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Immediately when the clock struck 5.30pm, me and Mel left the office and headed for Changi Airport to see Mun Bbun off. He's going to Australia to study, and will finish his studies in 4 years time. That's a long time!

As for his farewell present, we bought him a pair of bride and groom bears.

Cos when Mel asked what farewell gift he wanted, he joked about asking us to get him a wife. The 2 bears were wrapped separately. He could open the girl bear first, but could only open the boy bear when after he went in.

Attached to the boy bear was a card saying "this is in case you're GAY!" Haha...

There were loads of people there to send him off. Loads of his army friends in uniform I think.

Me, Mel and Teng Wen got to talk to him a bit, though he was sort of going around talking to all who came to send him off. Will surely miss him after he's gone. We can still talk on msn, so it's quite ok la.

I brought camera, but forgot to bring the battery. *bang head against wall*

Also forgot to bring my handphone out today. And my water bottle. -_-"

After he left, we went to have dinner at Terminal 2. I had ban mian, and the soup was super hot, so my tongue got quite burnt. Pain pain...

I'm super tired today. But I'm not gonna sleep soon... If not all my days will just be go to work, come home, sleep. So boring. I want to do other stuff too...

That's how I summed up the entire day using one word.

There was nothing for me to do the entire day except small things here and there.

Pei Shan made me do OT on fri so I could start on something else today, and now I can't do anything cos the files aren't available yet. Ahh... I was really bored today. Time passes more slowly when you have absolutely nothing to do.

I even had time to read the entire TODAY newspaper, including the advertisements (except the sports section which I don't normally read).

Work only came at 5pm. Same as friday. Luckily I didn't have to do OT cos it wasn't urgent. Can continue tomorrow.

After work, me and Mel went to Tampines Mall to buy a farewell gift for Mun Bbun. It was difficult finding a present for a guy. So many things are so girly.

We saw a mug that said "For the best grandma" and we wanted to buy that for him. Ha! Super funny la. There were loads of other stuff too. I suggested we should take a neoprint of ourselves and give to him so he can remember and think of us whenever he sees it. Ha!

In the end, we found the perfect present. Shall write about what it is tomorrow.

We're going to see him off tomorrow after work. I better not have OT. I'll cry if I do. And if my supervisor forces me to stay back...

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I'll QUIT!

Or probably not.

Looking forward to tomorrow! :)

We had a horti bbq last evening. My batch and our seniors and grand seniors came, plus a couple of Mun Bbun's friends.

Out of the people I knew, there were Kim, Mel, Wen Zhe, Jiayan, Wei Sheng, Mun Bbun, Kaijun, Teng Wen, Esther, Venkat and Shan Ren.

It was at Mun Bbun's house. The place was super nice! The function room had a nice pink sofa, and there was music.

It was drizzling a little at the begining, but it didn't dampen our spirits.

Mun Bbun's Mum helped out a lot, and she was really nice. The food was great. We even fried nuggets using a metal tray filled with oil placed on the bbq pit. So smart!

I think Teng Wen is the ultimate bbq king. While I was at the bbq pit with the guys, I saw the expert display his skills. He's damn good!

Yin Ren is another bbq king. During the previous bbq at my house, his chicken wings were cooked to perfection. Not burnt outside, and cooked inside. Too bad he didn't go yesterday. He called me at the last minute to say he has guard duty. What a pity...

We also played cards. Me, Kim, Mel and Wen Zhe played pig. Super funny!

We also went to Mun Bbun's house to play mahjong. Couldn't tell that Wei Sheng is a mahjong expert. I picked up a few tricks while watching the others play. Can prepare for Chinese New Year when I play with my cousins. Haha...

Yesterday was also Wen Zhe's 21st birthday. So happy that she decided to spend such a special day with us. Today is Wei Sheng's birthday, and 29th is Jiayan's, with Esther on 2nd Feb. We had a super yummy chocolate cake and took some group photos.

Then we went back to play mahjong and xbox.

We had some money problems though. Everyone was supposed to pay $10, and it would be enough to cover the cost of the bbq. But because some people came only for a while, or couldn't come at the last minute, we collected less than we were supposed to. But the food for the original number of people had already been ordered. If they didn't come, it meant that we couldn't cover cost! In the end, we were short of about $100. I wonder how Mun Bbun's going to handle that since he paid for everything first. I felt really bad cos he had to do so much of the planning, and now even has to fork out so much money.

Though Yin Ren offered to pay since he had to back out at the last minute, we felt it wasn't right to collect money from him.

I was in charge of collecting the money, and it was really difficult cos I even had to collect from Wei Sheng and Esther even though they came for only a little while and barely ate. When I collected money from Wei Sheng, the others asked "what did he eat?". And it was terribly awkward for me cos I had no choice but to be thick-shinned and just collect the money since we were already short of so much.

But I don't think I was at fault for doing that. He was supposed to come early. It's not my fault that he chose to come late, and ate so little right? I'm not angry with him or anything. That's just the way things are, I guess. I don't everyone can understand that.

When I handed the money to Mun Bbun, I felt bad inside cos we were short of so much. But I don't think it was my fault or anything. He invited the grand seniors and a couple of his friends whom I barely knew. You can't expect me to just go up to them and collect money right?

I got really troubled by this matter towards the end. Haiz...

But since it's already over, I suggest we skip the unhappy bits...

All in all, I thought the gathering was a really nice one. The guys are all so funny. And even though we didn't know everyone, we just joked around and the atmosphere was really nice.

We played till 11.30, then some of us left to catch the last train.

Mun Bbun's leaving for Australia on the 23rd and will finish his studies in only 4 years time. I wonder if we'll ever get to meet up like this again.

On the way back, I couldn't help feeling sad that now that we've left JC, most of us will probably go our separate ways. It's going to be really difficult to find a time when everyone can meet up again. That's why I keep wondering if this may be the last time I'm meeting the horti seniors since Mun Bbun's leaving real soon.

I think I feel this way towards all my good friends in JC. When Janice and I join the swimming girls for training, how will we know that if that's our last time meeting them? Even Jas, Sheryl, Amar, Jo, LY and I haven't met up for a long time since we're working and LY's in China already.

I know keeping in touch requires effort. But effort alone is sometimes not enough I guess. There are constraits like finding a time when all of us are free, and in some cases, we even have to consider geographical boundaries -- how are we going to meet up with a friend who's overseas?

I really don't want to leave such good friends that I've made and move on. I know I'll probably make good friends in uni too. But I believe it takes chance and fate to meet people that you really enjoy spending time with. It's just such a waste to let such friendships fade with time...

The 2 sacred letters...

The amazing part is, I almost had nothing to do for a few hours in the morning. I even went to help another supervisor cos Pei Shan had nothing for me to do. Sabrina was on leave, so I had even less stuff to do.

Today was quite a slacking day for everybody. Most of us didn't have stuff to do.

Then, at about 5pm, Pei Shan gave me some, or rather, a LOT of filing to do. Wei Wei helped me at first. When it was 5.30pm, I told her to go back first. Pei Shan didn't say out right that she wanted me to stay back to finish it, but I could tell she wanted it done.

She says we are going to start getting busy really soon. The next week, all me and Sylvia are going to do is to sit in front of the computer and type tax computations.

Sounds so fun... not!

I didn't mind doing OT anyway since I had nothing on. And can earn over time pay too... Haha... Plus, if I work after 8pm, I can get dinner and transport allowance.

I did 3 hours of OT and went back at 8.30. Since my transport was being paid for, I took cab home. Woohoo!

I haven't taken cab on my own for as long as I can remember!

I only had $15.45 in my wallet and I was so, so afraid I wouldn't have enough for the cab fare.

Guess how much it cost?...

$15.10.

Phew!~

And... I almost forgot to ask the taxi driver for a receipt. Without it, I wouldn't be able to collect the fare from the company. I suddenly remembered after I alighted, and luckily, the uncle was still there, and had not restart the meter yet.

I can't imagine what would have happened if I didn't get a receipt.

And, PSC called me again today. This is the 2nd time that they're calling me when my phone is not with me. Damn irritating!!! Cos they'll call my home and when I get home, my parents will complain about how I ignore the phone call and stuff.

Not like I want to, OK!!

I was holding on to my phone the whole day, and she just had to call when I was busy filing...!

Anyway, it's all settled now cos I've received the email from PSC I was supposed to read.

I think I'm going to buy a handphone strap to hang around my neck...

I'm aching all over!

It was a tiring day, but luckily there wasn't much work to do.

I was quite sick that I decided not to go for lunch and had a nap in office instead.

The girls offered to buy lunch for me, but I said I didn't want anything cos I had no appetite.

But they bought tau huay for me anyway. I'm super touched!

I felt better after eating a little.

And Melissa was so cute, so gave me a card she made using pink paper. And she was writing it right in front of me! Haha...

I was already much better at the end of the day. I'm going to sleep soon, hope I'll be alright tomorrow! I'm looking forward to the horti bbq on Saturday! :)

I went for PSC scholarship interview today.

It was an interview by a one-on-one psychologist, and it lasted... 3 HOURS!!!

Can you believe it? She had a whole set of questions to ask from ther book. Though the book was rather thin, there were about 20 questions on each each. Imagine how many questions I had to answer!

There were questions like "tell me about your family", "how do you study?", "what is your greatest problem encountered" and "tell me about a person you dislike". Plus lots of sub questions on these main ones.

She was nice though, so the interview wasn't that bad.

Before the interview, I was made to wait in the meeting room before she arrived. Somehow, I couldn't stop wondering if there was a hidden camera, or whether the large white board was actually one-sided glass. Haha... Maybe part of the pschological interview was to observe me while I thought no one was around. Ha!

I thought I did not bad because I didn't say negative things about myself. It went quite smoothly I think.

I'll have another interview on 2 Feb. It'll be with the panel then. A 10 on 1 interview. Seems scary man. Hope I can do well! :)

Our computers are all wired up already.

When I reached office at 8am, 30 minutes early as usual, Soo Mee gave me filing to do!

It's not the official working hours yet, but I couldn't say no. She's the boss.

Anyway, Pei Shan also gave me work to do and I got quite busy today. Everyone else's busy too. Looks like it's the start of the busy season.

Sylvia already has to do OT. And we're already complaining about the a lot of work we need to do. Can you believe that this is just the beginning?!

Anyway, this week seemed to past really, really quickly.

Hope to have a good rest over the weekends then return to work on Mon.

I have PSC scholarship interview on Mon! I'm scared and excited!

Monday was our last day of training.

We've started doing work already, though it's those trival stuff like filing cos our computers have not been set up yet.

Monday was a really, really bad day.

But yesterday and today were the best days I've had at work! :)

I think I'm really bothered about the people interact with. If I had quite a lot of interesting conversations with others that day, I'll feel good. If we didn't talk much at all, like when we met each other in the beginning, I'll some how feel uncomfortable. Maybe suspecting they don't like me or something, though that's probably not the case. I'm just overly self-conscious la.

All of us are getting together really well now. We have wacky conversations and have loads to talk about while doing filing in the meeting room (our make shift "office"). We're even going to watch movie next monday after work!

Just to side track, the view in our meeting room is superb! I'm always the first to reach, and I love sitting in my favourite corner and looking out. It's beautiful!

Work is probably going to get busier soon, as the busy season arrives. Right now, I'm just enjoying having nothing much to do. I bet work will get more fun! :)

Now I know why this phrase is true.

Friday is wonderful because:

--- the next 2 days are weekends, and...
--- it is smart casual day. No need to dress so formally.

Haha... The attire was really different today, and somehow, I could feel that everyone was looking forward to the break. I'm so looking forward to it!

We did only simple training today, then we met our seniors after lunch. They are the people we are assigned to, and supposed to help.

My seniors are 2 ladies. We didn't have time to talk to them though.

After the quick introduction, we were assigned our first job...

Remove the Christmas decorations! Ha...

After that, we did some simple filing and slacked the rest of the time away. When 5.30 came, we packed our bags and went home.

Thank God it's Friday. I'm in a good mood today! :D

Today is another day of training and back to back lectures.

I spaced out quite a number of times during the training. And I was exceptionally quiet today. Just didn't feel like talking. Don't think anyone realised anyway. We don't know each other that well yet.

We went for lunch at "Golden shoe". Some hawker centre. Much cheaper than Lau Par Sat. It's going to be good for our wallets in the long run. Most of us are already sore from having the pay the adult bus fares now.

So many people used tissue to chop seats there! I wonder what will happen if we just take the table and steal their tissue. Ha!

I really don't like having to squeeze with the lunch crowd. I can't imagine myself, being a white-collar worker and going through the same routine day after day. I'm really starting to question what I want to work as. Haiz...

Yup, so today was a quiet day. Not much interesting.

I'm beginning to lose interest in accountancy. Seems like a job I never want to do for the rest of my life.

At times, it can seem quite interesting. Like solving maths problems.

But I think it's more boring than interesting. Contradictory. Ha!

My holidays finally came to an end when I started working today.

I know I haven't been blogging for super long! I thought of blogging about stuff that happened the past month, but I'm quite lazy to do it.

Besides, I can't remember everything and it's going to be quite stupid cos as I blog about the past weeks, I'm going to miss out on blogging on what's currently happening. So as I clear my back-dated entries, new ones are just going to keep piling up. Then it'll feel like I'm living in the past or something. Gah!

So, I came up with a very smart idea. I shall blog out everything that happened to me during the holidays in ONE line:

Shopping. Prom. Shopping. Go out. Go out. Go out. Shopping. Shopping. More shopping. Watch movie. Go out some more. Help Mum do spring cleaning. Shopping. Go out. Christmas. Shopping. New Year. Post Christmas shopping (I love sales!).

See? Smart me. Haha...

Anyway, today is my first day at work. This week is training. And for today, we had to listen to a lady teach us about tax stuff from 9am to 5pm! Like a lot of lectures back to back. Even more mentally tiring than school la!

The other girls were quite nice, and we got to know one another quite well.

Melissa kept going to the pantry for free milo. Ha!

And the lounge at the office has pool table! We can go play during out free time.

We finished at 5pm today. And since our official working hours were till 5.30, we had 30 minutes before we could go home. So weird right? Why cannot go home when we already finished?!

Anyway, we played pool. Me and Mel won Qian Qi and Sylvia's team cos QQ hit in the black ball into the wrong hole. We were so close, right down to only the black ball left on the table.

After 6 months, we are all going to be pool experts, and also have tried all the food at Lau Pa Sat.

I don't know if I'm looking forward to work tomorrow. It's probably going to be another day of lectures. Haiz...