Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Purple invasion

Had been done a bit of packing up of my office workstation recently.

Here's a pic of the special corner of my "playground" (as someone had put it) last week .




My "neighbours: had laughed at the "flying poodle". BTW, if you noticed there's a purple grape tart , that was given by her as she knew i like purple.



My purple corner indeed made a few colleagues "buay ta han". Uncle Glenn was one of them. He mentioned that his wife and some of his relatives from his wife's family also like the colour. That is why he often had to disturb me when he passed by m workstation.

"It's had not to notice it (my purple theme cubicle) unless the person is colour blind ." he once said, and with that , there was a roar of laughter from my neighbouring colleagues.

And last week he was telling everyone he thought of a name for me:



" PM. now she not married, is called 'Purple Maiden'. when she is married, she can be called 'Purple Madam'."





and that sort of influenced my manager to disturb me too by calling me "purple".



"好学不学，去学Glenn ka-jiao 我。" I protested to her.







In the end, they also contribute to my "purple craze“。My department and uncle glenn （he's not fr my department) presented me my farewell gift and card which are purple this afternoon.







A Chomel Bracelet. Very bling bling.








The farewell card in the shade of purple that I like。 Inside the card, 90% called me {purple gal" or "purple lady".





My last working day is this Friday, but we have a get together lunch over a meal of KFC today as my manager will be on course tomorrow and my Reporting officer is on leave on Friday. Despite the group's attempt to gather everyone for lunch, someone who have a change of attitude after knowing i was headhunted. seems to be making excuse not to join in. 吃不到葡萄就说葡萄酸吧。Will talk more in the next post.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

posting for 26 May

Siao arh!

Being freaked out by "the ex"'s suggestion just now.


Toward the end of the KTV session, he blurted out " find one day we and L (his friend" go Lim Chu Kang Cemetery to explore".

"Siao arh" I replied.

" u try lah. After that u will be peaceful one. I been there a few times liao".

And he joked abt getting 4 numbers.


Kaoz, those who know me know i dun watch those horror movies one lor. And he continued to to freak me out by saying can sing the song "秘密" (so happened at that 李瑞恩's MTV was playing on the screen).

I freaked out at tis verse :

"好想问问你今天的心情 才想起你早已远离
却又发现自己仍活在回忆里 以为身旁还有你"


and then the pre-chorus doesn't seems to sound right :

"如果这一生我们爱不够 来生你千万认得我
如果这一生我给得不够 来生给你所有的我"

What the heck. Because of his suggestion, I can never look at this song the same way again.

Darn! This song used to be one of my fav 经典歌曲lor!
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Anyway today seems to be a bad day. Supposed to go for my 2nd round of pre-employment check up but missed it cos I overslept.

Due to oversleeping, i was late for my appt with QiumQium. Supposed to meet to watch "Welcome to Singapore" movie ( I know it's "Pirates of the Caribbean --At World's End") today. However at ard 2.30pm, QiumQium smsed me taht GV already making public announcement that there are only front two row seats available for all the slots till 10pm.

Make a stopover at Orchard Cineleisure but turn out to be worse. Only front seats and separate seats available only for all the slots till midnight. And they have 18 sessions for today.


So din get to watch lor.


Qium & I decided to chat over Cakes & Kopi at Secret Recipe. Though her order came, mines took more than half an hour to arrived. Have to remind 3 waiters before i can get my cake.

Midway, received "The Ex" sms to meet for singing in te evening. Supposed to meet at 8pm but i thought he would be late, hence took my time to browse books at Kino with Qium. Turned out he was going to arrive on time, and when i told him i was at Orchard mrt only, he changed venue because he thought that it would be better for me to travel upwards. Guessed there was misinterpretation cos I meant I was on the way to the original pick-up point as planned. Apparently he doesn't seems to be in a good mood cos his sms reply started with a "???Wat toking u???" (perhaps due to his friend put him on aeroplane).

Seeing this sms also made me very sian-jit-puah. Fortunately we managed to clear the air and settled on a place that is 顺路。 On the way, he let me whine abt my day and the frustration I faced at work. It's one of the days when I feel so glad that our friendship is still there. Being colleagues (though going to be ex-colleagues soon), make me easier to relate to him abt the things happened at work.

However seems like we are both having a bad day. Upon reaching the place, we found that the tables were all taken up. Called the "second choice", only to find that hall singing wasn't available. So with other factors to consider, we were left with no choice but to go to the place where he doesn't like (due to the poor customer service).


Theme Song for the day is definitely Daniel Powter's Bad Day...

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

just a quick runthrough of what happend for the past week-- for my "archiving purpose".


15 May -- After more than a year, finally get to catch up with Zhongwei xiaodi over dinner at Tampines (after my work). Told him qiumqium, fannie and the rest of old txys missed him when he din appear at last year bday gathering, but think he dun beileve it.

17 May -- as mentioned before, went down to future work place to sign my LOA. The ex also happen to sms me in the same afternoon for a round of singing in the evening. Just a day nite's out for the day on his reservist week and he so "mouth-itchy" already. He brought his friend along. I guessed the waiter and waitress sure have some comments abt the two guys singing in their army uniform. He asked to see my contract and as expected, start comparing the terms with our current organisation's.

18 May -- finally, we manage to find a temp staff to cover my duties for this transition period. An over qualified temp staff, I'd say.
Met up with"Zhu Yin lookalike" at bugis in the evening and we proceed to our class in thE area.


19 May -- went for my pre-employment checkup n the morning, then followed by two house-warmings attended. The 1st one was Liying's in 2nd and the 2nd one was Ah Du 's house warming


21 May -- Start training the enw temp staff at work.
after work, went to Ai Qing Hai to catch Monsters' performance. Joined me were "uncle jonathan leung", his friend and ES.

Glad that i manage to caught their performance. missed hearing them singing



(to be updated)

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Sunday, May 20, 2007

the "song-est' song of the year

note: the 1st "song" as refered in the title is in dialect.

This "song2" song was 1st heard during my visit to Dragonfly last month.
What made me almost fell from my chair was that i heard it on Yes933 radio ad, introducing it as one of the new songs.


You dun need to hear to song to see if it's song2, just look at the lyrics will do:



香水有毒
歌手：胡杨林 词曲:陈超编:江建民

我曾经爱过这样一个男人 他说我是世上最美的女人
我为他保留着那一份天真 关上爱别人的门

也是这个被我深爱的男人 把我变成世上最笨的女人
他说的每句话我都会当真 他说最爱我的唇

我的要求并不高 待我像从前一样好
可是有一天你说了同样的话 把别人拥入怀抱

你身上有她的香水味 是我鼻子犯的罪
不该嗅到她的美 檫掉一切陪你睡
你身上有她的香水味 是你赐给的自卑
你要的爱太完美 我永远都学不会

(those highlighted in red are what makes me puke)
what "perfume got poison". This song got posion arh...

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my kneecap was being poked and burnt...

Am sitting at the laptop now, right kneecap bandaged.


旧伤口...伤得我好痛..

oh yeah, maybe i should sing this song by Nick TSe.

back to the main track. Old injury relapse. Remembered last dec, I blogged abt being tripped by someone on the bus and landed on my right knee cap, and how the Monster Boss denied me going to see a chinese physician.


Since Friday, I start to feel numbness on the same area, and yesterday the pain as so bad that it was quite uncomfortable to walk. Can hear cracking sounds at times when bending my knees.


I guess the ligament swell again, and true enough, when i see the chinese physician, she said “软骨发炎”。

and then I had my first experience of 针灸and 拔罐(dunno if this is correct , cos i cant seems to find the phrase in my dictionary).

and left me $55 poorer.


Whoever said that acupuncture is not painful. Can still feel the pain when the needles are poke it, though it's still within my threshold. Dun like the feeling of BaGuan though, it seemed that my knee cap was being burnt.

after that, was a minor 推拿,which followed up by my kneecap being bandaged with a pack of 草药。

针灸+拔罐+推拿+包扎+口服药

really a 综合性治疗 !

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

deal

6.45pm.

Signed the Letter of Appointment.
I will be working for another "blue logo " organisation.

Hope it means I'm moving to a "bluer sky" ( not greener pastures).

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

“你最近不说话 怎么了 为什么" ---《最近》


那天王太问我是否有心事， 我就想起这首歌。

最近，小师妹正忙着Handover.
不是handover自己的工作，而是要在离职之前把“上一代”交给的backlog 统统清除掉。

最近，小师妹发觉一位同事好想吃了太多酸葡萄。一有机会，就会像《神雕》里的裘千尺那样吐枣。（不过她是吐酸葡萄啦）。

因此，小师妹最近有点烦。

最近，小师妹把头发给剪了。剪了三寸的发型，看起来真的像她的Msn Pic (那张童年照片），只差没把刘海给剪了。

最近，小师妹很累.....

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

it's so BLUE

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Saturday, May 12, 2007

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

guess i am still a bit affected by the incident, even though i am leaving soon.

This morning, was feeling a bit unwell at work.
Naturally my voice sounded weak and sian.
So happened that The Ex called me up to ask for directions to my office, and at the 2nd sentence he blurted:

"Can u try to sound a bit more cheerful or not".

What???!!! Hey i sick leh. Somemore talking to old friend, need not act mah.

"early in the morning sound so sian.."

i felt like strangling him then. ...

算他有点良心, offered me a ride home after his meeting. at least i dun need to endure a long journey ride by public transport .


Anyway, seems like news spread fast, both abt my resignation and the incident. So far all have been possitive on my side. The other "victims" had told me he was always like that, shouting and accusing people and then apologised "for shouting".

Many said " the hurt was there. Apology doesn't cure it."

I was laughing when another colleague (note: she is located at a diifrent level of our office premises.-- see how news spread) joked that next time if i happened to see him at the hospital, i should ask the doctor to give him a jab that will make him unable to open his mouth, so that he cannot shout at people.

Another colleague was saying that he should be lock up in the room with Glenn, so that he can learn from Glenn on how to be a man (as in gentleman). Uncle Glenn is the nice colleague i had mentioned before. All the colleagues, no matter their age, gender or ranks always sing praises abt him being gentlemanly, chivalous, charismatic.

Seriously i dun think that crazy man would see Uncle Glenn as a real man. He may be thinking that he himself is powerful and manly by daring to shout out loud .

On another hand, I noticed that lots of colleagues from different levels are trying to catch up with me after hearing the news abt my resignation. Even though I had worked for 3 months, many of them thought that I have been around for 2 months. I even received an email from the temp staff who is working at the HQ HR, asking me if it is due to the stress at work. It seems like when a staff quits suddenly, it must be due to the workload.

Compared to my previous workplace, I must say most off the colleagues here are nice. Not as stuck up as the Professionals in my previous workplace. Partly because of my jobscope, I get to interact with different people from different departments.

and the most common comment I had heard from them in the past 3 days is :

"I just got to know you more and you are leaving."


last week, while talking to the ex abt the decision i have to make between the two choices , i joking quoted the song "趁早" by A*Mei/ Phil Chang where there is a verse: "...想结束要趁早..."


It is a better time for me to leave now as:
- the impression they have of me currently is good.
- the longer I drag, the more i have to lose out in terms of getting annual bonus and increment
- avoid attending the staff retreat in mid june as I wun be needing the skills
- able to qualify for 2 prorated pay increment n July & Dec
- snese of emotional attachment wun be tat much


sleepy now. 要趁早睡。

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Monday, May 07, 2007

别以为我好欺负

Was insulted twice at work today. the first one was soooo bad that it make the second one seems so minor.


Being in big organisation, i know that offices politics are inevitable. What I din expect was that even if i chose not to get involve , some people still treat me as part of the group (just because i am in the department).

so much to the extend that i was verbally abuse.
Had to endure this b******* lashing when i did nothing wrong. Perhaps he thought he can target on me cos i am a newbie.


According to my understanding, due to some past history, he always think that admin are against him. And Last friday, he submited a claim for health screening, where there was not any description on the receipt. Just a mere note that $85 was paid.

As a certfiying officer for staff claims, i have to the right to ask for clarification. Need not even check with the HQ HR first as the guidelines are given.

My colleague advise me to check clarify with him personally as he will tend to twist yours words through email. But he played the cat & mouse game with me. Look for him, he's not around. Called him, din pick up a phone. hence wrote an email to him very politely to request him to drop me an email when he is back as i would like to check with him regarding his flexi-benefits claims.

sense that there would be trouble this moning where he chose to settle it by email, which he wrote "Wat is the problem."

Dealt very carefully with this troublemaker by explaining that i would like to have a confirmation that the claim he made was for health screening as there isn't any description on the receipt. (have to stress here that I did NOT even reject the claim on the system, which i would already have done for other colleagues).

Yet he twisted my words, wrote back an email to me " are you saying that i cant claim because there isn't any description" and cc to his superior.


with my past years of experience in dealing with this sort of people , i did note the way he include his superior in the mail. and when i replied to him , still tactfully that i din mean that as i only need his comfirmation, i also include his superior in the loop. (and claim was not rejected)

and guess what.

The next moment, this bad dog barged into the admin office and start screaming at me :

"Why did you reject my claim." and his saliva was spliting out.

tell you , his voice was so loud that even his superior sitting two corridors away heard it and stepped in.

I was shocked. When did i ever reject his claim and he had no right to malign me and shout at me like that.
When I asked : Did I reject your claim?", this b******* dun even answer it and continue shouting " Did you check with HR first! Did you! before you reject"


My manager and supervisor by this time had heard his outburst and was in shock. Nobody dare to react.

As I began to explain that it was in the guideline and wanted to pulled out my file to show him, he chose to shout " I went for health screening and this is my heart earn oney and u reject my claim without checking with HR.".


By this time, the Deputy Director, Genral manager had stepped out of their office. was so insulted that i told them i din even reject his claim. And as this mad dog was pulled away by his superior, he was still screaming and shouting.

If he think that i can be bullied this way, he is wrong. for i knew i did right from the start . It was my job to clarify any unclear claims and i did my best to look for him personally. I had emails in black and white that i did not reject his clim and had not written to him in any offensive way.

Let my supervisor and Manager read the email correspondence and they knew the whole situation.

but what abt those who just heard him shouted " why u reject my claim".

这种污辱我承受不下。


His supervisor tried to defend him, cos this b******** is a “老教”,that maybe he was stress.

So what, being stress doesn‘t give him the right to shout at anyone as he please.

你以为小师妹好欺负啊！


Later my manager and RO bought me out for lunch, mentioned that this time he had gone too far, partly because the management did not take any action on him when he used to complain publicly on any policies they came up with. Hence he got bolder.
It was initiately decided that my manager will bring up this case of bullying at the management meeting and sent him for counselling.


after lunch, it also happned that my manager seek him out to talk to him, to clear any misunderstandings he have of the admin department in the past. according to her, he claim that he see me as going out to stop his claim (what for do i wanna do that. my work target is to clear claims dail) and it would be better if i had look for him personnally (didn't i try that). She told me she told him taht she saw from the email that i had done everything correctly, from lookinghim up to contacting him and mentioned that he should apologise to him.


So that is when i saw him coming to my place and he said my softly (oh suddenly his voice can be soo meek):

" I just wanna say sorry for shouting at u just now".

Darn., u think that he is sincere. notice the words he used. he only apologise for shouting at me. but what abt the past that he maligned me that i rejected his claims. And the whole world thought i reject his claims .


Trust him to know that by apologising, my manager decided not to bring up the matter to management to refer to him for counselling.


Oh forgot to mention that this b******** is also a coward. Cos after lunch, there was an email from HR to ask him to state down on the receipt to clarify that the claim was for health screening (isn't that whay i asked too). Yet he dun have the cheek to face me then. He actually asked another colleague to come and endorse on his behalf.

hmmmp.

很冤枉lor,就因为上一代的恩怨，要我这一代赔。

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2nd insult really seems peanuts as compared to this. My fellow colleague heard abt the news of me bein headhunted and blurted out
"maybe the director choose u after seeing yr picture".


哇靠。什么意识。this not only insult me, the director and also the friends that I had rcommended to attend the interview.


For those curious, the director told me the reason he thinks I fit the job is because after years of interviewing many people for many positions, he can tell easily how a candidate can fit into the position and environment through the way they talked.


I could not help by asking him driectly whey he think i can meet up with the expectations when he told me that he had spoken to his wife (working in another hospital) abt me and in the event taht he cant take me in, is she able to take me in under her. Guess this was in reference to the promise he made to me to remember to call him should one day, i am unhappy with my current workplace.



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what a day right!

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Friday, May 04, 2007

Quick updates

1) Visited Nana's florist cun homeware shop By the Branch last thurs. Initially wanted to upload the namecard, but realised her contact number was on it. Before their website is up, check out Nicco's blog entry on the shop:
http://cremeoccin.blogspot.com/2007/05/where-to-shop.html

I had my eyes on a potted plant styled with ribbons. hahaha.
Pity that i din managed to take any pics from my digicam on that day



2) If you are free these two weekends, check out the bazaar at Suntec City level 3, My. Playground area. flutterby and her friend will be launching their hadmade accessories under their brandname Whimsical Garden. 我也“有情客串"--contributed 3 creations.


3) 为了‘Should i stay, should I go" 的事，一夜间，竟然长出了根白发。
想请观音菩萨指点，没想到求的两次签，两只签同时落地。(什么意思。真的要我自己决定）。
这一步棋怎么那么难下啊？


最后，还是得做个决定。失眠了一夜，今晚应该可以睡了吧！

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