my life at the present moment

the stuff i bought from Victoria's Secret, spent like $37 bucks there...

then i went to Aeropostale, and bought 2 shirts for $5.99 each. the green shirt was from wal-mart a few weeks back, i love it though, it's so cute. how many licks to the middle of the tootsie roll...


this is my room, the kitchen area, which is pepetually messy...

Random pictures from the past few days

off today, but i worked 3.5 hours

went with gabe to ride the rides on monday morning.

took the raptor again before it broke down for the day. heh.

"Guests ride in cars that are suspended from the track above. Specially designed seats allow passengers' legs to dangle, providing the sensation of flight. Aiding that is the fact that riders go upside down six amazing times! The highlight is a first-of-its-kind �cobra-roll,� a thrilling element that flips riders over, spirals them upside down into a 180-degree roll and repeats the twisting motion in reverse. Looming 137 feet above the Main Midway and reaching a top speed of 57 mph, Raptor is one of the tallest and fastest inverted roller coasters in the world. "

wicked twister was really really really good, one moment you're facing the sky, the next you're facing the ground... like vertically.

"Wicked Twister is the tallest and fastest "double-twisting" impulse roller coaster ever created. This steel giant is comprised of a U-shaped track with the ends reaching 215 feet into the air and is powered by a linear induction motor. Riders sit two abreast in specially designed seats suspended from the track above. Then, without warning, Wicked Twister launches riders forward out of the station and up a 90-degree, twisting steel track. Once the train slows to a stop, it streaks back down the structure and into the station before being launched backward up another twisting track. The train races up and down the track a total of five times at an amazing top speed of 72 mph! But that is not all. Each tower twists 450 degrees, providing one of the most unique ride experiences ever. "

MaXair made me sick though.. it's like a giant pendulum which rotates and swings.

"All The Details

Design
Capacity: 1,000 per hour (approximately)
Color Scheme: "Retro" scheme of orange, red, yellow and blue
Direction: Clockwise
Features: Riders on the super-sized maXair sit in outward-facing suspended seats that form a giant circle of 50 passengers; their legs dangle freely, and each seat has an individual shoulder restraint and restraining belt.
Ride Time: 2 minutes, 30 seconds (approximately)
Seating: 50 riders per cycle
Speed: 70 mph (approximately)
Manufacturing Investment: $12 million

Physical Dimensions
Physical Height: 84' tall structure
Swing: 140' max swing"

took the mantis again, the standing roller coaster, but i was really sitting cos i was too short. heh. not a ride for guys though..


"Stand up to your fears aboard Mantis. Built in 1996, Mantis is one of the tallest and fastest stand-up scream machines in the world.
Built by the same legendary manufacturers that brought guests the Raptor roller coaster, Bolliger and Mabillard (B & M), Monthey, Switzerland, Mantis is yet another unique ride experience at Cedar Point. Guests board high-tech trains and fly down a 145-foot-tall first hill at an outrageous top speed of 60 mph, all while standing up! That's right, standing up!
In 2005, 1,139,186 guests conquered their fears and rode the Mantis, with more than 13 million riding since it first opened 10 seasons ago. Mantis riders must be at least 54 inches tall.
May not accommodate Guests of Exceptional Size.Loose articles are not permitted on this ride. "

some pics from the employee welcome party on monday night. there were free hotdogs, chips, waterbottles, and cups. so like typical singaporeans, all of us were there... haha.

it was the skyhawk ride night too, which we took like 3 times... it's a mega swing with a super good view especially when you're being swung up into the night sky...


waiting in line for the ride. it was freezing i tell u. all i had was my white giodano tee and the thin windbreaker. everyone else was so wrapped up... sheesh.

no good pictures of the skyhawk cos it was too dark.. next time next time

"In 2006, Cedar Point has added a world-record-breaking thrill ride – Skyhawk. Located near Snake River Falls in Frontiertown and standing 103 feet above the ground, Skyhawk is the tallest ride of its kind in the world.
Skyhawk features two giant swinging arms, each 84 feet in length, with 20 seats on each arm. Each set of 20 seats consists of two rows of 10 seats, positioned back to back, that provide each rider with a “front row” view. Using pneumatic technology similar to that used on Power Tower, riders are thrilled as they are pushed toward the sky, then experience weightlessness as they reverse direction and rush back toward the ground – just like the drop side of a roller coaster – with no ride structure in their path. At the peak of the arc, riders on Skyhawk are more than 125 feet in the air and reach speeds of 60 mph in both directions! The $6 million ride gives nearly 800 rides an hour. Each ride is approximately one minute long. "


a group pic of the singaporeans and malaysians, ambrose wanted to scream 'build our bridge' on the skyhawk. hahaha... (ok, i dun even know everyone in the picture...)


visiting debbie at her dippin' dots booth... check out the prices...


isaac (guy on the left) cooked herbal chicken, which tasted so so so good. i remember the last time i had that was on the day i left at yew tee.. heh...


the tub of ben & jerry's sitting in my freezer now.. (but not for long...) each tub is like $2.80 hahahahah... i love ben&jerry's...

ok i gtg home to cook pasta for dinner and then go for hte go-kart night later at 9.30pm! woohoo! (:

10 things that made me smile today

20th May 2006 (Saturday)

1. waking up at 10.05am, not 8.30am, and NOT because the phone rang continuously.
2. having home-made pancakes and Ben & Jerry's for breakfast.
3. Utt offering to walk to cash control for me, at the risk of being late, but ending up walking to wadrobe for me instead.
4. danny with his ultra-friendly greeting at the boring popcorn stand
5. Seeing a baby literally trying to put his foot into his mouth for a full minute
6. John wanting to give me money for lunch when i said i didn't want a break cos i didn't have food or money. He sent me back to work after 20 mins and said he would give me another 40 min break later.
7. Nick apprearing with lunch for me!
8. This old man complimenting my popcorn-packing skills. heh.
9. Utt waiting with me for debbie at the cafeteria at almost midnight
10.Seeing debbie in the guys' apartment the next day (technically, that is)

Dipping dots and hail

18th may 2006 (thursday)

Ok, I never really finished the last post cos the connection died. Anyway, I took over debbie’s job today at dipping dots, which is what we call ‘mini melts’ in Singapore. The prices are ridiculously high, like $5 for medium and $7 for large, which is quite large, but still not worth $7. owellz. The ice cream has to be kept at such a low temperature, my palms turned blue cos I had to keep scooping ice-cream. The freezer temperature has to stay around -40 degress. Sheesh. And I still cant figure out why pple eat ice-cream in the cold.

I started work at 9.30am, at about 11 or 12, I cant remember what time, the kids I was serving went like ‘**** it’s hailing”. I thought she was just exaggerating cos that’s what Americans are good at. Granted, it was raining. Then I looked out after they left, and there were white dot-like thingies all over the floor, and I tot someone spilled vanilla dipping dots, then I looked out of my left window and saw the same thing, and then my right, and then I realized that she was right… heh. IT WAS HAILING. I got so excited I tell you, cos I’ve never seen hail in my life. I was kinda scared too, but well, I ran out anyway, wanted to know how it felt like. It was just rain, except that it was balls of ice falling from the sky and not rain. It didn’t really hurt, though some other pple say otherwise. And they weren’t that big anyway, just like 1cm in diameter max. I think smaller. And it lasted for like 2 mins and then it was normal rain again. But boy, what an experience. Today was a good day. Thanks Debs. But I think she didn’t like my original job at the pop-corn machine, so I’m gonna switch back tomm. Think I wont even hit 30 hours this week, sigh. Really really dunno what to do about this job situation.

I have no idea what time I’m working tomorrow, but I want to take the rides! Went with nick 2 mornings ago before work cos I only had to report at 11.30am. charles was supposed to come too but he couldn’t wake up, heh. Took the Millenium Force first (Siewjin, are u reading this!?!) I was so so scared but I got dragged all the way there. Didn’t turn out so bad afterall. It was quite fun, in fact, I liked it a lot, except for the first drop. So much about the world’s highest roller coaster.

Took the mantis next (I think). It’s a standing roller coaster. As in, you stand instead of sit. I got really giddy cos it kept going round and round, as in upside down, so I didn’t really like it much, couldn’t walk straight after that.

Went for the stupid Cadillac cars, which was really slow and retarded (heh those 2 words mean the same thing, don’t they!), but owellz, I resolved to take ALL the rides anyway… Visited debs at raptor dots and then went to take the raptor. That was really good, though the wait was quite long. this roller coaster leaves your legs dangling in the air. And there are so many twists and upside down twists I was giddy after that too. And I didn’t even scream much throughout the whole morning. I think that’s why, it was too early in the morning. Nick was being such a girl, (more than me anyway!) screaming even before the ride started. All the time. Haha. There was no more time, had to rush to the toilet to change into uniform and go to work. Sigh. I had a headache at work. Haha. Hopefully next time I have a morning free I can find someone else to go for the rides with me, cos it’s so stupid to go alone. Maybe I’ll go on sat cos I supposedly start at 1pm, but then again, the schedule is messed up and unreliable. Owellz.



I want to go take the ripcord! It’s like some bungee/ flying thing but it costs $5 for employees, not free. Ok, actually I have no idea what that is, but it sounds cool, but then again, I’m scared.

Feel so sad for Sharon and the RJ girls’ hockey team. This is so deja-vu, when we played VJ in the finals in J1. We all felt that we were the better team, but when it boils down to flicks, the better team never wins. Sigh. Owellz, at the end of the day it’s all about winning, it’s the whole experience and team I guess. So cheer up, and better whack NJ again to get bronze! (:

Lu, Hon, Vel, Xuan, Xin, Zhi, Dee, Nikhil and the guys, GO SUPPORT THEM please! Yingyi, Esther, Jane and I can be there in spirit. Heh.

Ok I’m ready to sleep, quite tired from work, I need a massage, but Deb refuses. Haha… havent’ been sleeping well. 2 nights ago, the phone was ringing non-stop from 4am to 7am. And everybody refused to pick it up. The first time I heard it ring I got up, but when I got up it stopped ringing, so I didn’t want to get up anymore, but I couldn’t sleep either. I figured that it wasn’t mine or debbie’s call anyway. If there was some emergency over at the guys’ place, they can always come over and knock after we don’t pick up for 1 hour. Pple at home didn’t know our numbers, so it cant be them. It cant be our supervisors, cos it was 4am in the morning! But I got so fed up I finally picked it up at about 5 plus, and this person spoke a whole load of Thai to me, before saying ‘may I speak to Kwan’. Sheesh. I said I wasn’t Thai, but she still spoke Thai to me, until I gave up trying to tell her that Kwan was asleep. So I went to knock on the Thai girls’ door, which took like a good 5 mins. And after Kwan got on the phone and hung up, the phone rang again, but I didn’t care anymore. Don’t those pple in Thailand have a sense of what time it is here. And it’s not as if their thai friends here are light sleepers. The next day I asked them if them heard the phone ring, they said no. Sheesh, even Debbie woke up! That same Debbie who doesn’t wake up with her phone alarm going off for 2 mins beside her ear!

And I tot I had enough of phone incidents.

But no, it HAD to happen again this morning. But this time it was at about 7.35am. I was just 5 mins into my first snooze! (I have to snooze 3 times every morning, haha) I picked up the phone after quite a long while, cos I tot it was a good excuse to get up anyway, and once again, this guy spoke a whole paragraph of thai to me, in between mentioning the word ‘Gift’, which is one my housemate’s name. I kept saying that she’s either sleeping or gone to work, but that guy didn’t seem to get it, and kept asking me to speak slower. Then he started asking where I was from. Basically he refused to put down and kept me on the phone for a good 5-10 mins. Once again, Debbie WOKE UP. She heard every word I said. Can u imagine how loud I must have been shouting. Heh. Finally managed to wake Kwan to get her to speak to Gift’s parents cos she had left for work. This is such a mess. And finally when Isaac called in the morning, I didn’t get to the phone in time. just when it was for me. SIGH. Murphy’s law.

If the phone rings again tonight I’m gonna disconnect it. Thanks Isaac for that idea, I wonder why I never thought of it. Heh.

Anyway I went with Isaac to sign up for the june 8th Niagara Falls trip cos we got left out of the first one next week. All the Singaporeans are going without us. But I guess that’s good in a sense. The Singaporeans are so super sticky. Asians actually. Singaporeans and Thai and Malaysians- Forever together in their own world… tsk tsk. Ok, I know there’s a fallacy in there somewhere… but we’re in America for a reason, friends!

pop pop pop popcorn

ok the title's so lame.

i got 4.8 hours today. sigh. im really so frustrated with this whole work system here, i honestly feel like the worst of everyone.

*ok, this blog entry has to be interrupted for a piece of good news - debbie just came in and offered to swap jobs tomm cos she has been working wayy too many hours, so i called doris and she was very nice about it (for once) yay. im optimistic about working open to close tomm! (: yay! thank God, i love debbieeee.... (: *

discouragement and encouragement

i got sent home. again. stupid weather. woke up bright and early at 8.30 cos i was supposed to go to the park w gabe and yongchang to take some rides before work starts at 11. but it was raining so we didnt go. i even had time to make pancakes, call david, and do QT.. and i called the VEND hotline but there was no message for me, so i went to work. after the usual routine of walking to cash control in the cold and rain, i hurried to frontier to make it for 11am, but this supervisor julie stopped me halfway and told me frontier was closed and i was off the whole day. sigh.

my schedule this week is quite horrible, 11-close everyday and 1-close for the weekends. sigh, im getting waayy too few hours, and waayyy too many unintended off days. and they wont approve my special request for off for the 25th and 30th so that i can go to niagara falls and michigan respectively. irritating. oh the other hand, debbie's doing very well, she gets 9.30 - cl everyday and her definition of close is really the time the park closes, like 8pm or 10pm, not like 4pm or 6pm, which is the definition of 'close' at frontier. and she got sunday off. i think the supervisor likes her, which is good... sigh i feel so cursed.

went to wendy's for lunch with gabe and yongchang and this prc singaporean guy from NUS who name i cannot remember. wendy's is a much better deal than macs man, bigger, nicer burgers and sides, and cheaper. my meal cost 4.99, which was 5.42 including tax. stupid tax.

walked to meijers in the cold and rain. i called up 2 pple who advertised their cars in yesterday's papers, but one of them was sold, and the other didnt pick up, and 2 local calls cost $1. looks like we're not gonna get our car after all... bought apple juice and oreos, yay. with gabe's money. haha. now i owe him.

the welcome party is postponed. again. no more free hot dogs for dinner. have to cook pasta or something. yc wants to come over for dinner, but i had enough of having guys (who do not appreciate our cooking whatsoever) over for dinner. debs and i love our own cooking, so what! :

ok enough complaints, now i must talk about the encouragement i received yesterday.

went to work alone cos debbie went to church. i was working at the popcorn thing again, which is boring but im not complaining... i got there at 10 and john (my supervisor) told me my wagon only opens at 12, but he managed to get permission to open early. time passed quite quickly cos i was singing hymns the whole time yesterday. and since there was hardly anyone and the popping machine is so noisy anyway, i could sing at the top of my voice. now i know why God gave me such a good memory for hymns. heh. i felt really happy and enouraged, though i was stucked in an area which was less than 2 sq metres wide. i was sheltered and kinda 'indoors' too, but i was still freezing. the temperature these fews days have been below 10 deg celcius.today is even colder i think, and we wear the thin uniform and only 1 rain suit which does not break the wind or keep out the cold. it is just what it says it is: a rain suit, so it's waterproof. sigh.

we had our first bible study of sorts last tuesday, which was more like us reading through matthew 6, and then gabe reading his daily devotional thingy out. then we had a short time of sharing and prayer. it was quite good, cos it was a good time to reflect on the blessings and share our burdens and goals. we'll be having another one on wed i think, looking forward to that. but the rest of them use the NIV though. told debbie about the johainine (however u spell it) comma. eld boon will be so proud of me. hahaha.hahaha. ok, maybe not cos i still can't spell it...

prayer requests:
- better work hours (s)
- better weather (s)
- physical and spiritual health (t/s)
- safety (t/s)
- approval to shorten contract (s)
- application for double degree (God's will as to which to take) (s)

happy belated mother's day, mummy! i sent you something!
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sj: i'm applying for 30th, gabe talked to jem already, and he says he can come get us but we have to find out own way back. we checked the cab fares, and it costs like $300. heh... but my leave hasnt been approved, will keep u updated. how come u can keep surfing the net in peru? did you bring ur US phone? cos i dunno whether i can call u!

hon & lu: what hockey gathering! how come you pple wait till im gone then organise something! go support the juniors la, they're playing semis this week i think, help me cheer for my sister! (:

lu: how did u do for FA? are u doing accounting? how to apply? can u please email me? thanx..

jm: thanx for the mail, will reply when this internet is not so unstable!!cant log into my email anymore! a little bird in NJ gave me some good news though... you succeeded? congrats, buddy! and it's wayy too cold and wet to play frisbee this week. sigh.

justin the brat: are u still in tokyo? our OG is dispersed far and wide. haha. Ohio wins hands down though, 5 of us here! haha. ok u knew that already...

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pictures pictures...


beagle dollars they use in cedar point, only legal tender at cedar fair amusement parks. i have the 2 $1 ones, cos the $5 is too ex. haha. i looovvee peanuts. (:


the dinner we cooked, really looked like 'cai fan', and it tasted quite good... there was 1) luncheon meat, sausage and potato with ketchup 2)egg with mushroom and onion 3) brocolli with mushromm and minced meat
problem is that we only had ONE pot to cook everything, so we took forever.


danny the free-loader who CANNOT stop talking. and who looks like a criminal in every photo.


the thais and i, waiting for the bus in the cold at sandusky mall. (L-R) Byrd, Pom and Nick

tornados and the like

the weather's been pretty crazy. keeps raining, and the wind so so so strong. i was nearly blown away yesterday, haha, heavy as i am. and my cap kept getting blown off so i had to keep runing after it. it was actually tiring trying to walk against the wind. there was a tornado watch, and i just found out that we're in tornado alley of the US. owellz.

got sent home today the moment i got to work! it's crazy! just talked to adrian on msn. was telling him how lucky he was cos he's the 1st person im actually having a voice conversation with. was supposed to talk to sharon but i think i got online too late and she thought i went back to work.

i havent been able to check my results. heh. stupid oasis doesnt work here. luyi, please tell me more about the double deg thing.... i need help!

k i got to keep this short if i want to catch the bus to the mall... here're some pictures... for more, esp of us in our yucky uniforms, go to debbie's blog at http://degghead.blogspot.com


it was nick's birthday a few days ago, so deb and i bought him a girly butterly balloon and we backed a brownie and we had our little celebration. but he still hasnt said thank you up till now! haha. but we were having BS in his room the other day and saw that he tied the balloon to his bed... haha quite cute.




















debbie and i on the kiddie ride... we were happy and excited... until the kiddy ride went so fast that we nearly died... heh, so much for starting small..





this was the 2nd kiddy ride we took, which had us going round and round in circles at a 90 degree angle. not kiddy at all. heh


then we went on this family ride which went up to 48 miles an hour.. i video-taped this ride illegally cos we were sitting in front, but it wasnt very exciting.


argh im too lazy to write anymore...

Opening day

Cedar Point opened yesterday. from the beginning, the whole thing is a whole big mess. i cant stand the way everyone doesnt know what they're doing, or what's going on. even the supervisors. the park was due to open at 10am, but the day before, they sent us home after 45 mins, without setting up anything. and on that day, we were told to report at 10. so obviously there will be a big mess cos everything's not ready to open. sheesh.

i got sent to the cotton candy machine all teh way at the back of the park. got stuck with the money, cos jackie wanted to spin, which was fine with me. but they came and took jackie away and got mark in, who cut his finger real deep on the machine 1 hr into his shift. and they they got jacob, who was realle irritating. the whole time, i had to talk to the guests and make samll talk with them, asking them where they're from without understanding their answers anyway, or talking about their favourite rides, etc. the whole time i was freezing cos it was so windy the whole day.

got a 45 min break at 2, so i walked to the employee cafeteria all the way at the front of the park. took me a good 10 mins. was so so glad to see debbie there. (bet she was glad to see me too, cos she was all alone. haha) she was in a worse situation than me cos she's a breaker, and most of the time she's just waiting for instructions. was like 2 mins late going back but there wasnt any supervisor around. from then all, we just worked continuously till like 10pm cos the line wouldnt get shorter. cotton candy was really really popular cos it was only 25 cents each. was really shivering when the sun started setting at 7 plus, so i made jacob let me spin. i was so so desperately cold that i'd rather be dirty. and so i was, there was cotton candy on my hair, on my cap, on my eyebrows, on my rainsuit (which didnt keep me warm). but it was the only way to get warm cos the machine was warm.

speaking of the rainsuit, im sure daddy will be very proud of me for getting that, now we'll ahve 2 sets of raincoats for the bike. haha. and it's quite good quality i think. cost me a whole $21, deducted from my paycheck! sigh.

cleaned up the machine after we closed and then we had to count all the money in the cold. my hands were so frozen i couldnt handle the money properly. but we make like 500 plus just from cotton candy which cost 25 cents each. we sold a few thousand i think. hard work man.

had to go all the way back to some ulu and dark camp to get my stuff. it was freezing. saw a note from debbie which said 'meet u in the cafeteria' it was like 10.30pm and i didnt know how long ago she wrote that. but i had to walk to cash control to turn in the money first, and when i got to the cafeteria, i was so so so glad to see her sitting there. so we shall wait for each other there everynight from now. haha. we were so cold and tired when we got home at 11 plus. i tot that was bad, but this morning, the thai guys told me they got home at 2am. they signed out at 1230, but there was no bus back, so they took the police car.heh. poorthing. it was really really freezing, and we were all wearing berms. stupid uniform.

today, i worked for 3 hours only. they sent me home at 1330 cos theere was nothing for me to do. the park was quieter so they cut 1 person from the cotton candy. was quite disappointed cos i wanted my hours,but i realisedthat it's sunday today, i shouldnt be working. so maybe it's a blessing in disguise. but i cant go to church anyway. argh, we need to buy that car really soon. thursday we will.

debbie just appeared at the Rec Centre (employee recreation centre) she got sent home too. haha. we're going to wal-mart to get groceries soon.. hopefully we can have a short BS session or something tonight. a few nights ago, we were singing songs from my songbook before she fell asleep. it was nice.. :)

alright, i never meant this to be a long post. oops.

Cedar Point

okkkkkkk. the silly wireless is finally up.

Eeks, my tagboard died. How come!!! Joel, help please… haha!

so much has happened in the last 5 days since we arrived, i dunno where to start. sitting at the employee recreation centre now. but i cant get into any other webpage except the SMU email and this page, so i might as well blog. heh.

work. work's been pretty boring. we just keep cleaning the food stands over and over again. AND THEY'RE CLEAN. those poor thais have been here for 3 weeks to a month, and they've cleaned the same stands like 5 times already, its really stupid. things took a turn for the better yesterday though. we went to work in the morning from 9 -11. we had international orientation in the afternon back at the housing area, which is like across the bridge from Cedar Point itself, and a horrible bus-ride away. the orientation was from 2.30 - 4, so we had some time to slack around and play frisbee. fun stuff man, at least it's exercise! haha. our supervisor, Jim, told us to call him after that to see if we needed to go down, so i did, and he said he wanted us back for cotton candy training. we really dragged our feet back, and they gave us a short briefing and said we could sign out. can u imagine that! we were fuming man!!! until........... Tony (Jim's boss) comes along and says tonight is Johnny Rocket's Night. So he packed us 4 by 4 in his rickety old car which was full of rubbish.

Johnny Rocket's is phenomenal man. It's set retro style, and the servers sing at dance every 20 mins. most of them at afro-americans and they're quite good. they gave us a dime each to slot into the music machine and choose songs. There was this girl who sang the American National Anthem in a really powerful voice at the beginning and the end. Talk about patriotism. The food was really really good, but the thing was that we honestly couldnt believe that we could order anything we liked for FREE. my goodness, we asked our server like 3 times or something. i had a cookies and cream milkshake, onion rings as starters, a double beef patty burger with extra mushrooms, and there was no space for dessert. My 'bill' was quite cheap- like $17.55. other tables 'spent' like $70 for a table of 4! crazy! we relly couldnt walk after that. well, the servers and cooks had to practice anyway, so i complicated the order with extra mushrooms haha. that really changed the day man. we really didnt mind coming all the way back for 'work'. and u know what. all the training sessions, and this dinner thing, was PAID TIME. hahahahahaha. madness.

we went home contented, full and very happy last night. and we slept soundly too. but before that, i spent the night consolidating all the pictures we took in NYC and DC. 6 of us combined had a collection of photos and videos that was 4.99Gb.. sheesh. cant even burn into a DVD la.

thats not all. today, we dragged ourselves to work again. Woke up at like 7.25am (though the alarm rang at 7.15am, as usual. haha) we packed bread, apple and salad for lunch. Rushed for the bus as usual and went for foods training at 9am. It was just a classroom session where they talk about safety and cleanliness for 2 hours, then we take a test. Owellz. Like I said, it’s paid time, so I really didn’t mind.

Reported back for work and walked around a bit doing nothing, until we found out that we were getting free lunch at TGI Fridays on the beach. This is a more expensive restaurant cos they served ribs and steak. The drinks weren’t very nice though, the iced tea had no taste, so I got a strawberry shake, which was really an ice smoothie. Heh. And they didn’t really allow us to order anything we wanted – only 1 appetizer, 1 entrée from different pages of the menu each, and 2 deserts to share. Sat with Josh from OH, and 2 Thai guys, Utt and Nick cos I refused to stick with the Singaporean guys. But the ribs were huge, and the food was quite good. Well, free food is always good. We didn’t get the bill this time, think we were in such a hurry to leave to get back to work. We sat there for a good 2 hours I think! Other tables had bills coming up to $90 bucks. Owellz. The perks of working at the foods department. Oh, in the end we got a dessert each which we packed cos we were way too full. I got a brownie obsession, which melted in the sun while we were hard at work in the afternoon. Owellz. Ill eat it later anyway, as dinner, since im still so full.

After lunch we finally learned to spin cotton candy. I dun want to spin cotton candy though, its such a messy job, but I think I did it too well when I tried, crap. Should have anyhow done it so they’ll let me do dippin’ dots, which is ice-cream and much cleaner. Sigh. And one cotton candy is like 25cents. Sheesh. Volunteered for more work after that cos it was only 3pm. So we got sent to clean more stuff. Dang. I really understand how poor david felt in army last time. Heh. Cleaning stuff that was just cleaned the day before! Finished at 5.15pm, though we wanted to catch the 5.15 bus back, but we were running around looking for the supervisors to sign out, that we found ourselves running (read: sprinting) for the 5.45pm bus. Sigh, they’re so so so inefficient here.

Cant wait for Saturday though, when the parks open. The rides are awesome. They have been left running for the past 2 days so we keep hearing and seeing the power roller coasters in action. Cant wait, though ill prolly freak out when I get to the front of the queue. Millennium force looked really exciting, super high speed, and super long, dunno the exact details, will let u all know when I finally ride it. Heh. The top-thrill dragster looked really scary man. They shoot u from 0km/hr to 190km/hr in 6 seconds, and they up this super high, vertical thing (its like the tallest in the world). If the car doesn’t pick up enough speed, it’ll fall back down, but if it does, you’ll go over, and come down vertically again (and I mean 90 degrees down), and the track is twisted. Heh. Freaky. And the ride is over in 30 seconds. Waiting for the employee ride nights for those so I dun have to queue. Today was the ferris wheel ride night, didn’t go. Wanted to go for the go-kart one the other day, but was working, and I heard that the go-karts kept breaking down anyway.

Ok im blogging way too much. Really need to get a car man, waiting for the bus is super inconvenient. And this place is totally inaccessible without a car. The first day, the bunch of us Singaporeans tried walking down to the nearest shops and it was crazily far we gave up halfway. And no one else was walking, there was no pedestrian path anyway! Our international orientation trainer warned us not to walk on the streets at night, cos pple will immediately know you’re not local and will mug us, cos locals dun walk. Haha. Josh said that he’ll help us get a car though, will arrange a date and get one of the guys to go with him to the used car dealer. Supposed to be like $500+, better than we expected..

Okok I better stop, take care everyone, I hope the tagboard recovers soon. Heh. I haven’t checked it since I was in DC a week ago!


charles, me, ambrose, nick, esmond, yong chang, debbie and gabe (the photographer)


Sharon: don’t worry about your play. It’s just one game, and everyone has bad days, sir understands. Just train hard and give your best ok… love you! Cant get to the singtel page so I cant msg anyone!