More than just MJ kahkis..

Mj is a wonderful game.  It makes you get to know 3 other persons better and friendship may just bloom.  I have new found friends (of which one was my long lost primary school classmate).

麻将万岁!!

The Ride Home

Worked till 10pm on a friday night.  And if that’s not bad enough, the taxi uncle took me for a spin to tour bukit batok, hillview and upper bukit timah road.

Then I told him, u seemed like u have travelled a loooooooong way and normally when I take the cab back home from work even with peak surcharge, it’s only $8.90 and the meter was already showing $9 at that time.  He mumbled something which I didn’t hear but since I was dead tired and the fare was claimable, I didn’t bother to argue.

After 20mins (usual takes abt 10 mins), I finally reached home.  Paid the fare by nets and requested for a receipt.  The fare was $9.70 including $0.30 nets fee.  Then he took out a $2 note from his pocket and apologise for going the long way.

And I pocketed it.

Retrenchment

Seems like the economy is really bad.  Kutu hasn’t been able to look for a full time job and I heard that my previous company is retrenching.  Sad, everything is slowing down.  I think this is the best time to go for training and upgrading.  Exams are finally over, dreading for the results.

The only thing to look forward to is the public holidays.

Another stupid question

Me: Hello Healthspring! (working at the clinic)

Patient: Hello, what time do you close today?

Me: We close at 8pm today.

Patient: Oh, not 9pm?

Me: No.  And not 10pm, 11pm nor 12pm.  Thank you for calling.  Bye!

Yogurt Day!

Started working at ST Electronics since last thursday.  Everything’s good and the people here are still nice at the moment.  Cheap thrills, yesterday was Yogurt Day.  And so, everyone got a free Meiji Yogurt. 

School is very taxing.  And I am tempted to defer.  Tired.  Taiwan photos should be up soon..

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Batam!

Finally had the time to blog about the Batam trip!  Well, overall, the trip was still alright, just that it was our luck that everything that could go wrong, went wrong!

We have booked the 0930 ferry and we arrived on time 1 hour before to check in.  Guess it was the beginning of the school holidays that we were stuck at the queue for 2 bloody hours!  By the time we reached the departure hall, it was already freaking 1030!  And our ferry had probably already reached Batam.  Luckily for us, we managed to get into the next ferry which departs at 1050.  But totally sucks lor, no seats.  Had to stand/sit on the steps for about an hour.

Pic 1:  Look at the freaking crowd!

Pic 2:  We had to sit at the steps lor!  Initially all agreed to act angry.  But the rest of us decided to look pretty instead at the last minute.  Thus, my boss…LOL!

Pic 3:  Boss and Snow-white QA Manager

Pic 4:  The ferry butt…

Introducing my colls!  Katherine, my boss, Josephine, Accts Executive, Jeanie, Accts Assistant and Kiang, the Snow-white QA Manager.

While we were supposed to reach Batam by 1030 but got delayed because of the human jam at Harbourfront, we were worried that the transfer that was supposed to fetch us from Batam Centre to the resort has left without us.  But to our comfort, the driver was waiting aimlessly for us for an hours plus.  So touched!

Taken while travelling to the resort..

Immediately after reaching Batam View, we went for lunch at the coffee house.  Not much variaty and it cost S$18++ per head lor…Super not worth it lor!

And after lunch, it RAINED!  Checked-in and played mahjong.  Super boring.  Played mahjong till it was time to go for spa at 7pm.

The spa service was not up to expectation as well.  The steam room was shared by both of the sexes.  In comparable to Bintan, I’ll rate this 3/10.  Was cheap though..

Went back for another 2 rounds of mahjong before everyone zonk out at 3am.

It was sunny the next day, and we strolled around the resort, taking ‘bo liao’ photos.

We were scheduled to leave Batam View at 1230 as our ferry was departing at 1430.

But we decided to go Batam Centre one and half hour earlier by ourseleves for shopping.  And so, we left a message with the lobby recept to inform the driver to meet us at Batam Centre at 1300 to collect our boarding passes from him.  But we saw no sight of him at 1300.  Started to panicking and then had a little tension at the ferry counter.  Finally, the driver turned up at 1330 and we managed to catch our ferry on time.

I guess the trip was alright afterall, just that we happened to be suay lor…I heard from my ex-schoolmate that Batam Villa is good.  You guys might want to try that out instead. http://batamspavilla.com/

TIRED!

 

I’m so sorry!

OMG, I totally forgot that I’m on the roster at MLC for this morning.  I feel so bad!  And the worse thing is that Dr Tan wasn’t even angry with me!  I used to be able to remember which days I was supposed to work.  Seems like I’m getting old lor…better start using my organizer once again…

The Naughty Boy

Sms from Mr Kutu: Haven’t tell you today that you look sweet and beautiful in my eyes.. Muarkz.. Love you.

The First & Last Dinner

In the end, 9 of us went for the dinner.  We settled for Bali Thai at IMM.  My immediate boss, MD, QA Manager, 2 Accounts girls, Project Engineer and a Sales Coordinator, the German Engineer and I went for the dinner.  Thank god, my MD, immediate boss and the Project Engineer entertained him.  Whereas the rest of us spoke in Mandarin, entertaining ourselves.  I did not spoke a word at all to him.  Finally dinner ended and we all went our own way.  There shall not be another one and I shall not talk to him anymore.  Looking forward to 17 June when he will be back to where he belongs.  I’m so thankful that he is not an employee at my company…