Day 3 Of Work

Work is really tiring... It seems like I always do all the more intense labour. Yesterday and today, I have been packing books at lightning speed. So much so that both my wrist ache, skin peeling at the edges of my fingernails and cuts appearing on the underside of my right forearm.
At least, the jokes and gossips of the aunties and uncles keep me awake.

Below: Acting spastic in the midst of work!

...And Where Books Are Destroyed...

There was too much to write on the 1st day of work. So, I decided to continue on the 2nd day haha! It might seem a wonderous place to children when they get to know their favourite story books are created there. However, I hate to spoil the show... It a place where bad bad things happen too!

The books are mass-produced at quite a large scale. However, shit does happen. Sometimes the machine cocks-up and the end result are a mass of crumpled and dismembered books!

For those lucky books that passed the menacing machine (haha!), they are packed nicely in boxes and loaded on palettes, ready to be stored and shipped away/flown overseas to bookshops and finally to some "lucky" kid!

However, there is always a +/- 5% extra in case of major cock-ups. For those finished books that are excess to quota..., they are consolidated to be THROWN AWAY!!! I happen to pass by a section of the factory and saw several palettes of excess books! I was disheartened... good books destined for the recycling bin... If I ever see any bestsellers such as LOtR or Dan Brown Series... I will really go crazy~!

If the little kids get to know about such atrocities, they might possibily gather in mass and storm the factory with double-bladed lightsabres! Dreaming...zzz...

...Where Books Are Made...

Today is the first day of work Tian Huah Printing. I was very surprised that there was no interview whatsoever. Got up at 6.15am and got started work at 7am. Loads and loads of books await me. I was supposed to fold book jackets, package, move heavy stuffs, fold cartons, stick labels and many more. Thank god that there were cool machines to help out, else it would be too tedious.

Below: My workplace, the book-factory...

All sorts of books were printed there. The first book I saw was one that was about karmasutra in German! There were others such a children storybooks, cookbooks, books on wellness, all in different languages such as english, german, french, belgian, etc. Even stuffs such as comics/pictures depicting gross violence and sexuality/nudity were in print(some in english, some in german)! My colleague told me that one there was this PRC person who worked here and he was absolutely stunned and curious about those nude depictions! I laughed!

Below: Ever seen smokers in comic strips in S'Pore???

Today is only the first day and I am already working overtime. $4 an hour, additional $6 coffee $ and $6 for overtime. Total of 7.5 hours and 3 hours overtime, all adds up to $54. A bit little for a lot of work. But, the best thing is that I don't incur any transportation expenses!

Overall, the working environment is okay, the people are friendly and the food is cheap! Kinda like that place. However, its only the first day and things might change...

ByeBye ChenChen~!

Finally, (well, its been a few days since) the MST is over. And I feel the last paper I am going to screw it up. No mood to study due to unforseen circunstances and distraction.

After the paper on Friday, Ah A, Ju, both ShuMeis Ah Ray and Grace and me were at Gillmans' food court having dinner. What a really nice atmosphere for a good meal and chats. Sad thing is that the coffeeshop ran out of coffee and the Indian shop closed early. So, we missed the Nan! Later, we headed back to West Coast prata shop for prata. But, they ran out of prata dough! What a coincidence! Overall, it was a cool outing! Thanks to grace for those photos!

Just now, 120+ATGM were at Yuki Yaki at Marina Square coz it was Chen Chen's treat! He's going to the States in a couple or so days and after his degree, he is going back to China! Miss him... The food was good; everyone stuffed themselves full with all sorts of meats, shushi and etc etc.


Below: The peeps who were there!

Below: Wonder why Grace isn't in the picture?! Below: Today's yum yum at Yuki Yaki!

Creating My 1st blogskin...

A bit sick of my old blogskin. I want a skin thats kind of original. I feel kinda stupid just analyzing other people's skins and experimenting with many online storage sites. Tripod sucks and TheImageHosting sucks coz apperently they got some copyright thingie when the image is being hyperlinked!

So i decided to use photobucket.So i grabbed this dragon picture and inverted its colours. Kinda cool with all the fire and sorts. Added a few words and created the background skin and..wallah~.... new skin! However, the code layouts were from the old blog. So, thanks to that person...

Music... I decided not to put all those sad or mushy songs and decided to go for my own music. Don't want people to misunderstood me as a sad person haha! Hopefully the new skin has a refreshing taste to it.

DE Mid-Yr: Aftermath...

Its been two days and I still feel a bit sad of the aftermath of the DE papers. I remembered that many were stumped at the XOR and XNOR gates. I was no exception. I did all the papers that JiaQing handed out. But wat I failed to do were the papers that were posted on the blackboard. Those were the essential ones! What really pisses me off was when I left the exam hall with JiaQing, we were listening to a conversation between Joel, See Kiang and Akbar. Apperently Joel was bragging about himself and he somewhat was "looking down" on us for not reading up on the exclusive gates. I was fuming mad, I swear I am going to kick that nerd's ass for the remaining two papers...

Yesterday I was out in town with Iris. We were at the new Cathay Building and we were unable to decide on what show to watch. So, we settled for Ghost Game in the end. Then we headed to Plaza Sing for dinner. My stomach wasn't feeling that good so I abstained. We only got about 1/2 an hour to eat and I feel bad for rushing Iris! So in the end we got back to Cathay and were slightly late for the show. During the show Iris kept on giggling! I don't know what's gone into her. But, it was kinda funny! But, *sigh*, the movie was not really fantastic...nor was it that scary. But what I enjoy most was her company!

Flip flop?! Roti Prata?!

Finally I managed to finish reading all the stuffs on flip flops. What an enormous task! Sometimes I tell myself that I should have paid more attention to what the lecturer was speaking, to prevent myself from going crazy at home mugging on flip-flops. Today morning was no real exception for this week. Wake up around 10am, munch on a bit of breakfast and get flip-flopping! Wheee~! Did the past year exam papers to confirm...

By lunchtime, my craving for good food kicked in. I felt like cooking baked rice with ham, saussage topped with sticky cheese! But, there were no saussages in the freezer; nor was there any rice left from last night's dinner. So, these are the ingredients for my 'new' dish: mozzerella+cheddar+parmesan cheese (forgotten how much grams), 2 slices of ham, 1 and 3/4 slices of wholemeal bread. Simple recipe... Just slice the ham into 3-4cm thin strips and cut the bread into approx 3-4 cm squared pieces. Add a bit of the cheese and mix all the ingredients well in a bowl. then transfer the ingredients into a erm... porcelin bowl (the picture) then top it up with more cheese! And, finally bake it in the oven for 12 mins. Make a cup of Milo-Peng and TaDaa~! My nice and tasty lunch!

Sad day...

Today is the CRS written test and I woke up late. Hurriedly changed and waxed my hair and boarded the cab to school. Got there ten minutes late. The paper is two hours long and I managed to complete in less than an hour... Had I known, I would have taken the bus to school. $6 gone just like that. Following that, I decided to skip school and went to Ray's house and Maple.

At Ray's house, I had a chat with Ah Mah and she persuaded me to reconcile with Pa. She seems sad due to the way I keep snubbing Pa. Its been almost a month since I last talked to him. Ah Mah even told me that YeYe was worse than Pa and how slack he was last time. She told me that he refused to go to work and even throw outrageous tantrums such as taking all the sugar cane juice and pouring it all in the drain. Then, Ah Mah could just only look on helplessly. The point she wants to drive home is that, "If I can stand YeYe's blazing temper, I don't see why you can't stand your father's..." I feel, its time to listen for the sake of Mommy and Ah Mah...

Then, it was to Feng's Dad's funural. Almost all the mortar and ATGM specs were there plus a few of my ex-men. We hung around for quite some time before we go our seperate ways at around 9.30pm just now. I feel sad for him, to lose someone dear to your heart at such a young age... that feeling, its indescribable... my depest condolences goes out to him...

School of Engineering Street Soccer Competition 3rd round

11 - 1 ... Suffered a humiliating loss at the hands of the eventual winners Riverplate Jr. The opponent's passings, dribbling, body feints, shooting, techniques, were all far superior than ours. I guess we have the dubious honour of being the team with the biggest thrashing... enough said... But, I feel proud for my guys. These past few days, they really ran their lungs out... some played with fatigue, injuries... *sigh* don't know what to comment on now...

School of Engineering Street Soccer Competition 2nd Round

We won again, barely this time... Our opponents this time were no pushovers. They even had a team jersey! We were all freaked. But our brave and daring captain told us to steel ourselves.

The match kicks off and within the first 5 minutes. We were 2-0 up thanks to a Wei Jie double! We felt we were going to win it. However, our opponents retaliated by firing in the goals and drew themselves level with us! Half time...

The second half resumes and both teams did not capitalize on one another. The match eventually draws to a close and penalties loomed in the distance... which in fact became reality.

Everyone missed their initial chance. For me, I did not have the 1st touch on the ball and just rifled the ball wide. I was agonized... Then, it was penalties in sudden death. Still, neither teams refuse to yield. Akbar, taking over the responsibilites from Jia Qing, produced some vital saves. Eventually, it was the skipper See Kiang who broke the deadlock. Placing the ball at the top right corner of the net. Then it was the opponents' turn. We stood in a line and put our hands over each others shoulders just like in european football matches. The ball was struck viciously but bounced off the cross bar.... we won! Rojak time...

Ah my comb! >.<

Something trivial just popped up my mind. Why do I always lose my comb? I've just lost my latest one (black one). Since ORD, I have lost and estimate of 4 combs. Everytime I lose 1, I always go back to the same stationary shop near my house to buy a replacement. I guess the auntie remembers me as the person who buys combs!