Year 2005, Week 48

I hate work.

I hate the feeling when u return back from a break (1 day only actually!) to see ur documents lined up at ur desk, with scribblings on it. Documents = work. Scribblings = something wrong somewhere.

Grr.. Stress leh.. I haven destress enuff!!

Ok Last Week.

Last Week. Hmm.. I remembered the stupid server malfunctioning on Tues which made me late for an appointment. YA!! N 1 STUPID CAB DRIVER who went all the way to Jurong Port Road before making the turn into AYE when I WAS GOING ORCHARD!! After he passed the turn jus after my office, I thot he'll be turning into Teban there to get to AYE. He din. He passed that, and can still ask me,"Here cannot turn hor?" CAN LOR!! Then I went, "u going where?" "The next U-turn lor"

The next U-Turn, is at JURONG PORT ROAD. Is like.. freakingly far. (Jalan Buroh is a semi expressway so not a lot of places where u can turn.) What can I do? BO BIAN LOR, since there's no other places to turn already. NVM. Cool Cool.

AYE, at those kinda hr (7pm) is kinda packed but not jamming. Plus he's driving at quite good speed (80-90km/hr), makes me cool down a bit, even thou I'll make sure I give him wat the meter shows MINUS $2.50 (He said he'll deduct off. So I minus off from where he shld be charging me). Reaching Buona Vista, he turned off AYE intending to go the.. the.. err.. behind Holland V that road (Yes Yes I'll make an effort to recognise more roads).

Exit AYE, a few turns later, the road getting long and narrow (& DARK!!). He said," AH! Wrong turn." I was damned angry liao lor. He's making me DAMN LATE!! I went,"HAR!?!!"

A very long n narrow n dark n all-i-could-see-was-the-back-of-a-lorry road later, he finally exited into somewhere near where the exact route was and continued speeding (100km/hr++) towards Tanglin Mall. Jammed at Wheelock there for perhaps 5 mins.
He asked,"Do u wan to turn into (somewhere i forgot name again) and turn back out Heeren?"
Me (horrified):"NO NO!! Continue on tis road!"
CD:"Long jam leh, there faster, nearer also."
Me:"No lor, from Heeren I gotta walk quite far, jus continue here, nvm the jam."
Thinking: Wah raoz, wan to drive me jalan again arh. Skali wrong turn again how?"

Turns out, the jam was only until before the ERP, where vehicles were trying to do left or right turns to avoid the ERP. He wun let me alight IN FRONT of Crown Prince so I had to alight at the side of Swensons. Nvm, at least better than trapping me in the car. $14+ for the trip. I would have given him exactly the total amt + ERP - $5 (for jalaning me twice) if I had the exact amt and I wasnt rushing for time.

Had wanted to wake up early Wed for shopping and textbook finding. Nahh, i procrastinated yet again, arriving at Bras Basah only ard 5+. Book fair there, regretted not coming early and having to rush for class at 7 to browse the books there. Apparently it was the last day. Couldnt find my Socius text there too, so I had to sit thru my Socius open-book test with my photostated Fulcher & Scott chap 3, which was quite useless.

Test q1 asked abt sampling. I learnt that in Marketing Research during my poly days. Easy stuff. Q2, Participation Observation. Wrote, repeated and confused with Eileen Barker. Shld be ok since I practically filled up the space given. Q3. WAT THE HELL IS THE QUESTION ABT? Fusion of strategies?? Got method? HUH?? I was like, u wanna best of both quantitative n qualitative u jus have to mix and match and see which one can better support wat ur research is focused on lor. How to determine wat fusion issit called. I buang-ed that question, totally not answering to wat the question is asking for. I dunno wat the question is asking for anyway. 10 marks outta lecture door.

Friday. Went shopping. Really shopped till I dropped. Shopping is destressing. Spending $$ is a fantastic destressor. I bought cargo pants at Samuel & Kevin for my DnD (Cagalli remember). On sale at $29, with the sales assistants very pestering, but not irritatingly so. Birdy made me go up and down the escalator b4 buying her mum's bday present at Marks & Spencer. Not really good Customer Service I'll say, from the fact that they had the sale tag placed at the wrong place n STILL charge the original price. Good CS would have given wat the sale tag had written to the customer who had been misleaded by the price, then proceed to move the tag away. It was $16 off.

Caught tis at PS.


Zoomed in from travelator


Zoomed in from travelator


Near the stage


Near the stage

Went Sunshine Plaza to collect my GSD calendar. Parklane Fried Wanton Mee (or watever its called) is superb!! Free advertisement here. The mee is nice, the fried wanton is nice, the soup is nice. Jus that it costs $3 for a unsatisfying plate. (Its quite alright la.) Sorry it aint halal.


*I shld either be a food columnist or a food photographer.*

We walked all the way back to Taka, hopping into shopping malls for aircon breaks. Darn freaky weather.


The "erected" x'mas tree

There, we browsed Kino and Taka store, where I finally bought my Nike windbreaker?/jacket? Love it even thou its a cool $100+. I went off to haunt National Library and Bugis after Birdy went off to meet her poly mates.


Makes me wonder which one is taller, this or Taka's.

Met up with RR and Meow Meow for sushi.


Filled the table after only 5 min by 2 animals.

Went jalaning ard for RR's bag. Din manage to buy anything other than..
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2 sets of GS figurines
$94 after discount.

MWAHHAHHAHHAHA..

I needa haircut, hopefully can go tmr. Really no time. I needa buy some stuff for the SPD kids. Squeezing time. I needa go shopping n expand my wardrobe. Super no time. (Perhaps I shld jus buy a bigger wardrobe 1st) I really needa do my Socius assignment. Die.