so i had to reach boon lay at seven-freakin-fifteen am this morning for a short meeting before the first ever stocktake.
which meant waking up at five-plus am...
for someone who has managed to screw up her sleeping habits so that she hibernates from 4am to 3-4pm almost everyday while on leave,
you can imagine the agony this morning.
AND,
the first stocktake just has to be 100% sampling basis.
which means,
you count every bloody damn piece of inventory in the warehouse,
and follow up on every discrepancy noted.
for those who know that company,
whose inventory level is by the hundreds for their hundreds of products,
that is really no joke ><
no wonder the entire team at it was twelve-men strong...
*
listened to one of the sweetest love stories ever :)
it just made me go "awww" and people on the bus must have thought there was this crazy woman smiling to herself almost the whole journey back.
春を抱いていた.
for those who understand japanese, go find it~
for those who don't, well then, too bad =X
*
2007's ending.
and what have i achieved?
time of the year again;
and this year really flew past.
January:
last of the 5 months in manchester:
memories of slacking in green court 3's common room while studying for exams and playing in the snow that night are really fond memories.
February:
back to reality in ntu. start of that last horror semester, coupled with manchester withdrawal symptoms.
March:
busy with projects and schoolwork. really grateful for all the help received :)
April:
lowest point of the year. finals.
and that 6-hour phonecall from aussie, which left me very frustrated and buried in self-doubt. so much so that i kinda let go mid-month onwards ><
May:
first thing was to get rid of anything that resembled academia. lazed around and mahjonged alot.
japan 2007: one of the best trips everrrrrrr.
June:
insane amount of shopping to get ready for work.
almost picked up the new hobby which would have drained me financially.
genting with the dad, who taught me about almost every game in the casino :)
July:
convocation, which was a waste of time really.
started work and started getting used to stuff- in particular covered shoes.
August:
latest ever recorded time at work: 6am, but with the nicest group of seniors around.
made plans for october which eventually fell through :(
September:
start of the 3.5 month job which caused lots and lots of misery and frustration to the entire team initially :X
unit trip at krabi where i got to know more people in the department.
October:
turned 22; and the initial plan was to watch V6 in concert on that very day, but sadly fell through at the last minute.
inocchi announced his marriage which brought an onslaught of comments and speculations in the japanese media industry.
first time at zouk: company event.
November:
terrible month at work. late nights, unvent anger and grouses.. you name it.
got my first credit card and blew half a month's paycheck on three luxury items and the other half on the exam in June 2008.
December:
JLPT2. demoralized.
switched engagements and made a couple of good friends~
long leave :)
wasn't the best year but was indeed a year of many new experiences and new things learnt.
was the year i made the most good friends and for the first time, thought:
maybe,
keeping problems to yourself all the time may not be the best way to live after all.
all in all, i'm just happy to be outta school :)
the s24 christmas party at yf's house was quite a successful one, considering the attendance :)
caught up with people who otherwise i wouldn't have had an opportunity to.
did the usual;
had takeaway pizza, played taboo, gift exchange and drinking games.
okay, drinking game wasn't the usual but everyone had fun, which was the main point.
the only lament was that why didn't anyone live in the same vicinty as me?
rides home are always boring alone, plus the fact that i waited close to half an hour at the deserted tpy central bus stop for NR1, which proceeded to crawl back to the destination at an estimated 40km/h at 4plus in the morning.
sigh.
*
i keep searching for answers i cannot find
yet i always find new questions that need answers
even if i do
they are not ones i accept
sometimes i find a few
but then they lead on to many more questions
to end up in circles over and over again
i still don't know the root of all these
the main piece of the ever-expanding jigsaw
will this ever end
or will this infinte spiral continue
i don't know.
i need answers but i don't know where to get it.
i want answers but i'm not up to facing it.
i have answers but i want better ones.
i find answers but doubt their reliability.
.escapism.confusion.
in the true form of the words.
今回、FNS 2007 歌謡祭はとてもよかったと思っている。
いつものゲストはほとんど来たり、いい曲ばかりを歌ったり、ある人たちもバカな面を見てたり、面白かった。
今年あまり音楽界のことを知らないのに、この番組を誰をどんな曲を作れたり、歌ったりしたがよく分かりました。
でも、この年間何もミスしたことないと思えるだけど。
特に、ジャニーズのをKinKi KidsとV6以外だれも興味あまりないし、彼らのことをときどき調べて、ニュースをちゃんとキップ・アップという訳で、何も期待しないんです。
しかし、そのを話して、またいい番組ですね。
本当に年末を来たことを気づいてた。。。
V6の新曲をめちゃ好きで、番組を見た後、もっと好きになれる。
ステージのバックも、曲のアレンジも、全てを足すと、全パーケージを一番だと思います。
ではまず、スクリーンカップを参りましょう：
okay, so its finally here... despite just getting home from the office, i feel totally awake and bouncy o.O
saying goodbye to bank audit for the next half year.. while i tackle automobile and electronics specifically :)
time to put my life in order;
reorganize my office materials, put up the 2008 calendar, put away the JLPT2 books (although i haven't CONFIRMED i passed it yet), and take out the CFA curriculum.
so many things to do within 10 days.
the next time i'm going on long leave will be yet another half year away in july. that time, it'll be a month(!!)
met the anderson girls on sunday though.. although i had to leave early for work yet again.
sigh, at times like this, i really wish deadlines didn't exist :(
but the swarovski mouse was really pretty (although i don't know whether its real crystals);
small and flat to easily slip into my laptop bag yays~
thanks serene :)
wrote the possibly most honest entry to date in the private blog;
when i was half dead after working till 1am four nights in a row last night
and i realise the hidden truth behind someone's somewhat casual remark several days ago.
its really me thats the problem.
no excuses.
blogging is really energy-sapping-
time to replenish that three weeks of lost slumber.
nights.
department christmas party wasn't really much of a party;
probably because i reached at almost 9pm when people were starting to get high and drunk.
and prolly because my secret santa presented me with a really useless gift ><
am almost sure it's a guy who doesn't know me personally-
shall check it out with xt tmr~~
o wells, at least it wasn't earrings, which almost a third of the females received.
left early but drove to macs at tpy later for supper and some catching up;
as usual, it was bitching about the seniors (okay, only in my case) and gossiping about the others.
been refusing to admit that my life's been taken over by audit but after realizing the following, its almost really the case.
x i haven't watched ANY japanese variety show since late august, not even downloaded anything to put off watching.
x part of cooling off the above was due to catching up on anime, but when i realise i haven't watched anything japanese for the past six weeks.. that's a REAL feat.
x i have no idea how the oricon charts have been performing since july.
x i haven't turned on my fujitsu for at least a week, nor checked my hotmail; when i reach home, i just wash up and sleep.
x cabfares with midnight surcharges have been constantly hitting three digits for the past few fortnights.
x i have not met, nor caught up with anyone who isn't from the company the past three weeks before the short hanging out session at giraffe and dinner at hans after work.
x the ultimate: V6 released a single two days ago and i just knew minutes ago, when previously i'd have memorized the lyrics to bits at least a week before release.
9 hours to the office in hong leong building.
kill me please.
along with letters of credit, concepts of refinancing and discounting of those, related suspense accounts and banker's guarantees.
as promised; although i know my taste isn't exactly impeccable-
am very very tired-
after the working weekend, been working till almost 11 since monday, and this is likely to continue till next weds.
yes, even during the coming weekend.
i hate you, trade finance T_T
out with stella and her friends just now;
although was only foodcourt fare and chilling out with beer at giraffe.
simple night but probably exactly what i needed to keep me sane.
working tomorrow and on sunday.
well well.
home @ 3pm on a weekday!
not because i took leave but the senior asked me take a half day off in lieu of the coming weekend where i will be working on BOTH days -.-
sigh.
that's the problem with a company with insufficient headcount;
u get thrown from one job to another like a puppet-
after you've served your purpose for a certain engagement, you're thrown out to the next waiting one WITHOUT rest.
many grouses about work but i'm just going to shut up and take what's coming my way;
u can't win against the company anyway ><
AND i've decided not to go for the D&D although it falls on 29th dec when i'm clearing my leave...
accidentally destroyed one of my mp3 DVDs-
lost ALL of l'arc~en~ciel, ai otsuka, mr. children and glay's music.
me is a sad girl :(
*counting down: 2 weeks*
today's paper at the japanese school in west coast... was demoralizing towards the end =/
the reading/grammar section had 9 freaking comprehension passages!!
of course i knew this beforehand, but there's a difference between doing it at home and in the classroom with someone sitting opposite you finishing the paper 15 mins before time when i didn't even have time to finish =(
and when you start off reading two A4 pages of japanese characters for the first two passages, the characters start to blend into each other towards the end;
where they make you read half an A4 page of characters for ONE question that asks you to choose the option that best summarizes the passage.
with topics like the different perspectives on education, psyche of certain types of people, environment problems and literary stuff.
argh *needs to start reading japanese newspapers*
well, despite time spent on grammar (the ratio to vocab is 10:1),
i still CANNOT do it properly sigh. whereas for vocab i have confidence for full marks.. SIGH.
*
other stuff:
my ipod (henceforth known as sephiria) is pretty! will post pictures of it when i receive my skins from ebay;
and the watch they got for me is wayyyy cool :D
speaking of which, doing up my finances the other day was a real reality check.
not blaming the new presence of the credit card, but $X,XXX within a month is really TOO much dammit.
NO shopping till next year!but me still wants the new shunya yamashita artwork
bleah.
had the house to myself the past two nights which i like.
no parents to complain about the volume of your music;
no inquiries as to why you reach home so late every night (yes, the parents are wondering is there SO much work to do since i reach home at an average time of 11pm);
no comments on why your room is so messy when you spend so little time in it;
blah blah.
of course their presence is invaluable,
but once in a while feels good.
coming back from hk tonight though; with my shopping that cost me a bomb (ipod;cds;watch;krispykremes) yays~
and the sis, who is also coming back after disappearing after her exams ended on wednesday -_-
pulled out of the clients' yesterday after three months-
but will spend the next week tying up loose ends and finalizing the financials for the branch;
before a short stint with another american bank at the manager's request.
november was horrible.
let's hope it was the worst.