day 2 at work

day 1 was a corporate induction for all trainees, mainly targeted at the undergrad interns. (they have to go thru written tests and a 2 hrs interview before being selected for internship at RR). um.....they are from places like oxford and imperial, and i was the second oldest in the batch! (the oldest is my fellow trainee)

the most interesting thing i saw today was a really ancient looking lift that doesnt stop. think of the normal lifts u see. remove the "external" lift doors, and u see the hollow space where the lift will move up and down in. then imagine a box moving up at a constant speed. that's the lift. so i see a hole in the wall, and a constantly-moving lift. u have to be really nimble, coz u can only get on and off the lift when the opening of the moving lift coincides with the opening in the wall.
seems like the less-than-nimble folks have no choice but to take the stairs......

anyway at supermarkets, the cashier is only responsible for scanning the barcodes and receiving payment. the customer has to bag the things himself while the cashier just sits there and wait for the next customer to come. the aunty/singaporean part of me thought: "wahhh.....i can bag my own things? let's use a few more bags so can re-use as rubbish bags when i get home."

turns out that the bags have holes punched in them!!! so they cant directly be used as wet waste bags. wil have to line the bottom of the bags with newspaper or something. but we havent got old newspaper as well.....so......

summer = 15 deg at 12pm

damn cold here!!!!!!

a million and one things to do/say/take pic
but my fingers are damn frozen and i cant type properly.

bought a bike and cycled from the city centre to my home

gosh wat a nightmare!!!

the entire trip can be described as abt 35 min of fast paced road cycling. and half of that is up steep slopes. i stopped several times when i couldnt pedal anymore. as i am typing, my thigh muscles and hand muscles are twitching due to cold and fatigue........

took pics of my neighbourhood but am too tired to upload.....will do so when i dont need to cook dinner/breakfast/lunch. got to iron clothes, wash dishes, clean the room, split bills etc....wahhhhhhhhhhhh

just wanna sleep ah.....................................

(there are so many fullstops in the prev line coz i cant stop my finger from shivering.)

frens romans countrymen

this is possibly my last blog from sg for a considerable length of time....

the dominant feeling now is that of sadness, coz i havent been away from frens and home for any comparable periods such as this. i should be really excited though. =|

i guess i will be once i get onto the plane, and pray that the 2 engines dont experience inflight shut down (IFSD). or that at most only one will. =P but that's after i get thru the check-in counter with my approx 50kg of stuff. pls let the duty manager be nice and not charge me a single cent for excess luggage. at this moment, my parents are throwing themselves heart and soul into buying a bathroom scale so that we can estimate the weight of the luggage and take the necessary weight-saving actions. i'm not kidding.

(i'm so gonna cry at the airport later)

cheerio......!

coming soon

i just received news yesterday that my work permit has been approved, and once it is couriered over to sg on mon, i can apply for visas, sign the contract, get my air ticket and fly off....

but right now i;m totally bogged by things to do and buy, and also trying to meet up with my various grps of frens just before i leave. suddenly it feels like i am tying up loose ends just before i die....

=|

it's a little morbid to compare leaving for overseas training with dying...but i really cant get that thought out of my head...

sigh... i'm so gg to miss everyone and sg and the food and the buses.....

interesting

it's really interesting to see how my office's politics can change so drastically in weeks, like who is pledging allegiance to another person, etc. of course, all this is none of my concern, even after my manager casually dropped a comment that "you guys will be back from derby"....

anyway, the main thing is that i am typing all this from my new laptop!!! i just bought a acer 5562 laptop to bring to derby and i'm busy installing updates etc. will need some SUBSTANCE from my bro in law to make my laptop really usable. =P

anyway, i am a bit disappointed, coz the screen suddenly looks really small and i feel like i have to squint to look at the words. (it's a 14-inch) btw.... i'll figure some way out. anyway it's 2.3k for 1 gb ram and 100gb hdd plus free 1gb thumbdrive.....not really complaining hehe.. =P

i'm inclined to get an ixus 60 soon, but not from the IT fair. there is a camera shop in toa payoh / ang mo kio which gives much better prices plus the standard free gifts as well! =)