seeing double

while most working people have their eyes glued to one one screen...i have to stare at two. and now i have four!!! win liao. i only have one pair of eyes. alot of times, i can't even find my mouse cursor lor. haha. oh well...work's been fine so far. i've been trying to "appear to be more serious" at work. apparently, i haven't been that successful yet. hmm... but at least i haven't been rocking my chair and biting my nails at work now! haha.

too young to be matured, too old to be childish

you know how some people start to turn all haggard and old once they start working and that soon they look much older than they actually are?...

heh, but today, when i was at SuperCuts...the lady said to me: "now we have special promotion for students, 30% discount for chemical services" hahahahaha........yes! i convincingly passed off as a student!

while the hairstylist was cutting my hair... he said "so which poly you from?" and i was like..."no lah, i'm in uni"...and he said "huh?! i wanted to ask which secondary school you from! but since you asked for hair colour then you can't be in sec sch lah.."

ok...now this worries me. i don't think it's a good thing when i'm 25 yrs old, already working and someone still thinks i look like a sec sch student. I DONT WANT LAH! even the boss told me that i should try to behave like i'm serious.

ok, as of monday...I WILL SHOW THEM THE SERIOUS SIDE OF ME! let's start off by... stop biting my fingernails!! stop rocking the chair!! stop eating twisties!! haha take snacks from pantry also must take those "matured looking" snacks. twisties? cannot! too childish!

just act like you know

and so...i will not have to sit beside the boss from tomorrow onwards. another new hire will sit beside her. but the boss got me to be at another desk which is now even further from the heart of all the action! gosh, this is sad. haha.

actually come to think of it, i like sitting beside the boss. got sense of security lah, as in you know you're sitting beside a walking encyclopedia and she gives you the ten year series kind of answers providing solution to all my problems. haha.

but now that i'm not exactly the new, new person in the department, i think i better stop asking her too many questions. i've seen how she said this to my senior: "i don't understand why you are asking me this now because you should have known better!" (ok to be fair to the boss...that senior asked a pretty dumb question lah..so he abit orr bee good to be scolded hahaha)

i was like.....hmm...see, that's going to be me on the receiving end next time. haha. so my strategy now is, just act like you know first...then flip those damn textbooks frantically later when no one's watching you! yes!

NABEH! SIBEH SUAY!

guess what? i failed yet another test in BB today lah!!!! and the most upsetting thing was, i didn't fail it cos i don't know the answers...(well i'm sure i'll be able to find those damn answers if i took my time to do it) but i clicked on dunno what shit thing and the entire thing just submitted the answers by itself. the next thing i know...the screen appears with my score and i failed liao.

seriously...fucked up, don't know if it's the system that's fucked up or the user (ie: me) that's fucked up. in any case, i'm so screwed lah. NABEH LAH! why i keep failing all those tests set by BB. makes me appear damn stupid. and why does BB has so many never ending tests?!?!

and i had to like fail this test on a sunday afternoon lor. NABEH! SIBEH SUAY! if i could, i'll pick up a sledge hammer and destroy that piece of machine so that my grades cannot be recorded. argghh!!

just to fill you guys in...i'm seated right in between two bosses. left side is the direct boss (boss J) and right side is...the other boss (boss S). everytime when i talk to the client on the phone i feel like creeping under the desk, in case the bosses hear me saying something that i shouldn't be saying!

ah siao is buay song

i'm so damn happy today can. because i finally got to watch my HK drama which has been sitting in the drawers since i started work. haha. hmm...i just checked my phone calendar and it seems to me that i have dinner plans from Monday to Friday...why does the entire world want to meet me next week?!

oh, all of us at home forgot to buy cat food and today it has finally ran out. poor ah siao was meowing so loudly asking us to feed him. but errm...i was super lazy to get out of bed. so i looked at ah siao and said "aiyah you got so much reserves in your fat tummy...eat those stored fats first lah" hahaha. i is damn evil. in the end mum gave up...she went to buy cat food for him so that he will shut up.

since then, my ah siao hasn't been very happy with me for the entire day. i don't know if it's because of my statement earlier but i do hope he gets over it soon though.

instances where i left the boss speechless

the boss: Peiqi, think...think logically.
me: i am thinking! just that my logic and your logic is not the same.
the boss: ...

the boss: Peiqi, that's not the way to do it.
me: i wouldn't know until you tell me but now that you've told me then i know!
the boss: ...

the boss: can you improve on your ettiqute? you sound very unfriendly on the phone..
me: i think i sound very gentle.
the boss: ...

the boss: look at the end of the sentence, what does it say?
me: so should i read from left to right or right to left?
the boss: tell me, how do you read a book?
me: well, it depends on what book i am reading. a chinese book would read from right to left, english book you read left to right.
the boss: ?????

anyways finally some happy news today!!!!! I AM LIVE! a.k.a i passed my training! phew! although still a little disappointed that i took longer than expected to pass, but moving forward, i want to think that i am there to achieve bigger things! haha.

Will she emerge Champion in BB??

And so I've been invited by the Champion (until the day she joined BB) to write on her blog... Probably because our dear friend is still undergoing shock by the cultural differences between BB and school. Or rather, in the process of shocking BB with her own cultural difference! Trying to act professional is tough when you've been acting cool your whole life you know.

Now for the summary of what I've heard. Somehow, she'll suay suay kena all the rare calls that most people will never ever pick up in their entire lifetime. From asking about how to take bus to the BB office in Indonesia, to some Nanjing woman trying to bao-doh Chinese officials in some conspiracy setup. As usual, the cool qix will give some random answers at the top of her head, which are not scripted to the professional standards set out by BB. Her poor colleagues who listen in to her calls would be left in a total state of shock and cannot understand her supposed logical thought process which is illogical to everyone else.

Not only is her weakness in strictly following textbook answers being exposed, she remains vulnerable to the endless tests set by BB. Especially when the tests cannot be smoked! Since the day she joined, she already failed the first test. Right up to the latest test on "Name the Global Managers" based on their pictures, she still failed to pass. Sigh, I really can't help u out on this one already, pq. You used to sms me in the middle of your school quiz or test to ask me for answers. But it's not going to work this time...

So is the Champion going to survive at BB? I think if she uses her brains to focus on the textbook instead of thinking how to cheat (which obviously only takes her a minute maximum), she might be able to do this. Till then, let's dedicate the song "I will survive" to her, and wait for the next blog entry. To be continued......

EC aka doramon