2 yrs has passed...

since i left citi.
left my comfort zone & explored the entirely different business environment from banking sector.

i can't say i'm happier with what i'm doing now but i do enjoy the vibrancy of the industry i'm currently in.
Yet the competitiveness of the whole environment kinds of put people off too.

i'm lucky to have some nice & fun colleagues which makes the whole working environment alot better.
But then of cos there are also some bitches around.
No worries. So far none of them has stepped on my tail yet.
But even if they do, i will 'sting" them my "tail" too.
i'm a true scorpio.

At times, i have also missed my citi life.
missed working with the bunch of kuku gals & rubbish guys (majiam go there for fun not work),
missed the nice toilet with marble floorings (coz that will be a more conducive shitting environment),
missed the monthly free morn breakfast (cheapo)
missed the high tech phone that has sooo mani functions (coz my current is so lousy w/o handsfree function or voice mail function) &
missed being able to tell others "i'm a citibanker", an identity unique to citi staff (vain).

Alot of decisions we made in life will result in unforeseeable future.
i did not regret my then decision.
i also don't know how long will i stay being a Mediacorper.
But so far i have been coping quite well & i hope my sales momentum will continue climbing steadily.

What a joke!

Was reading TNP just now & came across this joke.

i can't find the full article published in TNP so here is the extract of the classic part:
That infamous Dr Chee had the cheek to be asked to award nominal damages of 50cents to Ah-Gong Lee & Xiao Lee as defamation charges.
Mr. Singh (the Lees' representative lawyer) pointed out that proved the defendants "making light" of what happened.
To which Dr Chee then replied:" Ok, make it $1"

This Chee sibilings are really making a clown of themselves & is definitely a disgrace to our local politic scene.

For Shoe Addicts

Lives tangle for four women over own mishap and pricey shoes in this prescribed and unsurprising novel – Shoe Addicts Anonymous.

Infidelity, sex, shopping, shoplifting, Botox, pregnancy, private investigators and ill-treated nannies are but a dash of the threads draped around wine-sipping sessions —women trying to find love and happiness.

i would happily recommend Shoe Addicts Anonymous to anyone who loves shoes ... or smart, funny, realistic women enjoying each other's friendship and the happiest of happy endings.
i have something to confess: i am one of them.

i'm not IN. . .

Facebook nor Multiply.
the ONLY active social site i'm in - is Friendster.
So while, almost everyone around me are playing with Facebook or Multiply, i'm the odd one out.
Reason being that i really don't have the time to manage so many social site accounts.
Even my friendster account, i only login like once in a while.
My current colleagues are all IN Facebook & they have been urging me to set up an account so that they can send me photos from there.
But i refused.
Not refusing the photos but is to be in Facebook.
So dear friendz, u are welcome to add me in friendster if u like.
Same email as my MSN

全民公敌

一位默默无名的中国辽宁小姐一夜间成名。
却不是因为设么好的原因



无情，无礼，无良心 的言论让她成为全民公敌！
*心寒*

i am lifeless?

Mid-way through today's 2 & half hrs meeting, Boss slipped out that the big boss commented me lifeless, quite unlike how i was like during the interview.
i gave her a super "uh?" face.
& deep in mine by then very tired brain, i tried to phrase my reply to her:" try waking at 6.30am & work for nearly 12hrs daily. i think even Duracell rabbit also will go flat."
Or:"Who on earth go interview half dead & speak toneless? so should not compare."
But before i can made up my mind which reply to give her, she jump to next topic liao.

After the meeting ends, my colleagues came up to me & remark:" Aiya! Boss never see the crappy side of u that's why say that! She should go appointment with u 1 day!"

So i'm contemplating should i wear hot bright pink to work tomorrow?
not that i have any hot bright pink clothes in the 1st place.
Or try dancing outside big boss's office?
Or try talking loudly with enthusiasm to him?
Hey man! Wassap boss!
lolx

Accuracy of Death

Also known as Sweet Rain 死神の精度

Need i say more?
Based on a novel by Kotaro Isaka, the movie plot is really wonderful, meaningful & nicely planned out.
Plus, Takeshi is so charming & cute till he can easily electrocute a girl & get her eyes fixed on him for eternity.
Definitely worth every cents u pay.
Most fav. sentence in the movie: The Sun is nothing special in to be in the sky yet important to be there.

撒谎是不对的哟！

Met up with some ex-colleagues over the weekends & had some good catch up & laughters.
& so discovered that i was "back stab" by 小人- 得利何.
How could he be so brainless as to go & tell 妇每瞎 that i quit because of HER & the 2months notice period that i have to serve with the promotion!
Such a liar >.<''''''''''

Well, i admit i don't really like her but it's nothing new.
It's not the 1st day i work with her.
So that's definitely a super duper lame reason.
& who on earth will quit because of 2months notice when i have already acceptable (unwillingly) 12dayz AL & $10 medical subsidy!

Most importantly, i'm not close to him to even tell him such things loh!

i think my qns to him before leaving made him did that.
"Why do you think that ever since you joined, 4 sales ppl out of 5 left?"
My qns caught him off guard & he couldn't really ans on the spot except play "tai chi" with me. >.<'''''''''
He must be worried that Ah Gong Lim will qns about that soon, that's why he is pushing all the blame to others.

Besides that, i have also asked quite a few "naughty" qns to him:
- seeing that he wore a ring on his left hand 4th finger, i asked if he is married. When he say he juz want to send out msg that he is taken; i exclaimed:" Oh! Aren't your girlfriend fortunate!"
he's a gay btw

- So when do u plan to marry her? U're not young u know. & how old is your gf? U gotta think for her too leh. Somemore if u all wants to have kids in future leh.

- He was "hao lian-ing" to me why he rejected the offers from Wall Streets, ISH & Prestige from HongKong when i remarked:" i thought u rejected all those offers because u wanted to go back SPH leh! or at least that's what i've heard." i tell u, u should have seen his face at the point. Priceless! Because never would he have expected that i would get wind that he asked for job vacancy in SPH from his ex-boss but was flatly rejected. Which is no surprise at all; considering that his most "impressive" achievement at SPH was bringing his whole team of sales people jump over to Mediacorp!

the most 经典 must be this:
During his interview, he told my boss that the main reason he decided not to go back to SPH & Mediacorp is because he had heard that 妇每瞎 is well known in the industry to be a very good boss. Well, i think he must have felt that boss calling out to male colleague that she wants milk or refusing to eat lunch with us because she wants to save on carpark charges at airport or not giving out Ang Pows for CNY when other younger married ones are giving happily; are consider as being GOOD boss.

Before i left, i "warned" him not to bully 徐茹云.
But as expected, she was so unhappy till she wanted to transfer to another team.
In addition, now 勾搭上 office 里的 another gay!
真是个奸人得利何.

Another Pinocchio is 利嗲灵.
What with all the bullshits of quitting to take care of her kids, wanting to stay at home cook for family, enjoy relaxing life like my ex-boss; when in actual fact, she is joining Mediacorp!
If not because 1 my current colleague was her ex-colleague from 黄叶, & she slipped her tongue while chatting with me, i would never have known.
Don't understand why she had to lied in the first place about such thing.

where is my time?????

My time zoom passed soooooo fast that i can't remember what i did for the past week.
Let me rewind my memory. . .

After attending the co. event for 1 WHOLE day last fri, my battery was completely drained out.
Sat slept till morn had breakfast, watch drama, slept again, woke up for lunch, went back to sleep again then woke up again to prepare myself go out for dinner & movie.
There goes my Sat.

Caught What Happened in Vegas & Drillbit Taylor over the weekend.
Prefer the former.
Plot is predictable; but the 2 leads - Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher especially are so yummy to eyes. Not to mention, there are quite a few funny moments for the plot too.
The latter is also comedy but no eye candy though.
i think the money can be better spent at other movie.

Sunday i didn't even did much & it juz flew passed -.-'''

Work wise, everyday vrooom passed so fast without leaving a trail of smoke.
Woke up 6.45am, reached office 8.30am & doesn't knock off until about 7pm.
FYI, the practice here for sales ppl is that - u should be out for appt by lunch time & return back office before 5pm to settle those paper works.
There goes my many many dayz.
Tired, sleepy, shag, leg ache. . .

p.s.: Watching 超级星光大道 now, 1 of my fav. 漂亮胖子 is out 了 :(
i shall now put all my cheers to the other girl although i already knew who is the winner of this season's competition.

Back to work, Tue juz attend my 1st sales meeting with them.
My! That's a pretty stressful meeting quite unlike what we used to had at KE.
Nobody will discuss about their child or what-so-ever-irrelevant things as there is basically no time for that!
Apparently conference rooms are like hot cakes here!
It always fully booked esp in the morn.
So if u don't finish your meeting on time, u will be chase out by the next group.

if the client we are handling has Ads in some other media esp other TV Channels, we jolly well prepare a good reason to explain to boss during meeting.

i don't know how long i will stay here but i foresee it's a long rough route ahead.
Not smooth sailing road that i can blade on definitely.
Btw, the one who stay in my team the longest is 2yrs 1mth & counting on.
what about me?

So far so Good

Ya. . . my new job is
so far. . . so good.

Gotten a big U work station which is corner unit again.
(my last work station at KE was corner unit too)
my team has got 8peps & age gap not too wide although i'm the youngest there.
(1 of them live exact same block as me! Gosh! we will see each other in unglam pattern!)
Was distributed to handle some pretty "happening" accounts.
(happening coz they have exposure pretty frequently)

Last Fri was the annual Sales Conference & Gala Award Night for the whole of Mdc's sales & marketing group.
Day time was "lecture" time.
Basically just sat there & attend "lecture"
Night time was dinner & award ceremony.
Everyone was dressed to kill!
All the suits & gowns with heavy make-up & seto hairstyle!
Throughout the whole night, i sat there like an audience.
Observing what is happening: ppl going up to receive awards, all the "yam sen-ings", all the photo-takings etc etc.
& recollecting my dayz in Citi.
The only difference is, i was a participant last time, now because being soooo new, i can only observe.

i can foresee my stints here will be much stressful than KE.
Lots of OTs, events & PRs
it also seems that there are so much more stuff i will be expose to.
Wish me luck bah!

咯摩 top picks!

Some of my fav shots of lomos:

黑白世界
colourful views out of Holga
Some actions
鱼眼的世界

黑白 or 彩色 for u??
Holga or Fishy or Supersampler???

Fun with New Toy!

续Casi后, i have gotten another new toy!

a cool nokia n82!
Yeah! i finally "upgrade" to a smarter phone now.
Not that i really need all those "chim" features.
But i juz wanted one that is Symbian OS.
A smart phone.
Now, this sleek looker is not a smart brainer, it's basically a digit-cam too.
Coz it's comes with 5 megapixal using Carl Zeiss Optics & integrated xenon flash!
jt even commented:"this is even better than your niki!"
Hmph! In my heart, niki is irreplaceable de ok!
Anyway, here's a sample shot taken by n82:
See how sharp & detailed the image is!
Hey it's just suddenly came to my mind that this N series model no. is my birth year! lolx :D

Char-grill night

It was a family night out having fun BBQ-ing.

Some obviously enjoy being chefs while some don't
After a tiring round of BBQ-ing, lets enjoy the food
Guess who's the birthday "boy" of the night
Clue: Count the candles!

when to.to has all the time in the world. . .

he destroyed his own toy

look at that happy victory face
>.<''''''''''

he pop by the playground & have some fun
Isn't this dog's life fortunate!
Eat, play, sleep, shit

漂亮的一天

无需工作的一天， 心情是和今天的天气一样

漂亮！

为了让耳朵清静， 一个人在外闲荡和让自己漂亮漂亮。
这样的一天是快乐得， 是写意的。
好希望天天都能这样哦！

Labour Day walk

Because it was Labour Day yesterday, i decided my good old to.to needs some good exercise.

So me & sis brought him to Bishan Park for a walk during bright sunny noon!
Wrong decision! Not the walk, but the timing.
Coz we human & the dog were so hot & sticky with sweat by the end of the walk, plus i think to.to's paws muz be damn uncomfortable walking on the hot pavement!
But then who ask u to finish your breakfast so late! lolx

After a short walk, he was panting like mad liao!
Let's take a group photo . . . but to.to where are u looking leh??
After walking at Bishan Park, we proceeded to the top floor of the multi-storey carpark besides my block for part 2 .

We always like to bring him here. Coz it's open air, nobody will be around, yet it's enclosed so to.to can't "escape" & he still gets a good run/walk around.
& when he gets tired. . .
he pants pants pants.
noticed the wet dots on the ground?
That shows how hot the weather was!

Oh! By the way, remember how to.to's tongue is chip now.
i finally managed to snap a close up shot
See that right corner there?
i think it will become a permanent mark for him liao.

Farewell to Key Editions

Yesterday 30 Apr 08, served my last 9hrs of duties with Key Editions.

Traveled last time to Loyang for work.
Walked my last 893 steps to office from bus stop.
My last 8hrs sitting at my small cozy corner working area.
Did my last round of reports for submission.
Had my last check of Ozalid for Squarerooms.
Did my last round of SR & d+a presentation to the newbie.

Had my last 2hrs lunch with this group of colleagues
Sent my last emails to all business associates bidding them Goodbye.
Had a few calls with some nice clients who bother to call & chat for awhile.
End of colleagues relationship to make way for the start of friendship relationship.

Btw, following the last round of mysteries, yesterday some new ones emerged:
i cannot understand why she had the "face" to ask me to leave all my original clients' name cards for him. When i have already prepared & passed him the zap copies. *of coz i rejected her demand*

i cannot understand why he has the "face" to ask me to prepare the next issue of SR & d+a sales reports & artwork reports for him to make his job easier. i even have to help highlight which are those that need to do renewal.

i cannot understand why she & he had the "face" to ask me to prepare some more reports at 5.30pm while he happily leave office at 6pm sharp but i had to cancel to my own driving lesson.

i cannot understand why he had the "face" to ask me to bring him go see some more clients on my last day when i still have lotsa of work to do. *luckily my client wasn't in"

i cannot understand why she had the face to tell me this :"anyway, in the event if we have any qns or need any assistance, we will call u." Which i of coz "politely' replied her:" i will only help till 4th May which is my last official day here. Anything else after that date, i'm sorry i can't help. i want to concentrate on my new job & not to be constantly disturb."

i don't hate the co. nor my colleagues nor my job.
In fact, i love my colleagues, my job & the products i'm selling.
It's her that makes me want to be so nasty.

i sincerely hope the co. all the best, lesser OTs, better health for every1 esp Deb & Aris, more pay raise, more sales, faster shift office & of coz HUAT ar!

Btw, don't tell me u really believed it took me 893 steps to reach office coz the figure was derived randomly! lolx
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