Jeffirean Stories
Monday, January 31, 2005
Hello!
Those who saw me on MSN on Friday must have seen my nick "War with Honda and Caroline Yeoh". Well, the war is officially over and our presentation met with high approval from the class 23 votes out of 36 votes. Seriously, I felt our presentation lacked the content from the start because the story was not well explained, like we didn't state more names and etc to show that we did our readings and thinking. The good side was the videos and the settings we had, the first time I had ever done up a venue for a presentation... hahaha. Anyway I guess it was overall a fun experience, team work and yeah "desperation drives efficiency"! I will remember this concept for my life!
Caught a peek of the channel 8 show Top Fun and subsequently the serial drama, while eating a dinner of economic bee hoon. I could only catch the last 2 copy-singers and they were pretty good, one was copying Stefanie and the latter copying Teresa Teng! Then the serial had a scene showing Jeanette Aw taking the initiative telling Allan Wu that she liked him but was rejected...
The big question is, will I follow my weird idea of accepting the first girl that tells me that she likes me? Joyce had told me that girls are shy; they won't take the first move. My reply was that I wanted to know a special and different girl. Now the possibilities then become, is the girl true hearted or with ulterior motives? How can I tell? Will I succumb to the need of being loved and lose my logical mind?
I ponder for a while, and my answer is that I will take a risk and accept her.
You will then ask "what if she had ulterior intentions?" My answer will be in the AS format :p, that: If she had ulterior motives, then I must be foolish. But I am not foolish, so she didn't have ulterior motives. In any sense, I think I am always such an idealistic person that I tend to hide from reality.
In a week's time or two I will be taking part in my first SMU singing competition, the V Day duet competition~! Frankly, I had asked Fern to be my partner because I wanted to know if she was a better singer than any other girl in SMU. I trust my judgement. We will be singing Panda and Valen's 你的眼睛(Your eyes).I have 3 things that I hope I can accomplish through the competition, a. Find the best female singer in school. b. Win a prize c. Make others know that I am not what they think to be! And of course, I want to know if my singing has improved or not..
That brings me to, how will V Day be like? It's a school day (Mon) and there are presentations on that day..SIGH! Will I find a valentine this year? (Seriously, I don't really know if I want to have one or not...)
Okie, hope to see you people soon! Anyone going for CNY shopping can jio me or not? Like to learn some shopping skills from you people.
Another pondering day
Jeffire
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10:20 PM
Friday, January 28, 2005
I wrote topics I wanted to blog on my exercise book. The first one is about work. Just some interesting stuff I learnt at work.
First, let me ask you a question. Do you know how budget airlines sell their tickets? They begin from the cheapest and so the prices goes up like ladders...Usually they won't entertain cancellations and thus refunds aren't allowed. If you decide to change your flight then you may have to pay some penalty fee.
There is this Auntie S**** at work who was very good at dealing with unreasonable customers. She was actually from the beauty industry and told me lotsa dark stuff about the industry..heh. BGS fodder! Anyway there was this very irritating customer who dialled a few days ago and got a pricing and then called again after thinking through her options for a booking. Here's an excerpt from the conversation
Customer: "I thought that day one of your colleagues gave me this price? How come now so expensive?"
Aunt S: "The cheap tickets for this flight has all been snapped up. If you bought earlier, you would have gotten them at that price too. So do you want to confirm your booking?"
Customer: "Hey, but how can you quote me this price now! It's just only 2 days and it has risen so much!"
Aunt S: "If you don't like this price, why don't you try another flight?"
Customer: "I want to go on this flight....blah blah blah" (damn irritating long winded person)
Aunt S: "Ok, let me tell you something. If today you bought a shirt at Metro, then tomorrow Metro announces a 50% off storewide, can you take the shirt back for a refund of 50%? Cannot right? It's the same mah, like I tell you the price is like that today, another few days later the price surely will go up again. If you don't buy now it will be more expensive soon."
And so the customer shut up and paid for the flight.
The lesson here is not about budget airlines or being kiasu to buy cheap tickets! The lesson here is that if you are Metro's manager, be sure not to put discounts on existing unsaleable products! Bundle it with some saleable stuff and sell it as if a discount has been given! :p
Oh well, how can a business student not resist thinking about marketing policies? Hahahaha..
The second thing I wanted to blog was about the dream I had this morning. I certainly hope Dan will see this...if not, then I am gonna print it and post it to him...
Anyway, there are 2 segments to the dream. One before my phone's alarm rang, and the other after.
The first one was at some place that looked like school. Can only recall the white styrofoam ceilings and that there was this flat screen panel that looked pretty stylo.. silver coloured..unfortunately, I was quarrelling with Dan over an issue regarding some project. And he was like telling me what I need to do, what I have to do and his gesturing was pretty hysterical, like some angry man... I actually wanted to slap him but couldn't because of fear of damaging the panel..
then the phone rang.
Deciding that I was damn tired after all the IVP so I went to bed again.
The second dream began in some old old school building that had pillars similar to the ones in Catholic High.. milk colours.. but the setting looked pretty like NUS too...this time I saw that he was sitting at one corner and looked like waiting for somebody. So I went forward and gestured if he wanted to go play table tennis with me later, but he shook his head. Then suddenly he was like crying and banging the table, so I was like trying to grab him to calm down and then he suddenly disappeared by jumping over the wall. I reached out to grab him but didn't see him so I jumped as well. Then I went to the library and saw my SMU friends and they were telling me that our projects were still stuck in the library rooms. I couldn't recognise any of them but the setting now looked like the SMU library... I ignored them and ran up the stairs of the library but Dan wasn't in sight.. so I sat down at the computer table and type in some words.. then the screen said "Guilty" and I was like shocked so much that then I woke up.
As usual, after every interesting dream/nightmare, I will be analysing them. It's just so happened that I decided to write all the details I could remember in the exercise book, which is what you can see above.
My analysis? Projects, projects and projects are hounding me! The word 'Guilty' came from the slide I was preparing yesterday for the Honda corruption case and perhaps I have been worrying about Dan since that faithful day... I have been harbouring hopes that he would be able to join us at SMU too..which is why a mix up of settings...and of course the library computers and the LCD panels are what I always see because I don't have a laptop and will always be rushing all sorts of work, projects, SCS stuff, printing notes and emailing people....blah...
Oh well, BGS is damn scary...my teammates are pretty confident that we can get things done in one day.. wonder where their confidence come from? And to think that we have to decorate the room, act, and video cam for the project...makes me worry.
January is coming to an end soon. I hope I will see April early! Unfortunately, I will definitely miss the girls in school...so much eye candy. Haha.
Okie, hope to see Dan like normal again and of course one day let's hope he joins SMU and become a totally new person...like I did. Am I? I think so.
Regards
Jeffire
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9:31 PM
Monday, January 24, 2005
Feeling real bored...kinda waiting for something to happen.. but dunno wat.
I decided to draw up lists of "Top 10s" to pass some time! Hee..Here goes:
Top 10 Favourite Foods
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1. Vegetarian Bee Hoon
2. Potato salad
3. Jeff's spaghetti
4. 真善美 laksa (formerly at Depot Rd, now at Alexandra food centre)
5. 燕饺面 (at my area, Broadway Kopithiam)
6. Roti prata
7. Sandwiches
8. Mint sweets
9. Milk chocolate
10. Japanese chicken curry
Top 10 Favourite Beverages
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1. Mocha
2. Plain water
3. Milo
4. Soya bean milk
5. Dairy milk
6. Honey water
7. Green tea
8. Orange juice
9. Avocado juice
10. Sugar cane juice (boiled with chestnuts)
Top 10 Favourite Soccer Players
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1. Diego Tristan (Striker, Deportivo La Coruna)
2. Ludovic Giuly (Midfield, Barcelona)
3. Javier Saviola (Striker, Monaco)
4. Xavi Alonso (Midfield, Liverpool)
5. Zlatan Imbrahimovic (Striker, Juventus)
6. Mark Vespaxxxxx (Striker, Latvia - i dunno which club he is in)
7. Steven Gerrard (Midfield, Liverpool)
8. Arjen Robben (Midfield, Chelsea)
9. Zinedine Zidane (Midfield, Real Madrid)
10. Luis Figo (Midfield, Real Madrid)
Top 10 Favourite TV Shows
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1. Champions League Final
2. English Premier League
3. Spanish La Liga
4. Italian Serie A
5. Channel Newsasia
6. 台湾霹雳火
7. No more.. I don't watch tv much.
Top 10 Favourite Hangouts in Singapore(less home)
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1. Jinki's home
2. Kevin Lim's home
3. Kenneth Soh's home
4. Singapore Management University Computer Lab (Accoutancy Block)
5. Singapore Botanical Gardens lake
6. NTUC Khatib
7. Causeway Point
8. Street soccer court at BLK 821, Yishun St 81
9. SPE Table tennis training area
10. Business Block Lobby, Singapore Management University
Top 10 Favourite Artistes
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1. Jeff 张信哲
2. Gackt
3. Utada Hikaru
4. Ayumi Hamasaki
5. F.I.R
6. Stefanie 孙燕姿
7. 费玉清
8. Stella 张清芳
9. JJ 林俊杰
10. Justin Timberlake
I think that's enough for today..
Yawnz
Jeffire
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10:07 PM
Saturday, January 22, 2005
"Good morning, Tiger Airways Ticketing Hotline!"
That's my opening line at work when I'm given the opportunity to be listening to calls. As I'm on training, the usual will be for me to tap a senior's call or for the senior to tap mine and give me pointers.
It's quite a nice job, and it seems like an extension from my previous job. I feel like I've yet to leave the tourism industry. Hmm.. it's stirring my desire to travel! Unfortunately, my family is so poor that the furthest we have travelled to is Cameron Highlands (me), Malacca (my bro), Riau Islands (my parents). Sigh.
I am looking to the future when I will be travelling the world with my backpack on both feet, buses, cabs and hitch-hiking. I want to feel the earthquakes, see tsunamis, chase tornadoes and escape from floods. Yet please spare me from plague, locust attacks, snow storms and volcano eruptions. I will be glad to be helping people in heatwave areas and droughts. I really want to.
Back to reality, my take on most Singaporeans is that many are reluctant to learn (or lazy) and that they are naive, stubborn and ridiculously egoistic. They think the world revolves around them and things are planned for them! Fat hope~ Wake up if you belong to any of the categories below.
1. Reluctant to learn - Get retrenched soon unless you sign up for re-training. And mind you, retraining cost money. Luckily retrenchment pays you some money for re-training.
2. Lazy - Get sacked soon. You will be better off being a beggar. Or perhaps you should try getting a job at the CASE hotline to see if you enjoy being lazy.
3. Naive - Read the fine print, dear.
4. Stubborn - If insisting makes you happy, then go ahead. I have no ability to give in to you.
5. Egoistic - Buy your own airplane like Mr Ambramovich and save yourself time to book air tickets. You needn't plan beforehand, just dial your pilot and you will be in the sky soon.
All right, don't ever try to defend yourself. We all have one of the traits or more. It's just that at work I get to hear from plenty of people with all these traits. I am happy to be listening though. It makes my day faster too.
Let's shift back to school work. I wonder what the hell I'm doing in this expensive school. After solving the book problem, I hear a hike in the fees. I wonder if it is because I am stupid not to be able to earn enough money for school or the school is too clever. Apart from worrying about school fees and books (I've yet to get all of them, and I dun intend to, anyway.), there are all the projects and assignments! I have missed 2 weeks of Finance homework already...ya all because of the problem of not having the textbook. To think that I am blaming my inadequacies using the money excuse again. How pretentious I am!
However, there are many great memories of school this week too. The Biz Law presentation was finally finished, and I really have to take my hat off to Eugene, Robin and Weijian. They are really very efficient man. And from BGS I have made such good friends with Zhenchang, Cindy, Cheri and Salinah... I hope for other groups I will enjoy such a good rapport with them too.
Yesterday was Hari Raya Haji. What did I do? I played mahjong with Kevin, Jinki and Junbin(jinki's blood bro) for a record breaking 3 rounds and ended up cooking, washing, eating, and sleeping at Jinki's home. Another day spent at others' home. I am so thankful for the kind hosting by his parents and siblings...I had really enjoyed myself, be it observing the dog Lucky, be it listening to Aunt Jessie's endless cooking lessons....I wonder how can I ever repay the kindness! And to think that I won so big at the mahjong (1 win 3)...even discounting their losses didn't help making me feel better...
Okie, the football match is starting. Let's watch now!
Lastly, will like to dedicate a chinese poem to Weijian for being such a great buddy in the new year. (inspired by Zhuge Liang in last night's Romance of the 3 Kingdom, and by the way, who has a PS version of the game? Specifically, RTK 4 or RTK 10.) And the 7Seas, my other buddies, army, CHS, or wherever.. this is for you!
光阴速逝 人非昔比
今寻知己 喜泪满面
肝胆相照 赴汤蹈火
不惜自我 为兄竭力!
Hope you guys understand!
*Smilez*
Jeffire
PS: Jinki, is Sarah attached? Hahaha...
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7:52 PM
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Lalala..
A week full of small events in life...
Sunday - Met Jason, Dan and Pius. A long story to say, but like to say that being alone is really a difficult thing... while that special someone will spend her life with you forever after marriage, good friends have been with you before her and will be with you till forever too! :)
Monday - As usual, classes filled the day up. At night I took a long long trip to Tampines for an interview at Cinenow, an automated DVD rental company. Thought the job wasn't very interesting.. so asked for a delay for decision.
Tuesday - Morning was a rush to Tampines again for another job interview. Quite an interesting place and I was selected for the job as a customer service professional (this is stated in the employment contract). Anyway it's a call centre job for Tiger Airways / McDonalds delivery so maybe one day you will hear me when you dial those lines! Hahaha. Next, din manage to hand up Finance HW... still have yet to get the textbook. Before finance class I finally met up with Cindy, Zhengchang, Salina and Cheri for BGS discussion proper (a short 40min discussion) so the BGS project has begun..After that I was at a SmartMoney workshop where I played a game similar to Cashflow. Learnt a bag of money making tricks from the game.. heh. Share with you next time, or ask me on MSN ok?
Wednesday - Was late for Business Law lesson, missed the fun part where the first group presented the first case analysis, heard it was an 1.5hr debate (wow)... I kinda like the class, but I dun have time to prepare for the case studies, as we need to go library to loan the book for photocopying...sianz. Some improvement for class participation as I answered the Prof regarding what are 'options' in terms of home buying. And also it was Jinki and Yenmei's birthday. Jinki would have his celebration on Fri with us and Yenmei got a present from me...Happy birthday!! After passing her the present I rushed to meet my BGS team for an outfield research at Leng Kee. Had a good meal, chat and project discussion with them at Redhill food centre and Tiong Bahru Mac. But I had to leave early to go back to school for a meeting. Was stuck in Orchard for sometime.. late for the meeting, but since I was only a new chap, not much stuff for me...
Thursday - Wanted to go school early but ended up sleeping past 10. The past few days I had only 4-5 hours sleep and obviously that isn't enough for an idiot like me.. it didn't make up though for i slept at 4am actualli.. haha. MA was interesting too as there was a sudden test.. I didn't score well, but it was interesting because there was a SUDDEN test. I like that...makes the playing field level for people like me who don't mug. Hahaha.
Friday - Went for a training session at my workplace, and soon another few days more I will be picking up calls on the Tiger Airway ticketing hotline. My upperstudy is also called Jeff, but he's not as shuai as any Jeff I know :p (i dun mean i'm more shuai than him either).
After that I rushed to school from TP central via bus 67. As I had only 2 hrs of sleep(stayed up to prepare a compilation of Sweetest Love Songs for my dear bro, Jinki, as a birthday present *cost cutting measure*), I fell asleep in the bus and yeah, miss the bus stop. When I got up it was at Serene Centre (phew) so I alighted and walked back to school.
Was late for Analytical Skills class.. 5mins... After class, rushed to meet NianFen to collect a contract from her and rushed for MIC meeting with my lunch still in its box(bought at TP central before boarding the bus). Luckily the meeting did not start as planned, so I stole 5mins to dunk my lunch into my stomach.
My first singing at MIC was Jay Chou and Wendy's Rooftop. Think they liked my singing... i think so. Haha. Had a great time suggesting tons of improvement to MIC, finally some contribution to the CCA and straight after the meeting I ran to the sports hall to play table tennis, still wearing jeans... Played with the ex President of TT club, Qingyao and lost 3-0, 11-8, 11-7, 11-8, which I think not bad la.. considering a week ago I was losing 11-1, 11-2 that kind of score.. if weekends there were people to train that will be good.. but Dan doesn't want to play with me.. sianzzzz.
After training I rushed to Jinki's home only to find that everyone else was later than me..haha. Junhao didn't manage to come despite my one week notice... next time have to book him a month in advance... arghz. But Clarissa came.. yoohoo! Haven't seen her for years. We had a great time as usual, ate so much.. super full but still couldn't finish the food. I don't understand why because we only spent $40 odd for 13 people and still had 1/3 of the food left...hmm.. the cake selected by me was very nice.. Yam taste..haha.
Caught the last bus with Alex and incidentally met Dan on the bus.. he looks like some HK superstar with long hair and unshaven chin..haha.. had a long chat with Alex who shared his experience with me, he said he understood what Dan was going through and told me stand by for him but dun flood him with too many questions... I am glad to hear heartfelt stuff from Alex...in the past he used to prefer saying things to Kevin and Junhao...heh. Glad everyone had changed to be more open and frank with one another.
Saturday - I didn't sleep the whole night to morning, could only get to bed at 8am and had a nap till 10+am...mum couldn't cook lunch on time so I went to school for project on an empty stomach...had the best project discussion for this year for Biz Law project with Robin, Eugene and Weijian.. yay!
After the project meeting on the way to the bus stop, got to know that Eugene plays Cashflow and he has the board game itself! Wow!! Next time can play with him le.. haha.
Rushed home to put my stuff and went to meet Yongqing/Aston (ex colleagues from the aiport job) for WE challenge. Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (PES 4) is so updated! I will want a copy of that game soon....have to save some money for that.. I beat Yongqing's best team(AC Milan) with my best team (Ajax), scoring 4-2 (actually he scored 2 own goals :P, oei it's difficult to make ppl score own goals ok..) then in all drew with YQ 2matches to 2 matches and beat Aston 3matches to 1. Haha. Trashed his MAN U with R Madrid. Den YQ sent me home on his car.. he drives damn fast.. scary.
And got home only to find my brother sleeping and nobody arrived yet.. Hmmmm.. I invited many people to come to watch soccer mah.. In the end Jinki and Kevin arrived first and followed by Justin (the tall guy with long hair..), Guiqiang (the tanned skinny chap), Jiaxing (the Newcastle supporter), Qinyi(the muscular cute guy), and finally our dear Charles!
I need to say sorry to him because he was the only guy who finally stayed over and because I couldn't tahan anymore, I went to bed before him and he ended up sleeping on the wooden seat.. so uncomfortable! 100x sorry!! So next time if you stay over at my humble abode, if I collapse before you (usually I'm quite a late night still awake guy, esp when playing mahjong..) u muz wake me up so that I can arrange your sleeping place ok? Aiya.. on hindsight I ought to have prepared in advance.. sigh. A lousy host I am!
Anyway Liverpool lost to arch-rivals Man Utd.. I've long given up on Liverpool and pledged allegiance to Monaco instead (look at my wrist-rings - red and white!)
Sunday - Woke up and of course the first thing was, ya hor, when did Charles sleep.. so the story has been told and we had breakfast downstairs before I sent him home while on the way to school.
Did my project slides, had a long chat with Akie and Chris, both overseas and manage to come out with new Jeffire quotes to cheer Akie up! Heh. And Chris sent me some video filmed during their street soccer competition...Chris played like some 70s football star.. not modern style wan.. And after finishing my segment, was too tired to think and kept talking to them until my mother dialled from Malaysia to ask me to buy 4D for her.
As time was ticking off, I apologised to them and left to find a place with a short queue. Finally bought it at Sixth Avenue for the first time and then for memorial purposes I bought a Toto ticket there.. hope I win money! I need it for a nice CNY haha.
Anyway, I bought the wrong number for my mum...oops. And after that went home, had dinner with my brother and now I'm blogging this long long entry while Singapore is battling Indonesia at the National Stadium.. very long never see the stadium filled up with red colour except on National Day.. and Singapore is leading 1-0! My brother bought Away-away (ie Indonesia to lead at half-time and win at full time) which seems to have no chance.. haha. Singapore is having a good roll!
Okie.. see you again on MSN and when I got time I will update you with my life again!
Oh ya... this is the Jeffire quote.. I put it as my MSN nick at this moment in case u din see it...
- "If you are happy for at least 13hrs each day, you will be happy for most of your life~"
Ain't I right? Akie, Joyce, and all my friends... hope you guys get what I mean... feel free to talk to me when you are sad ok? Try my best to be available for you...:) This leads me to the second Jeffire quote of the day,
- "It's my job to make everyone happy (while making myself happy)"
and finally the last quote
- "I'm happy to be on the queue waiting for love".
Heh.. *hugz hugz*
Best Regards
Jeffire
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7:17 PM
Sunday, January 09, 2005
One week of school has passed.
Let's lament on the bad things first this round.
Firstly, I can't find groupmates for Creative Thinking, Analytical Skills if I stick to my no-same-teammate-from-other-courses principle. Arghz..I dunno if the Profs will help me on that or not. Die la.. hope I fall into a team which doesn't mind too much.
Secondly, I haven't got any books yet... wonder what books I can not buy.. trying to cut as much costs as possible. The finance text that I will be using is totally new, so have to buy it to do homework.. arghz.
Thirdly, I was damn embarassed on Sat morning when I turned up for an entrepreneurship talk at Buona Vista and couldn't pay the $5 entry fee. The check I banked in on Friday afternoon was only cleared on Saturday afternoon....ended up going home instead of the talk.
Lastly, it was a real bad day on Fri for table tennis when I didn't manage to make it into the first team by losing to the guy who played unorthodox table tennis..it was partly due to my cockiness.. what the hell.. anyway it isn't so bad because i didn't want to represent the school this year since I won't be playing. It just meant no free t-shirt for this year....
Okie.. the good things that happened.
Made some new friends in school.. SMU Ventures, previous classmates (still cold with some of them though).. blah blah.. hope things go on smoothly so that I will be comfortable in class real soon. Still the loner I am in school.
Did 2 good deeds on the bus by taking initiative. The first one was that after school one day at night on bus 855, there was this old woman (but not poor wor) who boarded the bus and didn't have enough value in her EZ-link card. The driver noticed it and asked her to pay in cash, 80cents, but she didn't have that exact amount and also she didn't want to pay extra (she had an $1 coin). I was fed up because the driver didn't want to drive on before she paid... so I went up and said I will pay for her thinking that she didn't have the cash on hand, and asked the bus driver to move on quickly. In the end I paid 80cents in coins for her, and she returned me a dollar, which I gave back 20cents change. That's considered a good deed to me because I saved all the passengers time. The other good deed I done was to talk to 2 TKGS girls who were on their way home but not knowing where the bus was taking them to. (bus 76, after collecting DVDs from Jinki) Spoke to the girl who had to go Sembawang and also suggested ways for her to get to school and back quickly. Usually I won't bother..but after working at the airport, I'm kinda much kaypoh...haha.
Other stuff I did...I went to SMU Ventures chalet a few hours ago and was the 2nd last person to get there..the girls were struggling with the cooking and the Indian guys were lazing outside...haha..so I showed some culinary skills and they were impressed... I think there is this girl who is quite nice there....errmmm....but nice for a friend only... hahaha.
I also got my paycheck for the holiday job...not enough cash on hand to pay school fees le...dunno what to do liao... guess have to tok to my dad regarding his act-quietness... then i'm looking for another part time job too.....
lastly i'm looking to buy a PDA, with WIFI and can play MP3 wan.. hope u guys see a good model and tell me about it ok?
Write more about my thoughts soon. Sianzzzzzzz.. are you ready for CNY? Looking for fashion consultants..
Regards
Jeffire
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1:59 AM
Monday, January 03, 2005
Happy New Year!
Jan has begun with the most dramatic (love drama) experience I ever had! And of course it was the best start I could ever dream of. Here's the sequence of events that followed till 1 Jan 05.
10.30pm 31 Dec 04
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The 7seas had just returned from JB with their stomachs full, wallets half empty and a ton of fun experiences from shopping, eating and sharing experiences! So many interesting stories..hehe.
10.50pm 31 Dec 04
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Jinki, Junkai and I were on the train back home. Jinki had decided not to meet his dream girl despite promising her that he will spend the moments before the new year with her and also he bought her a necklace in JB.. Junkai the love expert then psychoed him with fantasy thoughts like champagne, candles and stuff...I was saying I could drive him there so that he will not break his promise...
10.55pm 31 Dec 04
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30 secs before reaching Khatib, he finally relented and decided to pop by my home for a bath and so that I could send him there...oh well, on the way back he stopped by NTUC to get the props and I went home first to get ready.
11.35pm 31 Dec 04
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We were already at Jurong East, Corporation Rd as directed by Jinki to me. Unfortunately, we couldn't locate the mystical block no..we even stopped by the road to asked the passer-bys about where was it and they all gave general directions..
11.50pm 31 Dec 04
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We combed the entire Jurong West Ave 1 but didn't manage to find the place...were very anxious...as the driver who had not much sleep the day before, I had to keep cool to ensure safety on the road although I admit that we did speed on the way to Jurong..
12.00am 1 Jan 05
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The red lights made us stop at a junction. Despite being on the right lane, Jinki decided to alight and rushed for the taxi which has stopped on the opposite side of the road due to the red lights as well. He then took the taxi without telling me anything, and he also took his props along, less the present..kaoz.
12.20am 1 Jan 05
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I was still combing the area and prayed that he reached there. As his phone was out of battery, he actually used mine to stay in contact with the girl...so we were off contact with each other.. I couldn't find the place despite asking for directions.
12.35am 1 Jan 05
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I recalled a something Jinki mentioned when we were in the van..."3 stops away from Lakeside mrt on bus 98". Actually I drove past the mrt station once but I kept thinking Lakeside was nearer to Jurong East rather than Chinese Garden. Of course I was lucky that the trains were running late and I stopped at the Chinese Garden(I found out after I checked the station lobby) and saw the map..the place we were looking for was not on the map, so I had to get to Lakeside MRT...
12.40am 1 Jan 05
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I reached Lakeside MRT and just left the vehicle at the taxi stand to check the map again but the place wasn't on the map..so I went to the bus stop instead and took a hard look at the buses and their directories. From another unrelated bus I realised that the place we were going was Corporation DRIVE. My brother had told me the wrong road name!
12.49am 1 Jan 05
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I finally reached the destination and phew, he was there with the girl...hahaha.. we were happy that the mission was a success though we missed the time target...
2.30am 1 Jan 05
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Put the present Jinki prepared on his seat so that he gets a chance to go back to give it to her.. luckily he remembers and takes it to her even before they part.
3.00am 1 Jan 05
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I listened to the radio while waiting for the couple to finish their chat..as I was bored, I chatted to Kevin using Jinki's line. Blah..it was free incoming anyway. Haha. Thanks a million to Kevin for staying up!
3.40am 1 Jan 05
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At last mission was over and successfully completed. We decided to go meet Kevin for some updates and discussions about some big issues and also about this adventure...
I finally reached home at 6.20am! Slept till 10.20am before my mum was unhappily saying that they could go for the World Peace Mass Praying at Loyang (it was featured on the news) to help out without me...I got up feeling heavy headed (I know my deep sleep status begins roughly at the 3.5hr mark..argh). Unfortunately my colleagues who was supposed to go ECP and also steamboat dinner postponed the event to the next weekend..not sure if I will go this time...
Since dinner was empty, my mother asked me to drive back to Yishun to fetch my brother.. We had a frantic rush to bathe and go buy 4D, soccer. I could only catch Sgt Qinyi for dinner so went to fetch him.. Reached Loyang at 7.30pm as I couldn't find the site..argh.. then Qinyi and I had dinner at ECP Lagoon Hawker...yum..the char siew wanton mee was opened! i had that and shared dumpling soup and fried carrot cake with him while he had hokkien mee...heh. then we went back to loyang to fetch everyone and finally he got to bishan at 11pm...i was lost again when going from sengkang to bishan! sorry!!!! can't believe the moving bus and streeting directory (me) can get lost 5 times in one day! SADZ.
Watched some soccer but by the 70th min I was knocked out and my bets lost at the very last few mins....arghz. hard luck..
Today was a great day as we collected the DVD we bought from JB as well as I won the mahjong game and had a good dinner with Jinki at his home with his family. I guess if his family adds a new member soon they have to thank me for it! (and Junkai too!) hahaha...
Despite watching a real live love drama from the van's side mirrors, I dunno if I am ready for such a thing.....i'm still too childish,idealistic, dumb and poor...haha. well well, too bad ah..
Resolutions on 2005 remain on the GoalPosts section, they are largely in line with my birth year resolutions but probably some other resolutions include improving my singing, being more friendly to people in school, improving my driving skills, bridging the 7seas and many more. i have thirst for improvement (non academic :p) and most probably u can see me doing weird stuff again to achieve my goals...
Never underestimate your own potential! Feel free to talk to me on all the BAD and GOOD stuff in life.. i will listen! *But dun call me at night...I dun have night free-incoming..haha. if you want i can call u instead!
Ok, all the best to everyone for the new year and Happy Birthday to Akie (3 Jan), Jinki (12 Jan), Yenmei (12 Jan) and Rika (28 Jan, hope I remembered correctly)! Any other Jan babies which I can't remember please scold me so that I will remember next year!
Thank you all for reading such an long entry!
Warmest WiShEs (hugzzzzz)
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