Tuesday, February 01, 2005
East meet West , Last day of work and Evening at Muchuan
31 Jan 2005
Yah, last day of work at SPH Magazines, and the gal who is taking over me only came in at mid morning. So how can you expect me to teached her everything i learnt in just less than a day. Grrr. Later, we reflected the problem to my supervisor, (the new girl is already stressed by mid noon), and guessed what, my supervisor asked me to come back to help! Duh, I had to start work immediately, and it wasn't my fault that I can't finished teaching her in one day. The new gal told me that she actually had attended the interview 2 weeks ago, and one week later, after receiving no news abt the status, she called up HR, and was told that my supervisor had not given them any instructions to hire her. It was only at last thursday that they confirmed hiring her, and asked her to go for medical check up asap.
*shake head*. Now they expected me to come back on sat to teach her....
so my last day in office was a hectic one, rushing here and there. My dear colleagues actually wanted to treat me lunch, but i really don't have the time as i need to collect cakes for distribution.
And you know what my dear colleagues did? Somehow, they manage to get someone to buy a gift for me, and it was a folder consisting $100 worth of Isetan Voucher . Together with it, was a very very funny pic. Will post it in my next posting. Aiyah, feel quite bad. Cos if I went out for lunch with them, at most each pay only $3 for my share. But how they all chipped in to buy $100 worth of vouchers.
Oh yah, there is something that Sips made me to write about in my blog , since she can't attend. (but already told her some of it through phone, dunno she'll be more dui after reading this :P) Hmm, is it you want me to write so that you can 'steal' from my blog again?
Well, made a last minute booking at Muchuan for dinner with my colleagues. And it was Jianhua who picked up the call. I still didn't recognised his voice intially, until i heard his glint of recognition in his voice when I gave my name for reservation. Out of the four muchuan singers, only he know the English name i used when I made reservation ( cos he is the one who picked up my phone calls)
When I sort of blurted out "又是你!" Imagine my surprise when he replied " 因为刚好你打来的时侯,是我接电话.如果你要,我现在可以马上叫另一个人来接听."
Mentioned before that this guy is so distant and formal, even towards Sips ( until recently not that formal liao). And since I never spoken much to him, didn't expect he could joke like that.
Then after knowing that I am going with my colleagues to Muchuan for a farewell dinner, he asked "你等下要唱什么歌."
I was stunned, I mentioned that i might have special request for some songs to be sung by them, yet he asked me that. and he even continued:
"你不跟我说你等下要唱什么歌,我就不帮你 made reservation".
Whoa, this guy seems to have 吃错药 lor. Can even "threathen" me .
Wanted to called Sips to tell her that her dream guy seems to be in a good mood but was dragged to do something by my supervisor.
Only managed to catch a breath after boarding the company transport bus after work, and quickly called Sips about it. (Yeah, think she must be wanting to strangle me for not letting her know earlier)
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So yah, sips, you asked me to say Hi to him, and upon reaching there, and saw him , I really did say " Siping as me to ask "hi" to you"
One of my colleague is damn funny, Upon settling down at our tables, and the singers were away,she suddenly exclaimed "像, 像, 他很像孙协志!" Hmmm..... so married women also know how to secretly "beo" males huh, for I didn't see her noticing him.
After a short round of audition ( i dun think they can make it), there came the singers' performance. Sip's dream guy is really 反常, for he joked a lot and talked a lot. Whereas Ximei, who is oftenly so bubbly, made only a few funny comments.
So Sips, here are the surprising thing Jianhua did ( some i already mentioned to you):
Surprise 1: he interact with us a lot. Normally he only asked the audience had they had dinner, everything ok.But he saw me and a friend eating bread, he directly asked , whether the bread is nice and went on "promoting" the bread.
Surprise 2 : He was rather talkative that nite, asking my group like how long we known each other, then giving his "cheem" chinese comments abt friendship and farewell. (somehow, i am not used to being centre of 'attention', as at that time, there are still other patrons in the cafe)
Surprise 3: I had specialy dedicate "黄昏" "记事本" to my colleagues, and before he actually read out my dedication letter, he aske me from the stage that if I wanted to record him reading and their singing. When i asked if i may, he replied that I already brought my equipment ( my digicam). Whoa Sips, yr idol really have sharp eyes, cos I didn't even bring out camera when they are performing. I only took some pics with my colleagues just as the singers are busy preparing for setup.
Anyway since he given me the permission to video tape him, i had record a one minute video of them, of cos i know u wanted to see his face, so i had already zoomed in my camera lens to the maximum.
Suprise 4 (Sips, dun kill me for that): When he sang "祝福" , and at the verse "你和我重逢在灿烂的季节" he turned to our table and did an action : he pointed to our direction, the pull back his hand and place across his chest, causing my colleagues to laugh out loud. Then Ximei was teasing him " 你做那个动作, 是在指谁?". Which he joked back in Chinese that he wanted to point at every one at my table, but think that would looked too ugly.
Yah Sips, at that point, i really hope u were there to see it yrself, cos u should know that when it was his turn to sing, he is so engrossed in his singing that he never do those cute action. ( haha, u dui liao)
Surprise 5 ( sips, i think u really will kill me for this): he actually dedicate a song to me and talked rubbish. Cos later, he mentioned he is going to sing a song from our dedication list , "
男人海洋". It was actually dedicated by one of my colleague but she left at 9+ pm.
So when he was singing halfway, he turned to me and said something like "for Table 13 who dedicate the song". which I replied " I didn't dedicate this". And which he said "我折下我的翅膀送给你, 要不要?". I was a bit stunned and I caught Meilian laughing. But i caught the joke and laughed back. And Sips ,in case you dunno, he was just trying to build up the atmosphere and you know, the last two lines of the song is actually "我的爱是折下自己的翅膀 送给你飞翔". So he was just talking rubbish. But unexpected right?
And after he finished singing, he said " 男人海洋, 送给 S-------- ( my name)". (i am still not used to pppl calling me by that name)
Sips, Dun kill me huh, i didn't ask him to dedicate song one, i think he really 吃错药 . Maybe next time u go to Muchuan, he also dedicate a song to you leh.
Kinda feel sad for the singers that halfway through the performance, we are are the only group remaining there ( unless if you want to count "taufik" and his friend sitting at one corner & not dedicating any songs). But we also have our advantage. Because we are the only one left, they are rather accomodating, like my friend who wanted to hear Meilian sing Sun yanzi's " 我不难过 ", she sang it though she actually thought of singing "同类".
For me, i had mentioned I requested for "黄昏" "记事本" ., Jianhua and Meilain not only changed them to a medley, but add some challenge to it by singing both songs at the same time during the chorus. The effect was actually quite good.
They also accomodate to our request for songs like "脱掉" & "祝福" . The funny part is that Ah du got so high when he was playing keyboard and singing "脱掉" , that at the next song, two buttons of his shirts were unbuttoned by themselves.
And Sips, don't you worry. Most of my colleagues prefered Ah-du instea. :) They were impressed with his style of singing. They claimed that he sings with more "feelings"
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Sun 30 Jan 05
Went to this special "East Meet West" event at Muchuan, where the singers Yiling, Weixiong and Liqing sang oldies. Quite surprised that it was split equally among chinese, english and cantonese songs. It's not often that you can hear singers performing english oldies at Muchuan. Can't comment much as my friend and I left early. The male singer, weixiong, was 'suaning' yiling so much, just to gao3 qi4 fen4. Yeah and Sips smsed me something halfway through the performance, and when I read it, i really want to gave her an exasperated look. Haha.
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