One Night Only

As the title explains, 'one night only' for a birthday ... I spent the night before my birthday with Sonia and Sham at Midvalley Megamall !!! We had dinner at Chillis which was entirely paid by Sham and caught a movie, Dreamgirls. Dreamgirls was a good movie, except the weird singing interruptions in between conversations. People literally sighed everytime someone begun singing about every single thing. If it was real life, I'd be singing to my spoon about my dinner plate !!! My present of the day was from Sonia, a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch. It's so freaking beautiful !!! I love it !!! It's strap is brownish leather and has three dials within the watch for the day, date and temperature ... ! She couldn't wait to give it to me so the moment I saw her, she thrusted the watch into my hands at Coffee Bean !!!

Today was another fun day. I was supposed to go karaoke-ing with Debbi and Michelle but unfortunately Debbi wasn't feeling well. Most probably affected by jet lag after flying back from South Korea ! So, Michelle and I decided to go shopping !! I got my first jacket and a grey t-shirt with red velvet writing emblazoned across it ! The writing is acually an old method taught by British English teachers to write the letters of the alphabet properly ! It was "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" Who knew ? My mom did !

So far my present list is;

1. a Rolex watch
2. Money, Money, Money
3. a pair of Sneakers
4. famous Amos Cookies
5. a Jacket
6. more MoneyMoney, Money !!!

Yesterday, I had my first visitor at Peter Hoe ! It was See Man !!! She dropped by to check out the place whilst waiting for her brother to finish tuition classes ! It was good to see a familiar face around !!!

I'm so tired, yesterday's and today's outing has left me beat ! I was so tired, I was dozing off in the first half of Mass today !!! Head lolling from to right and all !!! So embarrassing !!!

-conRad-

A Working Dilemma . . .

At my last job, I felt like I was part of the team, at Peter Hoe I feel very out of place. I don't know how to do many things, I don't know how to bubble wrap stuff, I don't know how to gift wrap stuff, I don't know how to work the cash machine, I don't know how to fold the clothes on sale and I don't know how to set displays, basically I don't know much ! Even the people I work with seem a little distant . . . it's just weird . . . I'm very out of place ! I don't want to wake up every morning and say to myself "Oh crap ! Work again !" and right now, this is exactly how I feel. I'm trying to give it time, trying to adapt and I am adapting, it's just that the staff there isn't adapting to me. I am playful at times and I joke a lot, these people are not like that. Yes, they joke and play but I am not part of it, sometimes I just happened to be there. These people have been work mates for years and so they have a bond, adding me into their circle is taking a long long time . . . aih ! It's like first day at a new school again . . . ! It's so true 'High School Never Ends'

On Saturday I had a family reunion dinner. My aunt is Chinese and so we celebrated the Chinese New Year with her. It was pretty funny. My uncle insisted we were all Chinese on that day and so the radio was tuned in to a Chinese station ( unfortunately, it wasn't playing any new year songs ) and on TV, we watched Kung Fu Hustle !!! When it was time to toss the 'Yee Sang' everyone ( as usual ) had a chopstick to do it , even the young children ! As we started tossing, the young one's thought that 'tossing' meant 'throwing it out of the dish' !!! The table and floor had more than a quarter of the yee sang !!! We had a good time, laughing, talking, and watching Kung Fu Hustle for the hundredth time . . . My favourite moment ? Getting the 'Ang Pau', although not much as others might usually get, but money is still money !!!

Sunday and today as everyone knows is a public holiday because of the Chinese New Year. My parents took this opportunity to go to Melaka to visit my grandmother. I didn't follow as they would return on the day when work resumes. So, I am home alone. Now I know I can live by myself ! I did the laundry, the cleaning and everything by myself. Although, it is very boring but I managed to keep myself entertained or distracted from the boredom ! If I could just kill my stupid dog !!! The only thing I know I wont do if I live alone is getting a damn dog !!! Lucky ( my stupid dog ) woke me up early in the morning, made a mess near my parents bedroom and threw up in the living room !!! I hate that dog !!! Ugh . . . !

I'm dreading to go to work tomorrow . . . I hope everything will be fine ! Peter has a tendency to give more work than what acually needs to be done sometimes, and the new shipment of products came in on Saturday !!! I'm guessing it's going to be a busy busy day tomorrow . . . !

Looks like I'm going to have another dull birthday this year because I'm working and don't have much time to celebrate ! At least I'm off on Saturday from working ( that's my birthday ) !!! Humph . . . ! Oh Well !

"Happy Birthday to me ! Happy Birthday to me ! Happy Birthday to . . . "

-conRad-

Chip Revenge

Many of you know that the past 6 months has left this particular blog high and dry. No sign of revival, no posts about the 'going on's of life and no, well, CONRAD !

For the past 6 months, my favourite drug, the internet, was taken away. The already dead computer, just laid in my room mocking me each time I look at it. My dad just delayed and delayed and delayed on repairing the damn thing !

Ah ! well, I now have a new job. I'll be working at Peter Hoe Evolution ( a boutique below Kasturi tuition centre in the Lee Rubber Building near Petaling Street !). I am so freaking nervous ! I have no idea why though ? It's just that I'm scared that I'll not catch up, not fit in, make Peter Hoe himself angry and fire me ... the list just travels on ... I love the place ! I've always side tracked to the boutique on the way up to tuition ! Ask Denise, Suzanne, Stephanie, Sonia and Raveena !!! They all know how much I like going in there ! Maybe that's why, the reason I'm so afraid of screwing up, I like the place too much ! Aaahhh ! Wish me luck ! Cross your fingers and toes and limbs and if possible, cross your bodies too !!!

My previous job ( which I did not tell Peter about ), I was an ' Advertising Trainee ' ( they so eloquently put it ! ) at an advertising agency in Taman Connaught ( has a branch up in Kelana Jaya and opening a new one soon in Puchong ! ). The manager of that company cleverly lured me into the company saying that;

1. I was the last person given this opportunity ( after 2 days or so, he hired 4 more people )
2. It was for charity ( I was bustling around tables in every major centre [ for about 10 hours a day] where people congregated during lunch hours to convince them to donate to the Spastic Children Association of the Federal Territory and Selangor by purchasing a green car sticker at the price of RM10 )
3. That the thing I was doing ( see num. 2 ) would only last for 2 months ( it does not !!! )
4. That this thing was to run till July 2007 ( it was supposed to end in December 2006 !!! )
5. That all the money I collect goes to the organization ( it does not, after 2 days of successful sales they changed my salary structure to profit sharing and promoted me to team leader in 6 days. Meaning, 20% from all my sales becomes my salary after every 7 days ! ... Not only that, I found out that the manager gets 30% out of everyone's sales ... my company has 2 managers !!! ... How much do you think the organization gets ??? )

Honestly, I should've seen right through the manager's motives but gaining so much profit kinda made me not realize things way sooner !

Things between my dad and I are still not good. He still insist that I shouldn't do Mass Communication. ( Ugh !!! It drives me crazy ) He also hates things that I take an interest to ! I currently am taking yoga, it's painful but cool ( painfully-cool ), but my dad hates that I'm spending my time doing yoga. He hates the fact that I'm not all bothered about how people may comment on the things I like to do ( he gets shy to tell people I'm his son, last time I took up dance classes, that too made him embarrassed ) It's not my fault his friends are so close minded !!! I like to try new things. Isn't that called LIVING ... and not regretting ???!!!

So many things more to talk about but I'd rather not. These are the things that happened in the past 6 months;

1. My grandmother passed away during the STPM exams ( she passed away on the airplane back from Philippines in the LCCT )
2. I went for a meeting that I didn't know was very alike Amway !!!
3. Spent New Year's eve in Jalan P. Ramlee with Joanne, her friends, Sonia and Buzzy ( I walked into 4 clubs, paid only for two ! )
4. Wished Fariza goodbye at KLIA ( she's now in Egypt studying medicine and has an Egyptian boyfriend ! )
5. Wished Loy Yang Goodbye at KLIA and a few other places with different friends ( He went off to Australia to further his studies too )
6. Gone out too many times with Sonia
7. Went karaoke-ing with Debbi and Michelle ( that was fun ... all the funny songs we sang [ the fast food song and my humps ] the cacat remote control that made the volume way too loud, the good food, the Kampai I drank and made funny faces ... )

Since the computer has been fixed, I have been on it way too long ... I think I should stop !

PS : click the green 'Yoga' and it links to Yogazone, where I do yoga !

-conRad-