video of tong hua is up. hopefully it works. if not, here's the link to the cartoon version. not as good as the original but still not bad.
http://www.edwintan.net/
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
FW: ANNIE WAN
this is hilarious!
>> >Lee Sum Wan : Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan?
>> >
>> >Mr.Sori : Yes, you can speak to me.
>> >
>> >Lee Sum Wan : No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!
>> >
>> >Mr Sori : You are talking to someone! Who is this?
>> >
>> >Lee Sum Wan : I'm Sum Wan .And I need to talk to Annie Wan! Its
>>urgent.
>> >
>> >Mr. Sori : I know u are someone and u want to talk to anyone! But
>>what's
>> >this urgent matter about?
>> >
>> >Lee Sum Wan : Well just tell my sister Annie Wan that our
>>brother, Noe
>>Wan
>> >was involved in an accident. Noe wan got injured and now Noe Wan
>>is
>>being
>> >sent to the hospital. Right now Avery Wan is going to the
>>hospital.
>> >
>> >Mr. Sori : Look if no one was injured and no one was sent to the
>>hospital
>> >from the accident that isn't an urgent matter! You may find this
>>hilarious
>> >but i dont have time for this!
>> >
>> >Lee Sum Wan : You are rude. Who are you?
>> >
>> >Mr. Sori : I'm Sori.
>> >
>> >Lee Sum Wan : You should be sorry. Now give me your name.
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Monday, May 23, 2005
finally got some privacy. using the comp in parent's room cos it has a chair. going to work later. but let's talk a bit about my week. very interesting.
i met my first ever customer that really and truly scared me. she's not scary as in scary you know. it's more like...erm...weird sort of scary. i'm not going into detail here cos it's rather insulting and offensive if she ever sees it. but all i'll say is that she's very...open about most of herself. ask me if you really want to know.
then there was the lady yesterday who bought $100 worth of paper panties. 7 in a pack, 3 packs for $10. that's about...210 paper panties. all i can say is, maybe she's going on a very long holiday. either that, or she's not in the habit of wearing cloth panties. but i got a shock when she appeared at the counter with the basket full of nothing else but paper panties. oh well.
on fitting room duty the other day, there was this elderly lady who came to the store. for some reason, the rest of the staff had mysteriously disappeared. only the bra promoters were around. cos they were all wearing the same uniform as the staff, this lady got quite worked up, thinking that they were all congregating there and not serving customers at the rest of the store. she needed someone to follow her around and help her shop cos she has problems with eyesight etc. so me ended up following her around. lucky she was satisfied with the second pair she tried. else i'd probably be running errands for her forever.
i realised that it's basically the temp staff that have to do cashiering. and i don't like that. i mean like, yesterday me and francisca had an emergency at the cash till cos we didn't have enough change. and there was a long queue. and the adjacent till didn't have small change either. so ended up asking some of the cash paying customers to try to give exact change. then, when it was less crowded, francisca rushed to the cash office to change money. after she rushed back and we put the change in, so few people paid in cash. so we had such a hard time counting the small change when we float out. sigh.
francisca said that on the sat when i didn't come, there was a problem with the cash machines. the entire store's machines all hung except counter 14. so that day, they were so free. don't need to cashier at all. sigh. why wasn't i there when it happened?
moving on to other stuff. i'll probably be performing for the choir concert. i more or less got the hang of the songs. only i can't pronounce the words for "cerf volont". but i know the tune. :D worst case, depend on christy. heeheehee! went for the practice on saturday. their abba songs were so cute. it's the dance steps lah. those type of steps more suitable for small groups than for the whole choir. the audience will be in stitches. their "super trouper" is cool. wish i could sing it. the "gloria" with tk choir is great too. really grand. gerald has become the 'legendary' pianist of tk. kwei was making fun of him that day. the j1s are plotting ways and means of making mr yong malu on stage. they were telling zofia to hold her note really long so that mr yong will have to hold his hand there for really long and maluate himself. evil they are. poor mr yong.
the nus fass open house. went for the lit, sociology, social work and maths talks. lit was ok. i think i'll probably be taking it. maths was weird. there was just 8 of us in the small room. the speaker flashed one transparency (OHP transparency) and talked for 5 minutes. then he said "that's all i have to say. feel free to ask me any questions. feel free to leave if you want to." *gasp* that is the weirdest talk i ever attended. anyway, maths in arts fac is a shared major. no honours unless transfer to science. wanna try that too. someone said that in the first year, can take a bit of everything. later on then declare major. luckily like that. cos i have absolutely no idea what i want to take. sigh. too many things liao. but everyone tells me don't take sociology. but i think it sounded interesting. hmm...
i met my first ever customer that really and truly scared me. she's not scary as in scary you know. it's more like...erm...weird sort of scary. i'm not going into detail here cos it's rather insulting and offensive if she ever sees it. but all i'll say is that she's very...open about most of herself. ask me if you really want to know.
then there was the lady yesterday who bought $100 worth of paper panties. 7 in a pack, 3 packs for $10. that's about...210 paper panties. all i can say is, maybe she's going on a very long holiday. either that, or she's not in the habit of wearing cloth panties. but i got a shock when she appeared at the counter with the basket full of nothing else but paper panties. oh well.
on fitting room duty the other day, there was this elderly lady who came to the store. for some reason, the rest of the staff had mysteriously disappeared. only the bra promoters were around. cos they were all wearing the same uniform as the staff, this lady got quite worked up, thinking that they were all congregating there and not serving customers at the rest of the store. she needed someone to follow her around and help her shop cos she has problems with eyesight etc. so me ended up following her around. lucky she was satisfied with the second pair she tried. else i'd probably be running errands for her forever.
i realised that it's basically the temp staff that have to do cashiering. and i don't like that. i mean like, yesterday me and francisca had an emergency at the cash till cos we didn't have enough change. and there was a long queue. and the adjacent till didn't have small change either. so ended up asking some of the cash paying customers to try to give exact change. then, when it was less crowded, francisca rushed to the cash office to change money. after she rushed back and we put the change in, so few people paid in cash. so we had such a hard time counting the small change when we float out. sigh.
francisca said that on the sat when i didn't come, there was a problem with the cash machines. the entire store's machines all hung except counter 14. so that day, they were so free. don't need to cashier at all. sigh. why wasn't i there when it happened?
moving on to other stuff. i'll probably be performing for the choir concert. i more or less got the hang of the songs. only i can't pronounce the words for "cerf volont". but i know the tune. :D worst case, depend on christy. heeheehee! went for the practice on saturday. their abba songs were so cute. it's the dance steps lah. those type of steps more suitable for small groups than for the whole choir. the audience will be in stitches. their "super trouper" is cool. wish i could sing it. the "gloria" with tk choir is great too. really grand. gerald has become the 'legendary' pianist of tk. kwei was making fun of him that day. the j1s are plotting ways and means of making mr yong malu on stage. they were telling zofia to hold her note really long so that mr yong will have to hold his hand there for really long and maluate himself. evil they are. poor mr yong.
the nus fass open house. went for the lit, sociology, social work and maths talks. lit was ok. i think i'll probably be taking it. maths was weird. there was just 8 of us in the small room. the speaker flashed one transparency (OHP transparency) and talked for 5 minutes. then he said "that's all i have to say. feel free to ask me any questions. feel free to leave if you want to." *gasp* that is the weirdest talk i ever attended. anyway, maths in arts fac is a shared major. no honours unless transfer to science. wanna try that too. someone said that in the first year, can take a bit of everything. later on then declare major. luckily like that. cos i have absolutely no idea what i want to take. sigh. too many things liao. but everyone tells me don't take sociology. but i think it sounded interesting. hmm...
Friday, May 20, 2005
TGIF!!!!!
yes thank god it's friday! finally here ends a gruelling week at work. so tiring. but it's really quite fun once i get the hang of it. meet so many interesting customers.
actually i want to blog. but because my father moved the comp to some really inaccessible place. ie, he's moved it such that we can't sit down to use it. :p and i'm really really tired. been standing all day already. so i'm not going to blog so long.
really want to complain about this. on thurs, i went for lunch with parents. at a restaurant. not high class. not going to put the name here in case they sue me. anyway, my lunch hour. we went out. ordered food. time check, 12.30. my lunch hour until 1.15. ok. so daddy's food came. mummy's food came. and i wait. and wait. and wait. time 1.00. so check what's happening. and the stupid people have only just started to cook my food!! what the hell?! parents already almost finished eating. i really wish i was mdm yew at this point. apparently, they wait until there are many orders and cook en masse. *rolls eyes* what logic is that?! what happens if no one else orders the same dish as me? will i have to wait forever for my food? people who order after me already finishing their food. and the place was empty when i ordered. what happened to first come first served?! so at this point, i'm quite panicky cos i only have 15 minutes to eat and go toilet and rest and walk back to the store. so asked if i can get a refund. decided to go someplace else. the idiot cashier refused to give me a refund. no point changing order cos it'll prob take another half hour. i so wished i was mdm yew. gosh. i would probably shout at them. it's ridiculous. they've wasted so much of my time. and i specifically told them that i've got to rush back to work. and still they take their own sweet time. fuck.
kk. tired liao. my feet hurt. crazy father putting the comp here. it's not practical. and it's he that's complaining about feet being pain. *rolls eyes*
yes thank god it's friday! finally here ends a gruelling week at work. so tiring. but it's really quite fun once i get the hang of it. meet so many interesting customers.
actually i want to blog. but because my father moved the comp to some really inaccessible place. ie, he's moved it such that we can't sit down to use it. :p and i'm really really tired. been standing all day already. so i'm not going to blog so long.
really want to complain about this. on thurs, i went for lunch with parents. at a restaurant. not high class. not going to put the name here in case they sue me. anyway, my lunch hour. we went out. ordered food. time check, 12.30. my lunch hour until 1.15. ok. so daddy's food came. mummy's food came. and i wait. and wait. and wait. time 1.00. so check what's happening. and the stupid people have only just started to cook my food!! what the hell?! parents already almost finished eating. i really wish i was mdm yew at this point. apparently, they wait until there are many orders and cook en masse. *rolls eyes* what logic is that?! what happens if no one else orders the same dish as me? will i have to wait forever for my food? people who order after me already finishing their food. and the place was empty when i ordered. what happened to first come first served?! so at this point, i'm quite panicky cos i only have 15 minutes to eat and go toilet and rest and walk back to the store. so asked if i can get a refund. decided to go someplace else. the idiot cashier refused to give me a refund. no point changing order cos it'll prob take another half hour. i so wished i was mdm yew. gosh. i would probably shout at them. it's ridiculous. they've wasted so much of my time. and i specifically told them that i've got to rush back to work. and still they take their own sweet time. fuck.
kk. tired liao. my feet hurt. crazy father putting the comp here. it's not practical. and it's he that's complaining about feet being pain. *rolls eyes*
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
december 22!!!
looking forward to that date. why? cos that's the day when "the lion, the witch and the wardrobe" opens. for those who don't know, it is the movie adaptation of C.S. Lewis's book, one of the novels in the Chronicles of Narnia series.
quick synopsis of the text. 4 children go to live with a professor in the english countryside. in his house, they discover a wardrobe that is the 'doorway' to a fantastic country, Narnia. Narnia is a country inhabited by fantasy creatures like fauns, dwarves, talking animals. but this country is ruled by a wicked White Witch. the White Witch covered the land in an everlasting winter. these 4 children are the 'chosen ones' who are to deliver Narnia from her tyranny. but along the way, one of them gets 'corrupted' by the White Witch. Aslan the Lion comes into the picture. the White Witch declares that in order to 'fulfil destiny', because of the corrupted one, there has to be a blood sacrifice. Aslan offers himself in sacrifice, in exchange for the boy. the White Witch kills Aslan. but Aslan pulls of a 'Jesus christ' thing by rising from the dead, and becoming more powerful as a result. together, Aslan and the 4 children help to overthrow the White Witch. the 4 children thus begin a reign of peace in Narnia. after many many years of golden rule, the children (now adults) rediscover the 'doorway' back to the 'real' world. they reemerge from the wardrobe exactly as when they entered, as if nothing had ever happened, and return to their lives, but carrying the secret of Narnia with them. btw, it is realised in the course of the book that the professor actually knows about Narnia and was present at its 'creation'. but he doesn't tell them that. the reader has to infer for themselves.
now, i got really excited when i saw the newspaper article. i thought they were going to make the entire series. but what dampened my excitement was the realisation that "lion, witch and wardrobe" is actually the 2nd book in the series. of course, it is one of the most exciting. i could not put it down. but i was a little disappointed that they may not be doing the entire series. pity. but maybe this movie will inspire people to want to read the entire series for themselves. that would be great. :D
Sunday, May 15, 2005
looking through duan hui's blog and i realised that she really has a lot a lot a lot to say. don't know if it's interesting cos i just skimmed through it before coming to my own blog, but it definately looks different from others. i.e. it's not just a diary blog. sure, maybe she has too much time on her hands but i think she writes quite well actually. take a look and see. (link under 'destinations' drop down) btw, duan hui, i've put comments link here specially for you. so you can go ahead and write what you want.
next, have you ever noticed how sometimes the things you say come true sort of? like during work, me and colleague were talking about another colleague, wondering where she is. then we turn around and there she is, just walking towards us. yesterday, nisha and me were talking about boyfriends and colleagues becoming couples. i was telling nisha that i don't have a boyfriend. then she was saying, maybe i'll find someone working at the store. and that very day, i was working with 3 guys. woah! let me tell you about those guys. it breaks even my juice asia record of me and 2 guys.
first guy, shoe promoter larry. i was cashiering all day. very busy, being saturday afternoon. so the larry came over and helped me to do packing. on the way we start chit chatting and all that. :D he kinda reminds me of shawn from juice. wonder if they're related. they definately look alike, if i remember correct. next, kiat. actually i only worked with him for a really short while. evening, i totally cannot cashier anymore. i was making mistakes like almost giving the wrong change and all that. so tired. so i went to the back and jo gave me some price tag to do and kiat had to assist me. nice guy. temp staff like me. he's not that keen on cashiering so he always ends up doing stuff like the price tags. next guy, jovan. he the ladies' dept's G2. poor guy got transferred from men's cos our original G2 and G1 vanished and apparently there's a shortage of staff at ladies'. i was supposed to help him do packing cos he's really uncomfortable about handling lingerie. but in the end, cos jo called me to the back, he was on his own. and happy to say, he's overcome his discomfort. so we were chit chatting in between customers and all.
other people i work with. francisca my fellow G3. nice sweet girl. :D not much chance for us to really work together cos the perm staff don't like us hanging around together. they rather we be independent. whatever. soo hua my perm staff buddy. at first, she looked very strict type. but get to know her, she's ok really. always coming to rescue me from my screw ups at the cash till. nisha and latifah. 2 gila perm staffs. life's never boring with them around especially latifah. florence, candy and jo. the higher up staff. all looking fierce and strict. especially jo. (no offence meant) picture verena, taller, skinnier, really black face look. mummy saw her yesterday and even she thought jo was fierce. she thought jo was going to scold me when she made me go out back to do the price tags. florence and candy, not so fierce and strict looking but still have the look nevertheless.
ok. enough about work. still have yet to meet zaidah about the choir. supposed to meet her on tues. she'll come find me at parkway. yay! then can see the scores. i downloaded the songs. love the one, i think it's "caresses l'ocean" something like that. sweet. the other one's ok. not as nice but still.of course i'm not hopeful that i'll be ready to perform on that day but it'll be fun learning the song. fingers crossed that we can hold scores on that day.
andrew's cantoring today was ok. considering that he didn't really practice and only just learnt it on tuesday. busy lah. thought he'd be able to handle practicing by himself like the other cantors do. only i think he's the most difficult cantor to train. brother aside. it takes me a million times playing the tune over and over and over again before he gets it. :p and he's way too tall for the mic. or rather, the mic's too short for him. it's obvious. it has never had to handle such a tall fella before. ever. geez.
and fr khoo gave another half hour homily. and i have no idea what he was yakking about, my poor sleep deprived brain being unable to process. i only remember something about casinos in heaven...holy spirit thingy... of course it's my own fault that i'm sleep deprived cos after a full day at work (literal 12 hr shift), i still stayed up to catch the midnight to 1am repeat of the corey clark primetime interview. and then insomnia. just as i was about to fall asleep, zaidah msged me. and woke me up cos that ringing tone of mine is darn loud. sigh.
right. brain blocked. more next time.
next, have you ever noticed how sometimes the things you say come true sort of? like during work, me and colleague were talking about another colleague, wondering where she is. then we turn around and there she is, just walking towards us. yesterday, nisha and me were talking about boyfriends and colleagues becoming couples. i was telling nisha that i don't have a boyfriend. then she was saying, maybe i'll find someone working at the store. and that very day, i was working with 3 guys. woah! let me tell you about those guys. it breaks even my juice asia record of me and 2 guys.
first guy, shoe promoter larry. i was cashiering all day. very busy, being saturday afternoon. so the larry came over and helped me to do packing. on the way we start chit chatting and all that. :D he kinda reminds me of shawn from juice. wonder if they're related. they definately look alike, if i remember correct. next, kiat. actually i only worked with him for a really short while. evening, i totally cannot cashier anymore. i was making mistakes like almost giving the wrong change and all that. so tired. so i went to the back and jo gave me some price tag to do and kiat had to assist me. nice guy. temp staff like me. he's not that keen on cashiering so he always ends up doing stuff like the price tags. next guy, jovan. he the ladies' dept's G2. poor guy got transferred from men's cos our original G2 and G1 vanished and apparently there's a shortage of staff at ladies'. i was supposed to help him do packing cos he's really uncomfortable about handling lingerie. but in the end, cos jo called me to the back, he was on his own. and happy to say, he's overcome his discomfort. so we were chit chatting in between customers and all.
other people i work with. francisca my fellow G3. nice sweet girl. :D not much chance for us to really work together cos the perm staff don't like us hanging around together. they rather we be independent. whatever. soo hua my perm staff buddy. at first, she looked very strict type. but get to know her, she's ok really. always coming to rescue me from my screw ups at the cash till. nisha and latifah. 2 gila perm staffs. life's never boring with them around especially latifah. florence, candy and jo. the higher up staff. all looking fierce and strict. especially jo. (no offence meant) picture verena, taller, skinnier, really black face look. mummy saw her yesterday and even she thought jo was fierce. she thought jo was going to scold me when she made me go out back to do the price tags. florence and candy, not so fierce and strict looking but still have the look nevertheless.
ok. enough about work. still have yet to meet zaidah about the choir. supposed to meet her on tues. she'll come find me at parkway. yay! then can see the scores. i downloaded the songs. love the one, i think it's "caresses l'ocean" something like that. sweet. the other one's ok. not as nice but still.of course i'm not hopeful that i'll be ready to perform on that day but it'll be fun learning the song. fingers crossed that we can hold scores on that day.
andrew's cantoring today was ok. considering that he didn't really practice and only just learnt it on tuesday. busy lah. thought he'd be able to handle practicing by himself like the other cantors do. only i think he's the most difficult cantor to train. brother aside. it takes me a million times playing the tune over and over and over again before he gets it. :p and he's way too tall for the mic. or rather, the mic's too short for him. it's obvious. it has never had to handle such a tall fella before. ever. geez.
and fr khoo gave another half hour homily. and i have no idea what he was yakking about, my poor sleep deprived brain being unable to process. i only remember something about casinos in heaven...holy spirit thingy... of course it's my own fault that i'm sleep deprived cos after a full day at work (literal 12 hr shift), i still stayed up to catch the midnight to 1am repeat of the corey clark primetime interview. and then insomnia. just as i was about to fall asleep, zaidah msged me. and woke me up cos that ringing tone of mine is darn loud. sigh.
right. brain blocked. more next time.
Friday, May 13, 2005
firstly, so sad!! the photos i took during ms wee's wedding have mysteriously vanished from my memory card. sob sob. how come??!! sigh. the pictures. gone. forever.
pissed off with my stupid computer. stupid stupid fucking thing. first, cannot open links. so i have to manually type out the entire web address for the links. eg just now i had to accept nus application. the darn thing refused to open and kept hanging everytime i tried. grr... wanted to access duan hui's friendster blog. also cannot. so have to type the address. which brings me to my next complaint. somehow the backspace button can't work on the address bar. meaning when i type wrong, like duan hui's very complicated blog address, i have to delete the entire address and start from scratch. sometimes i feel like beating up the computer.
next thing. i've got into nus. arts and social sciences. i don't know if that's a good thing. it's my second choice and secretly i was hoping i'd get it too. the point being that i didn't get my first choice, science fac to do maths. which confirms my belief that the education system is just biased against arts students. i got a freaking A for maths lor! what's the problem there?! just because i'm arts student, i can't make the transition over to the science fac. what the heck?! and they allow science students who have no experience whatsoever in arts fac to cross over to fass. how bias can that be? moral: be a science student. then you can do whatever you want. whatever. arts rocks! but i haven't decided what major. probably english language and lit. but still thinking about it. not much to do in arts. :p
talking about american idol. anthony is out. sad. he's really a good singer. wonder if he'll do an album. i wanna buy it. love his voice. seriously, it's not so harsh on the ears as clay. haha! claymates are gonna kill me when they hear this. but kinda expected anthony to be out. no surprises this week. he's good but others are better. now rooting for vonzell. anyway, saw something interesting in today's papers. apparently there was a screw-up with the voting numbers again. something about the number on screen was stuck on carrie's number. so they were apologising to those hearing impaired people who got mixed up. i'm thinking, (no offence to anyone) if you're hearing impaired and you manage to hear the singers singing, then you should have absolutely no problem with the numbers. if you have problem hearing the numbers, then it implies that you can't hear the singers either and therefore should have no business voting. who da heck would you vote for?!
next. met zaidah yesterday after work. :D talked a while about the choir. thinking of taking part in the choir performance. they're singing 2 songs from "les choristes". *gasp* and zofia's the soloist. i asked zaidah to try and get the scores for me. those songs are so beautiful. beyonce ruined it when she sang it at the oscars, in my opinion. that type of song must be choir singing. beyonce's type of voice totally destroys the song. can't wait to hear it sung.
and my first 'week' at work. not too bad. lot easier than at juice. definately. nice environment. people are friendly. ignoring the fact that at first most of the senior staff looks fierce and scary. they're really great people once you get to know them. well, usually i do cashiering (which i try to avoid but no choice), tidying up the display etc. i like doing the fitting room cos that's quite slack. but usually i got no chance to do it. no idea how come. i'd somehow find myself jalan around the store instead. or i'd find myself doing manual labour. moving the shelves and displays. and my fellow temp staff slacks (sort of) in the fitting room. weird. how come ah? but it's a good experience.
pissed off with my stupid computer. stupid stupid fucking thing. first, cannot open links. so i have to manually type out the entire web address for the links. eg just now i had to accept nus application. the darn thing refused to open and kept hanging everytime i tried. grr... wanted to access duan hui's friendster blog. also cannot. so have to type the address. which brings me to my next complaint. somehow the backspace button can't work on the address bar. meaning when i type wrong, like duan hui's very complicated blog address, i have to delete the entire address and start from scratch. sometimes i feel like beating up the computer.
next thing. i've got into nus. arts and social sciences. i don't know if that's a good thing. it's my second choice and secretly i was hoping i'd get it too. the point being that i didn't get my first choice, science fac to do maths. which confirms my belief that the education system is just biased against arts students. i got a freaking A for maths lor! what's the problem there?! just because i'm arts student, i can't make the transition over to the science fac. what the heck?! and they allow science students who have no experience whatsoever in arts fac to cross over to fass. how bias can that be? moral: be a science student. then you can do whatever you want. whatever. arts rocks! but i haven't decided what major. probably english language and lit. but still thinking about it. not much to do in arts. :p
talking about american idol. anthony is out. sad. he's really a good singer. wonder if he'll do an album. i wanna buy it. love his voice. seriously, it's not so harsh on the ears as clay. haha! claymates are gonna kill me when they hear this. but kinda expected anthony to be out. no surprises this week. he's good but others are better. now rooting for vonzell. anyway, saw something interesting in today's papers. apparently there was a screw-up with the voting numbers again. something about the number on screen was stuck on carrie's number. so they were apologising to those hearing impaired people who got mixed up. i'm thinking, (no offence to anyone) if you're hearing impaired and you manage to hear the singers singing, then you should have absolutely no problem with the numbers. if you have problem hearing the numbers, then it implies that you can't hear the singers either and therefore should have no business voting. who da heck would you vote for?!
next. met zaidah yesterday after work. :D talked a while about the choir. thinking of taking part in the choir performance. they're singing 2 songs from "les choristes". *gasp* and zofia's the soloist. i asked zaidah to try and get the scores for me. those songs are so beautiful. beyonce ruined it when she sang it at the oscars, in my opinion. that type of song must be choir singing. beyonce's type of voice totally destroys the song. can't wait to hear it sung.
and my first 'week' at work. not too bad. lot easier than at juice. definately. nice environment. people are friendly. ignoring the fact that at first most of the senior staff looks fierce and scary. they're really great people once you get to know them. well, usually i do cashiering (which i try to avoid but no choice), tidying up the display etc. i like doing the fitting room cos that's quite slack. but usually i got no chance to do it. no idea how come. i'd somehow find myself jalan around the store instead. or i'd find myself doing manual labour. moving the shelves and displays. and my fellow temp staff slacks (sort of) in the fitting room. weird. how come ah? but it's a good experience.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Saturday, May 07, 2005
wanted to blog about my first day at work but i'm just feeling lazy. so i'll keep that till next time. a few issues today. but still a long post. sorry
first, let me talk about the song "Tong Hua". i downloaded and watched the MTV video of it. it's so sweet. the video opens with this guy (guan liang) moving out a grand piano. he fiddles with his handphone and puts it on the piano. he plays the intro of the song. flashback to the time when he was practicing the song at his girlfriend's place and she was helping him with the song. flashback to the happy times he spent with her. one scene where she's crying over some tv jap drama (they kiss until she gets nosebleed), another when they're playing together, having fun, helping her move house. scene of a truck on the highway. then a scene where he brings her to the concert hall to see him rehearse. she collapses. he rushes her to hospital. (every now and then it flashes to present when he's performing) the girlfriend has some incurable disease of some sort, now put on respirator. sob sob sad sad etc. he unspeakingly promises to be with her no matter what. he has to go, the girlfriend tells him something. he passes her a handphone. flash to when he's singing. flash to the present when the girlfriend is in hospital, listening to him performing throught the handphone. (this is the sweetest) she listens until the end. she tells him jiayou. then her eyes close. the music pauses. hear the dripping of the intravenous thing. then music starts again. he sings the song again, remembering all the happy times together. flash to the nurses and doctors wheeling the bed down the hospital corridor. music and singing fades off. piano wheeled off stage. scene of the truck on the highway. scene of girlfriend telling him, even if the whole world ignores her, only he cannot do that to her. *g*
here's the lyrics in english
I have forgotten how long was it,
Since I last heard you,
Telling me your favorite story,
I have been thinking for a very long time,
I’m beginning to feel paranoid,
Did I make any mistakes again?
#You came and tell me with the tears in your eyes,
That fairytales are all lies,
It’s impossible for me to be your prince charming,
Maybe you will not understand,
After the moment when you said you loved me,
The stars in my sky, are beginning to shine and shimmer.
*I’m willing to (want to/will) be, the angel you love,
In the fairytales,
Open my arms wide,
And let it become wings, to protect you,
You have to believe,
Believe that we will be like the fairytale,
With happiness and joy as the ending.
Everything is our beautiful ending.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ next, i just watched "touched by an angel", which is one of my all time favourite shows. i only just realised that it's showing on saturday mornings. i only caught the last half hour of today's episode but it was so meaningful. talking about love. how people take love for granted or a afraid to fall in love. they showed four couples in a restaurant. all these couples apparently had problems in their relationship with each other. the angels intervened and they came to realise what true love actually is. like tess said "falling in love is about giving up control and surrendering to something higher". and humans are afraid to do that. we are frightened to be out of control. maybe because we just don't like to feel vulnerable and helpless. the sweetest couple was an old couple, getting ready to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. angel of death andrew came and told them, one of them will go home to god before that. later on, each of them approached him seperatly and asked him to let the spouse live cos he/she has so much to live for and would be happy. the two of them were willing to die for each other. (of course, they didn't show exactly who died in the end) but it was this realisation that things would not last forever that made the couples realise what true love actually is. *sigh*
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next, i was reading in today's papers about teenage promiscuity and sexuality. i've personally met someone like that. (sort of. i can't figure if he's for real or if he's kidding me. he didn't tell me though. he told my friend C and she warned me about him.) my ex-colleague J said that sometimes, when he's got problems and feels depressed etc, he'll go to geylang and look for a girl and have sex. and he does it often. and there's the fact that he actually told C, whom he knew for less than an hour. he freaks me out actually. i barely knew him and he suddenly came and asked me what i like doing in the evenings. now when a guy you first saw the day before and don't even know his name, comes up and asks that, you'll be freaked out too. then he asked for my number and a photo of myself. *shock* i think that's why C found it necessary to warn me about him. i haven't contacted him since i left the company. another guy K, used to tell me about the great times he has with his girlfriend when they do sex. (but K's not the focus of this)
based on my few experiences, i think that teens who actually go looking for sex are somehow troubled. take J. i can tell straight away that he's really insecure about himself. firstly, he looks like the clean, straight guy, but he wears an earring. (ok, that means nothing) next, he's telling two totally stranger girls about his personal history and asking what they like to do in the evenings. (what da heck?!) lastly, he doesn't carry his bag like a normal guy would do. he hugs his bag. in the office, on the mrt, everywhere. it's a backpack but he hugs it like ... don't know. but it makes it seem like he's insecure. and i feel like he's going out and looking for sex to make him feel good. make him feel secure. i mean, people have different methods of feeling secure. someone i know liked to spin tall tales of her being a witch and having romantic candlelight dinners with guys. it makes people around them 'respect' them. sort of like, hey, i've done this and that that you've never done so you look up to me.
but i'm not here to tell my theories of why teenagers do sex. i wanna mention about the chastity and abstinence thing. the paper claimed that it's a difficult thing to do these days. i think that's crazy. it's the easiest thing to do. (keeping in mind that i haven't been tested yet) i guess people say it's hard because of the society and culture we live in. it's so liberal. celebs and all are flaunting their sexuality every right and left. teens are impressionable. they see their idols doing it and they think that it's ok too. look at britney spears. (one of my all time most hated celebs) remember her ridiculous "i am a virgin" act? i mean, maybe it was true back then but it definately quickly became a joke. what a slut. but, on the other hand, there are idols also that try to abstain. my current fav idol, clay aiken. he has said that he will not sing about sex or drugs and strives to uphold a clean image. yes, he's still a virgin. he's saving himself for his wedding night. it's nice to know that in this world, there's still people to look up to. so is it really that hard to abstain?
back when i was in sec 1 i signed up the "true love waits" programme. (and i think that's a better title than "no apologies") since then, i've come up with my own ideas of why teens should wait. firstly, think of the body like a present. let's say you wanna give the person you love a present. you'd try to get something spanking new and nice right? you wouldn't want to give your darling something second hand right? same thing. next thing, true love waits. if the guy refuses to wait for marriage, it means it's not true love, cos apparently he's so eager to get the sex, most probably he's only in it for the sex, so why bother having sex cos the relationship will only break up in the end. if it's true love, the guy will wait cos he knows that in the end, you'll be together, he's in the relationship for more reasons than merely sex.
first, let me talk about the song "Tong Hua". i downloaded and watched the MTV video of it. it's so sweet. the video opens with this guy (guan liang) moving out a grand piano. he fiddles with his handphone and puts it on the piano. he plays the intro of the song. flashback to the time when he was practicing the song at his girlfriend's place and she was helping him with the song. flashback to the happy times he spent with her. one scene where she's crying over some tv jap drama (they kiss until she gets nosebleed), another when they're playing together, having fun, helping her move house. scene of a truck on the highway. then a scene where he brings her to the concert hall to see him rehearse. she collapses. he rushes her to hospital. (every now and then it flashes to present when he's performing) the girlfriend has some incurable disease of some sort, now put on respirator. sob sob sad sad etc. he unspeakingly promises to be with her no matter what. he has to go, the girlfriend tells him something. he passes her a handphone. flash to when he's singing. flash to the present when the girlfriend is in hospital, listening to him performing throught the handphone. (this is the sweetest) she listens until the end. she tells him jiayou. then her eyes close. the music pauses. hear the dripping of the intravenous thing. then music starts again. he sings the song again, remembering all the happy times together. flash to the nurses and doctors wheeling the bed down the hospital corridor. music and singing fades off. piano wheeled off stage. scene of the truck on the highway. scene of girlfriend telling him, even if the whole world ignores her, only he cannot do that to her. *g*
here's the lyrics in english
I have forgotten how long was it,
Since I last heard you,
Telling me your favorite story,
I have been thinking for a very long time,
I’m beginning to feel paranoid,
Did I make any mistakes again?
#You came and tell me with the tears in your eyes,
That fairytales are all lies,
It’s impossible for me to be your prince charming,
Maybe you will not understand,
After the moment when you said you loved me,
The stars in my sky, are beginning to shine and shimmer.
*I’m willing to (want to/will) be, the angel you love,
In the fairytales,
Open my arms wide,
And let it become wings, to protect you,
You have to believe,
Believe that we will be like the fairytale,
With happiness and joy as the ending.
Everything is our beautiful ending.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ next, i just watched "touched by an angel", which is one of my all time favourite shows. i only just realised that it's showing on saturday mornings. i only caught the last half hour of today's episode but it was so meaningful. talking about love. how people take love for granted or a afraid to fall in love. they showed four couples in a restaurant. all these couples apparently had problems in their relationship with each other. the angels intervened and they came to realise what true love actually is. like tess said "falling in love is about giving up control and surrendering to something higher". and humans are afraid to do that. we are frightened to be out of control. maybe because we just don't like to feel vulnerable and helpless. the sweetest couple was an old couple, getting ready to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. angel of death andrew came and told them, one of them will go home to god before that. later on, each of them approached him seperatly and asked him to let the spouse live cos he/she has so much to live for and would be happy. the two of them were willing to die for each other. (of course, they didn't show exactly who died in the end) but it was this realisation that things would not last forever that made the couples realise what true love actually is. *sigh*
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next, i was reading in today's papers about teenage promiscuity and sexuality. i've personally met someone like that. (sort of. i can't figure if he's for real or if he's kidding me. he didn't tell me though. he told my friend C and she warned me about him.) my ex-colleague J said that sometimes, when he's got problems and feels depressed etc, he'll go to geylang and look for a girl and have sex. and he does it often. and there's the fact that he actually told C, whom he knew for less than an hour. he freaks me out actually. i barely knew him and he suddenly came and asked me what i like doing in the evenings. now when a guy you first saw the day before and don't even know his name, comes up and asks that, you'll be freaked out too. then he asked for my number and a photo of myself. *shock* i think that's why C found it necessary to warn me about him. i haven't contacted him since i left the company. another guy K, used to tell me about the great times he has with his girlfriend when they do sex. (but K's not the focus of this)
based on my few experiences, i think that teens who actually go looking for sex are somehow troubled. take J. i can tell straight away that he's really insecure about himself. firstly, he looks like the clean, straight guy, but he wears an earring. (ok, that means nothing) next, he's telling two totally stranger girls about his personal history and asking what they like to do in the evenings. (what da heck?!) lastly, he doesn't carry his bag like a normal guy would do. he hugs his bag. in the office, on the mrt, everywhere. it's a backpack but he hugs it like ... don't know. but it makes it seem like he's insecure. and i feel like he's going out and looking for sex to make him feel good. make him feel secure. i mean, people have different methods of feeling secure. someone i know liked to spin tall tales of her being a witch and having romantic candlelight dinners with guys. it makes people around them 'respect' them. sort of like, hey, i've done this and that that you've never done so you look up to me.
but i'm not here to tell my theories of why teenagers do sex. i wanna mention about the chastity and abstinence thing. the paper claimed that it's a difficult thing to do these days. i think that's crazy. it's the easiest thing to do. (keeping in mind that i haven't been tested yet) i guess people say it's hard because of the society and culture we live in. it's so liberal. celebs and all are flaunting their sexuality every right and left. teens are impressionable. they see their idols doing it and they think that it's ok too. look at britney spears. (one of my all time most hated celebs) remember her ridiculous "i am a virgin" act? i mean, maybe it was true back then but it definately quickly became a joke. what a slut. but, on the other hand, there are idols also that try to abstain. my current fav idol, clay aiken. he has said that he will not sing about sex or drugs and strives to uphold a clean image. yes, he's still a virgin. he's saving himself for his wedding night. it's nice to know that in this world, there's still people to look up to. so is it really that hard to abstain?
back when i was in sec 1 i signed up the "true love waits" programme. (and i think that's a better title than "no apologies") since then, i've come up with my own ideas of why teens should wait. firstly, think of the body like a present. let's say you wanna give the person you love a present. you'd try to get something spanking new and nice right? you wouldn't want to give your darling something second hand right? same thing. next thing, true love waits. if the guy refuses to wait for marriage, it means it's not true love, cos apparently he's so eager to get the sex, most probably he's only in it for the sex, so why bother having sex cos the relationship will only break up in the end. if it's true love, the guy will wait cos he knows that in the end, you'll be together, he's in the relationship for more reasons than merely sex.
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
this is gonna be a really long post. so get comfortable.
starting from last saturday. choir alumni meeting at siglap. so few of us turned up. let's see. me, ty, grace, sumi, mei yan, huiting, jas, zaidah, mabel, ruben,and sam. as usual i was running late cos of the crazy bus. that ty called me twice to ask where the heck am i? coming coming lah! nice to see my choir again. doesn't look too bad. me, ty, jas, zaidah and grace joined them for their warm up. haiz. so long never sing properly liao, hard to keep up with them. going so high. but the choir sounded good. the jap song was miles better than the mess when i last heard it. now i can actually hear the tune. their ave verum corpus is so cool!! i wish i recorded it. the other song, don't know what it is. mixture of english, chinese and malay. only thing missing was tamil. :D their syf is today. wish them all the best. i think they should be alright. maybe scrape a gold but i think definately a silver. jia you guys!!
a bit on my generation's choir mates. most of them still look the same. sam's a bit tanned. but the real transformation is ruben. he's so skinny now. i really didn't recognise him. some guy i know wasn't there though. the gals were still the same. they were asking if we wanted to perform with the male/female choruses or the chamber choir (whatever that is) during the c0ncert. wow. i would so love to except that i can't. sigh. they'll be doing practices every saturday. supposed to tell grace about the ticket sales. but i think i can't get anyone to buy from me. :p. seriously though, $15 is really ex. shok li said that she got people from her sp choir interested but when they heard the price, immediate "no!" but i'll try to make myself free to go down.
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next event on saturday was miss wee's wedding! although technically she's no longer miss wee, i'll just call her that cos i don't know what else to call her. mrs lim sounds weird and weiling is a bit disrespectful.
supposed to meet theo at 1.30 so me and sumi left siglap early. at 1.30pm. i arrived at the mrt.
me msg to theo: hey, i'm here! where r u?
theo msg to me: on the way. jacq meeting also at 1.45.
ok. so i'll wait. expected that she'll be late. so i wait. and wait. and wait. jac arrives. wait some more. more people arrive. gosh! can't recognise them. they've changed so much. even jac i could barely recognise her. and i malued myself when i saw chia hui and i said "she looks familiar. do we know her?" dotz. anyway, we collected the people we were supposed to collect except theo. past 2pm already. we don't want to be late and make the grand entrance after the bride. so i call her.
me: ger ah! where are you??!!!
theo: i don't know.
me: what do you mean you don't know?!
theo: don't know. i'm in the bus somewhere.
me: bus?!?!?!?! where are you?
theo: don't know.
me: ok, what landmarks can you see?
theo: erm... ... ... ...
me (really pissed now): which bus are you on?
theo: erm...well, i'm not too sure about that...
me: whaddya mean you're not sure?! how can you not know??!!!!?!?!?!?!?! why didn't you take the mrt from bedok??!!
theo: ... ...
me: i don't care liao. i'm going off first. we are late already! you better find your own way!!!!
so we happily abandoned her, after exchanging anecdotes about how she always gets lost. and went to the church. geylang chinese methodist church. met up with the rest of the class there. ok, not the whole class but lots of them anyway. nice to meet up again even though we have somewhat drifted apart. it's been 3 years.
at the church, the groom was standing at the entrance welcoming people. he knew straight away that we were miss wee's former students. i didn't know he was the groom until i saw the wedding photos. there was a whole book of wedding photos there. my favourite one was the one on the last page. pic of the two of them standing at the beach, dark blue/twilight background. holding hands facing each other. but you can only see the silouette (don't know the spelling) but it's so romantic. sigh.
the church hall itself was pretty small. but air-coned. saw lots of the Sac teachers. jac was trying to avoid miss chia, to no avail. there was a mini video presentation at the beginning. the theme of the wedding was "everlasting love...the purpose" and the bible verse "the Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, o Lord, endures forever - do not abandon the works of your hands" psalm 138:8. the video presentation focused on this verse. beautiful.very evangelical. even though it was a wedding, the service was still very very god focused. even their wedding programme book was evangelical with testimonials from the bride and groom of their relationship with god. god, not each other. woah.
enter the bride. music of canon in d. *g* the flower girl so cute. the page boy carrying the bible looked like he was going to drop it. aiyo. so cute. miss wee was so pretty! wearing something like a tube dress, laced up at the back, nice long gown and train. she lost those psychotic looking glasses, long hair dyed brown. pretty.
then there was a worship session. singing songs on love. then the pastor talked. he told this joke: a woman was walking in the desert and she came across a lamp like aladdin. she rubbed the lamp and a genie came out. going to give her one wish. so she thought a while. then she took a map and showed the genie the middle east area. said this place always at war. can you make peace there? genie said "i'm good, but i'm not that good. think of another wish." so the woman did. she wished for the perfect husband. must do this, and that and this and that. the genie listened and then said, "let me see the map again". :D moral of the story, finding the perfect man is more difficult than solving political problems. the pastor based his talk on ephesians 5 (i think) that verse that talks about love your wife, honor your husband. it was an interesting talk. he really explained what it meant. don't ask me exactly cos i don't remember anymore. the bad part of the talk was that after the english was done, the whole thing was repeated in chinese. :p we noticed sr cecily sleeping during the chinese version. really nodding off. hahaha! so amusing.
after that, they exchanged vows. *g* on the 'higher ground' of the altar. seriously. the officiating person (don't know his title. not the pastor) told them to move to higher ground for that. again, lots of focus on god. they were the second focus. officiating person then tells the groom to tell to miss wee:
officiating person: tell her "you are mine"
tze locke (groom) to miss wee: you are mine
officiating person: can i kiss you now?
tze locke to miss wee: i want to kiss you now.
then they kiss. *gg* sweet. so sweet! i wonder if he's the guy that always drives her to school in the blue van. that is the ultimate sweetie. driving her to work everyday and all.
signing the wedding documents, the p &w group came up and sang some chinese songs specially for miss wee. after they signed, the newly weds went to the altar and kneel down and give thanks. meantime, showing another video presentation on "god so loved the world that he gave his only son..." that verse. then another presentation. this time celebrating their love and life and thanking their families. then, the end "presenting mr and mrs lim tze locke!" no wedding march music though. some other song. yups.
reception downstairs. waited forever for miss wee to notice us and have time for us. we bought gift vouchers for her (and her husband) and a home made card. jeanette made it i think. very simple. just a pink construction paper with hearts over it and we wrote messages inside the hearts. take photos, chat a while then we left. i finally caught up with theo at the church. that gal. *shakes head*
anyway, when i get the photo we took, i'll put it here.
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last thing to talk about. i got a job finally. i'm a temp sales associate at john little parkway. please don't purposely come down and look for me. i'll go and hide. :D the interview was weird. we were sent to fill up employment form at the stock room of parkway JL. had some maths questions to answer. blur me was struggling with mental sums until i remembered finally that my hp got calculator. it was the easiest interview i ever attended. the manager, wendy, just called us in groups of 10, explained the various positions available, talk some more. the only thing she asked us was our job experience, in which everyone just repeated everything written on the application form. easy.
so i got the job. went for the orientation at specialist center. went through the various documents, shifts, contract. the timing is so crazy. i wonder if their permanent staff have such crazy schedules. i'm assigned to ladies wear, lingerie, toiletries, cosmetics, shoes and handbags. not too happy about it cos i know nuts about that departments. anyway, can't complain. i got the job.
yesterday went for cash till training. the trainer, ragu, reminds me of naresh. accent and all. only ragu's sense of humour is way better than naresh. still a bit confused about the cash till. hope i don't screw up. we were divided into groups to try out the till. and my group incurred a balance of $300 missing. :p lucky it's just during the training. and we have no idea what happened to that $300. i met this girl shah who's at parkway with me and in the same shift as me. so new friend. we'll be together during work. just different department. she's in household i think. but that's better than being totally alone.
right. long enough. have to finish up so i can go study my cash till notes so that i don't screw up on friday. bye!
starting from last saturday. choir alumni meeting at siglap. so few of us turned up. let's see. me, ty, grace, sumi, mei yan, huiting, jas, zaidah, mabel, ruben,and sam. as usual i was running late cos of the crazy bus. that ty called me twice to ask where the heck am i? coming coming lah! nice to see my choir again. doesn't look too bad. me, ty, jas, zaidah and grace joined them for their warm up. haiz. so long never sing properly liao, hard to keep up with them. going so high. but the choir sounded good. the jap song was miles better than the mess when i last heard it. now i can actually hear the tune. their ave verum corpus is so cool!! i wish i recorded it. the other song, don't know what it is. mixture of english, chinese and malay. only thing missing was tamil. :D their syf is today. wish them all the best. i think they should be alright. maybe scrape a gold but i think definately a silver. jia you guys!!
a bit on my generation's choir mates. most of them still look the same. sam's a bit tanned. but the real transformation is ruben. he's so skinny now. i really didn't recognise him. some guy i know wasn't there though. the gals were still the same. they were asking if we wanted to perform with the male/female choruses or the chamber choir (whatever that is) during the c0ncert. wow. i would so love to except that i can't. sigh. they'll be doing practices every saturday. supposed to tell grace about the ticket sales. but i think i can't get anyone to buy from me. :p. seriously though, $15 is really ex. shok li said that she got people from her sp choir interested but when they heard the price, immediate "no!" but i'll try to make myself free to go down.
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next event on saturday was miss wee's wedding! although technically she's no longer miss wee, i'll just call her that cos i don't know what else to call her. mrs lim sounds weird and weiling is a bit disrespectful.
supposed to meet theo at 1.30 so me and sumi left siglap early. at 1.30pm. i arrived at the mrt.
me msg to theo: hey, i'm here! where r u?
theo msg to me: on the way. jacq meeting also at 1.45.
ok. so i'll wait. expected that she'll be late. so i wait. and wait. and wait. jac arrives. wait some more. more people arrive. gosh! can't recognise them. they've changed so much. even jac i could barely recognise her. and i malued myself when i saw chia hui and i said "she looks familiar. do we know her?" dotz. anyway, we collected the people we were supposed to collect except theo. past 2pm already. we don't want to be late and make the grand entrance after the bride. so i call her.
me: ger ah! where are you??!!!
theo: i don't know.
me: what do you mean you don't know?!
theo: don't know. i'm in the bus somewhere.
me: bus?!?!?!?! where are you?
theo: don't know.
me: ok, what landmarks can you see?
theo: erm... ... ... ...
me (really pissed now): which bus are you on?
theo: erm...well, i'm not too sure about that...
me: whaddya mean you're not sure?! how can you not know??!!!!?!?!?!?!?! why didn't you take the mrt from bedok??!!
theo: ... ...
me: i don't care liao. i'm going off first. we are late already! you better find your own way!!!!
so we happily abandoned her, after exchanging anecdotes about how she always gets lost. and went to the church. geylang chinese methodist church. met up with the rest of the class there. ok, not the whole class but lots of them anyway. nice to meet up again even though we have somewhat drifted apart. it's been 3 years.
at the church, the groom was standing at the entrance welcoming people. he knew straight away that we were miss wee's former students. i didn't know he was the groom until i saw the wedding photos. there was a whole book of wedding photos there. my favourite one was the one on the last page. pic of the two of them standing at the beach, dark blue/twilight background. holding hands facing each other. but you can only see the silouette (don't know the spelling) but it's so romantic. sigh.
the church hall itself was pretty small. but air-coned. saw lots of the Sac teachers. jac was trying to avoid miss chia, to no avail. there was a mini video presentation at the beginning. the theme of the wedding was "everlasting love...the purpose" and the bible verse "the Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, o Lord, endures forever - do not abandon the works of your hands" psalm 138:8. the video presentation focused on this verse. beautiful.very evangelical. even though it was a wedding, the service was still very very god focused. even their wedding programme book was evangelical with testimonials from the bride and groom of their relationship with god. god, not each other. woah.
enter the bride. music of canon in d. *g* the flower girl so cute. the page boy carrying the bible looked like he was going to drop it. aiyo. so cute. miss wee was so pretty! wearing something like a tube dress, laced up at the back, nice long gown and train. she lost those psychotic looking glasses, long hair dyed brown. pretty.
then there was a worship session. singing songs on love. then the pastor talked. he told this joke: a woman was walking in the desert and she came across a lamp like aladdin. she rubbed the lamp and a genie came out. going to give her one wish. so she thought a while. then she took a map and showed the genie the middle east area. said this place always at war. can you make peace there? genie said "i'm good, but i'm not that good. think of another wish." so the woman did. she wished for the perfect husband. must do this, and that and this and that. the genie listened and then said, "let me see the map again". :D moral of the story, finding the perfect man is more difficult than solving political problems. the pastor based his talk on ephesians 5 (i think) that verse that talks about love your wife, honor your husband. it was an interesting talk. he really explained what it meant. don't ask me exactly cos i don't remember anymore. the bad part of the talk was that after the english was done, the whole thing was repeated in chinese. :p we noticed sr cecily sleeping during the chinese version. really nodding off. hahaha! so amusing.
after that, they exchanged vows. *g* on the 'higher ground' of the altar. seriously. the officiating person (don't know his title. not the pastor) told them to move to higher ground for that. again, lots of focus on god. they were the second focus. officiating person then tells the groom to tell to miss wee:
officiating person: tell her "you are mine"
tze locke (groom) to miss wee: you are mine
officiating person: can i kiss you now?
tze locke to miss wee: i want to kiss you now.
then they kiss. *gg* sweet. so sweet! i wonder if he's the guy that always drives her to school in the blue van. that is the ultimate sweetie. driving her to work everyday and all.
signing the wedding documents, the p &w group came up and sang some chinese songs specially for miss wee. after they signed, the newly weds went to the altar and kneel down and give thanks. meantime, showing another video presentation on "god so loved the world that he gave his only son..." that verse. then another presentation. this time celebrating their love and life and thanking their families. then, the end "presenting mr and mrs lim tze locke!" no wedding march music though. some other song. yups.
reception downstairs. waited forever for miss wee to notice us and have time for us. we bought gift vouchers for her (and her husband) and a home made card. jeanette made it i think. very simple. just a pink construction paper with hearts over it and we wrote messages inside the hearts. take photos, chat a while then we left. i finally caught up with theo at the church. that gal. *shakes head*
anyway, when i get the photo we took, i'll put it here.
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last thing to talk about. i got a job finally. i'm a temp sales associate at john little parkway. please don't purposely come down and look for me. i'll go and hide. :D the interview was weird. we were sent to fill up employment form at the stock room of parkway JL. had some maths questions to answer. blur me was struggling with mental sums until i remembered finally that my hp got calculator. it was the easiest interview i ever attended. the manager, wendy, just called us in groups of 10, explained the various positions available, talk some more. the only thing she asked us was our job experience, in which everyone just repeated everything written on the application form. easy.
so i got the job. went for the orientation at specialist center. went through the various documents, shifts, contract. the timing is so crazy. i wonder if their permanent staff have such crazy schedules. i'm assigned to ladies wear, lingerie, toiletries, cosmetics, shoes and handbags. not too happy about it cos i know nuts about that departments. anyway, can't complain. i got the job.
yesterday went for cash till training. the trainer, ragu, reminds me of naresh. accent and all. only ragu's sense of humour is way better than naresh. still a bit confused about the cash till. hope i don't screw up. we were divided into groups to try out the till. and my group incurred a balance of $300 missing. :p lucky it's just during the training. and we have no idea what happened to that $300. i met this girl shah who's at parkway with me and in the same shift as me. so new friend. we'll be together during work. just different department. she's in household i think. but that's better than being totally alone.
right. long enough. have to finish up so i can go study my cash till notes so that i don't screw up on friday. bye!
Monday, May 02, 2005
reading jess's blog about new confirmation names. i remembered something from my time. not too sure if my memory is still as good as it was but here goes.
we were discussing if we wanted to get confirmation names. so one of the teachers suggested, all the gals shall be called mary and all the guys shall be called michael. no idea why. (we didn't in the end though)
so when arch bishop asks for our names... mary, mary, michael, michael, michael, michael... ... (lots of guys in my class then) get the picture?
imagine what would archbishop's face be like. :D
we were discussing if we wanted to get confirmation names. so one of the teachers suggested, all the gals shall be called mary and all the guys shall be called michael. no idea why. (we didn't in the end though)
so when arch bishop asks for our names... mary, mary, michael, michael, michael, michael... ... (lots of guys in my class then) get the picture?
imagine what would archbishop's face be like. :D
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