvr notice the things they take for granted.. it's only when these things are going to become unavailable to them they will realise the importance of these things and start to regret why they didnt cherish them in the past... i'm like that.. i take a lot of stuff for granted, things which i feel are insignificant, which i have always felt that they will always be around for me or available for me... now that i'm likely to lose these things, i start to value them only now and cherish my time spent with them...

have you moved house b4?

well i nvr.. have been living here for almost 20 yrs, ever since i'm born... this is quite a familiar place for me, although i'm not really an outgoing person, and i always stay at home most of the time, i noe this place quite well.. here is one of de more accessible place i've known.. i noe a lot of places are quite difficult to get there, so my frens living there often haf a tough time going home after going out... but this place is like so accessible... go town can take NEL back... from amk mrt outside the bus stop i got like 5 buses to get home? it seems like my house is surrounded by bus stops that can get me anywhere near here... of coz anywhere doesnt include areas in the west la... imagine taking a bus from here to jurong =/ that will take like ages... so if i were to move house one day, i duno if my new home is as accessible as here anot...

are your parents living well together?

ppl often say, when a couple divorces, it's often the children that get hurt the most, more than the parents... but do they mean young children? or children of all ages? we have watched tons of divorce scenes on tv dramas, where the children are always young ones... the dramas always show the kids getting hurt but they nvr show cases whereby the children are teenagers or adults when the parents are planning divorce... why? because when the children are teenagers or adults they can handle it better? the impact will be lesser? well, i hafta agree n disagreee on this... i agree coz children who are teenagers or adults will think more than young children... they will more likely think abt the future, because their lives will definitely be different from the current ones they have and so they will have their concerns abt the future... however, i disagree because for cases where the divorce is only becoz the parents cant get along well, while the children get along well wif both parents, they will be stuck becoz splitting up would mean that they hafta choose one side to go wif... of coz this doesnt apply to adult children who are able to support themselves n so they may decide to go out n live alone, so they dun hafta choose any side...

when a couple divorces, they start to gather their assets.. of coz stuff like money, house etc can be split easily, simply becoz they are non-living things... wad abt their living assets, ie children? these assets have their own thinkings and so to gain these 'assets', parents often start their own 'campaign', to promote themselves... they present the current situation to the children, but the two stories abt the same matter will always be opposite... each will definitely paint a better picture of himself/herself and only present the bad points of the other... it seems like children is a tough job to be, rite?

feel like getting a mp3 player recently... always felt i dun need it anyway, since i can always listen to my fav songs on my com... but suddenly feel that mayb it's good to store my fav songs in sth i can carry around, so in case i lose my com somehow, for eg it blows up suddenly =X, i can still listen to my fav songs on my mp3 player... but den again, i tink it's not possible i'll get one, coz i'm real lazy to buy stuff... have always tot of getting a new wallet since dec last year, but fast forward 2 months to now, i'm still using my old one! =X lolol, lazy lazy me...

PS: falling in love wif SHE once again... been listening to their songs this couple of days, especially the solo song sang by Ella during their concert, ai hen jian dan 爱很简单.. although this song is originally sang by tao ze, but i feel Ella's version is better.. lol.. biased view...

all of a sudden i feel like going to work, to stay out of everything else........

i haf always been in favour of splitting up, always felt that they only all talk no actions, n always hope for de sooner de better... but now that it has come to this stage when it's abt to be confirmed, i haf become de coward i always am... wanting to run away from these so-called complicated stuff that confuse me...

when asked abt my thoughts on this possible splitting up, i simply say i leave it to u all to make de decision... quite 'kou shi xin fei' ah... been wanting it all along den now i dun wanna say my stand... when asked which side i wanna take, i juz kept silent, n finally said duno... isnt it clear which side i wanna take? why de hesitation?

well my bro was de more clear-cut one, i heard... he simply said 'wan split den split lor'.. a simple statement that clearly answers both qns...

seriously i dun understand y i'm such a coward who always run away from problems instead of facing them head on... my usual excuse for myself is always either 'this is too complicated for me', or 'i'm juz not that good a person'...

i always talk a lot... say wad 'boat reach bridge end auto straight'... but i always tink too much n nvr dare to try for anything that i haf no 100% confidence in... as a result many opportunities always slip past me n i'm juz left to regret y i juz dun wanna gif it a try...

i haf always been said to be a good analyst, n my analysis of myself is simply one word... useless

finally de CNY disaster has ended and it's a 2-day break for now... saw many different types of ppl around during de sales of oranges... i tink u do any kind of sales u will realise that not everyone is de goody kind of ppl, neither are they de same as u, who haf de same thoughts n actions... getting scolded by customers, getting irritated n frustrated by their fussiness etc etc is part n parcel in my life for de past 1 wk plus... i'll quite briefly sum up wad happened these past few days.. (although i noe my 'briefly' wont be that brief =X)

my memory isnt that fantastic, so i cant rmb everything that happened during de sales, so i guess i'll juz bring up some of de more significant stuff i rmb... many kinds of customers showed up..

first up is de super enthu lucky draw couple... they wanna buy a total of 78 boxes of oranges (big n small), but unlike other customers who juz pay all at once, they wanna split them up to 35 receipts, each being at least 20 bucks... reason is simple.. there's a lucky draw at hougang pt that requires customers to attach their receipts to de lucky draw form.. n de requirement is that de receipt muz be of at least 20 dollars.. n coz de cashier at our counter at that time is oso a temp worker, 17-yr old young gal, she got quite nervous abt this transaction coz since de couple wan to pay all de amt at once (they hafta pay separately in order to get so many receipts), de cashier has to simulate separate payments to generate so many receipts.. i dun quite noe how to phrase this properly so that it's understandable =/ well anyway, de cashier kept wanting us to calculate on de calculator that de figures r correct so that she would haf an excess or not enough money in de register... while de cashier is concentrating on this, de couple keeps saying sarcastic stuff like 'this is only simple thing nia, oso do so slow.. u come to our uniform shop den u noe wad's called tough'.. i was tinking like 'wad de hell, is u who wan so many receipts de leh.. still wan say so many unnecessary stuff for wad'..

second would be another couple, this time it's a henpecked husband wif a demanding wife... at that time in de morning, one type of orange is out of stock, but somehow i tink one of de workers forgot abt this n told de husband to pay first before he can get this type of orange... n so de husband paid n he came to me to get his stuff.. when i saw de receipt, i stun tio coz i realised that he paid for an item we dun haf... n so i explained de situation to him n so he decided to change to sth cheaper... n so he n i went to de cashier to tell her abt this... let say de orange that's out of stock is $13, n de guy wanna change to sth that's $11.. so de cashier do de necessary procedure n gif him back a change of $2... so while i was checking his new item, his wife came along n saw that de oranges r different... so when she noe abt this, she say she dun wan de oranges i'm checking n say she would rather get a total refund if she cant get de oranges they wan initially... when she noe that our new stock would be coming in de afternoon, she say she will ask her husband come in de afternoon to get den.. this is as opposed to wad de husband said initially, when he said he dun wan come down in de afternoon again to get de oranges he wanted initially n so he decided to switch... n so de husband returned de $2 to de cashier, n now de cashier duno wad to do, as she would haf an excess of $2 in her register... n de problem is she's oso a temp worker who's oso 17 yr old... (different from above one) a few min later, while we were busy wif our stuff, a customer told de auntie (my colleague) at our counter that she tink de cashier is in tears... when i looked over, it really seems like so, coz her eyes r red n there seem to be tears inside... den i tink it's shld be due to de excess $2 she haf ba... later on i did found a chance to console her.. actually oso not console la, more like preaching =X coz somehow (i forgot why), my colleague told me he very 'fan' (hanyu pinyin) of de customers, den i told him 'fan' for wad, oso cant affect de situation now, might as well wait for de consequences, coz 'boat reach bridge end auto straight'... den i oso added a little joke at de end... during this convo, we were juz beside de cashier n so i'm quite sure she heard wad i said, so i tink i tried to help console/preach ba...

from de above 2 cases, it seems like cashier is a tough job, coz like very easily kana scolded one... they will like get scolded when they haf either excess or not enough money in register... oso, when there's excess in de register, they wont get to keep de excess, but they hafta pay for any not enough money in de register... i heard 1 cashier paid 200+ bucks coz there's a missing 200+ bucks in her register...

moving on, 3rd customer i rmb more is kang's mother =/ she came to de counter, n heng heng i was standing right in front, wif no other customer... den she immediately call out my name... so i hafta help get oranges for her... quite tough a job i feel coz i needa get not only not spolit ones, but oso get gd-looking ones, coz is 'shou' ppl ma... after that i tink she didnt noe who i m de... she only noes my name n so she juz wanna ask for me wif my name... lolol... i oso duno if i got gd enough oranges for her anot...

like i said at de start, getting scolded is part of our job... of coz i wasnt spared... once i was scolded coz de customer misunderstood wad i said... he asked if one particular kind of orange is available in small pack, n so i told him yes... after he paid for it, he realised de oranges in de small pack is smaller than those in de box of 38s... den he scolded me for not tellin him de truth blah blah... but come on la, common sense oso tell u de oranges will be smaller wad... how u tink u can stuff 20 oranges of big sizes in a small pack? but den again, this scolding i encountered is quite mild liao.. my colleagues got experience combo scolding de... one haf to endure de scoldings of a husband n wife while another is enduring de scoldings of a mother n daughter... those r much more fiercer than wad i experienced, coz u r not given much chance to explain urself as they take turns to scold u...

oso, my job wasnt really easy coz i'm not helped by colleagues who r slack n passive all de time... de new boys i mentioned that i'm not impressed wif in previous posts r always slacking behind, while me n my other colleagues r busy wif de crowd at de counter, n they wont auto come help us when there r other customers not being served yet... we de ones who r busy constantly r quite pissed off wif them but we cant do much to them... they will act like they r busy when my TL comes along n they continue to slack when my TL is not around... it's quite demoralising wif this kind of colleagues around coz u will feel y u hafta work so hard when they r slacking n they r not caught or penalised...

this 'summary' is getting long so i tink i shall stop here for today... for de past 1+ wk, i oso learnt more abt X, de young man colleague i mentioned before in de previous posts.. i tink i'll talk more abt this in my next post ba... anyway, happy CNY to all! =D

tiring n busy day today is, but den i feel fun at work 2day.. ironic hor? lolol..

2day starts my hectic n busy worklife during CNY period, where i will be working OT everyday till de day before chu xi, ie next fri (chu xi is saturday) a little breakdown of my working time over the next few days:
today to sunday => 7am to 820pm
monday to thursday => 8am to 1020pm
friday => 10am to 1220am

of coz these include both lunch n dinner breaks, which mean by rite i got 2 hrs break everday.. but being me, n coz i work at hougang pt, where there's nth else but ntuc, i usually dun spend my breaks fully.. so juz work more lor.. lol..

anyway, back to abt today's work.. today got a 1 day offer for a type of orange, where it's 3 dollars cheaper than normal price.. den today almost everyone who came to buy bought this offer one... rather practical i muz say... everyone was like rushing to get it and i finally got a taste of wad de aunties haf been saying these past few days... abt how busy we will get.. but i tink today de crowd i experienced is still quite minor, as i will expect even more coming next few days, especially tml n sunday, coz weekends ma...

although it was busy at work, i feel fun while at it, especially towards de nite time... coz by den it was me, my poly-student colleagues, n de young man colleague at de counter, ie de last time late shift ppl... so it was quite fun among us as we were oso like joking n playing around while selling de oranges.. mayb it was oso becoz 2day de sec 4 temp staff were off to get their O's level results, so de 3 new guys nvr come make me feel better ba.. lol..

from wad i heard 2day, it seems like almost everyone was unimpressed wif them, well at least 2 of them, coz de remaining one is still quite ok, in my opinion... de other 2 were nvr serious abt their work, irresponsible and i heard they haf been told off by a number of ppl liao... so when they return tml to work i tink i gotta feel uneasy wif them around again.. coz wif this kind of colleagues around oso make u lose interest in ur work...

mayb this is juz me ba.. i dun like changes... i prefer everything to remain de same.. that's y when i move on to every next stage, be it to another sch, or another environment, i always feel uneasy at de start... so now i feel uneasy wif de new guys around, as i'm used to my other colleagues liao.. but i guess i will be so busy tml that i wont haf time to care abt de new boys ba...

9pm show, 'the peak' ended on monday, but i still havent watch de final episode.. coz no time =/ oso, de new 9pm show on channel 8 is quite gd.. it's a comedy, n i feel it's quite funny, not like some other local comedy shows which r not funny at all.. so i haf decided to continue catching local productions at 9pm... however, due to my hectic work schedule, i would haf a hard time catching up on this wk's and next wk's shows.. although i will record them, but i need record 2 a day, which means 10 episodes a wk, which oso means i'll haf a hard time finishing them in time to keep up wif mediacorp's speed..

oso, more busy at work means less time on com.. so less time for games =/ n i guess this is my last post b4 CNY ba... coz i doubt i can stay awake as i work more n more days of OT.. n speaking of this, i really shldnt be here now as i needa reach workplace at 7am tml =S lolol... hmmm, i guess i shld stop liao.. needa rest le.. like wad one of my colleagues said to me when i worked till 9pm 2day (coz de crowd was real big so i decided to help out a bit), tml will be another long day, n den he hurried me home... so i tink i go zzz liao..

PS: taiwanese singer, cai min you's song 翻不完的夏天 is quite nice.. got hooked to it recently..

havent been updating for a couple of days.. coz haf been rather busy, both at work n at home... busy wif work and computer games.. lolol... well, work hard play hard ma.. oso, these past few days haf been abt de same for me, so nth significant happened anyway...

work is getting real busier as we approach CNY.. more n more ppl coming to ask abt de oranges and buy them... now it's not all de time "i would like 1/2/3 of this" anymore... i'm quite amazed by how gd de sales of oranges can be during de CNY period... now half de time de customers would say "i would like 13 of this, 6 of that, 2 of this, blah blah" or "i would like 1 of this and 1 of that. i go home try, if this (small box) is better i'll get 80 next wk, if that (bigger box) is better i'll get 40 next wk"... de figures r not exaggerated, they r directly quoted from wad i heard today... lol..

so it's quite amazing to me that ppl do buy so much, for instance, for de man who finally decides to get 40 of the bigger box i mentioned earlier on, i wonder how many ppl he's giving these 40 boxes to, and for wad reason he gives.. becoz to gif to relatives? or to gif to clients? not too sure myself oso...

next off day coming up this coming thurs.. after that i wont haf any off until CNY... coz from this thurs onwards my branch will be extending opening hrs till 12 am, even till 2am for de last 2 days b4 de CNY eve... so de fruits n veggie ppl will be working OT for next wk, n i'm not too sure how my roster's gonna be, coz my TL havent planned yet... but it's juz gonna be more work work work for me i guess... oso, de aunties haf been 'warning' me abt how busy it will get next wk, coz everyone who wanna buy their oranges from ntuc will come next wk... tough it sounds, hope i dun screw up next wk...

3 new boys joined my department a couple of days ago... they r frens n becoz of this, they often come together to slack n chit chat during work time... i'm not that impressed wif them, but at least i still tolerate them.. lol... heard that some of my colleagues, including de aunties and oso 1 of my poly colleagues, haf told them off for slacking around n being irresponsible... haizz, hope they can buck up soon ba.. it's rather tough to work wif these kinds of colleagues oso.. coz it could even slow down de efficiency of how we do things.. so sometimes more ppl doesnt mean greater efficiency...

i tink that's all for now... i guess i'll update some time next couple of days..