i can tell u tis took me almost whole day to get prepared! i've to iron my dress, trim n paint my nails, take a nap to recharge my energy, go to de salon @ bukit merah central to do my hair, do my own make-up, b4 i'm really 4 de nite! but i'm so satisfied tt i oni spent $10 bucks 4 tis nite! (which is 4 my hair).
my gals were really transformed! they looked so different! so attractive! de mcee was entertaining, n de food was gd. but i still feel slightly disappointing. tink it's bcoz whole time even thou there're games 4 everyone, we need not be totally involved. n there's no dance floor too! so most of de pple were only bz taking pics, having food, play/watch games sometimes, n later either go home or chill out. it's really quite lyk throwing a wedding banquet. but i will not let my wedding banquet be tis ordinary (provided if i can throw 1, hehe...)
aft tt, we went pubbing w/ brandon n his gang. i tot tis is smthng i can look forward to, but was kinda disappointing when i learnt tt we're gg to clark quay! alrite, mebbe it's bcoz i've been there so often tt i hope tt we were not gg there, mebbe i was expecting to be brought to somewhere i'm not familiar w/. n wat's more disappointing was they chose to go to forbidden city! thou i've nvr been inside there b4, i noe 4 sure it's not gonna be fun inside, n de drinks were ex too! y not choose fashion bar, clinic, or even the pump rm? these places look more interesting... i dun mind gg into MOS too! @ least i can c pple dance, or even get involved myself!
indeed, we sat inside forbidden city, chose our drinks, stare blankly ard, no entertainment except 4 de loud music tt was so disturbing tt we needed to speak loudly. n whole time i realized jianyi juz sat @ a corner, refused to order any drinks, tinking tt tis pl is demonic. i felt quite bad 4 her not enjoying tis @ all. actly none of us enjoyed tt pl.
aft tt, we walked back to our hotel @ marina mandarin, n tt took us almost half an hr. by de time we reached, our feet were hurting. n everyone of us were so tired tt we oni had time to clean ourselves up b4 everyone fell asleep. din even haf a chance to haf a chit chat or play card games. sob sob...
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Promotion Dinner @ FULLERTON!
actly tis promo dinner organized by my unit was held on July 26, 2007, which was a thurs. it's supposed to be a buffet dinner to celebrate many of my colleagues' promotion (n of coz they'll be de ones forking out de $$ for tis celebration), but dunno y somehow it turned out to be a time to sabo de newbies!
yupz, n i'm among 1 of de newbies. we were asked to stand in front of de crowd, intro ourselves, then they asked us to choose a paper which has various qns written on it, n if we cant ans de qn, we'll haf to drink! thou i got it rite, they still force me to drink! anyway, de whole process was a torture coz we, de gals, were wearing heels, n yet we haf to stand 4 2 plus hrs! argh, my feet was hurting...
then 2 of my colleagues, yee mei n chanatda, were a bit dipsy. some more they were living in de east w/ no one else accompanying them. luckily their conditions were not really tt bad, so can still manage to go home.
isnt tis introduction session kinda boring? can they change tis "tradition"? n not let everyone has a chance to intro themselves too? it's not as if we knew them well too...
yupz, n i'm among 1 of de newbies. we were asked to stand in front of de crowd, intro ourselves, then they asked us to choose a paper which has various qns written on it, n if we cant ans de qn, we'll haf to drink! thou i got it rite, they still force me to drink! anyway, de whole process was a torture coz we, de gals, were wearing heels, n yet we haf to stand 4 2 plus hrs! argh, my feet was hurting...
then 2 of my colleagues, yee mei n chanatda, were a bit dipsy. some more they were living in de east w/ no one else accompanying them. luckily their conditions were not really tt bad, so can still manage to go home.
isnt tis introduction session kinda boring? can they change tis "tradition"? n not let everyone has a chance to intro themselves too? it's not as if we knew them well too...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
I've finally GRADUATED!!!
Yupz, aft 3 yrs of struggling to survive, i've finally managed to say sayonara to my alma mater. now tinking back, i really miss it. i've had my fun there afterall. i've made lotsa good frenz there. i've experienced exchange program all thx to ntu. i've tried an exotic sport, which is FENCING! wow, come to tink of it, i've had so many 1st times sacrificed there! including my 1st time giving speech to more than 1000 students on stage. i'm gonna be missing it so much...
2dae's my convocation. too bad my honey cant make it here to @ least take pic w/ me due to her internship. @ 1st got my mum n aunt to de ceremony. but my aunt suddenly got sick. so i got my cousin to go. tot of asking my bro to go, but he got class, n he told me he wun pon sch bcoz of me. but still, when we juz reached de sch, he still bothered to gimme a call n told me he's gonna be pon-ing! actly i'm very happy @ heart, coz tis shows @ least he still cares 4 his family. but i shall keep tis as a secret from him.
i tot we were early, but when we reached there, i came to realized there were so many pple, n we got so much things to do, n time is nvr enuf! i needed to get my bro an extra tix, n i oso had problem wearing my gown. it's very troublesome to wear! u've to make sure it's centralized, n need to hook my motar to 1 of my buttons, n need to add safety pin to my gown, n oso haf to stablize my hat. wow, din noe it takes ages to get all these done b4 i can come out to take pics. n luckily my mum got an extra tix 4 my bro.
b4 i came back fr de confusion, i was in de auditorium, seated, n waited to be called up n be given my cert. de whole process was very quick. de chancellor gave de cert to de phd n masters, n our dean of accountancy gave us, de accountancy grads, our certs. every person's name being called up, n we were oni given a board to put our cert! @ 1st i was very tired due to waiting, but when it came to be my turn, i was rather nervous, almost to de stage of black-out. luckily everything's over...
well, wat's waiting 4 me next? hopefully i'll be doing my mba or phd here, so tt i can oso get to enjoy wearing de phd hat tt looks lyk wat we c in harry potter series!
2dae's my convocation. too bad my honey cant make it here to @ least take pic w/ me due to her internship. @ 1st got my mum n aunt to de ceremony. but my aunt suddenly got sick. so i got my cousin to go. tot of asking my bro to go, but he got class, n he told me he wun pon sch bcoz of me. but still, when we juz reached de sch, he still bothered to gimme a call n told me he's gonna be pon-ing! actly i'm very happy @ heart, coz tis shows @ least he still cares 4 his family. but i shall keep tis as a secret from him.
i tot we were early, but when we reached there, i came to realized there were so many pple, n we got so much things to do, n time is nvr enuf! i needed to get my bro an extra tix, n i oso had problem wearing my gown. it's very troublesome to wear! u've to make sure it's centralized, n need to hook my motar to 1 of my buttons, n need to add safety pin to my gown, n oso haf to stablize my hat. wow, din noe it takes ages to get all these done b4 i can come out to take pics. n luckily my mum got an extra tix 4 my bro.
b4 i came back fr de confusion, i was in de auditorium, seated, n waited to be called up n be given my cert. de whole process was very quick. de chancellor gave de cert to de phd n masters, n our dean of accountancy gave us, de accountancy grads, our certs. every person's name being called up, n we were oni given a board to put our cert! @ 1st i was very tired due to waiting, but when it came to be my turn, i was rather nervous, almost to de stage of black-out. luckily everything's over...
well, wat's waiting 4 me next? hopefully i'll be doing my mba or phd here, so tt i can oso get to enjoy wearing de phd hat tt looks lyk wat we c in harry potter series!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
I've finally stepped into my next chapter of life!
i'm really so sorry 4 not updating my blog. i noe i've gotta kick tis lazy habit of mine. alrite, lyk wat u've seen on de title, yupz, finally started work! actly, to be exact, i've started on july 4, 2007. so on de 1st 2 days, we had an orientation @ the legends @ fort canning. @ 1st i tot we gonna be having some picnic there when i heard fort canning. haha. but anyway, din do much over there except kept listening to pple fr diff depts giving talks. it's really lyk drilling de kpmg culture into ur brain! besides, we've had so many breaks in b/w n each time when we haf break there's gonna be some "light" refreshments. tink kpmg's gonna be feeding us to turn fat!
we received our trolley on our 1st day there. n i'm lyk, my goodness! here we r @ fort canning, n since u wun be providing transport back, y bother to give us de trolley here! how r we gonna be carrying back home?
on thurs we had a game to play. we've to pretend tt we r de kpmg staff setting up booths to attract de "students" who r in fact our managers! to me, i din quite enjoy it. de gals were hiding behind me, while out of de 3 guys, 1 was hiding behind de board while de other 2 were giving such serious talks thru'out tt i wud be scared away if i were de student. obviously none of them has sales experience b4, or else they wun be in tis industry! haha, but tt doesn't apply to me! it's obvious tt i've more sales experience as compared to them, n tis is all thx to de various temp jobs i've done in de past! come to tink of it, i really miss being a student n working different temp jobs during each holis.
@ nite, we had dinner w/ our managers. there i noticed there's tis oni guy joining same unit as me who's so irritating tt i dun tink i can get along w/ him well, somemore he's not speaking clearly, such tt i've to ask him to repeat again n again. he's very self-centred, n he tot tt he knows everything in de dept juz bcoz he's been here during internship. u could c tt even 1 of de managers cant stand him. in tt case, y bother to ask him to return aft his internship?
last wk we had a 1 wk training. it's to impart us w/ de audit methodology. de whole session was seminar-based, n we were divided into grps. i was in an all gals team n we gave our grp a name called SG (stands for "singapore gals")! n we got tt idea from spice gals! we were very active coz we were afraid to do forfeit if we turn out to be de last! so much so tt we even managed to influenced 1 of de gals in another team to shout our our name when we compete to ans qns! haha, tt's a really funny 1! luckily we manage to come in 3rd out of 8 teams.
so ytd was then considered my official 1st day of work, n many of us were nervous to know wat will we be doing. i was asked to do stat audit w/ 1 other newbie. n de reason y i was asked to do so is bcoz de senior managed to find out tt i've done it b4. we tot tt we could go outfield early so as to complete job early. but de senior was late to reach office n brief us. then later, she went ard de office asking if there's anyone who want us to do de same thing 4 them since we're gg outfield looking for de same client. n indeed, we were given so much to do tt 2 hrs past b4 we could really step out of de office. actly it's nth really much, except to do typist job there. n as expected, we din manage to finish all de tasks given to us.
even tis irritating guy haf to come into de scene when we went outfield. when we reached there, de lady in chg of us there was saying 1 of our colleagues haf reached n doing de same thing 4 de same co as us, n it turned out to be him! i mean, if he could haf told us tt he's coming here, we wouldn't be so embarrassed in front of de lady! besides, according to jeya, apparently, de senior din send him there, but he got other task to do. really cant stand him acting smart.
as 4 de others, they finally managed to get sth to do aft our very experienced typist, pat seah, gave de seniors a lecture. she told them tt even if they let us read their audit files we'r able to learn sth out of it, n de managers laugh upon hearing tt. btw, tis pat seah is famous 4 having a loud n sharp voice tt de whole office will be able to hear it.
we had another training 2dae, n tis 1 is on biz etiquette. de instructor was very funny n lyk mr bean. but u can c he's oso a very strict person who sticks to his beliefs. anyway, tis was a successful seminar.
i'm gonna be doing de same stat audit tmr. hopefully will be able to finish it quick!
we received our trolley on our 1st day there. n i'm lyk, my goodness! here we r @ fort canning, n since u wun be providing transport back, y bother to give us de trolley here! how r we gonna be carrying back home?
on thurs we had a game to play. we've to pretend tt we r de kpmg staff setting up booths to attract de "students" who r in fact our managers! to me, i din quite enjoy it. de gals were hiding behind me, while out of de 3 guys, 1 was hiding behind de board while de other 2 were giving such serious talks thru'out tt i wud be scared away if i were de student. obviously none of them has sales experience b4, or else they wun be in tis industry! haha, but tt doesn't apply to me! it's obvious tt i've more sales experience as compared to them, n tis is all thx to de various temp jobs i've done in de past! come to tink of it, i really miss being a student n working different temp jobs during each holis.
@ nite, we had dinner w/ our managers. there i noticed there's tis oni guy joining same unit as me who's so irritating tt i dun tink i can get along w/ him well, somemore he's not speaking clearly, such tt i've to ask him to repeat again n again. he's very self-centred, n he tot tt he knows everything in de dept juz bcoz he's been here during internship. u could c tt even 1 of de managers cant stand him. in tt case, y bother to ask him to return aft his internship?
last wk we had a 1 wk training. it's to impart us w/ de audit methodology. de whole session was seminar-based, n we were divided into grps. i was in an all gals team n we gave our grp a name called SG (stands for "singapore gals")! n we got tt idea from spice gals! we were very active coz we were afraid to do forfeit if we turn out to be de last! so much so tt we even managed to influenced 1 of de gals in another team to shout our our name when we compete to ans qns! haha, tt's a really funny 1! luckily we manage to come in 3rd out of 8 teams.
so ytd was then considered my official 1st day of work, n many of us were nervous to know wat will we be doing. i was asked to do stat audit w/ 1 other newbie. n de reason y i was asked to do so is bcoz de senior managed to find out tt i've done it b4. we tot tt we could go outfield early so as to complete job early. but de senior was late to reach office n brief us. then later, she went ard de office asking if there's anyone who want us to do de same thing 4 them since we're gg outfield looking for de same client. n indeed, we were given so much to do tt 2 hrs past b4 we could really step out of de office. actly it's nth really much, except to do typist job there. n as expected, we din manage to finish all de tasks given to us.
even tis irritating guy haf to come into de scene when we went outfield. when we reached there, de lady in chg of us there was saying 1 of our colleagues haf reached n doing de same thing 4 de same co as us, n it turned out to be him! i mean, if he could haf told us tt he's coming here, we wouldn't be so embarrassed in front of de lady! besides, according to jeya, apparently, de senior din send him there, but he got other task to do. really cant stand him acting smart.
as 4 de others, they finally managed to get sth to do aft our very experienced typist, pat seah, gave de seniors a lecture. she told them tt even if they let us read their audit files we'r able to learn sth out of it, n de managers laugh upon hearing tt. btw, tis pat seah is famous 4 having a loud n sharp voice tt de whole office will be able to hear it.
we had another training 2dae, n tis 1 is on biz etiquette. de instructor was very funny n lyk mr bean. but u can c he's oso a very strict person who sticks to his beliefs. anyway, tis was a successful seminar.
i'm gonna be doing de same stat audit tmr. hopefully will be able to finish it quick!
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