Changes in work #1, work #2, work #3 and so on..

A lot of changes had happened in the last 24 hours.

Other than not getting the Buddha writing thingy yesterday, today there was shocking news: D is leaving the company! This means that I am the longest serving member of the Hep team (at 1 year)! They’d be taking someone in, so I won’t be the head of the team or anything. The team lead can’t be based in KL anyway. I don't think I qualify too as I’ve just taken over the queries but now I must say that I must live up to the experience! And have more confidence and show them what I’ve got :D

But seriously, AW has really learnt a lot and super quick too. I am more surprised than amazed. It’s either being there made it easier and faster to learn and ask, did she refer to all the files (but I doubt so cos she ran most her own way, even if the data was already available in other slides) or was she just like super quick? I think I picked things up fast earlier too but have become stupid. T did tell V that I learnt quick. But now, dunno la..

Best thing is: D’s taking all my stupidity with him lol!! He won’t be around to give negative reviews to T woots!! I don't like working with him too anyway; perhaps it was all tainted by that one incident which made me dislike him forever.

2nd thing: I am re-hired to do the job that ‘I’ was terminated woots! Sometimes I get confused on the many identities that I assume online. I must make sure that I never sign off my emails, for I think I signed off with the wrong name once, bummer :D

3rd thing: Nick stopped tuition for good cos he’s going to SG to study. I had expected this but wasn’t this soon as he said it would be next year. I was thinking of terminating him as well cos dedicating a day each week to him, only to have classes cancelled is a wasted opportunity. Might as well tutor someone else.

4th thing: Reached home and got a mail asking me to come for the PAC registration. It’s one day in KL, think it’s supposed to be some thingy for a few months at some faraway place cos there was a note saying that accommodation is not provided. Asked to come in track bottoms, what kinda registration is this? Not that I give a damn as well.

Spent about 2 hours writing 2 camera reviews of 400 words. Damn, I haven’t written anything for some time. I don't know why ‘to try out’ needs 2.5 articles but since that job pays better than other similar tasks, I write only la. Just had to rewrite actually. Too longer than supposed to cos was chatting with Chon as well.

Over and out.

Things have just gotten betta!

Yesterday I was saying that income doesn't look to be good. Of all times when I’ve got a house to pay for. But today..

• the weird man called to say that I can collect the Add Maths tuition fees all for myself!
Earlier I had asked him, he said no. I don't blame him, I would have said no too. Then I sms him to ask how much extra would I be getting, no reply. The message did go through though. I didn’t really bother because I had been paid in advance. But today he called and said he lost his phone and had been having a hard time tracing me. He said that fees from June onwards will go to me woot woot! He asked if he can name RM75 to the mom, no way! I will discuss it with her personally. Will try and was advised to go for RM110. I wonder why is he suddenly so generous; he doesn't have to be. But let me not be swayed for he has done quite shitty and dodgy things before.

• Got a new project to do – modifying a Maths book. Haven’t looked at the book yet nor see what I have to do. I get to name the price too hehe.

• Given the green light to resume writing articles too! Yesterday it was stopped due to ‘client’ having not enough money, today got money already lol. And gotten a confirmation that he indeed wants a lot of articles, so I have contacted my hardworking 'ex-staff'.

• Sent out application for another writing job too. my services got terminated but am applying again. It wasn’t me who got terminated actually, it was my staff punya pasal laa... so now I am applying using my ‘business’ email add teehee! And I’ve already checked the joint account I have – my name doesn't appear when you want to deposit cash or make an online transfer too, I guess. But let’s not be so happy first.

• Still waiting for feedback on another job. Not going to be easy though – writing 10,000 words on Buddha Boy, Buddhism and all the types of Buddhism in Nepal. Aduh..

One definite thing is an increase from the tuition side. I know how much the form3 one is paying, so I can definitely command more than that. And ok also cos it's on the way out from BT to Kesas, on the way to pick up my sunshine boy!

Edit: Just got a reply from Buddha Boy client - "I've went through your sample writing since earlier yesterday. I find it good and will be able to make my final decisions soon enough. Sorry to keep you waiting but my decisions to make won't be long. I guess that you already know at least a little something on Buddha Boy, that's good."

Woots!! (I wrote that sample, so the compliment is mine :D)

Edit2: Blek, didn't get that job. What a reason given:
"That lady is an indian and the way she could speak indian gives her a lilttle insight to how the language is about and moreover she could write in both english and indian."


Tamil la, not speak Indian. Since when is the Nepali language closely related to 'Indian'? Ok whatever, God must have a reason for things he made happen. He knows I've got 720 more English questions to go and tonnes of Maths amendments possibly at the end of this week (thanks to stupid Open Office man). The task won't be easy anyway as it involves a lot of reading on Buddhism stuff, all the Mahayana, Hirayana thingy (I'm just making up those terms, can't remember what they were). Maybe God wanted me to spend time learning Christianity first instead of other religions :) :)

Choco kids

While awaiting the uploading of my London posts, which is taking a very long time due to the sheer number of pics, the non-existent Internet at home and some work at the office that doesn't allow me to have the whole day to blog, here's something as commercial break. Related to London too.

So, teacher went to London and got the kids some chocs. To while away time, I let them eat in class. I think they might have never eaten chocs before.

This vain woman ada hati to arrange and smoothen her hair for the shoot. What the heck for if her mouth is already like that?

Chronicles of a Jobless: The Journey So Far

The daily routine: Wake up at 6.30am to send bro to school, come back and continue sleeping til noon and then I’ll be online for the whole day except for the time that I go for tuition in the evenings. It isn't that blissful as I have to force myself up after 4 hours of sleep.. pretty dreadful..

The interviews so far:

Product Executive, N Ceramics
The job is what I quite want to do. It’s half research and half marketing, which is actually good as just research skills alone isn't good enough if you don't know how to apply what you have discovered. Nevertheless, this isn't the company that I want to work for, and I wasn’t the one that they want to work with either. I have no marketing skills. And this is the 1st time I was asked for my academic transcript. So pa pai. Heck, I wasn’t even asked for it when I joined Toyota.

Entrepreneur Associate, HL Assurance
Task is to sell insurance and other financial services in your own office. Being the boss and having a few years of guaranteed income for closing one sale was tempting. Until I started thinking ‘who shall I ask first?’ and all thoughts fizzled out through my ears. If I wanted it, I could have started training the following week itself though. The plus side is that I can meet Timmy for breakfast and possibly lunch everyday if I worked there hahaha. The sole (yet) breakfast in KL was also when I went for the interview.

Marketing Services (Research) Executive, The S newspaper
I was willing to travel 100km daily and to give up my tuition to work for this company. Who wouldn’t, for the biggest daily in the country. But they weren’t willing to pay. When they started saying that salary isn't everything, there is subsidised parking, a cafe in the building and free newspapers that equalled savings, I know that it’s a no-go already. This is one of the positions that I have interest in and they wanted to put me in charge of the online research which was never done before. I did not ask for too much, I even went down to just a hundred bucks more than my last pay. Come on, you can’t give me less than my previous pay!

Business Analyst, O Holdings
Doing my pre-interview research, I discovered that their MD is Mukhriz! There, they told me that they have candidates for the position already and want me to do Commercial Operations instead. Something’s wrong with their management as about a week later, the HR called and asked why didn’t I turn up for the interview. That girl gave me the forms and brought me up to see the interviewer! Then they asked me to come for the 2nd interview with a 3 hours notice. I couldn’t make it and they said they would call back, which they did a week later. Now in the midst of arranging a meeting with the Executive Director but the only wee bit reason I have for this position is that my bf once used to look like their MD, that’s it!

Market Research Executive, D Lady
Got an sms from HR a few days back. Flunked the interview with flying colours. Already hadn’t much hope as I was told that my research experience is just a small percentage of what I would be required to do. Ok lor.. what to do.

Management Trainee – Supply Chain Management, G C Logistics
Applied and went for the interview due to IB Syndrome (Itchy Backside). Timmy and I thought that it would be good to explore what supply chain is about especially since I have heard about it. The location is pretty near too, it’s just at the next Kesas exit. But being a trainee position, the pay is also of trainee level. They were saying that since I have working experience and from a Maths background, I am suitable to lead the team when the boss isn't around. Sounds nice, but I cannot accept a pay that is the same as my 1st job 2 years ago laa.. Don't blame them anyway, it is a trainee position.

Researcher, Nielsen’s competitor
I want this, I want this, I want this!
Location: Although a bit far, I love it cos Timmy might be working here soon too!
Job: It’s exactly what I want!
Dress code: Casual
Perks: Boss not here and based in London! I might get to go there too! I can take Friday off if I have been working late, and I heard MSN message tones when I was there! Of course, the team is scattered everywhere.
Passed round 1 already, passed round 2 of phone interview from London already. Can I be the one out of the 32 under consideration?

Market research and intelligence executive, wireless broadband provider
I want this too! But not as much as the above. This research is more specific but it seems fine to me.. Casual dressing too =) Passed round 1, passed round 2 and waiting for round 3 if there is. How many interviews do they want me to come for, hai..

Edit: Business Analyst, Green Buck Resources at Centro, Klang
I forgot about this interview and only remembered it after getting an offer. This is the only company I named to warn the others. I have no knowledge about the job and during the very short interview (15 mins or so), I was told that the job is to 'manage clients' business'. To find out more about the company and the job, I have to come back for orientation for 3 full days. The interviewer wore a blazer, which is so overdressed, hair was blond and he didn't know and belittled the meaning of 'homemaker'. Already suspicious that it could be dodgy or an MLM, Timmy helped me look it up in LYN and we found out that it is a Forex trading company. A few have lost their money in it. This company is a branch of Danatama in PJ, wonder why they changed their name as they change locations?

On the other hand on supplementary income..

Tuition
The fubar family stopped for good. After the 2nd time I got to their place and they cancelled the class, I called it quits. Then I started thinking that I have nothing and some stupid nothing is better than nothing, but on the day I was contemplating if I should, they stopped too. Decision’s been made. All I can say is that these rich kids are pure spoilt brats and their mother shows no respect for people as well. How I wish I had the satisfaction of terminating them. Now they don't know that I had wanted to quit as well, damn!

Tuition income now down to half due to there being 3 fubar kids in that fubar family.

On the UPSR side, not doing any questions anymore but editing and proofreading the stuff for publication. Hoping to get big bucks from there! Kinda enjoy doing this, probably it’s my interest and forte.

Did some MESDAQ compilation too. Not easy to find those companies’ addresses, email adds and websites but yeah, I learnt a lot of stuff. Might be getting another assignment, don't know yet.

Now into some writing assignment and contest blogging. Anything that can earn me money online!

Things do seem to be getting better though the fubar family stopped. I have always thought twice about teaching them anyway. Same rates but have to drive there and then there is a tendency for the class to be called off upon arrival. Damn fubar wan. Now that I am freed up, I can teach Ms Chua her A-Levels Maths and also some kid that called me up after receiving my tuition flyers. Yeah, I distributed flyers and got freaked out by barking dogs. Never wanna do it again.

Oh yeah, while waiting for job offers, I have decided to take up this free training course on .NET. It’s free, I am free and I can be a .NET programmer like Timmy Tim! I said my hair will drop like his and he said that hair will grow on my back!! Yucks! Somehow am excited to learn this, it’s always good to learn something new and I will just attend the course until I get an offer. I think I will, so let’s just see how far it goes. Just this afternoon, I was informed that it was postponed for a week, hai..

So that is the journey of someone sitting at home and facing the pc for the whole day. Things do look good..

Happy Labour Day! Every day is a labour day to me hehe. Might be going for some FB application talk in Cyber on Saturday and then badminton on Sunday. Since when have I become a techie anyway?

I is falling of love

Being a new fan of Lowyat.Net (LYN), I came across this post with the title above. It was so atrocious, horrendous and hilarious that I saved whatever the stupid boy posted. So this is his love problem:

i is know one gal ever since she 14 year old
after i is know her for many time
i slowly falling of love with her
i tell her i lap her but she say give time on to her
i dont know to do what now
she no pick up my call or lullaby sing me anymore

but i are love her very much
she so hot and sexy

she always like to sit on my lap and eat lollypop
i are dunno wat to doing
everytime she look into my eyes i feel like become the ice melt

wat is i to do?
she tell me her bf leave her
i believe her
but she sometime say her bf name when night time call me
i is confusing
but when we go out
she say she so enjoice with me

i is dont let sunshine and rainbow hit me!
yesterday she say face me ugly
i hit her.
then she cry

i are love her forever and ever
but angry so much she make me feel
she no talk to me since last night
i sms her every 15 minute since 7pm yesterday
she no reply me and no pick up my call
i is very sad this happening like this

i so scared now...
her daddy call me just now..
call me not to messaging her anymore...

i no enjoice now...
i want to die.....

i know her since she is 14
she no longer 14
15 already
har?
powderful? i sorry my english is not so like you good.
my teacher always scold me class the last time
i is always very so shy

u think easy to be funny? i is try very hard.
i always is try hard to make her happying.

i is not slap her!
i is hit her!
she say i is ugly and laugh with her friends
she thinking it is very the funnying
but i heart is so pain

i is very sorry for hit her

she tackling me first!
then only i tackling her!
i also is hate kiasu ppl.

is you not enjoice looking at the me, i never ask u to looking at me
you is think i stupid???
you is racist!!

she calling me earlier
she saying she thinking she are pregnant
can girl being pregnant by kissing?
i is kissing her last week

i is thank you to forummer ppl
you is giving good advising on to me

i is also thinking good to forgetting her
but everynight i is thinking of her

yes, i is failing to forgetting her
i is feel the like die on to myself

thank you...
my mommy always say i the handsomest
i also think u is also the handsomest like me

Someone made fun of him and said 'i is handsome, u is handsome' and he really thought that the person complimented him! What a fool!

OMG!! I dunno whether to believe it, because this would be how we would talk when we want to make fun of people. Vote which is the best! Mine would be 'die on to myself'. I replied and asked if he died and fell on himself! And I also said that he is very stupid and no wonder the girl doesn't want him.

The best reply was 'You is a very sohai'. (rofl) And I said he is a super sohai.

Here is the thread. The topic was closed right after I replied! And yes, I might be the one who got the thread closed by the moderator who said 'dun practice necromancy on threads unless there's actually some useful info' =D Thank god that I managed to reply; I was the 2nd last reply. Ok, my England isn't so powderful, so I looked up necromancy from Webster and wonder what's it gotta to do with this?

Stupid #2:

I submitted an ad to mudah.com.my to promote my blogshop and I got this reply in my email.

Hello,

The ad you entered violates Mudah's rules.

Reason: Web Links used in the ad must be working and relevant to the advertised item. Links to pages protected by passwords are not permitted. Your ad has been refused because the site you have linked to, do not seem to be relevant or may contain information not permitted under the rules of advertising on Mudah.com.my. Please remove the link.

If you have questions or comments regarding the refused ad, please forward a copy of this email along with your comments to advertising@mudah.com.my

So I replied:

Hi, I would like to know how is my link not relevant, and what I can do to make the ad be published? That link contains more details on the book.

And the reply I got from them:

Dear Lee Sue Ann,

Thank you for your email. Web Links used in the ad must be working and relevant to the advertised item. Links to pages protected by passwords are not permitted. Your ad has been refused because the site you have linked to, do not seem to be relevant or may contain information not permitted under the rules of advertising on Mudah.com.my. The link related to the other item than your ad is prohibited. Please remove the link.

Kind Regards,
Mohd Arman - Mudah.my Customer Service

I thought I must be seeing things; how can someone reply the same thing pasted as before? I checked word for word, and when I was sure that my eyes weren't playing tricks on me and that someone's stupidity is out for a walk, I asked:

a. is my link to my blog not working?
b. my blog is not protected by password (how can a blogshop be protected by password, stupid)
c. how is the link not relevant when it gives info on price, delivery method, delivery charge and a picture of the item?
d. why would I want to link something other than my ad?

So it's got to be some rule that I have already asked about. Actually, before I submitted the ad, I had suspected that linking it to my blog isn't allowed.

Then, I got a reply. Thank god it was another personnel.

Dear Lee Sue Ann,

Thank you for using our services. Your ad been refused because you are promoting other website in your ad description. We don't allow link which goes to other page rather than your selling item or services offered.

Kind Regards,
Noor - Mudah.my Customer Service

So, as I had suspected, links aren't allowed. Why don't they say so in the 1st place instead of all the shit about links that don't work, links that aren't relevant..

I thanked Noor and told her I appreciate her reply. How not to get fired up when dealing with people like this?

I wouldn't call the next one stupid. I would say it's absurd. Someone whose name is modelled after December Ann Ann, whom I grumbled about in my FB peeves post, had just commented that she had broken up with her bf. And this absurd person was the 1st to reply, saying 'Who needs men?'. Her profile picture shows her bf hugging her tightly in his arms. It was really absurd. Not only I thought it was absurd and might contradict her words, but I thought it was distasteful and a bit cruel too.

Do I understand December Ann Ann's pain or is it because I have something against this absurd person? Tell me what you think. I think my heart would bleed if I was DAA.

Why the heck am I calling her DAA anyway? DAA is me! She is August YY la.

Next.. Mickey Mouse gang in tuition. That's what Mr Tay called them.

I am actually very fond of them; I think they are cute. This only applies when you are not trying to teach them. So, I decided to take pics of some of them.

(from l-r) Rhyon and sister Ryane, Eunice and sister Kylie

I hate Rhyon; she is rude, disrecpectful, lazy and stubborn. How can the youngest turn out to be such a person when the 2 older ones are nice? Even Ms Chua commented on her. We think that there are traits of bitchiness in the little her.

Ryane, my favourite. How can anyone not like her? Mr Tay told her that when she grows up, many boys will fall for her. And her eyes lit up haha! She has improved a lot; from writing diaries of love affairs to really doing her work now. Something must have happened to jolt her. Oh yeah, I did ask her. She said that her mum will disallow her from going to parties anymore if her grades don't improve. So that's it!

Eunice is playful but isn't rude like Rhyon. She is in charge of holding whatever food that their mum packs. Last week, they came with a packet of tapioca kuih. This week, it was marble cake but it's just that the yellow parts are actually cheese! It was such a big container of cake that 6 kids and a hungry teacher couldn't finish it. Eunice is in charge; she keeps asking me if I don't want anymore, and that she will keep them if I don't want any. Since she keeps asking, so I eat la :D Teacher hungry la, can only have dinner after class.

Last week, Eunice's brother Terry said that her wearing the hairband makes her look like 'an Indian from India'. Being called Indian isn't bad enough, from India some more! =D Didn't manage to snap Terry's pic. He's chubby and I wanna pinch his cheeks and I wanted to poke his tummy with a pencil but he managed to avoid.

Kylie.. has very nice complexion although her eyes are sepet. Really fair and smooth, as you can see. The fairest of them all. That's all about her.

Trying to get Ryane to pose for pics, I bullshitted her. I know I shouldn't have. I suggested that we send her pic to Anugerah. Then she started posing.

She posed all these shots to get the ultimate one. After each picture, she asked me to show it to her, not satisfied, and pose again. And again. And again. I started to regret opening my big mouth. And the double 'peace' sign made me laugh. I didn't expect English-ed kids to do that. And private school English-ed kids too!

And after many shots (there are supposed to be 9 shots here excluding those unsatisfactory ones that she deleted), she found one she liked and proceeded to type in Anugerah's number in my phone, ready to send the MMS. I was like 'what??!' No way am I going to send an MMS to some kid's bf. No, it's her ex-bf. I would rather send an MMS of myself to my bf. So I cooked up some (more) bullshit and saved the number in the phone, saying that I would send it later. She was impressed 'You know how to spell Anugerah?'

Ain't I smart..

But she is now with Colin, how can she send a picture of herself to her ex-bf!! Omgoodness..

And don't ask me why are the pictures arranged this way. I got them nicely in 3 columns and 3 rows using Live Writer, but the text I typed are going into tables too. I deleted here and there, 1 pic went missing and all becomes like that. If HTML is a person, I would have given him a tight slap already. And Timmy said that his gf can do HTML, what ever gave him the idea so!

Timmy, after you read this, log into my account and fix it up! I wanna see it 1st thing when I wake up tomorrow morning! I mean, afternoon.

Reply from Timmy: Ceh apa punya GF. Dah, I is fixing it and i is love you.

Hahahaha, Timmy fixed it already and I only realised it at 6pm. I is so love him cos he are fixing my brog!

Last one: Ryane's school is organising a lawatan sambil belajar to Beijing. Cost: RM2000+. Her mum doesn't allow her to go though. Private school, hai.. Shall I still (plan to) send my kids to private school? Don't want them to feel left out when their friends all go to New York or Iceland.

Blogging to kill boredom

Annoying. I'm too restless to do UPSR questions, there is no one to talk to online, I have had enough of sleep for the day, I don't wanna prepare anymore lessons for tuition, of course I don't wanna do work from office, I can't think of the slogan for the Jason Mraz contest, I can't think of the slogan for the Enrique Iglesias contest either and I wanna upload the pics for this post but somehow there's always some error. I think I am going to scream.

So here is whatever stuff that I wanna say, minus the pics. Not that they are very interesting pics as well..

Lunch at Kogetsu, Saujana Subang
After some boring meeting with our service provider, myself, BB, Fiona, GM, the CEO of that service provider and his ma chais went to Kogetsu for lunch. It was a nice place, dining by the lake. Very nice and wanted to take pics but don't wanna look like a sua ku in front of the young CEO =P

I looked at the menu, there was nothing that strikes my fancy. The teppanyaki set seemed to be too huge a portion and pai seh to order the 60+ bucks thing. No one eats cheap fried battered chicken at a Jap outlet, so brilliant me decided to go for a soba and sushi set. Was hoping that it would be some edible sushi that Timmy always feed me but oh my goodness, it was so very yucky and fishy. Raw fish of every colour was served. Urgh, shudder.

But I had Kobe beef! I have heard so much about those Wagyu cows that I just had to have this golden opportunity to eat paid-for beef from cows which have been massaged and fed beer. According to some blog I found, it costs RM500/kg. Definitely got to whack it right? How generous the CEO is to have ordered it!

Only had 3 pieces of it. It was tender and nice, probably due to something in my head telling me that expensive beef's gotta taste good. As much as I wanted to take more, I just can't. I'm not a very beefy person and I wanna puke at all the meat after a few mouthfuls.

Did I say how much the Coke was at that place? RM14!! $&#!! Though I was not the one forking out the money, this is plain slaughter of the neck. I wouldn't order it even if I had all the money in the world. Worse, that RM14 Coke actually came in a can.

The CEO? Hmm.. I didn't expect him to be so young. I was expecting those old 60-year-old CEO to turn up for the meeting and this man appeared wearing a white shirt and a white tie, how weird. BB told me halfway thru the meeting that she can see his tetek, stupid woman. But then, it's his father's company, so it isn't very marvellous that he is a CEO at 34. He looks a lot like my cousin, which is scary. Sent abroad for studies at 10, law degree and an MBA, drives a 2-door Merz but walks strange. Fiona said that God is fair, which I felt was quite an unkind thing to say.

Meeting that guy got me thinking, but now I don't remember what I was thinking =) It just made me think about the kinds of people there are in this world, the lives they live, the money they have, the experience that a 34-year-old has in his cunning business mind. How different can men be, despite all being in their thirties.

Stupid thing about BB, her boobs light up whenever there are guys around. She keeps going on and on again that there are eligible bachelors and which one is nice. She knows that I am not available, and even if I am, I am not that desperate and horny like her. So bloody irritating. The time I met my ex-schoolmate, she asked over and over again if he is good-looking. WTF is wrong with her? I think she is not satiated at night. Who could endure the sight of her anyway? Puke til urine comes out.

Making sentences
The kids were supposed to make sentences with these words: Port Dickson, kayak, tired, life jacket, row, sea, enjoyed, Fitness Club, beach, experience

Look what my Std 5 student gave me:
1. Port Dickson got five people are sitting a kayak.
2. A five people have a Fitness Club and he were a life jacket.
3. A five people sitting a kayak and row in a sea.
4. They enjoyed a Fitness Club and he is tired.
5. A five people in beach is experience.

To quote Eddie Tay: "Apa tahi awak cakap??"

The last work day of the Rat Year

Or else, it would be titled ‘I survive another week’ and there would be 52 entries with the same title by year end.

7.50am : ‘Lucky’ started ringing. I was sleeping in the car. Thought Timmy wanted to ask about my modem but as the previous 2 occasions, the ring of Lucky denoted that Timmy is here! He took my modem and left. 10 minutes is really insufficient, especially for a week’s worth.

Oh, he brought me breakfast too. A nasi lemak and curry puffs. So sweet =) He bit the curry puff with such gusto that the flakes broke all over. I think he wanted to demonstrate how yummy they were because I didn’t wanna eat any then, felt like puking. The gusto-bite: Priceless!

8.45am: I ended up with a RM99 monthly Wimax package. More expenses, less connectivity. I wouldn’t mind paying if the connection is good but given my nil options, crap is better than none. Forgive me if I go missing during a conversation or for annoying you tons of times with my signing in and out.

12.30pm: Out for lunch with Syl. I brought my nasi lemak to the mamak shop to teman Sylvia to eat. I found out that she smokes, which is quite surprising cos she looks small and cute. She was stressed and started puffing like a chimney. She said she started social smoking at Form 4 or 5, wow.

1.30pm: Annoyed with myself for bringing up the book home. The book was always in the car to be read during traffic jams. I wanted to return it so that I can borrow the Jeffery Archer book for the hols. And now I got absolutely nothing to read at all except the Anthony Bourdain book which I am not very interested in.

2.30pm: Meeting with FOMs. Got introduced to all of them.

4.45pm: Shaun called. I thought it was weird cos I know he is off already. Turns out he called just to wish me Happy CNY. So sweet.. He asked if I’m ok from being ‘sick’ yesterday and said that BB is very susah wan. I purposely told everyone that Shaun called, cos it was really sweet and so that BB will know that she didn’t get any call.

6.20pm: Left the office after sending the minutes. Dunno why that stupid slob wants to send the minutes at this time on this day on this CNY break. Everyone has left the office and there is only me and her. Pissed. Got back at her for not going to her open house, both of her staff boycotted her.

6.40pm: Asked Mr Tay if there is class tomorrow. He asked to assume that there is none and asked me to just enjoy my holidays. Aww... so I said ok and wished him a happy new year.
He replied: Happy new year young lady!
I said: the way u say that is as if you are an old man. You are not much older than I am!
He said: Laugh.

And I lol. Young lady.. when he’s 32 and I’m 24.

8.00pm: I was so sleepy that I became light-headed and found it hard to keep my balance. This was one of the most tiring tuition classes so far. But it was fun cos I chatted with the kids. (Again)They asked if I am married. I asked them to guess, Dineest said no cos I have no ring. I showed both to them. He said they were not on my ring finger. Hmm..clever kid! Then he asked me to get married so that I can give angpau. Trying to get married in time for CNY which is 2 days’ away is really a hurried decision. But they said that I can untung by giving angpau, whatever that means... and he advised to get a bf, and to get a rich one too.

Hakim said ‘Cikgu pakai rantai love’.

Yazid wiped his face on the wall when I told him that his face is black from the marker pen. Then he grabbed Andrew’s shirt and wiped his face. I dunno which is funnier but I think seeing that kid rubbing his face against the wall is so hilarious. I mean, who would think of the wall when you gotta to wipe your face??

I can stay up to 1.30am on normal days but I’m so dead tired on Fridays. Too tired to savour each moment of Friday but hey, it’s CNY and there are a total of 5 days off! CNY this year seems bleak, I didn’t even get any food items but it’s holiday woot woot!!

Kong Hei Fatt Choy to one and all!

Updates on…

..work
Pissed. Found out that if I didn’t take the remaining leave that I have left, I would be reimbursed. Thrilled! Then boss said that there is nothing pending and wants to contra those days off.

Call it good luck that the annual dinner is scheduled in the final week of the 2 month notice. Then call it rotten luck that the leave needs to be contra-ed off. Not the matter of eating every last morsel out of AGB but I’m assured of something nice in the lucky draw. Everyone now is asking ‘So you won’t make it for the dinner?’ 1 year and I had to miss it in the final week when I am legally employed and forcefully unemployed. Whatever the heck is. It’s a conspiracy to stop me from attending the dinner!

Do me and I do you. Cost me 600+ bucks and a lucky draw and it serves you right that due to the forced upon shortened tenure (and lack of income), you are left with 2 (and possibly) more sessions of training. You said there is nothing pending, yet asked me to hurry? How to hurry? Well, you said the rest can handle, go handle then.

Conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy.

..work again
We just had training and now you want training again. Bodoh ah? Can’t believe I failed to escape with flying colours and have to conduct 3 trainings during my last 3 days in this stupid company. Well, I could have been doing 5 trainings in 5 days but I am ignoring it at the moment.

Special mention to Sok May, a client who is very prihatin. She said that it’s a pity to be doing training on my last day, she would defer it if I didn’t prepare, asked me to give them to the others and called them sei yan thau for not wanting to take them. I love this person :D She is also the one that called me pontianak and also sei pat poh when I told her that I had already signed Stan Chart’s contract =D Let’s just say she is my favourite client and she is the only person I wanna add to my YM when I’ve left.

..job offers
Nil. Still waiting, waiting, waiting, getting desperate, pleading, pleading, waiting, waiting, til wanna go mad already.

…translation
Got my first article to translate, all 11 pages of them. Good already considering that I’ve been told the average is 20 pages. I like this job! Can be done during tuition class, tkd class and anytime while waiting for anything and anyone. So rike!

..outing
Outing’s been changed from Lagoon to skating and movie at Pyramid. Lagoon is maddeningly expensive at RM90 per person! Let’s call for a boycott and it serves them right that even without our boycott, they are already empty. The last time I went there, the fee was RM39 and still full of people. Padan muka.

..kid tales
Teaching for almost a year and a half, I’ve come across all sorts of kids’ names. Picaster is ok and could be cute (but it’s not something I wanna call my kid). Ryane and Rhyon are sweet despite there having no such name. But the one that beats me is Meshach. The strangest I have seen. As suspected, I searched it and true enough, it was a biblical name. Something like Messiah I guess? But that kid is like a hantu!

I have been thinking for some time, that I wanna name my kids something unique(-ly made up) and sweet. Like Ryane - there is no such name but yet it is pleasant. So I wanna give my kids something like that and am ‘creating’ one now =D Somehow Nuala and Nuada (from Hellboy!) keep playing in my mind now, they sound cool yeah? =D Cool but not kid-worthy.

Today is Thursday, tomorrow is Friday..

Interviews and other tales

Interviews..

• can make me cry
• are all tough
• are annoying and so bloody annoying cos you wait and wait and wait

My tears flowed. The interviewer wasn’t horrible or anything, it’s just that I got so frustrated, miserable, tired and hungry after waiting 7 hours. We were waiting and waiting and waiting but nothing was being done. I vow, swear and promise that I will never ever attend any walk-in interview anymore. I also vow and swear that I will never meet ask for a date after an interview cos it always gets delayed and makes me feel utterly bad.

There are tests for every single interview nowadays. Guess that no one wants to employ stupid people. But since the results are just for the ‘profile’ and does not affect your employability, guess they just wanna know how dumb you are.

I have this concept that if I arrived first and finished the test first, I should be called in first, no? Why the heck did I arrive first and rush through the test then? Annoying is too mild a word to describe how I felt. Will bring something to read for the next interview; I’ve really learnt my lesson.

I’m so glad that my boyfriend is in a position to interview people. Make all those people wait like your baby had to. Make them wait and wait and wait til they start to understand why people commit suicide in prison.

Then I think I’m cocky. I think too highly of myself and looking at other candidates, I think there is no one better than I am. I dunno if I sound over-confident during interviews. Confidence is good but not over. Well, if I did come across as arrogant, there are 2 factors that contributed to it: a little bit of cockiness and speaking fluently compared to the other stuttering candidates who were either nervous or can’t speak proper English. So when someone speaks fluently, you get a cocky.

I so want that job. The cocky me was never this desperate for a job. The location’s good, the company’s good, the environment’s good unlike Samsung and the bonus.. OMHG! My eyes almost popped out when informed of the minimum payout. The EPF’s superb too. Now I realise what my company has been depriving all of us. There is not a single grouse about this position. If I don’t get it, I think I will take it very badly cos I was among the 2 shortlisted out of 47 and to not get it at this stage is … I just really really want this.

It was a short week but I had 3 interviews. Just waiting for offers and when I have a couple of them, selecting the best one is damn syok!

Job-hunting is tiring, both physically and mentally.

Things that are not related to interviews

Interviews are the most happening happenings that are happening in my life right now (how many ‘happenings’ can there possibly be in one sentence).

Resignation
So instead of talking about interviews which I already had, the next thing would be resignation. Oh no, you think, hahaha. Just that last Tuesday, I was feeling kinda sad thinking what James had said. We were on the way to buka puasa after work when he suddenly asked me to pull back my resignation. “Why leh?” I asked. “Cos we all miss you”. I didn’t think anything about it until I was on the drive home. The journey home is always the time when thoughts flow the best. Tears started flowing when I reach home. There will never be a place better than this to work. Everyone’s good. Not only that, but they are fun. No back-stabbing, politicking nor trampling on one another. Another place could only be better if the colleagues bought me lunch or massage my shoulders.

There is absolutely nothing that I am unhappy here. Except the pay. A few days later again, James brought up pulling back the resignation again. What is there to even consider, especially if there is no counter offer? And even if there was, knowing how much bonus is being offered out there will make me say ‘go fly kite!!’

That fella, bapuk bapuk also, can drive into the carpark to drop us off that night and said that he would send us up to the 1st floor if our cars were there, cos “so late already”. Maybe now MS would say that he is gentleman hahaha.

And one year plus here but haven’t picked up a single word of Hakka. Where else am I gonna find Hakka speaking people? And one who is that close to me? Gotta learn up pretty fast, a month more to go.

Stupid song

Take care of yourself
Be nice to your friends
And visit your relatives once in a while

Give love to your family
Take care of your baby
Don't be afraid to open your heart

So lame!! Visit your relatives once in a while? Take care of your baby?? So ROFL, so rolling!! Guffaw guffaw guffaw =D

Oh, it's from Bosson, titled This Is Our Lives, if you wanna download it.

Kaypochis
Go and mind your own business and stop taking care of the sides of people's cloth. You have nothing else better to do ah?

Do your own work!
Yeah I know that always during interviews, I said that teamwork is important, covering for colleagues is too but I don’t mean it! I absolutely hate to do other people’s work. A little is fine but I get so fcuking mad when it takes up the whole of my day. And the person whose work I am doing goes home at 4.45pm. How not to get pissed? The stupid person who created CutePDF writer is a fool too. Don’t create things for the sake of creating it. Didn’t it occur to you that people would need to resize the fonts that you happily shrunken after the conversion?

You must know that I have so many things to do in a day. Chatting with Timmy, playing lit as well, reading The Star, checking Timmy’s blog, looking for jobs, checking my Gawab mail, looking for part-time jobs and checking Lawrence’s and Kevin’s blog. On most days, I have nothing to do. So I get absolutely pissed when I have to stop all the above to do your work. I’m pissed, you know, cos the only work I do in a day is yours.

I reiterate, missing spots are fine but I hate stop presses, PDF conversion and those stupid Astro reports that are endless because the stupid Astro people only want to present things that are in their favour.

The end
Yesterday was my last Erican class. Good riddance! I hate that class. It’s so dreadful doing 5 hours straight, kids are running and making noise, I get disillusioned and sleepy, have to eat bread for lunch and then off to another 1.5 hours of tkd. Absolutely dreadful. But I laugh so hard seeing them scratch each other and kick each other’s butts. So funny!

These are the pics that we took on the last day. We didn’t do much in that final 2.5 hours.

(front row) Kim Hoo and Weng Sum. Kim Hoo's the one who takes a bus with his gf to KP and Weng Sum is teacher's pet =) Miss hugging his round tummy.

(back row) Eu Jie and Empty. Eu Jie asked me to stay til end of the year and if I wanted to share his Maggi mee, so touched.

Poyo kids like their poyo teacher who like to self-snap.

Teacher's pet! Only on the last day he isn't camera shy. And check out his teeth hahaha.

All my classes are about to come to an end. Need a break, yet need the money.

Things that I wanna do

a. Learn Chinese
Am Chinese, proud to be Chinese and I have to do something to be proud to be Chinese. Watch more Chinese serials to pick up Chinese?

b. Get a bracelet

c. Eat lots of food =)
Hadn’t had a good meal in a long time. What’s the point of working so hard but not enjoying the fruits of your labour? Getting fatter but still think I need a reward for my hard work =P

Last but not least, a picture to share..

Like a parasite lodged to the back of her bf =D =D

I like being a parasite, what about you? :D

Monday blues that last beyond Monday

I am not a people person. I am very well an introvert, but all the jobs I get are dealing directly with customers. I dunno as well how I ended up in the current position. I just grabbed it at the sound of the company name. Banking is all about dealing with people. Ok, I rephrase that: Banking in branches is all about dealing with people. Banking in the HQ could be behind the scenes doing research. Well, that’s what I get for opting somewhere nearby, isn’t it? But my current offers aren’t exactly near also?

I am not that keen for Stan Chart. How now, I haven’t even started but am not keen already? Is it because of my current mood where I am tired and not in a good mood? Maybe after a rest and a self prep talk, I’ll feel better.

To go or not to go? Why bother even checking it out if I don’t like the job? But neither do I like the Stan Chart one. Since I don’t like both, I might as well take the nearer one. Hai.. I just can’t deal with people. At the current state where there is so much anger within me, customers aren’t exactly a good idea. With my mentality that customers are always dumb, it’s gonna be a battle.

Hate!! Hate!! Hate!!

In the mean time, I shall stand up and be strong. No more relying on others. It is quite sad to live in solitude but .. what to do? Seems like I'm blogging more often these days though there are no happening happenings but just ramblings and negativities. Hope I am not sinking into depression.

I do miss my old self, I do. I want to be my old mad self.

In the mean time, I have already resigned. So is that the reason why I don’t feel like doing anything? I just don’t feel like doing anything, I don’t feel good, I feel kinda rotten but I dunno why. My whole body is aching, now I know why. My neck and shoulders are always aching. Another 1 month+ to go and you ask me to run ES and test new version? Kanasai.

When is this all going to end? What is going to end in the first place? Will happiness continue to elude me? How can I be thankful and happy but be the opposite the next?

I will not undertake any Science tuition anymore. I know nothing about it and I have no time to read anything about it. It is so damn torturous faking something you don’t know.

I am just so very tired… :( I just live 1 day at a time.

Dunno if I should look forward to Wednesday. I don't like the day but I would get a day of rest. But there's an interview that I don't really enjoy the job, so there is still no day of rest. Will September quickly come to an end? Will the first week of October quickly come to an end? I don't like all of you. Go away, go away, go away, annoying.

Stupid Sunday mornings

Because I cancelled last Sunday’s class, this stupid lady came to make noise yesterday, saying that she had already paid for the tuition and kids don’t need a break. First, the class is merely postponed and there would still be 10 classes on total. Secondly, it was legitimate cos students are always given a week off at the end of every stage. Somehow the admin always ask me to carry on until Weng Sum asked why does his brother in the next class get off but we don’t? So I decided that we all need a break. The bloody woman had the cheek to ask if it was us (the centre) who wanted a break. Yes, I did but hell it was legal. If my Mandarin wasn’t that horrible, I would have given a piece of my mind, which is frustrated and tired. And then she said that her son didn’t learn anything. That is strange, then why would she sign him up for another 10 weeks worth 300+ bucks? Or she should just teach him herself at home and listen to all the profanities that Std 4 boy says.

On the other hand, I will miss the kids. Noisy and irritating but they are still cute in their own way. One of them messaged me yesterday saying ‘Teacher, this is my handphone number 017-…’ But who is this? Hahaha. Will miss the pudgy Weng Sum who doesn’t wear underwear and Kim Hoo whose mother doesn’t know he has a girlfriend with whom he takes a bus with to Klang Parade sometimes. He’s Std 5, mind you. So cute eh?

The most I will give is another 1 month, then I don’t give a damn if they find a teacher or not. People give a month or 2’s notice, not ‘wait-til-you-find-a-teacher’ notice.

And while I'm at this, I might as well share this pic. When I say someone is "empty", I really mean it, I am not exaggerating.

A classic picture

My Saturday mornings will be free October onwards, Sundays mornings will be free too soon, Thursday evenings will be possibly free in November too and seems like Taekwondo is becoming a piss-each-other-off zone. Don’t give a damn though sometimes I feel that it is my lifeline. At this time when many classes are bring dropped, is it a good idea to drop Erican? Hmm..I still want my Sundays off though. We’ll see how much money will I still get at the end of the month. October is supposed to see my weeknights taken up as well. I don’t see doing UPSR questions to be a permanent thing; 1 day there will eventually be enough, so I just have to make the most out of it while it’s still here.

One thing that hit me was when Timmy said that not everyone wants to work part-time; it’s only me and him. It hit me, yeah it hit me. People just ain’t that money-faced or money isn’t all the matter in their lives.

Sometimes I think why do I need to work this hard. Money is enough, I don’t need that much; money is just enough. But then, since when enough is enough? Lots of things need to be bought and of course, the more money we have, the better our lives can be. Ok, I rest my case. Will work hard(er)! End July was fun, collecting cheques from 5 sources and thinking who hasn’t paid me yet =P

Tkd complains

A quick complaint on Edwin’s tkd (not really quick when I realized I’m done):

1. Money-faced
Power Sport and Dynamic strictly do not take in kids under 7. Mrs Leong rejected a parent who wanted to enroll his 6 year old kid but Edwin takes in even 5 year olds. Even a physically and mentally challenged kid! Why? Cos he’s not the one teaching. Come on, the kid can’t even walk, and her parents want her to do tkd? And Edwin takes her in? She can’t talk and can’t understand anything as well. I wasn’t the one teaching her but still, it’s ridiculous.

The latest addition is he took in 2 kids aged 4 and 6. I thought it strange when he asked me to let them do whatever they wish and that they won’t get it after all. Then I found out how old they were. And this shows what’s going on at the centre and what type of person he is. So I let them do whatever they like as well (they end up sitting on the floor for the most of the 1.5 hour class) Their parents can come and see for themselves one day, I don’t give a damn.

2. Money-faced again
Intake should be strictly once a year. How do you teach if there are new people coming in all year round? I remember Mrs Leong telling a parent to wait for the next year’s intake, she’s that strict and not a cheapskate.

3. Boring, utterly boring
How can you teach grading syllabus and only grading syllabus for 3 months?? Ok, a grading syllabus averagely consists of 2 hand techniques, 1 kick, taeguek and one-step sparring. That’s it. And the one-step sparring are the same steps from green belt to red belt, so there is nothing new to learn. So there are just 3 things to repeat. Omg, imagine doing and teaching the same 3 things over and over again in 12 weeks of 18 hours? Seriously, the students are bored. Those who have had the opportunity to compare or train elsewhere, have left. If you talk about an exam-oriented education system, have you heard of grading-oriented tkd classes? Tkd is more than just grading; there is self-defense, fitness training, sparring even for those who are not keen on competition and techniques other than grading syllabus. I doubt if the students know how to apply what they have learnt, cos all they know are grading steps and besides, they don’t know much as well.

4. The standard sucks
How not to, if the only thing the students know is grading syllabus?

a. Fitness sucks as there is no stamina training. A race is fun for the kids as well as to give those muscles some exercise.

b. One-step sparring is the same from green belt to red. Since when do green belts and red belts do the same thing??

c. No sparring at all for gradings except when you wanna take your black belt exam. In other words, the first time the kids are sparring is for their black belt exam.

d. When you reach 15 years of age, you can just change your poom belt to black without taking an exam. Hopeless. What if the fella has stopped training since he was 8? (being a red belt at 8 is not impossible with Edwin a cheapskate) He can’t just come 7 years later and be a black belt. The reassessment is done with the purpose to make sure that the junior black belts didn’t lag and still have what is takes to be a black belt.

e. Only 1 round of sparring for your black belt exam. Well, you can’t make the poor kids, who are going to spar for the first time in their lives, spar 2 rounds right?

f. The kids can’t tie their own belts. To me, this is a very simple and basic thing of tkd, to tie your own belt. Don’t talk about tying it correctly or disrespecting it by hanging it round your neck but just tie it round your waist, for starters. It is absolutely annoying, embarrassing and stupid to have my class interrupted every few minutes by some kid asking me to tie their belts for them. This is not a kindergarten. Edwin ties their belts one by one. Once, I had everyone remove their belts and taught them to tie it, only to have him interrupting that they will never get it and to just carry on with the stupid grading syllabus. Well, there is another 17 hours and 50 minutes to teach the 3 steps! Teach a man to fish and he can fish for his food! But now they are not even taught to fish! Stupid. On days when I am so pissed, I refuse to tie their belts and he has to eventually tie it for them. He’s a stupid babysitter for all those 6 year olds that he takes in.

g. This is the first place I’ve seen that white belts stand in front and black belts at the back. Again, pampering here. I think he wants the juniors to get his ‘undivided’ attention but seniority is important in tkd. Discipline is also not instilled, like it is well-known that late-comers to class have to bow to the instructors and to the class but it is only here the students coolly walk in and join the class. He’d rather remind them one by one than remind the class as a whole. Which is why I don’t bother asking late-comers to go and bow to him as well.

And a personal attack on the ‘employer’..

a. He doesn’t notify me earlier of any activities or cancellations. So I got back at him and tell him at the last minute too if I’m coming or not. He got the message finally and behaves better now =) But I still take revenge by telling him twice I’m on the way while still reading newspapers at home =D

b. Simply assumed that I wanted my English name on my belt. Luckily I gave him my Chinese name. What if he had already did the English one? I’m not going to pay him! And worse, I realized that he actually didn’t know how to spell my name. It’s either Ann or Anne, not Ane. Whoever spells it as Ane? That’s why I call him dyslexic. And imagine it if I have Ane on my belt? Total moron.

c. Moron
i. Can’t type an sms and needs someone to do it for him. Who doesn’t know how to type an sms these days? Even my mum can! When he finally does, I get sms with single and double spacing everywhere.
ii. Among his pouch, wife’s handbag, document bag and laptop bag, he decided to put his car keys in the laptop bag and we spent a good half and hour looking for it. And that bag wasn’t even taken out of the car. In other words, he turned off the engine, put the key in the bag that was at the back seat and left. Moron moron moron. It’s a wonder why he didn’t put it inside the kicking pad bag.
iii. The car boot is always full of uniforms, equipment, documents and some other trash that the assistant will jump and shut the boot close. And then, the moron installed some speaker that takes up half of the boot capacity. Why bother fixing sound systems, Ah Beng steering wheels and Ah Beng pedals in a car that’s rusty and seats falling apart??

Sorry, people’s dumbness get to me. Annoyed =D

He’s the boss, I’m the employee, I don’t care as long as I get my pay. For the things that I can make a change, I will try to but for those that is beyond my control, I’ll sit back and watch your students run. Less for me to teach too =D I sincerely advise people to go elsewhere for their own good. When a poom belt asked me where shall he get his black belt, I told him that if he took it here instead of the other club where he is also training, he needn’t take an exam. He sneered, which shows that people like to ‘earn’ their black belts. But in the end, he just changed his belt here with no effort. Why waste money and effort right?

I don’t give a damn! La la la la la.. but it affects my reputation for working for someone and some club like this. Which was why I kept an extremely low profile at the MSSD and partly cos I ran away from Chen Hong’s training after 2 weeks =P Timmy said that I still go for classes despite calling Edwin a stupid man. Hai…I forsake my dignity for money. What the stupid heck.

Thoughts quickie

After happily going on the 10 rounds of shopping, I arrived home on Thursday to find my credit card bill of RM 1300. Mak datuk! I thought it would be around 1k but 1.3k gave me a shock! =P That’s 7x my last month’s bill =D

*****
Glad that Timmy has a chance to get his problem fixed. There was initially no solution, it was good as gone and then there was one but it was a gamble. Then came a better solution, which isn’t exactly the perfect one but at least better than the previous one. Wish that all goes well.

*****
Boss was away for 3 days last week. Joy!! Had been busy though. Chatting with Timmy, playing Literati at the same time, surfing the Net for the best resort for Timmy’s birthday, talking with Shikin via Skype (cos she wanted to say things that couldn’t be said out loud a.k.a mengumpat =D ), asking Debi about the PS2 he wanted to sell me, making reservations for the resort, posting and reading blogs and downloading songs and transferring them to my iPod and Tim’s pendrive. So busy wan =)

*****
Tuition and tkd are getting better. Got another class for tuition and another one for tkd. Initially only 1 tkd class was promised, but now I officially have 2 and I’d attend another 2 if I’ve nothing to do for the weekend. Good good.. A few hundred bucks there already and if I take on the other 2 classes, I can get almost a thousand. Not bad for part –time income.

*****
Finally went to Wei Chern’s Chap Goh Mei open house. Have been invited for years but I dunno what to do there, so I always gave excuses. This year I decided that I would go no matter what cos he still invites me year after year despite me always not turning up.

As expected, it was boring. Luckily I had Timmy with me, else I would have felt really really lost there. But still, it was boring, don’t think I will come next year =P Actually I dunno why he invites me over; we hardly talk and I don’t belong to either the tkd group or the colleagues group that day. Previously, I didn’t belong to his form 6 friends group as well. But am touched that he still considers me a friend, a friend that has ‘withstood the test of time =)’ (cos there was no form 6 bunch there that day) and he doesn’t see me as just a friend’s ex. But since they don’t like each other, I don’t think he even considers jc a friend =D

*****
Kids say the darndest things

Scene 1
Empty asked me “Teacher, do you wash your backside?” It’s not even worth opening my mouth to say something nasty to him like ‘Your brain is filled with nothing like poo, toilets and backsides’, so I ignored him. I sometimes think that he is fubar.

Scene 2
In Bukit Rimau tkd class, I had a bunch of about 20 kids aged 4-7 years. After letting them have a drink of water..

“Cikgu, cikgu!”

There was a small crowd crowding over someone on the floor. I thought someone had fallen down or something.

“Cikgu, cikgu dia berpeluh!”

Kids are a pampered lot these days. They come for tkd and complain if they sweat or feel hot. Duh, it’s an exercise! And they can’t even tie their own belts.

And kids.. all sort of things can happen to them. Like in the Tamil school, one of them ran straight into a pillar. Heard the loud bang and he straightaway fell to the floor. Immediately there was a bump the size of 20 sen on his forehead. No joke, though it was highly amusing how could someone run straight into a pillar =D Felt a bit bad cos I said they'd better come back from drinks before I finish counting from 10, that's why they all ran =D

*****
I really have to get something done with my phone. I can hear people but they can’t hear me. I have lots of credit, almost RM 180 but I can’t call anyone cos no one can hear me. It’s really frustrating when there is an urgent call and nothing can be said. But repairing the phone takes a few days and not having a phone for few days is well..very uncomfortable. Which was why I was delaying it. A useless phone is better than none. Well, not entirely useless cos I can still sms (though might have difficulty sending and receiving messages some time later). Buy a new phone for temporary use? But then I might as well buy that phone and not repair it. but I’m just gonna buy a cheap temporary phone. Haiya.

*****

Either my memory is so bad or there are communication problems. But I don’t think my memory is bad when it comes to love =)

*****
I am really getting better at not giving way. All the cars that wanted to squeeze in finally gave up and drove to the front to look for another victim =D

And this morning, a Kancil driven by a woman (of course) with no. WGK 9541 gave way to 7 cars!! 9541, if you somehow happen to read this, you are a moron. I’d kick myself if 1 car manages to squeeze in and you have 7?? Seriously something wrong with you.

*****
Vantage Point was a good movie and one that I understood the storyline clearly without any loopholes. Probably I need movies that have scenes repeated over and over again to fully understand it =D Sometimes I feel embarrassed to ask what’s happening or who was that but turns out that Timmy asks me the same question later, like was that the President or Thomas Barnes =D So I’m not that blur after all. Still wondering though why the President is called Potus..

*****
Synchromiss

There are like 240 minutes between the time Timmy reaches home and goes to sleep, so how could we both messaged each other at 11.06pm?? Synchronized missing still happens and never ceased to amaze me =)

*****
Taking part in the KL International Marathon in March under Timmy’s influence. He managed to get his company to participate but I have yet to get mine too. Lily said that our bosses like relaxing activities, not these. Whatever. At first I thought that my participation is to have an evening walk pakthor with Timmy but he seemed so semangat and even wanna train for it. I mean, there is no way I can win anything at that marathon even when I was in good shape. But Timmy said that everyone who finishes gets a cert and the top 500 get a medal. So now I am all psyched up!! Gonna start jogging soon! (I hope)

May we win!!

*****
March looks like an activity-ful month. Timmy’s birthday, bro’s St John camp, F1, elections, marathon, public holiday.. Luckily that the company strategy meeting has been postponed to April. So there will be 2 holidays in 2 months!

In lazy mode now, don’t feel like working anymore.. dread Mondays and the thought that boss is around..

Long complaints and short thoughts

It would be better if it was the other way round right? =)

Long complaints

1. Stupid kids
Somehow both my part time jobs involve kids and I realized that I don’t tolerate dumb kids well. I dunno what prompted me to get so involved with kids; it’s not that I am motherly or love kids. They are probably easier to bullshit, yeah that’s it =D I wondered if it was my problem that I have zero-tolerance but Timmy said that he has no patience as well. Guess the only ‘baby’ thing that we enjoy is making them =D Hey just joking ok… hahahahaha. But anyway, my kids will be bright, cos inherited their mother’s intelligence. So there will be no tempers lost by school teachers, tuition teachers, tkd instructors and piano teachers. I think Timmy wants his kids to attend guitar classes as well so that they could wear his hats, crank up a Canon D whenever he fancies and be the next Santana =D

(Related post: First post of the year: During the transition from 2007 to 2008--> A teacher's frustration)

a. At tuition
Back to the topic, there’s Empty whom I have mentioned before. He can’t even copy instructions off the board, which makes me really suspect that he is dyslexic or something. Once I observed him and saw him running back and forth non-stop in the class. The distance is about 3 steps and seeing that really made me bengang, thought I was going cuckoo. I could ask him a question (already in Mandarin) 3x and there would no response from him. He couldn’t draw a 2-column table and his sentences were everywhere in this row and that column. I just stared at his book, not knowing how to correct it or which word belonged to which sentence. I think he is dyslexic, hyperactive and ADHD all rolled into one. Actually he doesn’t understand English, thus no response from him. But I was too irritated that he can’t even comprehend simple English nor read simple words. You could call him a ‘stupid cow’ and he’d have no idea as well. I was so annoyed with him last Sunday for various reasons, that I asked him ‘Ni you ping ah?, to which he replied ‘Mei you’ =D Yeah, it was rude yet funny and he deserved it. It is funny when I scold someone in Mandarin, full of anger with words rushing to be spewed out but start stuttering and pronunciation goes off-key instead =P

Last Sunday too, the whole class had finished and passed up their book, I had marked them and returned it, they had packed their things, cleared the chairs and switched off the air-cond, I had packed my things as well but Empty was still copying the questions off the board! It wasn’t as if he had spent time answering them. I told him to just pass it up next week (which I know I’d forget anyway) cos he’ll never finish it by the time I get home. And he’ll never get the answer anyway, cos everyone had gone home and there’s be no one to copy. Irritated, I said ‘You do things very slow wan hor?’ and he replied “In school also I’m like that”. “Good lo”, I said and he replied “In school also I’m always the last one”. Don’t get the sting and can agree with me instead!

I give up. How not to, if he doesn’t understand a word I say? And he’s not interested anyway. Sometimes I feel pity for him as once on my way down, his mum came to pick him and asked him how was the class and if the teacher say his writing is poor. He is still someone’s son, he is loved and they sent him here to learn. Hai.. but I just can’t give him my full attention (he needs 110%) and bore the others.

b. At tkd
Last week, I had another problematic slow kid. It absolutely irritates me when they answer ‘ar’ to anything I ask, in which case I sometimes try to add another question at the end like “Are you stupid?” and they’d reply ‘ar’ as well =D So there was this stupid kid that can’t even hold his arms up for a punch, I just lifted them up and they fall back down again like he’s dead. Edwin happily passes these kinda people to me. There was gook at his nostrils and added more to the irritants. What was so difficult with ‘right leg, left leg, right leg, left leg?’ He only moves his left leg over and over again, to which I scolded “You ada berapa kaki? Satu saja ke?” Then I figured out that he was kinda young, either in kindergarten or standard 1, so I had some sympathy:

“You darjah satu ke?”
“Ar”
“Ke tadika?”
“Ar”

Then I got the idea already.
“Darjah satu ke?”
“Ar”
“Darjah tiga ke?”
“Ar”

And by this time, I am really tempted to add:
“Engkau ni bodoh ke??”

But being only the guy’s first day, I decided to forgo it. It was so tempting and so hard controlling my mouth! But the first day is no excuse for not hardening his limbs and clenching his fists. Stupid.

But that day, I was soften by 2 kids who came to salam with me after class, complete with the kiss. Never had that before, not even when teaching in Rantau Panjang where the population was 100% Malays and still considered a kampung area. But not asking for anymore salam though, cos I feel I don’t deserve it for being such a ‘nice’ teacher and might make me feel guilty if I wanna scold them in future =D

Then there are some stupid kids as well who can’t understand the concept of walking which is to walk with 2 legs instead of 1. The next step is to move forward and punch, and they move forward with the same leg that was in front. @#!?# I told them it’s like walking, just lift up the bloody leg that was at the back and take a step forward, how could you move forward with the left leg over and over again, it’s like sliding forward not walking!!

Once during the last time I taught tkd, I was yelling at the kids and I realized that this was really bad for me. Really bad for my blood pressure, really. This was when I decided that I am not gonna lose my cool and just relax, don’t wanna get so worked up already. This is also why my mum always fall ill and have sore throats while teaching in kindergartens.

Moral of the story: No, I’m not gonna preach on ways to have a brilliant kid (don’t even have to be brilliant actually, just average should be good enough to maintain your teachers’ sanity). The moral is to either not be a teacher or to marry a rich man so that you don’t have to work anymore haha! Timmy joked why am I with him, he’s not rich also. Cheh, hurt my feelings. haha.

2. Road tales
Got stuck in a very bad jam on the way to work last Tuesday. Knew something was not right as the jam usually doesn’t start there. People turned into the inner petrol station roads to save some time and even that was clogged. Luckily I wasn’t having breakfast with Timmy that morn, he wanted to but I asked him to sleep in. Turned out that there was an accident. But what was annoying was the cars weren’t even obstructing traffic, both were in the emergency lanes. It is so irritating that people slow down to watch and cause this terrible jam. Once, the accident was on the opposite lane somewhere near Bulatan Lima but the jam stretched all the way to the Federal highway near Jusco Bukit Raja. That’s really horrible, don’t you think? Imagine the distance and the traffic was standstill, not even inching a bit. (I was on the accident-lane which cleared after the accident of course, lucky me)

Which was why the councils or someone decided to put up boards preventing view of the oncoming lane at the Penang bridge. Their reasoning: to prevent kaypos from seeing any accident in the opposite lane and slowing down. How ‘brilliant’! But yeah, it could be brilliant. See how busybody Malaysians are to inspire such an idea?

So when someone proposed that there should be a law requiring accident vehicles that are obstructing traffic to be removed from the scene if possible, I am all up for it. Even those that are in the emergency lanes can cause havoc. And I’ve noticed that people have this tendency to stop to discuss things as soon as the accident occurs. Mind you that their cars were in the middle lane of the highway and weren’t even damaged badly, the 2 cars were just bumper-to-bumper! Not even a dent was visible. Just an attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill and make the guilty one feel that it was something really serious.

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Ever since Timmy absolutely refused to give way to a lady in a Benz who wanted to cut into our lane, I have refused to give way to people as well. Especially those fools who have no patience to queue and wanna cut into my way which I got from queuing in the jam patiently. That incident was kinda unexpected, seeing Timmy so stubborn and really pushed her out til she honked at us instead=D But I understand that as the jam was horrendous at DU, we had been stuck there for a long time and furthermore were in a hurry.

Giving these people the benefit of a doubt, they could be genuinely on the wrong lane and realized it a little too late. But seeing them change back to the emergency lane as soon as they have the opportunity to do so immediately quashes such thoughts.

*****
I have this habit of saying ‘shoop!’ to myself whenever I managed to squeeze into whatever gap there is in between cars. This ‘shoop!’ is like to celebrate my victory in managing to squeeze in =D Cos with my determination to not give way, managing to squeeze in is like an achievement, like ‘I managed to squeeze in before you could react!!” Being the hypocrite I am, I squeeze into lanes too despite all the critisms above =D But to justify myself:

1. I squeeze in whenever there is a gap in flowing traffic, unlike those above who wanna force their way in a jam. Queue when there is a jam!
2. When I come down from Hilton, it is already jammed, so it’s not that I refused to queue.
3. At the U-turn heading back to Klang town under the bridge, I only shoot to the front when there is a date with Timmy on Sundays after class. Actually I didn’t cut into anyone’s lane.
4. There are 2 lanes for that U-turn and those fools like to queue in only 1 lane. So off I go to the front in the second lane and didn’t offend anyone in the process =)

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When you see stupid things done on the road, take a look at the driver and most probably it’s a lady. This car swerved from the far right to park without realizing there was a car right beside her. Got honked to the max and I wanna stare at the driver too. Though I wasn’t involved here but I felt that the driver deserved a stare for being so stupid =D And as I expected, a woman. Another fella driving at 40km/h on the highway, a woman too. A fool driving in the middle of the only 2 lanes to Bukit Tinggi: a woman too. Hey women, you are an embarrassment to our gender la! Especially when you cling on to the steering with your face 2 inches from it. Total embarrassment, can’t you lean back? Why do you need to check on your wipers all the time?? Not asking you to lean all the way back like those boom boom ah bengs but just don’t hold the steering as if you are clinging to it for dear life. Most stupid things are done by women, most of the time it’s those makciks. I think I am qualified to criticize here though my max speed is 80km/h =D Old car ma, and save fuel =P Ok, so those 40km/h people were also saving fuel while kissing their steering! Shikin said I am more ganas than her and Crystal said that I am ‘hiong’, so I think I am a qualified women driver criticizer. Wake up la, you steering clingers (and others) are embarrassing the other females. Am so anti-steering clingers, so uncool.

No more road tales, good riddance.

3. Horrible job applicants
Timmy received these resumes. One addressed him as ‘Hello Dear, I am applying bla bla bla..’ Timmy said “Hello dear? What the heck!”

Another thought he was sending a job application by sms. The whole resume had ‘i m’. Really cekik darah. Not even a capital I and ‘am’. If you were to type it out, wouldn’t it change to a capital I automatically? And the worse part is he still hasn’t heard of this word called ‘my’. He was saying ‘this is i project’ (or something along that idea). Imagine getting ‘i m good looking and this is i project to show you that i m also clever’. Dunno what is his work quality if his English is so bad. Come on, graduated but yet to hear of ‘my’ in your at least 20 years of life? He was from KTAR, that probably says it all.

And now I understand the process and headaches the interviewers go thru, selecting, short-listing and rejecting candidates. It can get annoying too when you have allocated time to interview the candidate but they inform you (sometimes even at the last minute) that they can’t make it.

4. Prize-giving and elections
Took leave yesterday to send my bro to and attend the Majlis Anugerah Kecemerlangan Pendidikan Negeri Selangor Peringkat Daerah Klang 2008. What a long name. Ch’ng Toh Eng, the Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Tetap Multimedia, Alam Sekitar dan Pembangunan Kampung-kampung was there to grace the ceremony. He’s the one rumoured to contest the Klang seat and I’m not voting for him cos he couldn’t keep to the time. Despite the long title, he’s not important at all, whatever the multimedia and kampung heck that he does. And we all had to stand when he arrived. Hey, I might do that if he was Samy Vellu but even Samy Vellu has no excuse to be late.

I never had these ceremonies last time. At first I thought it’s to honour only the best PMR students but everyone with straight As get to go. I was kinda impressed that the state government organized this to reward the students. Then, they announced that each student would be receiving RM200 cash each. Wow! I still consider 200 bucks a large sum of money, what about a Form 4 student? Then I started to wonder if this was an annual event or a special thing to coincide with the elections? Cos Khir Toyo(l)’s face was plastered everywhere and he was mentioned and thanked over and over again, sounds like a hint to me. The VIP said that this has been held for years but a teacher told the kids that they were very fortunate cos this is the first and last year this would be held. Now that confirms my suspicions..

I don’t like Khir Toyo and his botox face, that Ch’ng cos he doesn’t keep to the time and Zakaria for his stupid mansion. It’s gigantic and looks really awkward in the kampung. Oh, so that’s what Ch’ng is involved in-pembangunan kampung. Dibangunkan until became an istana. Felt like throwing something at Zakaria but he chickened out and didn’t show up. But Tan Yee Kew is good cos when we went to the Parliament, she foot our (ACSians) meals =)

Yes, this is the season when everything gets done, true as what they said. Suddenly the little ‘longkang’ at Andalas get filled, the same thing with the hole at the U-turn under the bridge, the holes at Lorong Batu Nilam 1B, the one at the slope down to Bukit Tinggi and even the one up the narrow MPK slope. These have been there for ages. Someone said in The Star that it’s good if we had elections every month or so!


Short thoughts

1. Voting at the elections
Timmy is going all the way back to JB to vote. He’s not that enthusiastic actually, it’s his mum that wants to go. Now that makes me feel ashamed that I did consider not going to vote to avoid the jam, queues and lack of parking. But this is a once-in-5-years opportunity and after so ‘difficultly’ getting old enough to vote, not doing is quite a waste. Think I will take some pics (if allowed to) to mark my first vote!

2. JOY!!!
Managed to get NMedia as my client! Boss had this plan to separate the accounts (previously mentioned before in "Plans made for me"), as in MS will have her own set of clients to visit and I’ll have my own. In the office, it will still be the same as we have to answer all queries but this year onwards, she wanna emphasize on site visits. So why was I fighting for NMedia? Cos.. their office is right beside Timmy’s!! Ngekngekngek.. So finally there is an advantage of a client’s office being right beside Timmy’s. Boss said that MS has the priority to have the clients that she has visited before and NMedia was one of them. But I told myself that I will snatch them back from her no matter what! And I got it!! (Actually she will happily let go of any work. Who wouldn’t?)

Have a feeling that NMedia will be very impressed with the attention and concern they’d be getting from their new contact person. I think my visits there will be so frequent that they’d sing praises of me to my boss. Eh no no no, that’s not a good idea, she’ll smell the rat. I am rat what, which makes me smellier and sneakier =D Anyway, I think I’ll be there for at most 10 minutes per session only =D Already thinking of what to do if boss wanna follow me there. When we leave, I’d pretend to go to the carpark but melesap back into the building =D I know my way well enough already, I think =D Happy.

This is how it should be, companies should find clients that have offices next to their staffs’ partners. Then only will the staff be motivated to work, especially go on visits. The staff is happy cos they get love, the clients are happy cos they seek attention (which they have paid for) too and the company even pays for my pakthor sessions by paying for parking and fuel =D Life is sweet! Will try to sneak in dinner as well cos was ‘socializing with the client’. And hey, there is even a karaoke, spa and swimming pool at the club there! Ooh la la!

3. Weird men and their high requirements
Why do yucky men think so highly of themselves? Read: There are 2 points here. First, they think highly of themselves, which is already an offense. Next, they are yucky, so they should even be thankful if a girl wanna go out with them! 2 examples here: Ronald. Short, round, looks late 30s and we finally found out he was actually only 25 and we all got a shock; carries a schoolbag with a bottle of water at the side pocket even when he goes for lunch and is generally weird both physically and mentally. When people talk about a scene from a movie, he asked why is the apple on the table not eaten?? Even his name is weird =D He left the company cos he had no friends. Debi, his sole friend, also complained something about him.

And with all that weirdness, he has a high definition of beauty and wants only beautiful girls to be his gf. Why, cos his mum is beautiful too. So? Did it ever occur to him that even ugly girls might not want to be his gf? I think he should count his blessings already if an ugly girl wants to go out with him, instead of asking for this and that. And to dictate looks as one of the requirements is pretty shallow, IMO. But ..but..I just found out that he knows tkd! And teaches too! More senior than me some more. But it’s GTF tkd. See? Weird! Debi asked if I said GTF is weird just because Ronald is in it. No! I think anyone from WTF will agree that GTF is weird. Then MS has a friend from the same school and she said Ronald is weird too. Hai..no cure la for this person =D

Another one is James. Happily saying this is ugly, that is fat and he likes girls who wear skirts. Well, we like men who are well, men!!

Think these are all some sort of excuse for not being able to find a partner. When questioned why, they can always say ‘Oh, I have very high taste that not a single woman here fits the bill’. So the problem lies on the lousy women instead of themselves.

As Ah Kun always say to his friends, “Pee a pool of urine and look at yourself in it first” and for severe cases of tak sedar diri, there is
“Poop a lump of shit and see your reflection in it.”
“How to see?”
“You are the shit la!”

That’s all folks, this and Valentine should be enough to keep you satisfied for weeks =D