I realise i like to do things that most people (that i know of) dislike doing. Things like writing summary/composition, mopping the floor, cleaning the glass windows/tanks, being a cashier, stick price tags, shelving, cleaning dog poo etc..
Weird. But it's okay.
Briefly about my current work situation:
1. Today marks the best working day of my life. Sold 2 puppies in a day. My total sales for today ($3xxx.xx) is currently the peak of the curve. And the trough is an embarrassing $8x.xx (Day 1 sales). Total noob
2. What i like is that customers praise me and tell me that i'd go far in this line. Kinda motivation and satisfaction.
3. My manager praises me, wants to groom me, makes me think like a retail manager, and starts giving me opportunities to carry out some simple managerial role.
4. My 'lao ban niang' (lady boss) smile to me now.. maybe because she knows i can sell. ha!
But anyway, life is just hectic for me. Can't even have time for a proper meal. When i just start to eat, customers come looking for me. It's super sian cause usually it takes about 10-15mins to serve 1 customer. And if they are gonna buy a pup, it's gonna take about 30mins to 1 hour.
Other than working, there's nothing i can do now. By the time i reach home it's 11pm ++ By the time i bathe it's 12am ++ Then it's time to head to bed. The the cycle continues.
1st day.. i think i got it from knocking the shelves.
2nd day.. prolly some rabbit scratched me
3rd day.. from the stupid teething pug who bit me
the stupid pug that bit me:
the other time when i went down to wenD house to pass her cookies, i saw this plead.. probably written by a little boy (judging on the grammatical, spelling mistakes and handwriting)
oh oh.. tonight u can see my work place (the pet shop) on TV... on chU's 9.30pm show... "Jian Dan Jiu Shi Mei"
1 of the things that are keeping me busy since school ended - shopping together with a recipe book for baking stuff, baking, and more baking.
over the last 2 days..
Left to right: chocolate chips cookies, chocolate cookies (that are not decorated yet)
the round choc cookies coated with icing sugar
the heart shaped choc cookies with melted white choc
the vanessa-recipe cookies i don't know what. Anyway it's almond chocolate. i made some with corn flakes too.
And today... finally, my herbed pretzels.
Think the toughest thing was to deco the heart cookies with melted choc, so damn hard to control and you have to squeeze till your hands tremble. And the pretzels dough is so hard to handle(for me). Sticky, and it keeps lengthening itself.
Anyway i think puff pastry is really challenging. I'm gonna learn to make more of them.
i NEVER knew u can keep an anteater as pet. I always don't like anteater cos i got scared by 1 during Night Safari. But anyway, i didn't know they are so gentle and cute. Oh considering they can never bite you cos they only have tongue. hahaha..
There is no promise too hard to keep expect the ones that are changed by a sequence of events. Often, things that you least expect to happen are those that hits you hard. What happened back then was beyond everyone's expectations. Both of us thought things would turn out exactly the way we painted it in our minds. Have we forgotten that life isn't as beautiful as it seem? Look around, and you'll find ugly sights you wished you didn't knew. This story is about us, our promise, and how it changed.
*Disclaimer: Any parts of this fiction that may have resembled any real life incidents are only purely coincidental.
Chapter 1 - Back to school
It was the second term of high school. The entire atrium was bustling with students yelling in joy and hugging each other as if they've been apart for more than a mere summer break. Late for the morning lecture, I squeezed my way through the crowd.
"Such inconsiderate kids!" I mumbled to myself. Right before I could finish my sentence I found myself losing balance. I tripped and fell. The lecture notes in my arms fluttered in the air, gliding down slowly and gracefully. The entire campus fell silent as I tumbled on the atrium floor; it felt as though all eyes were on me. Right there I felt like I could find a hole to hide myself, I knew I was going to be the joke for the entire school term. The chatters returned, this time together with a huge burst of laughter. Angry and embarrassed I swallowed my words, "I'm going to kill you, whoever that tripped me." Turning around to pick the lecture notes I saw Sarah Parker squatting right beside me, picking up pieces of my lecture notes.
"There you go", she said as she passed me the stack of papers she managed to retrieve.
"Thanks", I replied quickly without looking at her.
With concerning eyes she asked, "Are you alright?"
I stood up, arranged the notes in my hands, dusted my jeans and told her, "Yea, yea I am. Let's hurry. Mr Simmons wouldn't be too happy." In fact what I least wanted was any sympathy that would only make me feel worst.
Sarah Parker has been my classmate since last school term. In my impression, she belongs to the nerdy, hardworking and gentle type. The teacher's pet kind of girl. Not really the kind of girl I would mix with.
Whatever it was, I am to some extend glad that Sarah Parker was with me this morning. Her presence saved my some embarrassment as well as hurtful critics from the other students. So that was how my first day of the second school term started. I went to class with Sarah Parker.
That stupid wendy had to give me a link to a picture of Ju-on. I clicked it without thinking and i got a shock. Look at the eyes... (suddenly i want to sing: looking in your eyes, i see a memory, i never realised how happy you made me oh mandy...)
So, i decided to pass on the link to vanvan. Heh! So we talked about horror movies. A topic to blog about! (:
I remember how i always like to watch horror movies to freak myself out. I watched my first horror (or should i say thriller) movie was when i was 12? Watched Six Sense with my mom and siblings in the cinema. Till now i can still remember every single detail of the movie. And the boy saying: "I can see dead people". Wa lao. But the little boy is cute and charming. He attracted me. Maybe because he can see dead people.
The as i grew older, i guess Scream was one of the best out of all the horror movies i watched. Everytime the music gets eerie or loud, it's about time when you can start to anticipate the 'whatever thing' to appear. Sometimes i would go: "wa lao is it coming out already?? when is it coming out? wth!" Then sometimes it take a long long time before it appears and it makes you so fed up you scream: "ALRIGHT! COME ON OUT NOW YOUR BASTA*D!"
Boy..i can remember how my literature teacher always tell us how scriptwriters or book authors use words to build up the atmosphere to make you wanna read/watch on. Horror movies really achieved that.
(I think I'm the evil of the people...) (Praise the glory of the evil!) Girly MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! Girly MAN! Girly MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN ~! Girly MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN ~! Gosh, my old calculator ain't got no bow! Nippley man i met, he ate my motorboat! Calm down and park that comfy shin guard amor! Welcome the dude who ain't the buyer of mugs! Girly Man! Girly MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN ~! RRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPP YOURRRRRRRR MMMAAAAAAAAAAA Woot, I'm coming! Mutton goes YAY! Cook the chicano's day! Mucho Caliente! I'll eat wasabe on my dude! All my body just got ruled! Kinda like a fist on road! One more body for your car! OOO! OOO! Papa's restaurant! OOOOOOOO you'll be pumping ovaltine! or salty shanty's one shot tea! Roll, jam, bleaching, raving son! Mork, and bull, and mumued star! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Killer! Killer! Killer! Girly Man! Girly MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN ~! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Killer! Killer! Killer! (please don't buy the bald seal....) Move then Connie! Let me go yay! Cause its a yardless day! Conga line too, Good day! Salad is a cargo, you could do! Chet's my buddy, Chester Rowe! Called him at the coaster room! Smashing all the people up! Its the child no parka rule! OOOOOO laddie, ready, bite your knee! OOOOOO conk a collie, conquer he! Deal them, peal them, people look shocked! Move, too, then you got private shower! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Killer! Killer! Killer! Girly Man! Girly MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN ~! Girly MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN ~! Gosh, my old calculator ain't got no bow! Nippley man i met, he ate my motorboat! Calm down and park that comfy shin guard amor! Welcome the dude who ain't the buyer of mugs! Girly Man! MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
After watching television, i realised that our local advertisements are getting from bad to worst. Anyone saw KFC's new advertisement for their Fish Ole yet? Jesus Christ! Totally copying the concept of McDonald's rice burger. BUT that's not the worst. What is worst than copying someone else's work and doing doing better than them? Low budget advertisement without a proper looking model, a nice catchy song. Seems like they just want to do something the same, that's it. I bet McDonald is laughing their ass off when they sees KFC's advertisement. The whole advertisement just makes me want to avoid eating Fish Ole for the rest of my life. Thumbs down. I've never eaten both burgers before. But judging from the advert, i think i rather go for McDonald's Fantastic.
Let's talk about the television shows. This time not about how our local television has copied other shows. We all know that too well don't we? Anyway, i was watching this Taiwan variety show The Cool Team ( 盖酷兵团) hosted by Tuo Zhong Kang and Constant Winning. Actually i don't know who is who, i just got it off Channel U's website. heh. Main point is, WTF?!? Isn't this a Taiwanese version Dangyunghaji? (a korean variety show) Yet another lousy copy. The participants are not sarcastic enough, the games ain't nice enough, it doesn't makes you laugh enough. Boo! I rather stick to my Danhyunghaji on YouTube.
Just 2 hours of TV and i've seen the worst stuff in my life. Now i know why some of my friends don't watch TV at all.
You are out, and you noticed a not-so-close friend taking the same train as you. Your friend notices you as well and both of you started a conversation that never lasted any longer than 3 minutes. Then silence breaks in again. And your brain starts thinking about some common topic to talk about. Finally you found another topic to talk about but this time it didn't last for 2 or more minutes. The silence breaks in again. Your heart race faster and awkwardness is everywhere. At this point you hope you can disappear.
How many times have u encountered this situation?
Sometimes it very hard to find something to talk about. Though you can be an expert in ratting on and on at a party or an occasion. Fixing a broken connection isn't like ABC.
Sometimes you see the effort from the other side, then you start asking yourself "what have i done?" You start to feel sorry for the other person. You felt like you owed him/her something. Then you probably start to regret the day when you didn't say what you wanted to say, to ask him/her to stay. Well who can you blame but yourself?
Then there are times when you see something happen which makes you all fired up or irritated. But there is nothing you can do because things weren't the way it was. So all you did was to pretend not to see/know anything. But your mind couldn't stop thinking and you re-approach yourself for being such a wuss. You start questioning yourself.
There are also times when you thought you would feel upset over something, but eventually you weren't. This is where you realised that you've come to accept things the way the were. In fact you are starting to get used to a life like that. What you once felt was never coming back again. You question yourself again, this time you ask yourself if you are really ready to go on.
Not forgetting the times when you are too afraid to have eye contact with your friend. Because you were unsure of yourself. This point of time your inner self is probably having a heated debate on this matter. You feel so fed-up and confused that you decided to drop the whole matter aside. Still you didn't keep the eye-contact.
It goes on. Some things are hard to explain. Even if it was explainable, it wouldn't be understandable.
Just the other day i was having apple pie and i thought of my beloved friend who burnt herself with an apple pie. Wow! Let's put our hands together and applaud her bravery. Way to go!
I can sympathise with kids who got burnt by the pipping hot fillings. But i find it hard to empathise with a 19 year old who got burnt by apple pie fillings. It makes me want to laugh each time i think about it.
I think the main problem here is that the caution is too small to be spotted. Or maybe the caution message wasn't intimidating enough to freak people out. They should put caution notes like: "eat pipping hot apple pie at own risk" or "McDonalds will not be responsible for any degree of burn." Maybe they can simply rename apple pie into "burning pie" or "dangerous burning pie". THAT would prolly make people think twice!
Important things u should know about me:
1. I'm very messy when i study. and i like it. I think it's motivating to study when my whole bed is messed up. This way sleeping will be the last thing on my mind. Keeping things clean will only make me feel lethargic and tempted to lie on the cosy bed. A messy bed on the other hand does wonders.
2. Never wake me up when i'm asleep. Interrupting me from my sleep is the rudest thing ever. And by doing so, you've sinned the greatest sin on earth and you will be banished to hell. But before that happens be prepared to get a tight slap from me.
3. I like almost 60% of the people i meet in life If you are one of them, congrats. If you're not, go reflect on what you have done wrong. But i think it doesn't matter cause you won't figure it out anyway. And that is why i hate you so.
4. There are 2 people whom i hate now. just 2 1 is a total bitch. The other just a hypocrite. But the sad part is that i was stuck with them for 3 years. You wouldn't want to know the rest.
5. I can speak chinese but doesn't mean i can read chinese A big misconception people have here. I can't friggin' read chinese. But i'm learning. Thank you.
6. Don't come near me if you can't interest me I'm sick and tired of getting boring conversations. If you wish to talk to me, please start a conversation of the following:
a. A meaningful conversation b. A business proposition c. A creative conversation d. An entertaining conversation e. Hot gossips
No, i don't appreciate conversations starting with: "hey i haven't spoken to you for awhile!!"
7. I'm not just that girl If you think you know me, think again. I'm not that simple girl you think i am. I fake smiles. Oh yes i do. Who hasn't. But what makes a hypocrite is one that fake a smile and stab you in the back. Ooo.. who are we talking about now? If you are thinking if i am referring to you, you're a guilty piece of shit. Go do some reflections.
8. I don't like people who can't speak properly That includes mummbling, going off pitch and shrieking. Well, i don't really hate exactly hate one more than the other. It pretty much depends on who the person is.
9. There are certain things i can't say Because i want things to stay the way they are now. And i'm not confident that saying it out will turn things for the better.
10. I am afraid of cockroaches If you are my true friend, join my anti-cockroach club -> here <- So i see you are done reading. Read again (:
Author's note:
After watching television, i realised that our local advertisements are getting from bad to worst. Anyone saw KFC's new advertisement for their Fish Ole yet? Jesus Christ! Totally copying the concept of McDonald's rice burger. BUT that's not the worst. What is worst than copying someone else's work and doing doing better than them? Low budget advertisement without a proper looking model, a nice catchy song. Seems like they just want to do something the same, that's it. I bet McDonald is laughing their ass off when they sees KFC's advertisement. The whole advertisement just makes me want to avoid eating Fish Ole for the rest of my life. Thumbs down. I've never eaten both burgers before. But judging from the advert, i think i rather go for McDonald's Fantastic.
You are out, and you noticed a not-so-close friend taking the same train as you. Your friend notices you as well and both of you started a conversation that never lasted any longer than 3 minutes. Then silence breaks in again. And your brain starts thinking about some common topic to talk about. Finally you found another topic to talk about but this time it didn't last for 2 or more minutes. The silence breaks in again. Your heart race faster and awkwardness is everywhere. At this point you hope you can disappear.
Just the other day i was having apple pie and i thought of my beloved friend who burnt herself with an apple pie. Wow! Let's put our hands together and applaud her bravery. Way to go!
Important things u should know about me:
sometimes i love all these pain i'm going through cause they remind me how much a failure i am.
